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882) Blackhat
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A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.
883) Light it, shoot it
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"Fresh out of prison for an arson conviction, clueless 20-year old Billy Bonney finds himself drifting through the seedy and unsavory world of cut-rate moviemaking, even more out of place amongst his peers than he felt as a teen six years earlier when he got busted. Following his brother to the sets of grade B and exploitation 1970s Hollywood seems like a path of least resistance, until he accidentally lands a job as a handler to a has-been actor....
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"Living Black breaks the stereotype of poor African American neighborhoods as dysfunctional ghettos of helpless and hopeless people. Despite real and enduring poverty, the community described here -- the historic North End of Champaign, Illinois -- has a vibrant social life and strong ties among generations. But it operates on its own nonjudgmental terms -- teen moms aren't derided, school dropouts aren't ridiculed, and parolees and ex-cons aren't...
885) Pusher II
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Danish
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Tony (Mads Mikkelsen) is released from prison again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
886) al-Fidyah =: Ransom
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Arabic
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One night four seemingly unconnected lives intersect: Peter Morgan, released after four long years in prison and vowing to redeem himself in his daughter's eyes; Carl Waters, a convicted murderer set free; Ted Lee, a San Francisco police detective who has been living for his job and falling out of love with his wife; and Fernanda Barnes, a mother of three children, left with debt she cannot repay after the death of her brilliant husband. On the night...
887) The exonerated
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Sixteen years. Imagine everything you could do with sixteen years. Imagine everything you did the last sixteen years. Now take it all away. Sunny Jacobs was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. Sixteen years was just the beginning of what was taken from Sunny Jacobs. Now as a film, the undeniable power of the true stories of six exonerated survivors of death row will engage your emotion, incite your passion, and envelop...
888) The Anderson tapes
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Newly released from prison, an ex-con assembles his professional pals and plans a multi-million dollar robbery of an entire luxury apartment house. He is unaware that a hoard of lawmen are recording their activities.
889) Los Miserables
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Jean Valjean es un ex presidario. Cuando viaja rumbo a su pueblo natal, nadie se digna a ayudarlo, salvo don Bienvenido, el párroco, quien hará que se convierta en un hombre de bien. La pobreza, el hambre, la desesperación, la bondad, la desdicha, la camaradería y la miseria humanas se describen con nitidez en esta novela para mostrar que en el mundo nada es completamente bueno ni malo.
890) El color de su piel
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"Bobby está agotado, ha hecho un doble turno otra vez en el restaurante para conseguir el dinero del alquiler, que su madre otra vez se gastó bebiendo. Esa noche se reencuentra con Aaron, su mejor amigo que acaba de salir irreconocible de prisión. Atrás quedaron sus cómics, su gorra y sus pantalones deportivos, se ha convertido en alguien que da miedo y lleva en su cuerpo tatuajes de supremacía blanca. En este momento, menos que nunca Bobby...
891) Black kiss
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A jazz musician and ex-con framed for the murder of his wife and daughter plummets into a nightmare of sex and death in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles.
892) Under Capricorn
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"A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets."--IMDb
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Blue streak: Master jewel thief Miles Logan has a big problem. A $20 million problem. Recently released from prison for the botched heist of a huge diamond, he's anxious to retrieve the hot rock which he hid at a construction site two years earlier.
National security: When Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn team up as security guards, no one's safe! LAPD reject and major troublemaker Earl got L.A. cop Hank kicked off the force for brutality. Now, these...
894) Les misérables
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In nineteenth century France, a former convict tries to overcome his past and is asked to raise a prostitute's daughter, while being hounded by a policeman who vows to put him back behind bars.
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City of shadows: Big Tim Channing is a small-time racketeer who makes a living supplying old, out-of-date slot machines to businesses. He strikes up a prosperous partnership with newsboy Dan Mason when the precocious kid shows him how to corner the slot-machine racket and, at the same time, put his crooked competitors out of the running. But when Dan grows up and graduates from law school, it thrusts old Tim into a compromising position.
Crashout:...
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"The unforgettable true story of one man's escape from the school-to-prison pipeline, how he reinvented himself as a pastor and education reform advocate, and what his journey can teach us about turning the collateral damage in the lives of our youth into collateral hope"--
898) El último en morir
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"He aquí una retorcida historia de amor. Nuestro prospecto de héroe ha de ganarse su papel en ella con las reglas que impuso desde niño. No hay para él asunto más serio que este juego, cuya materia prima son las cicatrices. Necesita vivir la vida al límite, hacer de cada día una película y saltar al vacío sin la ayuda de un doble. Los novelistas, piensa, son siempre lo que cuentan. Esta novela tiene que ver con el romance, la cárcel, las...
899) A darker night
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Sub-inspector Max Romero, investigating a gypsy guitarist's death, confronts the machinations of the secretive Opus Dei.
900) Morning glory
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Will Parker arrives in the small town of Whitney, after spending five years in Huntsville Prison for killing someone in La Grange, Texas. Through an ad in the local paper, Will discovers that Emily, a recently widowed mother of two small boys, is actively looking for a husband and father. Star-crossed loners, Will and Emily decide to make a go of their collective plight and Will moves into the barn on her farm. When a local woman is found murdered,...
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