06 May
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the […]
Posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, USA by: admin
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22 Feb
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.
Posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA by: admin
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28 Jan
The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton (Penn); it can’t last, though, and the consequences […]
Posted in 1985, Drama, Thriller, USA by: admin
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18 Jan
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950’s. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George’s father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to […]
Posted in 2001, Biography, Crime, Drama, USA by: admin
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01 Oct
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
Posted in 2000, Canada, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, USA by: admin
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04 May
In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to […]
Posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller, USA by: admin
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29 Mar
William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between ‘Popeye’ Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is […]
Posted in 1971, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA by: admin
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21 Mar
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the “Midnight Express”.
Posted in 1978, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller, UK, USA by: admin
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