American Gangster
Nov 02, 2007 | IMDB 7.6
157 min Watch NowDrama, Crime
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
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Evening
Kiss of Death
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IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 2017
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IMDB 4.2 | Mar , 1980
A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prostitute themselves for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence, and they must fight for their survival. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape, but fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are in a deadly trance.Vier Stunden von Elbe 1
IMDB 8.3 | Mar , 1968
Four hours by boat from the lightship Elbe 1 is the southern entrance and lock of the Kiel Canal. There, in Brunsbüttelkoog, is a seamen's home run by Klara Andresen. This is the main setting of the movie. In the sailors' wives' home, the wives of sailors wait for their return. Klara Andresen not only looks after the concerns of the waiting sailors' wives, but also her brother-in-law Gustav Andresen . Gustav has gone to sea as a ship's cook and now wants to get married. That's why he has placed a marriage announcement and is waiting for the reactions.Fanny and Alexander
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1982
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IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 1964
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.Bones and All
IMDB 7 | Nov , 2022
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.The Promised Land
IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 2023
Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?Hard Justice
IMDB 7 | Jul , 2025
Marine Grace Thompson joins the LAPD following the footsteps of her brother Michael. But when Michael is murdered, Grace must piece together the puzzle by following leads of corruption and cover-ups that run deeper than she ever imagined.Don Giovanni
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IMDB 4.7 | May , 1972
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IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 2022
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IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 1992
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IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1972
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.Evening
IMDB 5.8 | Jun , 2007
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.Kiss of Death
IMDB 5.7 | Apr , 1995
Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so-called friend's life is threatened. The job is for Little Junior Brown, a violent and powerful villain. When things go wrong, Jimmy is left to do the time, and his whole life is turned upside-down, but if that wasn't enough, the cops won't leave Jimmy alone when he gets out... They want Little Junior Brown.One Eight Seven
IMDB 6.7 | Jul , 1997
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IMDB 7.8 | Nov , 1993
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IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 1986
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IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 1973
Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.