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1) The bank job
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
MPAA rating: R; for sexual content, nudity, violence and language.
A small-time crook takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals, Terry finds himself deep. Quiet suddenly the group become the target of ruthless mobsters, the police, government officials at the highest level, and even the royal family. Based on the true story of a British princess and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reinventing himself as Sweeney Todd, a man unjustly sent to prison returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin who sent the man to prison. Not only does he seek revenge for the cruel punishment he suffered in prison, but also for what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to his home town, he reopens his barber shop, where Mr. Todd becomes the Demon of Fleet Street. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney's...
3) The prestige
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert Angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each other's...
4) Twist
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by Charles Dickens₂s iconic novel Oliver Twist, this action-fueled crime-thriller set in contemporary London follows the journey of Twist, a gifted graffiti artist trying to find his way after the loss of his mother. Lured into a street gang headed by the paternal Fagin, Twist is attracted to the lifestyle and to Red, an alluring member of Fagin₂s crew. But when an art theft goes wrong, Twist₂s moral code is tested as he₂s caught...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
One morning, a busy London market is decimated by an explosion. In the manhunt that follows, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan, who is arrested and jailed. Martin and Claudia are lawyers and ex-lovers who find themselves bound together again and put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Will and Sandy are two architects working on a major urban renewal project in the King's Cross section of London. The area is unsafe and not ready for such a project and is best known as a place to pick up prostitutes or buy drugs. Will and Sandy move their offices into a nearby vacant warehouse. Will and his girlfriend Liv have to deal with her behaviorally challenged thirteen year old daughter. At the same time Will has to deal with constant burglaries...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Theo Faron is a bureaucrat in a Britain gone despotic. It is 2027 and the entire planet has gone infertile. Women no longer have babies, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, mass destruction, and a huge refugee problem, with the imposition of martial law. One day, Theo is kidnapped. His ex-wife Julian has a proposition for her former spouse, and because of their relationship, she thinks Theo will acquiesce. Theo is about to be tossed into a...
8) Surge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows a man who works as an airport security officer as he sets off on a wild and reckless journey through London over the course of twenty-four hours after an impulsive act of rebellion.
9) Unlocked
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A CIA interrogator is lured into a ruse that puts London at risk of a biological attack.
10) Feedback
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jarvis Dolan is the star journalist of a successful London late-night radio show. He plans to reveal evidence of Russian interference in the Brexit process on his program. When two armed men burst into the studio, he is forced to continue with the live program and follow the script of the assailants, without revealing that he is in danger.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...
12) In darkness
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.
13) Cleanskin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A British Secret Service Agent must take out a suicide bomber and his terrorist cell before they can create more trouble in the city of London.
14) The contractor
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Retired marksman James Dial is haunted by his failure to assassinate one of the world's most notorious terrorists. He is approached by his old employers to finish the job in London, where the terrorist leader has been captured and is under heavy protection. The routine mission for the sniper turns into a nightmare as Dial is forced into hiding and relentlessly pursued by the British police and their lead investigator, Windsor. But when Dial is framed...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Former P.O.W. Bill Saunders is living in England and scarred with unstable and violent tendencies. After killing a man in a bar fight, he flees the scene and manages to find cover in the home of Nurse Jane Wharton who agrees to take him in and believes his version of the story being an accident. Now in love, Nurse Wharton tries to secure Saunders a job delivering medical supplies after being released from prison for fighting with a police officer....
16) Repulsion
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Carol, who works in a beauty salon in London, is both repulsed and fascinated by men. She is unsure of how to handle their advances, which are numerous because she is gorgeous. Gripped by mental illness, she eventually imprisons herself in her apartment, where she suffers from sexual dreams. Her delirium leads to dire circumstances.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers Reggie and Ronnie Kray got their start as amateur boxers and soon became London's most feared and notorious gangsters. Told from the perspective of one of their closest friends, it is the story of their rise to power and their bloody and violent reign.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Redemption: A damaged ex-special forces soldier trapped in the criminal underworld is transformed into an avenging angel when an unexpected opportunity allows him to assume another identity. Once believing he was beyond redemption, he now seeks out his own version of justice.
Safe: When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese math prodigy, Mei, being...
19) 6 days
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A group of dissident Iranian gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini seize the Iranian Embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages.
20) Blitz
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers. A fast-paced thriller set in contemporary London reflects the challenges faced by a group of police officers working in a modern, multicultural society.
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