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Joel is a suburban teenager in the wealthy northern Chicago suburbs with the family house and Porsche at his disposal when his parents leave on vacation. Through his scheming friends, he finds himself entertaining the very sexy Lana. After meeting Joel's enthusiastic friends, Lana spots a business opportunity. She suggests filling a business need by bringing in some of her colleagues. Although not convinced this is a good idea, Joel agrees when he...
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"In this second installment of Stieg Larsson's phenomenal 'Millennium' trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and violent behavior makes her an official danger to society. Mikael Blomkvist, Salander's friend and Millennium's publisher, is alone in his belief...
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Lee goes to the island fortress of a warlord of crime, Han, who carries on his opium smuggling and prostitution activities under the disguise of a martial arts academy. Determined to avenge the death of his sister, Lee penetrates Han's stronghold and enters the brutal martial arts tournament Han is staging. The fighting sequences, staged by Lee himself, demonstrate the skills of karate, judo, tai kwan do, tai chichuan, and hapkido.
5) Klute
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Criterion collection volume 987
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English
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"Bree Daniels [is] a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the focal point of a missing-person investigation when detective John Klute turns up at her door [...] Klute is a character study thick with dread, capturing the mood of early-1970s New York and the predicament of a woman trying to find her own way on the fringes of society." --
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Criterion collection volume 277
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Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home. A crazy friendship develps between the two that takes on tragic overtones when Scott falls in love and Mike realizes he's about to lose the only important...
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Criterion collection volume 827
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Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation,...
10) The client list
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When an injury leaves her husband unable to work, and her family faces foreclosure on their home, a former beauty queen is forced to take a job in a massage parlor. She soon realizes that it's a front for a high-end call girl operation, one so lucrative, she can't afford to turn it down. But when the parlor is raided, she must either cooperate with the police and give up her clients' identities, or lose everything she tried so hard to save.
12) The chaser
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Korean
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Tells the gritty tale of police detective turned pimp Jung-Ho. When one of his girls goes missing, Jung-Ho thinks she has been kidnapped or sold off. The truth is far worse, as a sadistic killer has entrapped the poor woman and plans to torture and then kill her as the latest of his victims. Worst yet, even when the killer is detained by police, a series of mistakes and incompetence lets the vicious criminal laugh at justice.
13) Madame Rosa
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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa (1977) is an enduring classic of cross-cultural understanding. Simone Signoret (Diabolique) stars as Madam Rosa, a French-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who now runs a boarding house in Paris for the children of prostitutes. She takes a liking to Momo, an Algerian boy who she raises in the Muslim faith, a controversial decision in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But their bond...
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Criterion collection volume 484
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Evokes a sense of impending doom, the daily domestic routine of a middle-aged widow. Her chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Her life is beginning to break down.
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中文(繁體)
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Set in 19th century China this is the story of young Huang Feihong, the legendary Cantonese martial arts master and folk hero, who, leading his misfit militia, is determined to stop the immoral slave trade that serves the California gold fields. When his aunt is kidnapped to be sold as a prostitute, Wong must battle his countrymen and the superior firepower of the slave traders, all for the very soul of traditional China.
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Criterion collection volume 512
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Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.
17) The babysitters
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English
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A young girl starts an escort service to help pay for college when she finds that she makes more money having sex with the fathers than babysitting for them.
19) Cougars, Inc
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Sam has been kicked out of every school across the country. When he learns that his mother can no longer afford to keep him in school, he and his friends start their own escort service, Cougars, Inc., to help pay for his tuition. Through this hilarious new job, Sam and his friends explore the generation of 'Cougars' who are desperately trying to stay young, and love every lesson they are taught. Special features include commentary, a featurette, and...
20) Student services
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Despite holding a part-time job, college freshman Laura is unable to make ends meet. Desperate for money, she answers an Internet ad from Joe, a 57-year-old man who seeks a female student for 'tender moments.' The pay is 100 euros per hour. She promises herself it will be only this one time. Three days later, Laura meets Joe and her downward spiral begins. By her second customer, however, Laura already wants to stop. Will she be able to?
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