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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
John and Jane Smith are a married couple who are beginning to get bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they are both assassins, secretly traveling around the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when the discover they are each other's next target.
2) The mechanic
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Bishop is an assassin with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and he is the best in the business. But when Harry, his mentor and friend is murdered, Bishop wants those responsible dead. After Harry's son approaches him with the same vengeful goal, Bishop takes the impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. However, deceptions will surface, and those...
3) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Blu-ray Edition
Language
English
Description
A car salesman sets in motion a complicated series of events when he decides to mastermind the kidnapping of his wife for ransom.
4) End of watch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
5) Collateral
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. Together, Vincent and Max find themselves in a non-stop race against time. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive....
6) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Miramax
Language
English
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
7) Blood simple
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
Criterion collection.
Language
English
Description
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
8) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
To Manhattan's elite, Wall Street wheeler-dealer Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful, accomplished Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like a perfect murder. It isn't. In fact, very little is what it seems.
10) Collateral
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. Together, Vincent and Max find themselves in a non-stop race against time. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive....
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two rival crime families. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances between them, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, he takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to remain the last man standing.
12) Ripley's game
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny. Trevanny reluctantly accepts the offer and the situation quickly...
13) Killer Joe
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hitman with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
14) The hit list
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Seeking a hundred million reward set up the Japanese Yakuza for finding the killer of their boss, Fu, in desperate need of money, choose to become a contract killer and teams up with an agent who is willing to show him the Japanese underworld. Now, Fu and his agent are about to discover the killer no one is expected.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Lucas is a solitary assassin hired to kill a young woman, Ella. When he can't bring himself to pull the trigger the plan falls apart, setting in motion a twisted game of cat and mouse. Now both are marked for death and forced to form an uneasy alliance. Relentlessly pursued across Europe, their only hope for survival is to expose those responsible for brutally murdering her family and bring them to justice.
18) Cat Ballou
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Edition
Widescreen and full screen versions.
Language
English
Description
When her father is murdered by a powerful businessman, a woman hires a has-been gunfighter to help her gain revenge.
Language
English
Description
"Feet Samuels is known as a very honorable man. When he is arrested because of a misunderstanding, gangster Joel Baldwin, known as the Brain, bails him out. Now Feet owes five hundred dollars and is worried because the Brain is known to punish those who default on loans. Feet is an unlucky gambler and is unlucky at love as well. His girl friend, Hortense Hathaway, is only interested in money and Feet has none. Finally, in desperation, Feet decides...
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