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Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His brother never reappears. Olivia White has given ten years...
2) Widows
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story is about four women who do not share anything in common apart from the debts their dead husbands left behind. They all take fate into their own hands concerning all the criminal activities their husbands were involved in. The four women become close friends and find a way that will give them a secure and a conducive environment. They end up working together and conspires to collaborate a future on their rapports to avoid being involved in...
3) The outfit
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.
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Based on the true story of Rita Atria and Judge Paolo Borsellino, The Sicilian Girl is the dramatic retelling of Atria's Story: how a 17 year-old Sicilian whose father and brother were both Mafia Members (and victims) breaks the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Borselllino.
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In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent...
7) Proud Mary
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mary is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Her life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
8) The bag man
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hitman named Jack takes an assignment to deliver a mysterious bag to his crafty boss with strict instructions not to peek inside. With the help of an elusive prostitute, Jack battles a mess-load of gunfire, a slew of crooked cops, and unruly mobsters on a deadly quest to deliver the precious cargo and earn a big pay day.
9) Point blank
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A professional criminal helps pull off an underworld heist, then is gunned down and left for dead. He resurfaces to track down his share of the loot.
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Set in South Philadelphia, A Rose on Ninth Street, deals with police corruption, crime, loyalty, drugs, romance, love, forgiveness, and redemption. Bob O'Conner is faced with the biggest decision of his life when he falls in love with the beautiful daughter of his boss's enemy. While Bob's father struggles with alcoholism, and his mother is dying from cancer, Bob's crime boss sets out to kill him, and his world is crumbling around him.
11) Ronin
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In a world where loyalties are easily abandoned and allegiances can be bought, a new and deadlier terrorist threat has emerged -- free-agent killers! The Cold War may be over, but a new world order keeps a group of covert mercenaries employed by the highest bidder. These operatives, known as "Ronin," are assembled in France by a mysterious client for a seemingly routine mission: steal a top-secret briefcase. But the simple task soon proves explosive...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cop has been put in charge of protecting a gangster's girlfriend as she is being transported from Chicago to L.A. by train to testify before a grand jury. He has his work cut out, though, as there are hitmen on the train that are after her.
13) Tracers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bicycle messenger Cam is in heavy debt to a violent organized-crime gang. Hoping to get out of debt, he joins a crew that uses parkour to pull off heists. As the stakes get higher, and the heists more dangerous, the payouts get bigger. With mob enforcers breathing down his neck, Cam must use every ounce of his skill to stay alive.
14) The courier
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick. But after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers to survive the night.
15) Salvo
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After murdering a man, Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian hit man, discovers the man's sister, a young blind girl, witnessed the whole thing. Haunted by their brief exchange, the two will attempt to navigate their dangerous next steps side by side.
16) Galveston
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being set up by his boss and killing his would-be assassins, a mob hit man saves a kidnapped young woman and reluctantly takes her with him to Galveston to hide from his boss and outrun the demons from their pasts.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shaun must confront the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization controlled by his father, a man who gained immortality and the desire for unlimited power when he acquired an ancient artifact centuries ago.
18) Legend
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The true story of the rise and fall of London's most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ron Kray, both portrayed by Tom Hardy in an amazing double performance. It is a classic crime thriller taking viewers into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray twins.
19) Yakuza princess
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the largest Japanese diaspora in the world, the film follows Akemi, an orphan who discovers she is the heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate. Forging an uneasy alliance with an amnesiac stranger who believes an ancient sword binds their two fates; Akemi must unleash war against the other half of the syndicate who wants her dead.
20) The crow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Featuring Brandon Lee in his final performance, this is the tale of young musician Eric Draven (Lee) who, along with his fiancee, is murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding. Exactly one year after their deaths, Eric is raised from the grave by a mysterious crow to seek out his killers and force them to answer for their crimes.
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