Frank Miller
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English
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Dangerous and desperate, the Owl is on the attack, and he's far from the Man Without Fear's only problem! Bullseye is back, while the Purple Man has employed his mind-control powers to torment our hero and his friends alike. It's a gritty, edge-of-your-seat saga that traps DD in the Ryker's Island prison, forcing him to fight a gauntlet of his most violent enemies. The personal drama is no less captivating: After Heather Glenn discovers Matt Murdock...
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English
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"A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv (Mickey Rourke), who is seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him; an ex-photographer called Dwight (Clive Owen) who accidentally kills a hero cop and has to cover it up; and a soon-to-be-retiring policeman called...
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Filmoteka Dziennika. Kino według Tarantino volume 1/7
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Polish
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Welcome to Sin City, the town that beckons to the tough, the corrupt, and the brokenhearted. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still try to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
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English
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Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed him."--Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide.
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87) RoboCop 2
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English
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"RoboCop returns to fight his toughest opponent yet: his replacement! When Detroit's descent into chaos is further compounded by a police department strike and a new designer drug called 'Nuke,' only RoboCop can stop the mayhem. But in his way are an evil corporation that profits from Motor City crime and a bigger and tougher cyborg with a deadly directive: take out RoboCop. Containing the latest in gadgetry and weaponry as well as the brain of the...
88) The Spirit
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English
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Denny Colt is a rookie cop who returns from the dead as The Spirit. He is a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces that lurk in the shadows of Central City. The Octopus kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face. He has other plans for the city. He wants to wipe out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this cold hearted killer from the city's rundown warehouses, through damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront. He does this while...
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English
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Conan: "A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil"--Container.
The Crow: Exactly one year after a young rock guitarist and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, he returns,...
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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English
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"Clips from noir classics and little-known gems, plus interviews with modern noir aficionados like directors Christopher Nolan and Frank Miller, writers James Ellroy and Brian Helgeland and others shape this multifaceted exploration of the movie style that grew out of the hard realities of post-World War II life"--Container.