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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
A robbery goes terribly wrong for a hapless criminal when he goes to knock off a jewelry store. Upon entering the store, the steel shutters immediately slam down and lock him inside until the police arrive. He is later sent to jail, but it doesn't take long before he befriends a big time crime boss inside. The two execute a successful break out and we soon find out that we don't really know the true background of these criminals or what is really...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul's girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, Paul ends up killing more people. It isn't long before the entire police force...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Director Francesco Barilli's hallucinatory giallo horror-thriller stars Mimsy Farmer who portrays Sylvia, a chemist who begins to suffer from strange visions; a mysterious woman in black applying perfume in a mirror appears to her and strangers follow her everywhere she goes. Barilli's psychological investigation into the workings of the mind becomes apparent when it is revealed that as a child, Sylvia committed a horrible crime. The slow progression...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Eleanor's catch is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this two-reeler, she stars as a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne'er-do-well suitor. A terrific surprise ending gives Eleanor and Cleo an early claim to promoting women's equality in the workforce. Rousing Melodrama.
5) Ajami
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
עברית
Description
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Ajami is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets of Ajami itself, the film deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrowing violence.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A "parody of the old New Wave crime eroticism movies" (The New York Times), Trans-Europ-Express is a self- referential, neo-noir thriller, with heavy doses of sado-masochism, from the mind of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last year at Marienbad). On the train from Paris to Antwerp, a director (Robbe-Grillet) and his production team hash out the plot of a crime movie. Their story is enacted by Jean Louis-Trintignant (Amour), who plays Elias, a cocaine smuggler...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom or risking it all to seek justice for his brother....
11) Bluehill Avenue
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Four childhood friends from the rough Roxbury neighborhood in Boston have all their dreams come true when they make quick money dealing drugs. But they soon find out that the repercussions of such a life can be deadly.
12) F.I.S.T
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the rise and fall of union leader Johnny Kovak from his beginnings as an idealistic blue collar worker to head of the Federation of Inter-State Truckers.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is a brilliant but haunted investigator for whom nothing is ever by the book. In ''Sleepyhead'', Thorne's only key to catching a serial killer is a survivor unable to move or communicate. In ''Scaredy Cat'', Thorne hunts a psychopath who may have formed a depraved partnership. Through it all, he will clash with colleagues, take shocking risks, and battle the personal demons that could destroy his world forever.
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
After battling on the streets in cities from coast-to-coast, vigiliante Paul Kersey has moved back to New York. When his beautiful fiancee Olivia is killed and her daughter is kidnapped by a king pin of the underworld, Kersey finds himself back in the war. Kersey's plan to live anonymously is shattered when he learns that his fiancee was the victim of a protection racket run by her ex-husband, Tommy O'Sheay. One by one Kersey hunts down the criminals,...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In The law in her hands, Glenda plays second chair to Margaret Lindsay when the two portray a pair of recent law grads who end up as mouthpieces for a mobster. Here comes Carter finds Glenda playing secretary to Ross Alexander's on-the-air Hollywood whistle-blower who's being targeted by the mob. Finally, Glenda plays a key member of an ensemble in the backstage satire.
Series
Criterion collection volume 874
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Multiple
Formats
Description
Insiang (1976): Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is raped by her mother's lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her, she exacts vicious revenge.
Mysterious object at noon (2000): Apichatpong creates a film version of the corpse game, enlisting locals to improvise narration to create a combined story.
Revenge (1989): A child raised in Korea spends decades avenging the death of his father's...
19) Moonrise
Series
Criterion collection volume 921
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the final triumph of Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood's most neglected masters. Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul...
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