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1) Home alone
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"Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister has become the man of the house overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them!"--Container.
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Frank is an aging ex-jewel thief, and his two grown children are worried that he can no longer care for himself. In deciding what to do with Frank, the most likely option appears to be putting him in a nursing home. But Frank's son comes up with another option: buy Frank a walking, talking robot programmed to look after him and improve his physical and mental health. Frank resists the robot at first, but he warms to it after realizing that it could...
5) Stolen
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A now former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi by a former partner who believes he has hidden ten million dollars. Montgomery must partner up with another old partner to pull off one more heist to get his daughter back. All this takes place during ten frantic hours on Mardi Gras day.
7) Parker
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Parker is a thief who has an unusual code. He doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. He is asked to join four other guys, one of whom is related to a known mobster. They pull off the job flawlessly and Parker wants to part ways with them. When he refuses to join them for another job, they try to kill him. They dispose of his body, but someone finds him-- still alive. After recovering, he sets out to get back at the ones who tried to...
8) Point break
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Follows FBI agent Johnny Utah as he goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers suspected of robbing banks. Utah, a former football player, is assigned to Los Angeles. There, four bank robbers, who wear rubber masks and call themselves Ex-Presidents, have executed a series of successful robberies which embarrassingly have the FBI stumped. Utah, and his partner Pappas suspect that the robbers are surfers and hatch a plan for...
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After serving a jail term for robbery, Zequi is freed, only to discover his buried loot lies directly under a newly built high school gym! To gain access to the cash, Zequi cons his way into a job as Frida Kahlo High's cool new substitute teacher. But before Zequi collects the money, the ex-thief will have to face a class of rowdy kids and a beautiful teacher who just might steal his heart in this over-the-top and outrageously funny comedy.
11) Christmas caper
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A professional thief hides out in her hometown after a robbery goes wrong and she finds herself on the run. As the holidays approach, she finds that what she might need in her life is in the place she never thought to look.
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"Leverage focuses on a team led by former insurance investigator turned thief, Nate Ford ... . Together, they try to level the playing field for people whose lives have been destroyed by the rich and powerful. In the final season of Leverage, the team will be forced to face changing personal dynamics as the relationship between Parker ... and Hardison ... heats up, and Nate continues to struggle with inner demons"--Container.
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In this over-the-top sequel, there's trouble in paradise. When the seemingly reformed ex-con Zequi is about to marry the love of his life, the lovably nerdy Lucy, wedding-day jitters turn into a full-blown fiasco, and Lucy calls the wedding off. Once they're all seaside, Lucy runs into her high school sweetheart Mario, who is the coach of the opposing squad, and Zequi finds himself a rival in more than one competition.
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"Cuatro sofisticados y carismáticos ladrones, Leo, Mónica, Sánchez y Leserio, planean robar 12 millones de dólares y huir a Argentina. El plan transcurre sin problemas, salvo por una excepción: cuando intentan cambiar el dinero a pesos argentinos, de repente son robados por bandidos enmascarados que se adueñan de su botín. Ahora los cuatro ladrones tendrán que averiguar en qué momento su plan fue mal y quién les traicionó"--Container.
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A group of children, age seven through fourteen, are left home alone at a house in a secluded community in the countryside. Their innocence is gradually corrupted as they experiment with rule-breaking, ultimately leading to house break-ins around the neighborhood. The arrival of the maids son, a teenager of lesser privilege, exposes prejudice and ferocity climaxing with crimes that force the children to re-examine their actions.
20) En la sangre
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"Eva Valverde vive en Barcelona, no roba por necesidad, sino para pagar un tren de vida que no podría mantener con un sueldo fijo. Y, claro, para sentirse por encima de los demás. Pero nadie dijo que la bvia del carterista fuera fácil. Tras varios años construyendo su mundo perfecto, lo pierde todo en un solo día. Lo que iba a ser un camino de champán y rosas se convierte en una sucesión de chantajes, violencia y cadáveres."--Page 4 of cover....