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1) Ajami
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
עברית
Description
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Ajami is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets of Ajami itself, the film deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrowing violence.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul's girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, Paul ends up killing more people. It isn't long before the entire police force...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Eleanor's catch is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this two-reeler, she stars as a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne'er-do-well suitor. A terrific surprise ending gives Eleanor and Cleo an early claim to promoting women's equality in the workforce. Rousing Melodrama.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
A robbery goes terribly wrong for a hapless criminal when he goes to knock off a jewelry store. Upon entering the store, the steel shutters immediately slam down and lock him inside until the police arrive. He is later sent to jail, but it doesn't take long before he befriends a big time crime boss inside. The two execute a successful break out and we soon find out that we don't really know the true background of these criminals or what is really...
6) Runaway jury
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a jury consultant who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Director Francesco Barilli's hallucinatory giallo horror-thriller stars Mimsy Farmer who portrays Sylvia, a chemist who begins to suffer from strange visions; a mysterious woman in black applying perfume in a mirror appears to her and strangers follow her everywhere she goes. Barilli's psychological investigation into the workings of the mind becomes apparent when it is revealed that as a child, Sylvia committed a horrible crime. The slow progression...
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time.
9) Sleuth
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A mystery novelist invites his wife's lover to dinner and plays diabolical and deadly tricks on him.
10) Oceans 11
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Sinatra and ten of his wartime buddies unite forces to rob five Las Vegas casinos simultaneously on a New Year's Eve.
11) Stonebrook
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Higher education meets high-stakes crime when two undergrads decide to take on the mob, just to stay in school.
12) Wisdom
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009].
Language
English
Description
John Wisdom wants to make good, but he'll never get the chance. Convicted of a felony, he finds the door to opportunity closed so he becomes a bank robber. He's a criminal for the people rather than against them, rescuing debt-ridden people by destroying bank mortgage records.
13) Cookie's fortune
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
In the small southern town of Holly Springs, Jewel Mae, known as Cookie, has died mysteriously. Who is the murderer? Where is the murderer? Has there even been a murder? A small town comedy rich in hidden secrets and buried scandals.
15) Walking tall
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A retired soldier returns to his hometown to make a new life for himself, but finds that the town has changed for the worse. The town mill has closed and criminal elements have moved in. He becomes the sheriff and vows to clean up the town.
17) Unholy partners
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A zealous newshound returns from World War I juiced to start his own sensation-stoked rag and strikes a devil's bargain to bankroll it with a well-heeled racketeer. The mobster will be a silent partner, until the bulldog editor starts exposing his illegal activities, resulting in menacing retribution that catches others in its blowback, including a fellow veteran-turned-novice-reporter, a blackmail-blighted songbird, and a long-suffering, lovestruck...
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Troubled youths Joe and Nick Lorenzo grow into very different men: Joe a small-time hoodlum and Nick an honored college graduate. When Nick falls for Joe's girl Laurie, trouble erupts between the two men and also with the gang that has it in for Joe" --IMDb.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The destructive relationship of two lovers. A drifter hitches a ride from the local District Attorney to an 'out of the way' restaurant/gas station owned by a man and his beautiful wife. They fall in love and together they plot the murder of her husband.
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