One Eyed King (2001)Monday, March 30th, 2009 |
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Residents of Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen attempt to balance family and friendship against the harsh street life that unfolds around them. |
One Eyed King (2001)Monday, March 30th, 2009 |
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Residents of Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen attempt to balance family and friendship against the harsh street life that unfolds around them. |
Some Like It Hot (1959)Thursday, March 12th, 2009 |
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Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane’s dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn’t have. But he can use Osgood Fielding’s yacht if Jerry — as Daphne — will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention. |
Hold That Ghost (1941)Thursday, February 19th, 2009 |
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Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster’s will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers. |
Legal Eagles (1986)Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 |
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District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea’s crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge. |
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 |
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Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam. |
Hard-Boiled (1992)Thursday, February 5th, 2009 |
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A hard-boiled Hong Kong detective (Chow Yun-Fat), who lost his partner in a gunfight, teams up with an undercover cop (Tony Leung) to stop a ruthless crime mob from smuggling guns and killing innocent people. |
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 |
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Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer’s car which then is forced off a cliff. Hammer wakes up in the hospital. Velda, his trusty secretary, informs him that Christina is dead. Pat Chambers, Mike’s policeman friend, tells him to stay off the case, but Mike thinks it might be a big story—meaning big money for him—because the FBI is interested. He, Velda, and Nick, his garage mechanic friend, start investigating in hopes of finding out why Christina was killed. |
Designing Woman (1957)Friday, January 16th, 2009 |
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On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they’re living in different worlds and know nothing about each other and exes and angry mobsters get in the way of their happily ever after though. |
Cry Danger (1951)Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 |
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“Rocky” Mulloy is framed for a murder and a holdup he didn’t commit and pulls a five year stretch in prison. He is finally pardoned when a friend returns from overseas to corroborate his testimony in court. “Rocky” then goes hunting for the real culprits so this his prison buddy, believed to be innocent, can also be pardoned. Nancy Morgan, wife of his friend, falls in love with him along the way, and he also has a few bullets fired at him by an oily character. “Rocky” finds the guilty party in a place he didn’t think about looking. |
RocknRolla (2008)Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 |
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In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city’s scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick. While the city’s seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player - a drugged out rock ‘n’ roller presumed to be dead but very much alive - has a multi-million dollar prize fall into his hands. |