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41) Rough Diamonds
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
On the run from an unhappy life in the city, Chrissie Bright is on a journey to find herself. Instead, she accidentally finds Mike Tyrrell when his truck swerves into her car. Mike has two full-time jobs. One is driving trucks, the other is trying to keep out of debt. A talented musician, he's getting nothing but the blues as the bank continually tries to rob him of his dream to become a prosperous cattle breeder. When they try to take away his only...
42) Scotland, PA
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A modernized retelling of "MacBeth" set in 1970s suburban Pennsylvania. Joe McBeth, an unambitious hamburger stand employee, is driven to success by his scheming wife.
43) Lansky
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
44) Bugsy Malone
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A pint-sized cast with giant talents illuminates this musical that is unlike any other ever made. Set in 1929 New York City, BUGSY MALONE captures a flashy world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls, and dreamers - all played by child actors! As Tallulah, the sassy girlfriend of the owner of Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy, future superstar Jodie Foster dances and sings her way into our hearts. Award-winning pop composer Paul Williams wrote the words and...
45) Ajami
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Ajami is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets of Ajami itself, the film deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrowing violence.
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Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. Yet he led a secret life, one that ended in a maximum security prison. All-American Murder is the first book to investigate Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder conviction and the mystery of his own untimely and shocking death. Drawing on original and in-depth reporting, this is an explosive true story of a life cut short in the...
47) Santoalla
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Progressive Dutch couple Martin Verfondern and Margo Pool had only one dream – to live off the land, far from the constraints and complications of the city. But, when they arrive in the crumbling, Spanish village of Santoalla, the foreigners challenge the traditions of the town's sole remaining family, igniting a decade-long conflict that culminates in Martin's mysterious disappearance. Official Selection at **DOC NYC**. Winner of the Jury Award...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The murder of French au-pair Sophie Lionnet by her employers made headlines all over the world. From the horrible circumstances of her death, to the obsession of her killer with a pop-star ex-boyfriend and their crazy delusions of celebrity pedophile rings, it was a case that seemed too unbelievable to be true. It all began in Wimbledon, London, when a neighbor noticed black smoke coming out of a garden and called the fireman. When the firefighters...
Author
Appears on list
Description
For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
50) The Sentence
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Drawing from hundreds of hours of footage, filmmaker Rudy Valdez shows the aftermath of his sister Cindy’s 15-year sentence for conspiracy charges related to crimes committed by her deceased ex-boyfriend—something known, in legal terms, as “the girlfriend problem.” Valdez’s method of coping with this tragedy is to film his sister’s family for her, both the everyday details and the milestones—moments Cindy herself can no longer share...
52) The Flaw
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Award-winning director David Sington presents the story of the 2008 financial credit crisis that brought suffering to millions. Forsaking easy explanations of greedy bankers and incompetent regulators, this investigation goes to the root causes of the USA's and UK's deluded belief that everyone could be rich and property prices would rise forever. It asks the question: why are the perpetrators of the mess now entrusted with the lucrative task of clearing...
53) Camorra
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The mafia are not just the underworld and organized crime. It is a way of life, an overwhelming social phenomenon, the engine of the economy and true political class of an entire society. This was the Camorra in Naples between the sixties and the nineties, and this film is told through shocking but real archival materials (watch out for the Camorra children), terrifying and fascinating at the same time. Along with the Gomorrah by Saviano, this film...
55) The China Hustle
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
From the producers of ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM, a Wall Street heist story about Chinese companies, the US stock market and a still-unfolding financial crime so big, it has the power to affect all of our wallets. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
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In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia-characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and Jimmy "the Clam" Eppolito-interwoven with the remarkable true-crime saga of the good rat himself, Burt Kaplan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the star witness in the recent trial of two NYPD...
57) Police Killing
Author
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
On the outskirts of the city, a car is riddled with bullet holes, some the size of a fist. You’d think it was a gangland shooting, but these bullets were fired by the police, and the passengers were unarmed teenagers. In Rio de Janeiro, more than 16, 000 civilians have been killed in police operations over the past twenty years, all in the name of self-defense. This powerful and disturbing film follows the mothers of these victims as they fight...
58) Love Serenade
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
Two sisters will do anything to hook the right man. Sibling rivalry is at an all-time high in this riotous award-winning Australian romantic comedy from from Camera d'Or winning director Shirley Barrett and the Oscar® nominated producer of The Piano and Bright Star. Vicki-Ann Hurley (Rebecca Frith) and her younger sister Dimity (Miranda Otto) are two lonely young women on the look out for love in the small outback town of Sunray. When once popular...
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In small-town Alabama, Zeke & Earl scramble to cover up the unlikely (and, in most states, highly illegal) events that led to their friend's death, as they try to dodge their families, the cops, and one horrified medical examiner. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **San Francisco International Film Festival**.
60) Bank Robber
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
After robbing a bank, Billy (Patrick Dempsey) hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tenants for protection and their silence. Soon the tenants begin to up the price for their trouble.
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