Paramount Pictures Corporation
Series
Criterion collection volume 475
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English
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As a small time hood Eddie (Robert Mitchum) is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. *"A good, tough unsentimental movie about the last days of a small-time Boston Hood." - Vincent Canby, **The New York Times*** *"...give him [Robert Mitchum] a character and the room to develop it, and what he does is...
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English
Description
Ex-con Liam McDonagh wants nothing more than to live a peaceful life and to re-connect with his young son. After being released from prison, he learns his brother is caught up in a dark and dangerous web of corruption with property developer Clifford Cullen. In a drive for redemption, Liam must risk everything to save his brother and win back the trust of his family in this action-packed crime thriller.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The hotel night clerk, Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woman is murdered during his shift, Bart becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigation closes in, Bart makes a personal connection with a beautiful guest named Andrea, but soon realizes he must stop the real murderer before she becomes the next victim.
4) Captive
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Brian Nichols, on the run as the subject of a city-wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son, takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren's bestselling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the stranger-than-fiction prison break in upstate New York, the story of two convicts who spawned a statewide manhunt and were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee who became involved with both men. It's a bizarre tale filled with twists and turns, yet through it all there's one thing that unites the inmates and citizens, everyone's looking for a way out.
6) The warriors
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English
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The Warriors are ready to fight their way back to Coney Island, but standing in their path are some of the baddest, out-for-blood gangs in New York city. It'll take every bit of street smarts and every weapon they can find to make it back alive!
7) Marathon man
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English
Description
A New York graduate student and avid runner becomes trapped in a murderous game of intrigue involving a Nazi fugitive.
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English
Description
The continuing story of the Corleone family follows a young Vito as he flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in New York's Little Italy. His son Michael attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas and Havana by any means necessary. As he realizes that even his allies are trying to kill him, the increasingly paranoid Michael also...
9) The gambler
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
English professor Jim Bennett lives a double life as a high-stakes gambler and is forced to deal with the consequences.
10) Pain & gain
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious group of personal trainers go after the American dream, they get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
While on the run trying to clear himself of murder and a former colleague of treason, itinerant former U.S. Army Major Jack Reacher discovers both a conspiracy involving the murder of soldier and a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.
12) One way
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
No wrong turn goes unpunished in this wildly entertaining action-packed thrill ride. After stealing from the biggest mob boss in town, Freddy is badly wounded and on the run with a one-way ticket to salvage what is left of his crime-ridden life, for one last shot at redemption with his family.
13) The Godfather
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English
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
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English
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Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Godfather: Part III, director/screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola brings a definitive new edit and restoration of the final film in his epic Godfather trilogy. Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire. That successor could be fiery Vincent... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hope of business legitimacy into an inferno of...
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English
Description
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that she has been lied to: her life was not saved, it was...
16) Gully
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Powerful and unflinchingly honest, it is the explosive and timely story of three boyhood friends, Calvin, Nicky, and Jesse, surviving an upbringing in LA's roughest neighborhoods. Steeped in violence but united by friendship, together they find their escape in one out-of-control night of partying. But when the rampage stops, retribution begins.
17) The lovebirds
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When a couple in the fast lane to splitsville accidentally careens into a murder, they take off on a wild race to find the killer and clear their names.
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English
Description
In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael...
19) Echo boomers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A gripping crime thriller filled with pulse-pounding twists and turns. A recent college graduate, Lance Zutterland leaves school in debt, realizing everything he had worked toward was built on a lie. When he is pulled into a criminal underground operation, he finds his peers fighting the system by stealing from the rich and giving to themselves. With nothing to lose, they leave behind a trail of destruction.
20) Targets
Series
Criterion collection volume 1179
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass...