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  • 1:32:00

    Sin Nombre (2009)

    El Caspar (Edgar M. Flores) is a member of a Mexican gang, but he is quickly growing tired of the life. He has just helped initiate the gang's newest member, and his girlfriend has been murdered by the leader. When he turns on his friends, he ends up with a group of illegal immigrants on a train heading North towards America. One of these is Sayra (Paulina Gaiton), a teenage girl who takes an immediate liking to El Caspar. He knows he is going to be caught and killed by the gang, and he doesn't want her caught in the crossfire.
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    City of Men = Cidade dos Homens (2007)

    Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
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    Death in Brunswick (1990)

    Carl is down-on-his-luck until he meets beautiful Greek girl Sophie. He turns to his unscrupulous best friend for help, after he accidentally kills a co-worker, and they attempt to dispose of the body.
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    Heaven's Burning (1997)

    A man and a woman inexplicably thrown together amid violence and chaos quickly find themselves on the run from many adversaries.
  • 0:55:00

    Siege: The Real Story

    The documentary that uncovers the truth about the Napier gunman, Jan Molenaar, and the police and civilians who were forced to be heroes during his 50 hour long reign of terror.
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    An Island Calling (2009)

    A morally complex post-colonial tragedy of a murder and of Fiji, a small country divided along ethnic and class lines, told through the eyes of two very different families. This documentary is about the murder of John Scott and his partner Greg Scrivener in Suva, Fiji. The crime has not yet been solved, but many suspect the murders were a hate crime against homosexuals.
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    City of God = Cidade de Deus (2002)

    Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
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    Compliance (2012)

    Compliance is based on a bizarre true story and stars Ann Dowd as Sandra, the middle-aged manager of a fast food joint, who receives a call from someone purporting to be a police officer (Pat Healy), accusing one of her teenage employees (Dreama Walker as Becky) of having stolen money from a customer. Sandra duly complies with the officer's request and detains Becky, ostensibly until the police arrive, but the officer's demands become increasingly inappropriate and events take an extremely dark turn.
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    The Act of Killing (2012)

    The Act of Killing is a controversial documentary that invites murderers of the 1965 Indonesian massacre to re-enact their violent killings in the style of their favourite Hollywood movies. The recreated murders and tortures represent the frightening ordeals suffered by the communists that opposed to Indonesia's military government in the 1960s and chillingly involve the real-life freemen that speak proudly about what they've done. Documenting the process of recreating their killings as narrative cinema and revealing Indonesia's attitude towards violence and communism, The Act of Killing is a rare insight into the minds of mass killers. Theatrical version.
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    Rest For The Wicked (2011)

    A tale of sex, drugs and mobility scooters. Rest For The Wicked is a darkly comic detective story with a bittersweet twist.
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    Infamous (2006)

    While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
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    Saving Grace (2000)

    A small town English widow facing financial troubles, after her husbands suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.
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    Tabloid (2010)

    The story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming from Blue Ridge Mountains, who is charged with abducting and imprisoning Kirk Anderson, a young Mormon Missionary while he is in training in England. With her accomplice, and faithful admirer Keith Joseph May, She takes him to a Devonshire cottage, ties him to the bed and has sex with him for three days, report the excited tabloids. The Mormons soon reclaim Kirk, the only man McKinney has ever loved. McKinney tells her side of the story as the tabloids tell theirs. Some years later, McKinney rekindles media interest in her after having her favourite dog cloned in Korea.
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    Love Crime = Crime d'amour (2010)

    French psychological suspense thriller starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas. Within the sterile offices of a powerful multinational corporation, two women come to a face-off.
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    Point Blank = À bout portant (2010)

    Point Blank stars Gilles Lellouche as hapless hospital orderly Samuel, whose pregnant wife Nadia (Elena Anaya) is suddenly kidnapped. Samuel then receives a phone call, ordering him to break heavily guarded patient Hugo (Roschdy Zem) out of hospital if he ever wants to see his wife again. Samuel manages to get Hugo away from the police but things quickly go from bad to worse as he discovers he's caught in the middle of a vicious war between ruthless criminals and corrupt cops. When the police name Samuel as a fugitive, he realises he's going to have to join forces with Hugo if he's going to have a hope of rescuing Nadia.
  • 1:30:00

    Appropriate Adult (2011)

    Drama telling the story of how serial killers Fred and Rosemary West were brought to justice. In 1994 the life of Gloucestershire voluntary worker Janet Leach is turned upside down when she is asked by police to sit in on interviews as an independent safeguard on behalf of a man they have arrested. Within minutes he makes a shocking confession of murder. From then on she is drawn into the centre of the investigation and a complex personal relationship with West, who tells her information about other victims that she cannot pass on to the authorities because of her obligation of confidentiality to him.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 2
    Between interfering with Watson' s love life and his latest case, where his chief suspect is comatose, Sherlock Holmes finds himself a very busy man indeed. Holmes is brought in on a case and very quickly deducts who the offender is. When the police go to make an arrest they discover Holmes could not possibly be right. Holmes obsessed with his own ability sets out to prove the police are wrong.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 1
    In this, the premiere episode of Elementary, Jonny Lee Miller stars as Sherlock Holmes with Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson in a modern-day adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective story. Sherlock Holmes, fresh out of rehab, is teamed with a sobriety partner, a former surgeon named Watson. They have to learn to work together even as they tackle their first case, the mysterious death of a doctor's wife.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 3
    Upon consulting on a child abduction case Holmes and Watson come across a chilling serial killer. He leaves behind nothing but a chilling calling card; a string of colourful rainbow balloons.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 4
    While he despises all they stand for, Holmes agrees to investigate the death of a banker who appears to have overdosed on heroin. But, of course, on Wall Street nothing is ever as it seems.
  • 2:45:00

    Miami Vice (2006)

    Writer and director Michael Mann updates the groundbreaking television crime series he created in the 1980s with this stylish thriller. Starring Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell.
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    Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)

    On May 5, 1993, the bodies of three eight-year-old boys (Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Stevie Branch) were found next to a muddy creek in the wooded Robin Hood Hills area of West Memphis, Arkansas. A month later, three teenagers (Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin) were arrested and accused of raping, mutilating and killing the boys. Through graphic crime-scene footage, TV news clips and extensive original reporting, the America Undercover presentation PARADISE LOST: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS takes an insider's look at this notorious murder case and the town that was changed forever by it. This powerful verité documentary is directed, produced and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, the team responsible for the acclaimed 1992 feature film "Brother's Keeper." The film has been followed by two sequels: Paradise Lost 2: Revelations and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 5
    An angel of death arrives at a local hospital but for Watson the setting of this particular case brings back painful memories, namely the demise of her surgical career.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 6
    Investigating a plane crash, Holmes deduces that one of the dead was killed before the plane went down. Meanwhile Watson tries to arrange a meeting with Sherlock and his elusive father.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 7
    When an old case from Gregson's past resurfaces Holmes is troubled to realise he cannot argue with his own findings as spotty police work is unearthed. Also, Watson pays a trip to rehab. Sherlock identifies new murders as the MO of Wade Crewes, the serial killer whose arrest made captain Toby Gregson's NYPD career. Their friendship is strained by the necessary questions whether it's a copycat, a former accomplice or even the real serial killer, and, worse, if Wade's initial conviction rested on a trumped investigation, notably by Gregson's partner at the time.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 8
    It is time in his rehabilitation process for Holmes to find a sponsor but a crime hidden for years, thankfully, distracts him from the monotonous task. An explosion in a computer firm, where most could improvise such bomb hidden deep in the ventilation system, kills an employee. Holmes keeps changing his theory each time the NYPD has caught up with his previous one. The target was chosen amazingly precisely, but years in advance. Meanwhile Watson stubbornly keeps looking for her successor as Holmes' addiction buddy, only to find him as determined to scare them all away.
  • 2:20:00

    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

    Four East end lads pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and a week to come up with the cash.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 9
    Oriental studies professor Trent Annunzio was killed with a bullet in each eye. Sherlock works out he was a Mahjong gambling addict and in which establishment, where he forces the owner to hand over secret video recordings. Those identify Raul Ramirez, but he was hired anonymously. prime suspect is Trent's academic assistant Brendan O'Brien, whose career he sabotages recently by recommending against an Ivy league promotion, and who has an affair with Trent's Thai wife Jun Annunzio. Sherlock works out the hidden truth and meanwhile gives Watson the decisive push to help clear a former patient and lover, junkie Liam Danow.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 10
    Micah Erlich hires Holmes to solve urgently the robbery of diamonds in David Batonvert's Manhatten exchange from his world-reputed security firm's top-range vault model, the 'impregnable' Leviathan, before the news wrecks the manufacturer. Both men remember it was actually cracked once four years ago by a brilliant team of four, tried and jailed, but draw different conclusions concerning a connection, which Holmes has to revise while his investigation progresses with the help of his own consultants. Meanwhile he helps Watson deal with her unexpectedly visiting family rather then cancel her buddy job with him.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 11
    The manager of a high-end hotel that caters to diplomatic VIPs is found dead in the hotel's laundry. After first suspecting a connection to a prostitution ring, Holmes believes the answer lies in her mysterious past.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 14
    A female FBI profiler is brought in to catch an unpredictable criminal before he strikes again. But Sherlock has history with her, bringing tension to the investigation.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 12
    A British criminal who only goes by 'M' catches up with a troubled Holmes in New York, giving Watson serious reservations about leaving Sherlock and taking up a new client.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 15
    When the daughter of Sherlock's ex-drug dealer is kidnapped, Watson worries about Sherlock's sobriety as he dives head first into the investigation.
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    The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

    When Samuel J Bicke experiences a series of ill-fated events, he decides the only way to reclaim his insignificant life is to strike out the biggest villain of all, Richard Nixon.
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    RocknRolla (2008)

    A real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city's scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick.
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    Spain's Stolen Babies (2011)

    Spain is reeling from an avalanche of allegations of baby theft and baby trafficking. It is thought that the trade began at the end of the Spanish civil war and continued for 50 years, with hundreds of thousands of babies traded by nuns, priests and doctors up to the 1990s. This World reveals the impact of Spain's stolen baby scandal through the eyes of the children and parents who were separated at birth, and who are now desperate to find their relatives. Exhumations of the supposed graves of babies and positive DNA tests are proof that baby theft has happened. Across Spain, people are queuing up to take a DNA test and thousands of Spaniards are asking 'Who am I?'Katya Adler has been meeting the heartbroken mothers who are searching for the children whom they were told died at birth, as well as the stolen and trafficked babies who are now grown up and searching for their biological relatives and their true identities.
  • 2:50:00

    American Gangster (2007)

    Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia, and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. Richie Roberts is a dedicated and honest policeman who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government and is determined to bring down Lucas' drug empire. Based on a true story.
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    Catch Me If You Can (2002)

    A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. Based on the book by Frank W. Abagnale.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 17
    Sherlock tasks Joan with her very own case, putting her detective skills to the test. Meanwhile he investigates a case involving a wealthy philanthropist with an incurable illness. Could it be murder?
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 16
    When Detective Bell is attacked the case takes a dramatic turn as the NYPD is forced to investigate one of their own.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 18
    Joan investigates the disappearance of a woman who left her husband a tearful break-up video that mentioned a murder on a subway platform. Intrigued, Sherlock joins her in the investigation. PGR
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 19
    Sherlock and Joan try to prevent a robbery from one of the largest cash vaults in the country during the middle of a deadly blizzard.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 20
    As Sherlock reaches the end of his first year of sobriety he resists celebrating the milestone. Meanwhile a sinister blackmailer is murdered.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 21
    Sherlock resumes his hunt for Moriarty as Sebastian Moran (returning guest star Vinnie Jones) returns with critical information to aid in the search for Sherlock's nemesis.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 22
    Sherlock agrees to take a case from a man claiming to be Moriarty, hoping it will bring him closer to finding his nemesis.
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    Clockers (1995)

    Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them. Directed by Spike Lee.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 23
    The mystery surrounding Irene Adler is revealed; or is it? Nothing is as it seems as Joan struggles to comfort Sherlock.
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    Elementary

    Season 1 , Episode 24
    As Moriarty's identity is revealed, Sherlock is left reeling. For all his genius, it is left to Joan to save the day.
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    Nazi Hunter

    Did New Zealand give a home to genocidal killers? Nazi Hunter sees Wayne Stringer investigate 47 displaced persons "who originally came to New Zealand at the end of WWII." This film interweaves his secret year-long investigation with the story of his prime suspect — an elderly North Shore man who had been a machine gunner in the “mobile murder unit” responsible for the killing of thousands of Eastern European Jews in Holocaust. Stringer travelled to the Baltic States where he was given access to war records held for years in KGB archives safely behind the Iron Curtain and visited the killing grounds in Lithuania and Belarus. He also linked in with war crimes investigators from other countries. The film poses the question: as a result of the investigation into suspected Nazi war criminals, has New Zealand become a more or less safe place for modern era war criminals looking for a bolt hole?
  • 2:04:00

    Pineapple Express (2008)

    A process server and his marijuana dealer wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after he witnesses his dealer's boss murder a competitor while trying to serve papers on him.