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A dark comedic thriller follows an art dealer who teams with a hitman and his boss for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet sat in the director₂s chair for the first time for this sly, merciless thriller. Starring Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna, this film is a rich character study told with the cold calculation of a career con artist targeting his next mark.
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After a string of bizarre bank robberies in Southern California, with the crooks donning masks of various former presidents, a federal agent, Johnny Utah, infiltrates the suspected gang. But this is no ordinary group of robbers. They're surfers led by the charismatic Bodhi who are addicted to the rush of thievery. But when Utah falls in love with a female surfer, Tyler, who is close to the gang, it complicates his sense of duty.
5) Saw
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Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer is abducting morally wayward people and forcing them to play horrifric games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his or her life, or else die trying.
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"Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman -- a kindred spirit named Elena. But when a group known as the 'Noble Men' break into their home, attack them, and take her beloved dog, Diego, Becky must return to her old ways to protect herself and her loved ones"--Container.
7) Exile (DVD)
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Just prior to his release from prison, Ted Evans receives a threat from the man whose family he killed in a DUI 'if you make contact with your family, I'll kill them'. Believing that the danger is real, Ted exiles himself to a reclusive life to protect his family. However, Ted's wife knows the threat is merely a manifestation of her husband's profound guilt. Determined to rebuild their family, Sara tracks Ted down to confront him with hard evidence...
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When a young Amish boy inadvertently witnesses a brutal murder while en route to Philadelphia with his recently widowed mother, Rachel, Detective John Book is assigned to the case. With the perpetrators desperate to silence the sole witness, Ford and his two wards are forced to hide out in the heart of the Amish community. As passions between Book and Rachel ignite, the killers close in, culminating in a dramatic, life-and-death clash of cultures...
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Oilman Paul Sturges's idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.
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John McClane is off-duty on Christmas Eve in the nation's capital when a team of terrorists, in town to rescue a drug lord from justice, has taken over a major international airport, holding thousands of travelers hostage. Amidst a blinding blizzard, McClane must race against time to defeat the terrorists and their murderous leader while also contending with an inept airport police chief, the stubborn head of the Army's anti-terrorist squad, and the...
12) Barbarian
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A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that her rented house is not what it seems.
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Michael, a discharged marine turned drifter, ends up in Red Rock, Wyoming in search of honest work. Wayne, a local bar owner, offers Michael the dishonest work of carrying out a hit on his wife Suzanne after mistaking him for the actual hitman, "Lyle, from Dallas", that he hired to murder his spouse. Before Michael can split town with his downpayment, he runs into the real Lyle, and, from there, all hell breaks loose.
15) Prey (Blu-ray)
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The epic Predator legacy continues with this action-thriller set in the Comanche Nation. When Naru, a fierce and highly skilled young warrior, sets out to protect her people, the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator leading to a vicious and terrifying showdown.
16) Gone dark
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An undercover drug agent has been 'in' too long. The line between her job and her assumed lifestyle as girlfriend to the crime boss has become blurred. As her double life begins to unravel she must do whatever it takes to stay alive.
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A babysitter is tormented by a series of ominous phone calls until a compulsive cop is brought on the scene to apprehend the psychotic killer. Seven years later, however, the nightmare begins again when the madman returns to mercilessly haunt the babysitter, now a wife and mother.
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Washington, D.C., in the mid-to-late 1960s, vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to become a unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr. to fully express himself and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the new ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with Dewey Hughes....
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His service to his country made him a hero. But one mistake made him a prisoner. For General Eugene Irwin, it's just a matter of serving out his sentence until he makes the shocking discovery that his fellow inmates are being murdered. Now, Irwin is taking command one last time and unifying the inmates in a desperate battle to overcome a brutally corrupt system and show the world the truth.