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2) Killer Joe
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hitman with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
3) Ava
Language
English
Formats
Description
A deadly assassin is forced to fight for her own survival when a job goes terribly wrong.
4) Dark crimes
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When police officer Tadek finds connections between an unsolved murder and a crime from a book by famous writer Krystov Kozlov, Tadek begins to pursue Kozlov and his girlfriend, a secretive sex-club worker. As his fixation with Kozlov grows, Tadek falls into a deadly underworld of sex, lies, and corruption to find the alarming, deadly truth.
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he's previously kept at arm's length to keep out of danger. First, he must complete one last mission, even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years while his wife...
7) Point break
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young FBI agent, Johnny Utah, infiltrates a cunning team of thrill-seeking elite athletes, led by the charismatic Bodhi. The athletes are suspected of carrying out a spate of crimes in extremely unusual ways. Deep undercover, and with his life in imminent danger, Utah strives to prove they are the architects of this string of inconceivable crimes.
8) Prisoners
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads, Dover knows his child's life is at stake and decides he must take matters into his own hands. How far...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Chinese
Description
Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, it is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager.
10) Horrible bosses
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After a night of drinking, three friends devise a seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their intolerable employers.
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan...
11) Ocean's 8
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Debbie Ocean gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.
12) Jungleland
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Stan and Lion are two brothers struggling to stay relevant in the underground world of bare-knuckle boxing. When Stan fails to pay back a dangerous crime boss, they're forced to deliver an unexpected traveler as they journey across the country for a high-stakes fighting tournament. While Stan trains Lion for the fight of his life, a series of events threaten to tear the brothers apart but their love for one another and belief in a better life keep...
13) Beyond the law
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A former mobster turned businessman and a police detective must contend with a dirty ex-cop looking to bring the killer of his son to justice.
14) Uncut gems
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Hindi
Description
Raghu's indefectible life is devastated, when a robbery episode kills his wife and son. The culprit Liak refuses to let out the truth and is imprisoned for 20 years. Refusing to move on, Raghu harbours in him the tryst for truth. Can he avenge the deaths of people who meant the world to him?
16) Something wild
Series
Criterion collection volume 563
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A straitlaced Wall Street tax consultant sets off on a wild and ultimately dangerous weekend with an unpredictable woman he has just met.
17) Proud Mary
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mary is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Her life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
18) Captive
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Brian Nichols, on the run as the subject of a city-wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son, takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren's bestselling inspirational book, The purpose driven life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope.
19) American animals
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
20) Shallow grave
Series
Criterion collection volume 616
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When their new roommate dies with a suitcase full of cash under the bed, Juliette, David, and Alex make a series of bad decisions dealing with the money and disposing of the body.
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