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Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley, the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free lance killer, to eliminate someone who double crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall in love their jobs become complicated. Their jobs become impossible when each is given a contract that neither can go through with.
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Max and Riton pull off a job together, a burglary of fifty million gold bars at Orly. The milieu, unaware of who committed the crime, finally discovers the truth from Riton's mistress… Winner of the Best Actor Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"It's Gabin's show all the way, anticipating the melancholy, atmospheric gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville that started to appear a couple years later." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, **Chicago...
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More Fearsome Than Frankenstein... More Demonic Than Dracula! Edinburgh, 1827. Irish immigrants Burke (George Rose, A New Leaf) and Hare (Donald Pleasence, Halloween) hit upon the idea of selling the bodies of the recently deceased to eminent surgeon Dr. Robert Knox (Peter Cushing, The Skull). Dr. Knox, knowing that experimental vivisection is the only way for medicine to make progress, forms an uneasy alliance with the self-styled body snatchers....
5) I walk alone
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Partners Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. Years later Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
6) Desert fury
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Years ago, Eddie had left town under suspicion of murdering his wife and after running into some trouble in Las Vegas, Eddie now hopes to get involved with the local gambling house whose proprietor is his ex-flame Fritzi Haller. To complicate matters, Eddie falls for Fritzi's daughter, who used to be involved with the local lawman Tom Hanson, who's still in love with her.
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A lean, cold-eyed, cobra-quick gunfighter arrives in a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers terrorize the impoverished citizens. Though he receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang, his loyalty cannot be bought. He accepts both jobs and sets in motion a deadly plan to destroy the criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated setups, showdowns and deadly confrontations.
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Henry Holland, a meek clerk who devises an ingenious plan to rob a fortune in gold bullion from his own bank. But when Henry and his odd accomplice melt the gold into souvenir Eiffel Towers to smuggle into France, their perfect crime becomes a disastrous caper of Cockney crooks, customs chaos and an ill-timed group of schoolgirls, all leading to some of the most hilarious and unexpected surprises in criminal history.
10) The captive city
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"A small town newspaperman's investigation into a local bookie operation turns up a web of organized crime." -- IMDb, April 11, 2016.
12) Target: Harry
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Freelance pilot Harry Black finds both the Monte Carlo police and the underworld on his tail when he becomes caught up with one of his passenger's plot to break the bank of England with forged currency. The tension mounts as mysterious beauty Diane Reed and local gangster Mosul Rashi are hot on Harry's trail believing that he has the priceless plates used to print the counterfeit money.
13) Big house, U.S.A
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A tough and realistic crime drama about a gang of ruthless convicts who execute a successful prison break to secure a $200,000 in loot hidden in Colorado's Royal Gorge National Park.
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A colony of Hollywood ex-patriots have arrived to film the story Mary, Queen of Scots. Old conflicts reappear--and so does a body. Inspector Craddock is delighted to find that his suspects are none other than his movie heroes but his favourite aunt, the formidable Miss Marple, famous female sleuth, soon gets investigations well under way.
15) Brannigan
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Chicago police lieutenant Jim Brannigan is sent to the UK to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the USA but Larkin's hit men prepare an ambush for Brannigan.
16) Running scared
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The motion picture asks the question, "How come the bad guys always drive the good cars?" The answer has them Running Scared in this lightning-paced comic thriller. Ray and Danny are the wild men of the Windy City's police force. The pair's unorthodox methods get results in a tough town until they come up against Julio Gonzales, a smooth-talking drug dealer who is bucking to become Chicago's first Spanish Godfather. Trying to nail Gonzales, they blow...
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From Sam Peckinpah, the legendary director of Ride the High Country, The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, The Getaway and Convoy, comes this audacious crime drama starring the great Warren Oates. When a Mexican land baron puts a million dollars on the head of the man who seduced and impregnated his daughter, two money-hungry hired killers recruit a small-town bartender to help them do their dirty work. But their tequila-fueled trek across the desolate Mexican...
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When crusading district attorney John Conroy is tasked to crack down on a powerful crime syndicate, he recruits his no-nonsense newspaperman pal Jerry McKibbon, his sweetheart Mandy, and his grizzled detective father. But unbeknownst to the younger Conroy, the elder Conroy is mixed up in the same racket he's been appointed to take down.
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Man Afraid: "A burglar is surprised by David and Lisa Collins in their son's room. In the struggle, Lisa's eyes are hurt and David throws an ornament, unintentionally killing the young thief. It's not easy for Reverend Collins to deal with the resulting publicity, his own conscience, or Lisa's temporary blindness" -- imdb.com.
The Girl in the Kremlin: "In 1953, Soviet dictator Stalin fakes his own death, undergoes plastic surgery and vanishes but...