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1) Betrayed
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Cathy Weaver, FBI agent, goes undercover to investigate Gary Simmons, a Vietnam vet and a suspect in the murder of a local radio personality. As she becomes romantically interested in Simmons, Weaver uncovers a right-wing extremist group armed for murder.
2) Music box
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
In this courtroom thriller, Chicago attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. As the trial unfolds, Ann probes for evidence that will not only establish his innocence but also lay to rest her own agonizing doubts about his past.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
The master of the political thriller became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the perhaps even more riveting. Based on a harrowing true story, influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country₂s Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
4) Amen
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, is shocked to learn that the process he has developed to eradicate typhus is now being used for killing Jews in extermination camps. When he attempts to notify the Pope about the gassings he is appalled by the lack of response he gets from the Catholic hierarchy, except for one priest.
5) Capital
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
"When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh) is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from American hedge fund manager Dittmar Rigule (Gabriel Byrne), erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim (Liya Kebede), and adversaries with an agenda...
Series
Criterion collection volume 760
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Costa-Gavras puts the United States involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official (The Wages of Fears Yves Montand) to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, leading to violence....
7) Missing
Series
Criterion collection volume 449
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed always found his son flaky and naïve, and didn't approve...
Series
Criterion collection volume 760
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerrilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, leading to violence.
9) Z
Series
Criterion collection volume 491
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.