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Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"Jackie plays a bored and unsuccessful salesman who never thought his life would amount to anything. All that changes one day when he becomes an instant hero by foiling an attempted bank robbery! But this newfound fame uncovers an even bigger surprise: Jackie is actually the latest in a long line of professional spies! Then, as he travels to Turkey to meet the father he's never known, Jackie becomes entangleed in a web of mystery and deceit that only...
2) Black Out
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Nederlands
Description
If Guy Ritchie made THE HANGOVER in Amsterdam, it might look something like Black Out, an audacious crime thriller laced with colorful lowlifes, tough femmes fatales, corrupt cops, and outbursts of extreme violence. On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos wakes up next to a murdered man with no recollection of what happened the night before. He soon discovers that a group of gangsters have pinned him as the lone suspect in the theft of...
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Language
English
Description
Es la historia de 10 amigos, miembros de un peligroso cartel de la droga, cuya ambicin̤ de poder y dinero los lleva a matarse entre ellos mismos. Lo que se inici ̤como una aventura en la que siendo jv̤enes entraron pensando hacerse millonarios, termin ̤mal para todos. El pacto que sellaron al comenzar, se rompi ̤en mil pedazos presionados por la perspectiva de la muerte o de la cr̀cel. Porque en este negocio, al final siempre se pierde.
Ten...
4) Unit 7
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Español
Description
The four officers of Unit 7 have a tough mission: eliminate the city's most dangerous drug trafficking network before the opening of the 1992 Seville World Exhibition. The film follows Angel (Mario Casas), Miguel (Joaquín Nún̈ez) the leader of the unit, and Mateo (José Manuel Poga) an aspiring detective, and Rafael (Antonio de la Torre), a violent yet effective force to be reckoned with. Failure is not an option in this compelling action thriller...
5) Cartel Land
Publisher
The Orchard
Language
English
Description
In the Mexican state of Michoacan, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley - a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley - Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across...
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Now an ex-cop on the run, Brian, hooks into outlaw street racing. When the Feds strong-arm him back, Brian's no rules, win-or-die skills are unleased against an internatinal drug lord. With his velocity-addicted buddy riding shotgun, and a drop-dead-georgeous undercover agent dialing up the heat ... it becomes a desperate race for survival and justice.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this **Oscar**-nominated romantic thriller, Atlantic City has been revitalized with the legalization of gambling. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes for its citizens. One of these citizens is Lou (Burt Lancaster), a longtime mob flunkey and bodyguard/boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace (Kate Reid). Lou's romantic interests begin to waver when he meets Sally (Susan Sarandon), a young casino croupier, after she unwillingly gets...
9) Dredd
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast lies Mega City One, a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called Judges who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Edition
Widescreen Edition
Language
English
Description
In season four, Walt and Skyler try to use gambling to explain how Walt has made all of his money; Skyler tries to launder money through a car wash; Hank's discovery of Gus Fring's fingerprint in Gale Boetticher's apartment is enough for DEA and Albuquerque PD to bring Gus in for an interview; and much more.
11) The last stand
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
[Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
After leaving his LAPD narcotics post, Sheriff Ray Owens moved and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. That peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez, one of the most notorious drug kingpins, makes an escape from the FBI. Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border, straight through Sommerton Junction.
12) Tulia, Texas
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
The story of a small town's search for justice and the price Americans pay for the war on drugs. Through its scrupulous investigation of a landmark case, Tulia, Texas uncovers the deep-rooted assumptions about race and crime that still permeate our society and undermines our justice system. The film convincingly shows how the 'war on drugs' has become a war on due process, waged against African Americans. Today America has the largest prison population...
14) Sabotage
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
Publisher
HBO Video
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Follows a single sprawling drug investigation in Baltimore, against the backdrop of the mayor's reelection campaign. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.
16) Lethal weapon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Director's cut.
Language
English
Description
The story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a murder investigation leads to war with a heroin ring.
17) Moonlight
Language
English
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Formats
Description
**Oscar-winner** for Best Picture, MOONLIGHT is a moving and transcendent look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to adulthood, as a shy outsider dealing with difficult circumstances, is guided by support, empathy and love from the most unexpected places. Winner of multiple **Oscars** including Best Picture, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Adapted Screenplay....
18) Desperado
Series
Language
English
Description
A mysterious guitar player seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.
Publisher
HBO Video
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
With the fall of the Barksdale empire, and the ascent of a new young drug king in Baltimore, McNulty, Bunk and the rest of the detail continue to "follow the money" up the political ladder amidst a hotly contested mayoral campaign. Prez witnesses first-hand the role of inner-city education in the formation of youth as four students, Michael, Namond, Randy and Dukie, face dangerous decisions and adolescent angst in a city rife with the temptations...
20) Fast & furious 6
Language
English
Description
Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
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