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921) Pulp fiction
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Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been hailed by critics and audiences worldwide as a film that redefined cinema. Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters, including a pair of low-rent hitmen, their boss's sexy wife, and a desperate prizefighter, in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating blend of crime-thriller-drama-comedy that is completely original an entirely unforgettable.
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Polish
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"Wstrzasajace wyznania kobiety, ktora wyrwala sie z mafijnego piekla. Japonski bestseller, ktory wywolal szok w Wielkiej Brytanii. Kolorowy tatuaz zdobi cale cialo Shoko Tendo. Przedstawia Piekielna Dame, piekna i niebezpieczna kurtyzane, bedaca symbolem kobiecej sily. Zaskoczenie jest tym wieksze, gdy ta mloda Japonka obnaza ramiona i kieruje ku nam niewinne spojrzenie. Nie dajmy sie zwiesc, ten tatuaz to symbol yakuzy, a Shoko Tendo jest corka jednego...
923) Four feature films
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American Gangster: "Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) and outcast cop Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) are plunged into a legendary confrontation when Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire."--Back of case.
The hurricane: "Denzel Washington plays Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a man who, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder and later joins forces with activists to prove...
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Ruth is searching for her father, a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Desperation drives her to work without a permit at a massage parlor. Torn between several schisms, Mumbai becomes the alien, yet strangely familiar backdrop for Ruth's quest. She struggles to find her independence and space, even as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinthine politics of the city's underbelly. It's a city that feeds on her misery, a love that eludes her, and...
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Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
926) Gangsta: Volume 6
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As Erica stalks through Ergastulum, leaving a trail of dead in her wake, Delico copes with the heartbreaking news that this most dangerous Hunter is actually his long-lost little sister. After a lifetime of separation, he's determined to bring her back, but a fragile sibling bond may not be enough to counter the merciless force of destiny.
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"When the impossible happens, the game changes, and the Walker sisters, FREEDOM, ANGEL and DESTINY are out to make the world shiver at the sounds of their heels clicking and their guns clacking. FATHER GOD was larger than life. He was thought to be untouchable, but one woman did what many men couldn't-- she brought him down and placed him inside of a casket. Now the only question remaining is how hard will the girls go after their beloved father's...
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Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
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Born in 1944 in Durham, North Carolina, Matthews left his hometown when he was a teenager, going first to Philadelphia and then to New York City. By the early 1970s, Frank Matthews had become America's biggest drug kingpin. His organization, headquartered in Brooklyn, stretched across 21 states, and he became the only Black gangster to establish direct ties to the French Connection heroin pipeline. ... The $15 to 20 million he disappeared with is...
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"Robert Hall stars as millionaire newspaperman Britt Reid, fighting crime in the guise of his gas-gun toting alter ego. 'Matching wits with the underworld, ' Reid risks his life 'that criminals and racketeers within the law may feel its weight by the sting of the Green Hornet!' Raymond Toyo co-stars as Kato in these exciting episodes, one of which features the first appearance of The Green Hornet's nemesis Oliver Perry!"--Container.
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What happens when you find out the house you grew up in is a private graveyard? Jared Dix is an awkward high school graduate who makes his first friend in a college student named Monica, who knows more about his house than he does: it's where the Capones wiped out the Cerutti Mob the evening of Easter in 1930. The discovery is unsettling for Jared, but as he and Monica find out more details about the massacre, he learns what it feels like to be accepted,...
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The Godfather: It is the late 1940s in New York and "Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a powerful Mafia "family." His youngest son Michael had defied Vito by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II. Michael has returned with no intention of continuing the family business, but after several assassination attempts on his father's life, Michael wants revenge on the men responsible. He is groomed as the new Don, leading the family to a new era...
936) Blessed event
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"While his boss is on vacation, reporter Alvin Roberts has been writing a snappy gossip column featuring announcements of 'blessed events, ' impending births of both the married and unmarried. Although the column is not very respectable, circulation jumps, so Alvin is assigned a regular position. Soon, he is so powerful that gangster Sam Goebel sends his gunman, Frankie Wells, to threaten him. Instead, Alvin tricks Frankie into confessing to murder...
937) Pierrot le fou
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Criterion collection volume 421
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Français
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Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anti-consumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent tale of a romantic couple. This is a high point of the French New Wave, and was Godard's last frolic...
940) Blue moon
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Businessman Horace Jones is deep in debt. While his family thinks he is in Hong Kong on a business deal, he is covertly working a quiet nightshift in a gas service station to make ends meet. When a suspicious looking character dies in the station's toilet clutching a wad of cash, Horace is suddenly offered a tempting opportunity to dispose of the evidence and solve his own financial problems. When gangster Darren arrives at the station store, the...