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Italiano
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Based on the true story of Rita Atria and Judge Paolo Borsellino, The Sicilian Girl is the dramatic retelling of Atria's Story: how a 17 year-old Sicilian whose father and brother were both Mafia Members (and victims) breaks the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Borselllino.
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Français
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MAIS OÙ EST DONC PASSÉE GRIETA?
Un des animaux les plus emblématiques de la faune du pays est menacé et pourrait bien disparaitre si le mal triomphe du bien.
Ce roman policier, qui se déroule au Cap, aborde un thème central dans la société sud-africaine, ainsi que celle d'autres pays africains.
Harry, le héros du roman, est un détective privé qui se trouve confronté à un blocage psychologique inhabituel, une situation bien éloignée...
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Joey Coyle, an unemployed longshoreman, stumbled upon $1.2 million in unmarked, untraceable currancy that had fallen off an armored truck and wanted to keep it. He turns to his girlfriend, Monica, to help him launder the loot. but keeping a million-dollar secret is harder than it looks, especially when Joey begins upgrading his social standing with extravagant gestures -- such as picking up enormous bar tabs for his friends. As an investigating...
4) Playing God
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Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, Los Angeles surgeon Dr. Eugene Sands abandons his career, and finds himself crossing paths with a ruthless criminal, Raymond Blossom. Raymond hires Eugene as his "gun-shot doctor", to treat associates who cannot risk visiting a hospital. Lured deeper and deeper into the dangerous underworld and growing too close to Raymond's seductive girlfriend Claire, Eugene...
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Set in South Philadelphia, A Rose on Ninth Street, deals with police corruption, crime, loyalty, drugs, romance, love, forgiveness, and redemption. Bob O'Conner is faced with the biggest decision of his life when he falls in love with the beautiful daughter of his boss's enemy. While Bob's father struggles with alcoholism, and his mother is dying from cancer, Bob's crime boss sets out to kill him, and his world is crumbling around him.
7) Salvo
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Italiano
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After murdering a man, Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian hit man, discovers the man's sister, a young blind girl, witnessed the whole thing. Haunted by their brief exchange, the two will attempt to navigate their dangerous next steps side by side.
8) Two Hands
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English
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Jimmy, a small time criminal destined to follow in his brother's footsteps, is recruited by the Pando, the local crime boss, to do a courier job. Jimmy arrives at the drop site, and believing that no one is home, kills some time at the beach. Jimmy's troubles begin when he loses the $10,000 he is supposed to deliver for Pando. Pando, being burnt, simply wants to teach Jimmy a lesson by killing him. After botching a bank robbery in an attempt to...
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When a series of package bombs show up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn (Strathairn) is assigned the task of finding those responsible. He becomes immersed in an investigation that uncovers an anarchist plot to destroy democracy. Inspired by true events of the 20's the film sets the stage for a timely thriller with resoundingly similar parallels to the...
11) Jump
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English
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Crime boss daughter Greta is rescued from suicide by stranger Pearse on New Year's Eve, a night that will change both their lives forever.
12) Keyhole
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English
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In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric), arriving home after a long absence, must journey through the house, room by room, to reach his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs.
13) 8 Days
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English
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After sneaking to a party with her friends, 16-year-old Amber Stevens goes missing. Forced into the world of sex trafficking, her family and community fight to get her back. Inspired by actual events.
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English
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This character-driven collage of sex, violence and survival is equal parts western, gangster and love stories. We follow the journey of a mysterious silver briefcase and witness the havoc it brings each new owner. The seemingly unrelated stories continuously collide throughout for multiple plot twists. Rodney, a young mob bag-man tries to leave his life of crime but his partner Dominic has other plans. German tourists bite off more than they can chew....
15) The Brotherhood
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English
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An action packed inside look at the Mafioso pits horror and loyalty against family blood ties.
16) Suddenly
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English
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Proceeding a presidential visit, a trio of impersonating FBI agents enter a home where John Baron (Frank Sinatra) reveals himself as an assassin. He kidnaps the family in order to use their house as his vantage point in his plot to kill the president.
17) The Key Man
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English
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In a desperate attempt to support his family, Bobby Scheinman strikes a deal with two gangsters and quickly finds himself caught up in a dangerous con.
18) Catch .44
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English
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When three friends (Malin Akerman of THE WATCHMEN, THE BANG BANG CLUB, Deborah Ann Woll of TV's TRUE BLOOD, RUBY SPARKS, and Nikki Reed of THIRTEEN, TWILIGHT FRANCHISE) are sent by their boss to intercept a drug deal at a remote diner, they think nothing of it. But when they find themselves in a standoff involving a psychopathic hitman (Forest Whitaker of LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND), a grizzled truck driver, a delusional line...
19) Good bait
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English
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A stunning new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and London Times bestselling author.
When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organized crime which infiltrates almost...
When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organized crime which infiltrates almost...
20) Swelter
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English
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Most notorious robbery in Las Vegas history, five men nicknamed the Rat Pack hit the Luxor casino for $100 million dollars. They escape prison to recover the buried money hidden in a strange, crazy small town.
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