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English
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
2) Out of time
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A police chief in a small town is investigating a brutal double murder and all the evidence is beginning to point to him. He is in a race against time to solve the crime before the other officers investigating the crime begin to see the clues and think he did it. With the help of his medical examiner pal Chae, Matt must solve the case before he is found guilty himself.
4) Super fly
Pub. Date
[2004, c1972]
Language
English
Description
Priest is a cocaine dealer who is just smart enough to know that there's no real future in dealing coke, and makes a proposal to his partner Eddie that would leave them with a million dollar profit each. But Scatter, the dealer who set Priest up in the cocaine trade, is both unwilling and unable to sell them that much product. As Priest looks for a new source for his big score, one of his underlings, Fat Freddie is picked up by the police. Freddie...
5) Narc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Suspended from the force following a drug bust gone wrong, undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis is reluctantly goaded back into active duty when a fellow officer is slain. Promised reinstatement in exchange for his efforts, Tellis is paired with the victim's volatile ex-partner Henry and soon begins to actively seek the killer in an increasingly complex case. Tellis struggles with his conscience as he navigates a twisting road of half-realized...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When a murder occurs aboard the Orient Express, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous train's Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionaire before the local police arrive.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy) is drawn into a maze of global intrigues in the blistering third series of the family saga that's being hailed as 'Britain's best drama' (Indedpendent). Coerced into the most audacious crime of his career, Shelby faces overwhelming forces in every part of his life. His response to them will define the kind of man he is. (summary from back cover)
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Alcatraz, "The Rock", has just re-opened. The first criminal to go to the electric chair is also sitting on a secret worth $200 million. An invading group of commandos isn't about to let that fortune go up in smoke. Already having an undercover FBI agent in Alcatraz, the situation has to be neutralized and he has to rescue a Supreme Court Justice held hostage. Now, he has to convince his convict "partner" and the other inmates to fight on the right...
10) Redemption
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
While awaiting execution in prison, Stan 'Tookie' Williams, founder of the L.A. Crips street gang, denounces the lifestyle that landed him behind bars. Determined to stop violence, he begins writing anti-gang books for children, earning him critical acclaim - and four Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
11) Dressed to kill
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Caine plays the part of a psychiatrist to a woman who is murdered early in the film. He is initially reluctant to help the police. The detective assigned to the murder seems happy to do nothing, leaving the investigation to a prostitute who witnessed the murder and the son of the deceased"--Internet Movie Database.
12) American hustle
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld and his British partner Sydney Prosser are forced to work for a wild FBI agent and become enmeshed in a dangerous political s
14) The good thief
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Bob is an aging American thief is living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the midst of an extended personal losing streak when he rescues a new girl in town named Anne from her pimp. When the opportunity to steal a fortune in rare paintings from a Monte Carlo casino comes along, Bob hopes for a score big enough to let him retire from his life of crime. His only hindrances are Anne's man troubles and his nemesis,...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Cheroot-smoking Horace Rumpole, is a career trial lawyer at London's central court. Rumpole faces an open-and-shut case, which he plans to wrap up by noon. But once he discerns the telling secret of his teenage client, he smells victory and mounts a full-on defense.
17) Framed
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
New York cop Mike Santini is vacationing with his family in the Bahamas. By chance, he spots another "tourist": Eddie Meyers, a high-profile fugitive mobster and a key player in a major money-laundering scheme. Once Santini collars Meyers, Meyers requests that Santini, and Santini alone, interrogate him. What follows is nothing less than a prolonged seduction, with Meyers using every resource at his disposal -- money, women, lavish gifts, luxurious...
18) Summer of Sam
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1977, a group of friends in a New York City Italian neighborhood becomes convinced that the infamous killer, Son of Sam, is someone who lives near them. This, plus the heat, looting, blackouts, and the murders themselves cause the falling apart of relationships and the beginning of mistrust and dread for the friends.
Series
Criterion collection volume 200
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Martha is sullen, overweight and heartbreakingly lonely. Through the Friendship Club, she strikes up a correspondence with Ray, a sauve charismatic smooth-talker who could be the man of her dreams. A stark portrayal of the desperate lengths to which a lonely heart will go in order to find true love. From brutally immoral killings to a passion that transcends all bounds.
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