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Frank Grillo (Captain America : The winter soldier) stars in this gritty drama as former pro fighter Alvey Kulina, who, along with his girlfriend, Lisa (Kiele Sanchez, The purge : Anarchy), runs a mixed martial arts gym in Venice, California. Tensions mount with Alvey's addict ex-wife, Christina (Joanna Going) in the mix and when Lisa's ex-fiancé, Ryan (Matt Lauria), returns from prison to resurrect his fighting career - with Alvey as his trainer....
42) River's edge
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Based on an actual event, a close-knit group of teenagers discover that one of their own has killed his girlfriend. Emotionally ill-prepared, they struggle to differentiate between friendship and responsibility.
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"Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family"--Container.
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When California governor Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many underfunded high schools, he proposes they send the affected students to the most well funded schools in the state, including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the privileged Bayside kids (who never have a problem that cannot be solved in twenty-two minutes) a much-needed dose of reality.
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Back to the Future: It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
Back to the Future Part II: Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen steals...
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Frank Morris, the cunning bank robber who masterminded the only successful escape from Alcatraz's infamous maximum security prison. In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once; by three men who were never heard from again. Based on the true story.
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California Bureau of Investigation consultant Patrick Jane has a blatant lack of protocol but is self-assured and driven. The former 'psychic' uses his talent for seeing the clues everyone else misses to solve the most baffling crimes. But there's more than crime that makes this season a must-see: Lisbon and Cho reveal hints about their troubled pasts. Violence fells one CBI boss, and the new boss seems more interested in authority than teamwork.
49) Taken
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Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Bryan left the agency to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan...
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A self-centered college student has one thing on his mind--get home for Christmas. Just days before his deadline he wakes up in the California desert--stranded and penniless, wearing a Santa suit and a white beard glued to his face! The closer Jake gets to home, the closer he gets to the true meaning of Christmas and Family in this nonstop comedy of errors.
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"Joe Hunt and tennis pro Dean Kerry lead a group of their wealthy friends into a dangerous game of high-risk investing in 1980s Los Angeles. However, when their 'get-rich-quick' scheme quickly snowballs out of control, pure-hearted ambition turns into crime-riddled greed as the boys find themselves on the line between hamless white lies and pure evil"--Container.
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"Former child actor Fiona St. James dropped out of the spotlight after a spectacularly public crash and burn. The tabloids called her crazy and self-destructive and said she'd lost her mind. Now in her late twenties, Fiona believes her humiliating past is firmly behind her. She's finally regained a modicum of privacy, and she won't let anything--or anyone--mess it up. Unlike Fiona, Sam Fox, who played her older brother on the popular television show...
56) 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...
57) Boogie nights
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A film that throws the covers back on California's adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies through the story of rising porn star Dirk Diggler. It's a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmmakers, brought to dazzling life by an all-star cast and sizzling seventies soundtrack.
58) Shot caller
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After a DUI sent him down the rabbit hole of the American prison system, Jacob Harlon was transformed into Money, a stoic and ruthless prison gangster. Upon his release from prison, he learns that the grip of his new family, the prison gang, goes beyond bars. Chased by law enforcement and threatened by his incarcerated 'protectors', he must orchestrate one last dangerous crime.
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The FBI's masterfully manipulative criminal consultant Patrick Jane is back for the seventh and final season of the clever crime series. Now that Agent Teresa Lisbon and Jane have confessed their love for one another, they must find a way to be partners in both their professional and personal lives as they begin their new relationship.