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1) Detroit 9000
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
A fast-paced classic jam-packed with nonstop action, sexy distractions and funky music! A gang has staged a daring, big-money rip-off at a high-society fundraiser for the state's first black candidate for governor. For the two Detroit cops assigned to solve the caper, politically charged corruption and violence explode in what turns out to be the deadliest case of their careers.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
Italiano
Description
On an unforgiving, snow swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist) stands between the innocent refuges and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the...
5) Shaft
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Shaft: John Shaft, a private investigator, is hired by a Harlem crime boss to find his kidnapped daughter. During his investigation, Shaft uncovers a Mafia plot to take over a chunck of the Black underworld's uptown territory.
Shaft's big score!: Private eye John Shaft runs afoul of the underworld as he investigates a friends murder. This is the second film in the Shaft series.
Shaft in Africa: Detective John Shaft is persuaded by diplomats at the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 963
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Harry, a devilish charmer turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short, order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility,...
7) Repo man
Series
Criterion collection volume 654
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
About a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is a politically trenchant take on President Reagan₂s domestic...
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
On an unforgiving, snow swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski Nosferatu, For a Few Dollars More) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant The Conformist) stands between the innocent refuges and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But,...
9) Brothers
Author
Language
English
Description
On November 14, 1967, David Thomas, a black man, was arrested in Los Angeles. He claimed to be innocent, but was persuaded to plead guilty in exchange for the promise of a light sentence. Four years later, Thomas was dead, murdered while trying to escape the Northern California prison where he was serving a life term. In those four years, he experienced more than most men do in a lifetime. He educated himself by studying Paine, Guevara, Fanon, Hugo...