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"A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story's focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not...
2) The night of
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An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
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Calling himself a cleaner, the mysterious Leon is New York's top hit man. When his next door neighbors are murdered, Leon becomes the unwilling guardian of the family's sole survivor, 12 year old Mathilda. But Mathilda doesn't want protection--she wants revenge. Training her in the deadly tricks of his trade, Leon helps her track the psychotic agent who murdered her family.
5) Uncertainty
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Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby and Kate are a New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very different heads/tails directions. A visit to Brooklyn leads them to gentle discoveries about family, loss, and each other, while a day in Manhattan plunges them into an urban nightmare of pursuit, suspense, and murder.
6) Sleepers
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Four young friends from Hell's Kitchen get into trouble and are sent to reform school, where they are sexually abused by guards. Years later, two of the boys are seeking revenge and rely on the other two boys to protect them.
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A spirited demoiselle is determined to save her fiance's grandfather from his malevolent, and possibly homicidal, servants. Fortified with glass after glass of on-the-cuff wine at a local tavern, an urbane, cloaked stranger comes to her aid. The gentleman displays keen detecting skills as the plot turns from suspicion to murder to the hunt for a missing will. But one thing he does not reveal: his own identity.
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Manhattan melodrama: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Evelyn Prentice: John Prentice is a successful Manhattan defense attorney. When his wife Evelyn ends an affair, her ex-lover blackmails her and he is murdered. Another woman is accused of the crime and Evelyn begs John to defend her.
Double wedding: A bohemian painter butts heads with his girlfriend's...
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An intense psychological thriller that finds a NYC policeman obsessed with administering his own form of justice against an admitted cop-killer. The cop is mysteriously confronted by a sociopathic punk who has witnessed his extreme methods of law enforcement. The sociopath, in a twisted form of street morality, engages the officer in a session of paranoid psychotherapy, if only to prove that life on the street can end up preying on those who are employed...
10) Summer of Sam
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"[A] movie that takes you back to New York City's infamous summer of 1977. The heat is soaring to record highs, blackouts are filling the streets with looters and the murders of a man who calls himself the Son of Sam are gripping the giant city in fear. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's fearsome plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to...
11) Games
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Attempting to fill their empty lives, a wealthy couple plays a variety of peculiar and unconventional games with their guests in their lavish Manhattan apartment. Every ace is trumped in this riveting psychological thriller where everything goes, the winner takes all, and losing the game could mean losing your life.
12) Summer of Sam
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From Spike Lee, the legendary director of Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, comes his electrifying take on the murders in NYC during the summer of 1977. Centering on the residents of an Italian-American Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. The heat is soaring to record highs, blackouts are filling the streets with looters, and the murders of a man who calls himself the Son of Sam are gripping the 'city that never sleeps'...
13) Evelyn Prentice
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"John Prentice is a highly successful Manhattan defense attorney. His wife, Evelyn, loves him very much, and as members of New York's high society, they enjoy an elegant and enviable lifestyle. But loneliness soon drives Evelyn into the arms of another, more romantic man. The affair is ended when the man blackmails Evelyn and is murdered. Another woman is accused of the crime and Evelyn begs John to defend her. He takes the case and for the first...
14) Black widow
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Fox film noir volume 22
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"Nancy Ordway is an aspiring writer hoping to make it big in New York at the expense of everyone around her, including Broadway producer Peter Denver, who reluctantly lets her use his apartment to work during the day. And when Peter's wife, Iris, comes home from a trip to find Nancy dead in the bathroom, the assigned detective, Lt. Bruce, soon realizes this assumed suicide is more likely a murder. Everyone Ordway knew is suddenly suspect while a series...
15) Rockaway
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Trane is a decorated war hero who has just been shipped back to the States after the brutal murder of his wife and child back home in Rockaway, Queens. Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and prostitution that have moved into their neighborhood and caused the destruction of his family. Replacing mourning with revenge, Trane vows to take down the network of lowlifes and mobsters involved in the murder of his...
16) 12 angry men
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Courtroom drama revolving around the trial of a boy accused of killing his father, where one man stands between him and capital punishment.
17) Clockers
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In this film by Spike Lee, drug-dealers engage in a power struggle with their boss, even as the leader is suspected of murder.
18) The night of
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An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
20) Hiding
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When Jo witnesses the gruesome murder of her parents, she becomes a key witness against a notorious crime boss. She is placed into the Witness Protection Program and is relocated thousands of miles away from her big inner city home to the rural countryside of Montana. Now she has a new name, a new look and a new 'family.' Jo slowly begins to make new friends and build a new life when her past comes catching up to her and the fight of her life has...
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