Tag: robbery
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The Gentleman Bandit
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
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El Barrendero
A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out.
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Slayground
After thieves botch an armored truck robbery that leads to the death of an innocent young girl, her father vows revenge by recruiting a sociopathic hitman to track them down and assassinate them.
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Curse of the Pink Panther
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world’s second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau’s enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete’s computer to select, instead, the world’s WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau’s American cousin.
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Out of Order
It’s Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn’t know there are four men in the building. They use the lift but stay in it about 100 meters from the floor. They have little oxygen and must survive…
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Something Wild
A free-spirited woman “kidnaps” a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
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Miracles
Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they’re together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan, the jaywalking jewel thief who decides to cash in on the crash. The ex-couple are kidnapped, shot at, cast adrift, mistaken for smugglers and even survive a plane crash. But…
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Black Moon Rising
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
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Blind Trust
A government ministry’s fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a former night club owner, in prison for two years on false charges, who’s being released in exchange for information about Montreal’s underworld. Théo agrees to steal the bag for money…
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Extreme Prejudice
Directed by the legendary Walter Hill, this gritty, modern Western is regarded as a classic and features an all-star cast with Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn, and Michael Ironside. Lean, mean Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nolte) locks horns with a former friend, Cash Bailey (Boothe), now a ruthless drug kingpin. Though…
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Raising Arizona
When a childless couple–an ex-con and an ex-cop–decide to help themselves to one of another family’s quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
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Wildfire
Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, Dave foolishly attempted to rob a bank with a water pistol, and ended up in jail for eight years. Meanwhile Kay was sent to foster parents, where…
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Short Circuit 2
Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.
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Pass the Ammo
A corrupt television preacher and his congregation are held hostage by a woman, her lover, and her two cousins in an attempt to avenge the theft of her inheritance. A quirky look at the dishonesty of the televangelist industry.
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Stay or go?
Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the gangsters and snatch to repay his debt . However, Sayoko Mukai, who said that she used the money of the company for gambling , took over the…
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New York Stories
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America’s most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
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Johnny Handsome
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.