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Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
2) Max Payne
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English
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Max Payne works in the cold-case unit at the police department. He becomes obsessed with finding the killer who brutally murdered his wife and infant daughter. Max becomes hell-bent on revenge and is determined to track down those responsible for the murder of his family. Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world.
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It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
4) Robocop
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English
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When a good cop gets blown away by some ruthless criminals, innovative scientists and doctors are able to piece him back together as an unstoppable crime-fighting cyborg called "Robocop." Impervious to bullets and bombs, and equipped with high-tech weaponry, Robocop quickly makes a name for himself by cleaning up the crime-ridden streets of violence-ravaged Detroit. But despite his new, hardened exterior, Robocop is tormented by scraps of memory of...
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
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English
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Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
6) Mirrors
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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A man is running away from something. He runs into a locker room. His reflection slowly slashes his own throat, and the man dies, experiencing the effects of his throat being slashed despite not doing it himself. Ben Carson is a former undercover detective who was suspended after shooting another officer. He is forced to take a night time security job at a department store that was gutted by a fire. The department store used to be a psychiatric hospital...
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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The Regan family continues to serve and protect the streets of New York in the fifth tumultuous season of the show. Oldest son Danny works to convict a national felon as well as resolve a dangerous hostage situation. Erin faces numerous challenges as she navigates the judicial system, enduring the retrial of a woman she's already convicted, as well as enlisting the testimony of a protected mob informant. Meanwhile, Jamie's desire to help lands him...
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
Description
As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is re-assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives brought back onto the police force, bringing a 1970's mentality to modern policing. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old murder conviction which has suddenly come into question due...
Pub. Date
2016
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English
Description
It's a cold, rainy night on Seattle's east side and police officers David and Mike are about to bust in on a dangerous drug deal. Unbeknownst to them, their actions will land them at the center of an Internal Affairs investigation led by officer Dawson. The old school police chief believes his cops are innocent, but something just doesn't fit. As officer Dawson continues her investigation, her life is in danger. Will she survive long enough to find...
10) Blindspotting
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his trouble-making childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men₂s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen.
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English
Description
In North Hollywood on a calm summer day in 1997, fifty police officers were defenseless against two lone gunmen armed with AK 47 assault rifles and full body armor. Only their extreme courage, valor and training put an end to the massacre.
12) Rednecks
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Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American history. Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars--from the Matewan Massacre through the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed conflict on...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Uncensored version].
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English
Description
A tourist flattened by a Hollywood tour bus. Rival gangs at a drug dealer's funeral. Victims cooked by their killer. Welcome to sunny Los Angeles, where LAPD beat cops and detectives work 24/7 doing jobs that require an arsenal of razor-sharp instincts and quicksilver reflexes. But even heroes need heroes, and when two cops are kidnapped, the entire department scrambles to save their own in an explosive series finale.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unrated edition.
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English
Description
A SWAT team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no-go zone, it has since become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists, and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched. Making their move in the break of dawn, the SWAT team works its way up the building under cover...
15) 4 film favorites
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
Midnight cowboy: Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time hustler Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
Usual suspects: Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only...
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
The Southland is Los Angeles: sandy beaches, Bel-Air mansions, gangbangers and drug deals gone wrong. It's where the rookies and veterans of a stand-up LAPD unit see all the violence and fear a big city can breed and struggle to make a difference. A gripping, lightning-paced series about the men and women who live their lives on a jagged edge, taking on criminals, victims and a sprawling city tainted by vice and seething with danger.
17) Rush hour
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A wise-cracking cop from L.A. and a high-flying cop from Hong Kong join forces to track down a kidnapper.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As Major Crimes enters its third season, Captain Sharon Raydor continues to lead her elite team of investigators in pursuit of L.A.'s most dangerous criminal offenders and make tough, provocative deals to ensure these perpetrators do the hard time they deserve. Plus, her unpredictable, estranged husband Jack reappears, and her pending adoption of Rusty brings up difficult issues. The squad continues to dive into captivating cases which run the gamut...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In New York City, when a crime is committed, the victims are represented by two distinct yet intertwined forces. There's the police department, represented by the 27th precinct Homicide Detectives. It is their job to investigate the crime, collect evidence, and interview witnesses. Suspects are placed under arrest. The matter is then taken over by the prosecutors of the Manhattan District Attorney's office. The cases for this season deal with military...
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