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The Outfit (1973) IMDb WikiData
The Outfit
director: John Flynn actor: Robert Duvall / Karen Black …
other title: Organizzazione crimini / Revolte in der Unterwelt …
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
director: Rouben Mamoulian actor: Fredric March / Miriam Hopkins …
other title: Il dottor Jekyll / Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde …
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
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Lonesome Dove (1989) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Lonesome Dove
actor: Robert Duvall / Tommy Lee Jones …
other title: Weg in die Wildnis / Paloma solitaria …
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
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No Escape (1994) IMDb WikiData
No Escape
director: Martin Campbell actor: Ray Liotta / Lance Henriksen …
other title: Fuga da Absolom / Flugten fra Absolom …
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
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Screamers (1995) NeoDB WikiData TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban
Screamers
director: Christian Duguay actor: Peter Weller / Jennifer Rubin …
other title: Screamers - Urla dallo spazio / Screamers - Tödliche Schreie …
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
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The Foreigner (2017) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
The Foreigner
6.3 (7 ratings) director: Martin Campbell actor: Pierce Brosnan / Jackie Chan …
other title: O Estrangeiro / El extranjero
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
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Night and the City (1950) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Night and the City
director: Jules Dassin actor: Richard Widmark / Francis L. Sullivan …
other title: I trafficanti della notte / Foragidos da Noite …
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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The Warriors (1979) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Warriors
director: Walter Hill actor: Michael Beck / James Remar …
other title: I guerrieri della notte / Krigerne …
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
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Miami Blues (1990) ReviewDB IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Miami Blues
director: George Armitage actor: Alec Baldwin / Jennifer Jason Leigh …
other title: 迈阿密特别行动 / Balada de Miami …
After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
8.3 (6 ratings) director: Robert Zemeckis actor: Bob Hoskins / Christopher Lloyd …
other title: Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit / Hvem Snørede Roger Rabbit? …
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
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Dune (1984) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Dune
director: David Lynch actor: Kyle MacLachlan / Francesca Annis …
other title: Dune - Ørkenplaneten / Dune - Duna …
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.