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Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
2) Red
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Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
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Ten years after the events of Phantom menace, Senator Padme Amidala survives an assassination attempt. The Jedi Council send Obi-Wan Kenobi and Annikin Skywalker to protect her. After tracking the assassin, Obi-Wan is sent to Kamino to continue investigating while Annikin is sent with Amidala to Naboo, where they begin to fall in love. Obi-Wan's investigation leads to a connection between the assassination attempt and a separatist movement, which...
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Based on Frederick Forsyth's acclaimed novel, The Day of The Jackal, follows an elite assassin, known as the Jackal as he works towards carrying out a seemingly impossible hit. However, his actions soon attract the attention of a British intelligence officer, Bianca, who sets out to hunt him down before his next kill. Armed with an array of disguises, skills, and weapons, we meet the Jackal carrying out his latest hit in Germany. Impressed by his...
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During the final stages of a vast, decades-long project, the ruthless and unscrupulous Anatole "Zsa-zsa" Korda survives a sixth assassination attempt and must appoint a successor: his long-estranged daughter Liesl--a nun. With personal tutor Bjorn in tow, the trio set off on a globetrotting adventure to achieve Korda's epic mission.
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When an assassination attempt is witnessed by two cops, Gabriel Tancredi, an ex-marine turned mob enforcer, is ordered by his ruthless mob boss to eliminate any and all threats. With an eager underling out to prove himself, rival gangs making moves and a rising body count, every step Tancredi makes threatens lives--including his own.
10) Everly
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An intense action thriller centered on a down-on-her-luck woman (Salma Hayek) trapped in her apartment, forced to fend off waves of assassins sent by her former lover - a dangerous mob boss who wants her dead after he learns she no longer is loyal to him. Desperate to be reunited with her mother and young daughter, she fights to stay alive fending off Yakuza assassin soldiers.
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One year after the violent attack on the Pickett family, Joe and Marybeth try to pick up the pieces and move forward together. Joe journeys deep into the forest on the mysterious Bermuda Mountain in search of a lost hunter and makes a grim discovery. Meanwhile, Marybeth throws herself into her legal work in an effort to forget the loss her family suffered. This three-disc DVD collection includes all ten episodes plus deleted scenes.
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DI Vivienne Deering and her team provide security at a contentious election debate, but tragedy strikes when a shooter attempts to assassinate one of the candidates. Deering and her right-hand woman, DC Dinah Kowalska, vow to apprehend the culprit, despite warnings from their superiors that the investigation could jeopardize an undercover officer who has infiltrated an extreme right-wing group.
13) Bonhoeffer
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As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
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