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Serio-comic film about an ex-con who kills a man, then robs a cop of his badge and gun and goes around Miami posing as a cop, making arrests and assaulting people. The cop he robbed is determined to catch the ex-con, and the end result is a cops-and-robbers thriller unlike any other!

When murderer Lee Roy Sears is paroled from prison, he terrorizes the family of the lawyer who helped him

When Andy Paterson gets out of jail, he finds Glasgow different from the place he left two years before. But before he himself can change, he must deal with the past, with why he went to jail and what happened while he was in there.
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The new Burke novel from the critically acclaimed and controversial author of Sacrifice and Shella. Vachss infuses the modern crime novel with salient reality and a different kind of hero--an outcast PI who delivers mean yet measured justice to those who prey on and profit from the lives of children.
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Projecting the message that "crime doesn't pay", a group of ex-cons works in a department store whose owner believes in rehabilitation. It's a romantic crime story, laced with comedy and social commentary.

Master jewel thief Miles Logan has a big problem. A $20 million problem. Recently released from prison for the botched heist of a huge diamond, he's anxious to retrieve the hot rock which he hid at a construction site two years earlier.

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.

Levon Hawke, paroled from one of Kingston's prisons, has never got over his sister's death in a road accident. Then he meets red-haired Obdulia Limb, her femme-fatale step-mother, her bullying father and her unpredictable cousin, Simon the Baker. The trio try to rope Levon into a comic conspiracy.
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O'Grady comes home from jail to Kilburn weathering the onset of a harsh new climate. This is Mrs Thatcher's Britain. It is a place he recognises, but he feels lost in it. His estranged wife has moved on and up, out to the suburbs; the daughter he barely knew is living with a wealthy record producer. O'Grady lodges in his spinster sister's dreary hotel. Alcohol and the random chances it brings begin to define his life. The only people who want to know him are aware that he is owed money by those for whom he took the fall. They offer him schemes, fantasies: he is expected to perform some action that will change lives. But O'Grady cannot make a decision and cannot act. Hard Shoulder is an evocation of the grey avenues and pubs of Irish London at its most hopeless, a semi-criminal milieu of the lost: north west London has never been more convincingly portrayed. Using and undermining the conventions of the thriller, Petit has written a book that deserves to stand alongside the best that the city has inspired.
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"Après cinq années passées dans un pénitencier américain pour usage et trafic de stupéfiants, Bruno Calgagni rentre en France. Il se rend au nouvel appartement de son père et les retrouvailles ne sont pas très chaleureuses ..."--Container.
"After 5 years of imprisonment in the U.S. for drug dealing, Bruno comes back to Paris. He lives with his father René for a while, but René blames Bruno for the death of his wife. Finally, after a violent discussion, Bruno leaves his father's apartment. He makes the acquaintance of Catherine, who works with him in Dufilho's library, and is attracted by the young woman. Unfortunately Catherine, a former drug addict, is not entirely liberated from her bad habit."--Daniel Staebler, www.allwatchers.com.

An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.

Jimmy Santiago Baca's harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize. Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one and facing five to ten years behind bars for selling drugs. A Place to Stand is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary -- much of it spent in isolation -- with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. A vivid portrait of life inside a maximum-security prison and an affirmation of one man's spirit in overcoming the most brutal adversity, A Place to Stand "stands as proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives" (Fort Worth Morning Star-Telegram).
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The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

Joey Tallon has seen many changes in the town of Scotsfield. Its men have changed from brutality and corruption to wealth and respectability. Joey has also been transformed, by his love for Jacy. Now Joey Tallon is going to tell the truth about the past that the Scotsfield men would rather forget.
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• Introduction
• Dickens chronology
• Further reading
• Note on the text
• Map: Kent in the early nineteenth century
• Great expectations: Volume I
• Volume II
• Volume III
• Notes
• Ending as originally conceived
• Dickens's working notes
• Running heads added in 1867-8.

'It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me' A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor -- these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his 'great expectations'. This definitive edition uses the text from the first published edition of 1861. It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens's original ending and his working notes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work.
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A story of drugs, crime, and passionate love. Muraki, who has just been released from three years in jail for killing a yakuza, meets a beautiful young girl in a gambling house and falls in love.

• [disc 1] Mexican slayride (pilot) / written by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, directed by Ron Satlof ; Children of Jamestown / written by Stephen J. Cannell, directed by Christian I. Nyby, Jr. ; Pros and cons / Stephen J. Cannell, directed by Ron Satlof
• [disc 2] A small and deadly war / written by Frank Lupo, directed by Ron Satlof ; Black day at bad rock / written by Patrick Hasburgh, directed by directed by Christian I. Nyby, Jr. ; The rabbit who ate Las Vegas / written by Frank Lupo, directed by Bruce Kessler ; The out-of-towners / written by Frank Lupo, directed by Chuck Bowman
• [disc 3] Holiday in the hills / written by Babs Greyhosky, directed by Arnold Laven ; West Coast turnaround / teleplay by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, story by Babs Greyhosky, directed by Guy Magar ; One more time / teleplay by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, story by Babs Greyhosky, directed by Arnold Laven ; Till death do us part / written by Babs Greyhosky and Frank Lupo, directed by Guy Magar
• [disc 4] The beast from the belly of a boeing / written by Patrick Hasburgh, directed by Ron Satlof ; A nice place to visit / written by Frank Lupo, directed by Bernard McEveety.

The A-aeam follows the exploits of a wrongly accused commando unit turned soldiers of fortune. Living in the Los Angeles underground, they fight criminals for hire while evading their government pursuers. Includes all 14 episodes from season one.

Gunji is an aging Yakuza who is released from prison after ten years. He lives by a code of honor that has no place among Tokyo's modern corporate gangs. He gets a new lease on life by reforming his former gang and taking over the whiskey trade on the island of Okinawa. But he is forced to make a final, fateful, bloody stand against the mainland gang that sent him to prison.

John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first.

• disc 1, dide A. Judgement day / written by Frank Lupo, directed by David Hemmings ; Where is the monster when you need him? / written by Stephen J. Cannell, directed by Michael O'Herlihy ; Lease with an option to die / written by Bill Nuss, directed by David Hemmings
• disc 1, dide B. The road to hope / written by Stephen J. Cannell, directed by David Hemmings ; The heart of rock n' roll / written by Frank Lupo, directed by Tony Mordente; Body slam / written by Bill Nuss, directed by Craig R. Baxley ; Blood, sweat, and cheers / written by Tom Blomquist, directed by Sidney Hayers
• disc 2, dide A. Mind games / written by Stephen J. Cannell, directed by Michael O'Herlihy ; There goes the neighborhood / written by Bill Nuss, directed by Dennis Donnelly ; The doctor is out / written by Richard Christian Matheson & Thomas Szollosi, directed by David Hemmings ; Uncle Buckle-Up / written by Danny Lee Cole, directed by Michael O'Herlihy
• disc 2, side B. Wheel of fortune / written by Bill Nuss, directed by David Hemmings ; The A-team is coming, the A-Team is coming / written Steven Beers, directed by David Hemmings ; Members only / written by Bill Nuss, directed by Tony Mordente ; Cowboy George / written by Stephen J. Cannell, directed by Tony Mordente
• disc 3, side A. Waiting for Insane Wayne / written by Stephen J. Cannell & Frank Lupo, directed by Craig R. Baxley ; The Duke of Whispering Pines / written by Jayne C. Ehrlich, directed by Sidney Hayers ; Beneath the surface / teleplay by Danny Lee Cole, story by Lloyd J. Schwartz, directed by Michael O'Herlihy ; Mission of peace / written by Steven L. Sears & Burt Pearl, directed by Craig R. Baxley
• disc 3, side B. The trouble with Harry / written by Bill Nuss, directed by David Hemmings ; A little town with an accent / written by Thomas Szollosi & Richard Christian Matheson, directed by Michael O'Herlihy ; The sound of thunder / written by Frank Lupo, directed by Michael O'Herlihy.

THE A-TEAM RETURNS WITH ALL 22 EXPLOSIVE EPISODES OF SEASON FOUR! B.A., HANNIBAL, MURDOCK AND FACE REUNITE IN THE UNFORGETTABLE 4TH SEASON OF THE ACTION SERIES.
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Cameron Poe is a highly decorated US ranger. He is convicted of manslaughter after protecting his wife from a drunken brawler. After eight years in prison he is being paroled and going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home is on the Jailbird, a secure air craft designed for prisoner transport. The plane is transporting some of society's most vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising escape is made on board the plane. The cons seize control of the plane, and head it towards Las Vegas. Prison officials on the ground want to blow it out of the sky, but there is an alternative.

"The domino principle" (104 min): Roy Tucker is in prison for killing the sadistic husband of the woman he loves. When he is promised his freedom in exchange for an undetermined favor, he agrees. It will be the second biggest mistake of his life.
"March or die" (104 min.): At the end of World War I, Major Foster, a tough, bitter American who was forced to resign from West Point and is now in the French Foreign Legion, is ordered, with his legionnaires, to protect an archaeological expedition.

The undeniable power of the true stories of six exonerated survivors of death row will engage your emotion, incite your passion, and envelope you in their search for the lost pieces of dignity and the lives that were interrupted. The Exonerated began its journey over the summer of 2000, when authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen traveled across the United States, interviewing 40 of the (then) 89 former death row prisoners. They went as far south as Texas and Miami, as far north as Chicago and just about everywhere in between to meet the people whose stories appear in The Exonerated. The interviewees were from vastly different ethnic, religious and educational backgrounds. Their views on the world varied greatly. The only thing that they had in common was that all 40 had been sentenced to death, spent anywhere from 2 to 22 years on death row and were subsequently found innocent and freed by the state.

An aging card shark, Shar, plays and wins against Jurek, who plays with marked cards. Jurek convinces Shar to teach him his tricks before retiring. The pair begin an unlikely partnership in which they con locals into playing rigged games.

When Sonny Mann (Timothy Olyphant) returns to his Florida hometown from prison, all he wants is to start over. But his old partners in crime, Eddie and Fred Vance (Josh Lucas and William Forsythe), have other plans to bring him back into the business. To free himself from the murderous Vance brothers, Sonny turns to his best friend, Sheriff Dave Lockhart (Josh Brolin) for help. But the troubled ex-con risks it all when he gets caught up in an affair with Lockhart's beautiful wife (Sarah Wynter). Now he must choose between loyalty and love in this dark and suspenseful thriller directed by Victor Nunez.

Recently released from prison, Alex offers a ride to a hitchhiker, only to have her killed instantly when they are involved in a brutal car accident. Alex then approaches the girl's mother, and the events that unfold dramatically change both his life and those of others around him.

• They live by night (95 min.)
• Side street (82 min.)

They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid" harder than ever.
Side street: Joe Norson, a poor letter carrier with a sweet, pregnant wife, yields to momentary temptation and steals $30,000 belonging to a pair of ruthless blackmailers who won't stop at murder. After a few days of soul-searching, Joe offers to return the money, only to find that the "friend" he left it with has disappeared. Now every move Joe makes plunges him deeper into trouble, as he's pursued and pursuing through the shadowy, sinister side of New York.

• When Willie comes marching home (1950) / produced by Fred Kohlmar ; screenplay by Richard Sale
• Up the river (1930) / produced by William Fox ; written by Maurine Dallas Watkins.

After being stationed at a base in his home town for two years, a soldier finally proves his heroism when he unwittlingly lands in German-occupied France; two convicts break out of prison to aid a married couple who are being blackmailed.

Newly released from prison, an ex-con assembles his professional pals and plans a multi-million dollar robbery of an entire luxury apartment house. He is unaware that a hoard of lawmen are recording their activities.

Philip Dixon is down on his luck. A hair-raising escape from a lucrative but botched bank robbery lands him gushing blood and on the verge of collapse in a quaint college town in New Hampshire. How can he find a place to hide out in this innocent setting? But peering into the window of the nearest house, he sees a glimmer of hope: a man in his mid-thirties, obviously some kind of academic, is rolling around on the living-room floor with an attractive high-school student...And so Professor Elias White is blackmailed into harbouring a dangerous fugitive, as Dixon - with a cool quarter-million in his bag and dreams of Canada in his head - gets ready for the last phase of his escape. But the last phase is always the hardest...FBI agent Denise Lupo is on his trail, and she's better at her job than her superiors think. As for Elias White, his surprising transition from respected academic to willing accomplice poses a ruthless threat that Dixon would be foolish to underestimate...
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• Chapter XLIV
• Chapter XLV;
• Chapter XLVI;
• Chapter XLVII;
• Chapter XLVIII;
• Chapter XLIX; Chapter L; Chapter LI; Chapter LII; Chapter LIII; Chapter LIV; Chapter LV; Chapter LVI; Chapter LVII; Chapter LVIII; Chapter LIX.

After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.

• Introduction
• Note on the text
• A chronology of Charles Dickens
• Great expectations
• Appendix A: The original ending
• Appendix B: Dickens's working notes
• Appendix C: All the year round instalments and chapter-numbering in different editions
• Appendix D: The 1861 theatrical adaptation
• Explanatory notes.

'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella - and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart. A powerful and moving novel, Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens's memories of the past and its grip on the present, and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other's lives. This edition includes a lively introduction, Dickens's working notes, the novel's original ending, and an extract from an early theatrical adaptation. It reprints the definitive Clarendon text. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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• Introduction
• Note on the text
• A chronology of Charles Dickens
• Great expectations
• Appendix A: The original ending
• Appendix B: Dickens's working notes
• Appendix C: All the year round instalments and chapter-numbering in different editions
• Appendix D: The 1861 theatrical adaptation
• Explanatory notes.

'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella - and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart. A powerful and moving novel, Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens's memories of the past and its grip on the present, and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other's lives. This edition includes a lively introduction, Dickens's working notes, the novel's original ending, and an extract from an early theatrical adaptation. It reprints the definitive Clarendon text. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert has recently been demobbed. He reverts easily to suburban life - cocktails at six thirty, church on Sundays - but his wife and young son resist the stuffy routine. Lewis and his mother escape to the woods for picnics, just as they did in wartime days. Nobody is surprised that Gilbert's wife counters convention, but they are all shocked when, after one of their jaunts, Lewis comes back without her. Not far away, Kit Carmichael keeps watch. She has always understood more than most, not least from what she has been dealt by her own father's hand. Lewis' grief and burgeoning rage are all too plain, and Kit makes a private vow to help. But in her attempts to set them both free, she fails to predict the painful and horrifying secrets that must first be forced into the open. As menacing as it is beautiful, "The Outcast" is a devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new voice.
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Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to find honest work as a photographer for a tabloid newspaper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Her father does not like that relation at first, but J.R. McLean, Kean's boss, convinces him that Kean has a good nature. But Kean uses his relation to Patricia to make a photo of an execution. Due to this, Patricia's father loses his stripes and Kean isn't allowed to see Patricia any longer. But when one of Kean's former friends kills two policemen, Kean sees a chance to redeem himself.

Donnie Rose has been in prison for the past nine years for beating a black teen so brutally that it left him handicapped for life. Now, Donnie is out. He's a different man, but only has one place to go: back home to the same violent and racist place that created him. George Carvery has waited nine years to avenge his son's fate at the hands of Donnie. Ossie Paris is a devastatingly talented boxer who challenges Donnie to a match. But when George and Donnie meet face to face, the need for revenge subsides, and they form the unlikeliest of bonds as Donnie prepares for the fight of his life.

Living in South Central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict, still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Now freed after serving twenty-seven years in prison, he is filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets. Along with his gambler friend Billy Psalms, Socrates calls together local people of all races from their different social stations--lawyers, gangsters, preachers, Buddhists, businessmen--to conduct meetings of a Thinkers' Club, where all can discuss the unanswerable questions in life. The street philosopher enjoins his friends to explore--even in the knowledge that there's nothing that they personally can do to change the ways of the world--what might be done anyway, what it would take to change themselves. Infiltrated by undercover cops, and threatened by strain from within, tensions rise as hot-blooded gangsters and respectable deacons fight over issues of personal and social responsibility. But simply by asking questions about racial authenticity, street justice, infidelity, poverty, and the possibility of mutual understanding, Socrates and his unlikely crew actually begin to make a difference. In turns outraged and affectionate, The Right Mistake offers a profoundly literary and ultimately redemptive exploration of the possibility of moral action in a violent and fallen world.
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• Disc 1. Dov'è la libertà--? = Where is freedom? / a film by Roberto Rossellini ; directed by Roberto Rossellini ; screenplay by Roberto Rossellini ... [et al.] ; produced by Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti ; a co-production Golden Film, Ponti, De Laurentiis Cinematografica ; Studio Canal
• Disc 2. Era notte a Roma = Escape by night / a film by Roberto Rossellini ; a co-production of International Goldstar, Film Dismage.

Dov'é la libertà--?: "Rossellini's darkly comic satire showcases the great Italian comic Totò as a barber who is imprisoned for murdering his wife's suspected lover. After twenty years, Salvatore leaves the prison walls to find the world he once knew gone. His wife is dead, he encounters one deceitful person after another, and his family and friends are even more disloyal. Salvatore realizes he has no choice but to find a way back to prison where he feels certain he will be happier."--Container.
Era notte a Roma: "In this emotional war drama set in Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs, an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major. By taking them in, she tragically jeopardizes the safety of her Communist lover while the confinement of the trapped prisoners brings their uneasy alliance to a boiling point, symbolizing the chaos of the world around them."--Container.

In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife.

"Jan, recently released from prison after serving time for the murder of a child, has always maintained his innocence and is ready to put the past behind him. A gifted organist, he takes a job at an Oslo church under his middle name, Thomas. His talent and gentle manner quickly earn him the respect of his superiors, as well as the love of the pastor, Anna, and her little boy, Jens. But his past catches up with him when Agnes, a local teacher, comes to the church on a school visit and recognizes the organist as Jan, the man who was convicted for the murder of her son"--Container.
"The Kolaborator. Goran, a promising young soccer player, is forced to become a soldier as the war in Yugoslavia begins. He is quickly transformed from a talented athlete into an executioner. But soon Goran must make the decision of his life when he is ordered to kill someone from his past"--Container.

• disc 1. The night of the hunter (93 min.)
• disc 2. Charles Laughton directs "The night of the hunter" (159 min.).

A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.

• disc 1. The night of the hunter (93 min.)
• disc 2. Charles Laughton directs "The night of the hunter" (159 min.).

A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money.

"Invermuir, a quiet town in Scotland, is rocked when a commuter bridge collapses, plunging people and their cars into the river below. Annabel was supposed to be in one of those cars, the camera on the bridge sees the vehicle start to cross right before the collapse. But Annabel secretly sold her car to Stephen, an immigrant trying to bring his daughter Anna, and his wife, Silva, a better life by using it as a taxi. In the aftermath of the bridge tragedy, Silva waits for her husband to come home, her small shed on the banks of the river where he drowned. This is where Annabel, pregnant and presumed dead, finds her, and together the two women form an uneasy alliance, living together, sharing the chores, hiding from their pasts. Ron soon joins them, a man who is escaping the stigma of being an ex-convict, who finds purpose in transporting people across the river while the bridge is rebuilt. But secrets cannot stay buried forever, and soon the peace the three live in will be shattered. For Annabel and Silva, the truth will bring with it tragic consequences, as lies, betrayals, and the past come roaring back with unimaginable fury"-- Provided by publisher.

His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.

A veteran cop and an egocentric hit man are on the trail of an ex-con who is determined to avenge the death of his brother, killed during a bank robbery years ago.

In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict. What at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path.

In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict. What at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path. Bewitchingly shot and edited and laced with a fever-dream-like score.

Once he decides to give up crime, a small-time robber proposes to a pretty cop. But when the newlyweds learn they can't conceive a baby, they decide to steal one from a couple who seem to have one to spare, since they just had quintuplets! Bonus features included.

Head of the Rule 34 Squad monitoring the Internet for illegal activities, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh investigates the link between three ex-con spammers who have been murdered.

• Disc one, episodes 1-3. Episode 1 / written by David Milch ; directed by Michael Mann
• Episode 2 / written by John R. Perrotta ; directed by Terry George
• Episode 3 / written by Bill Barich ; directed by Allen Coulter
• Disc two, episodes 4-6. Episode 4 / written by Jay Hovdey ; directed by Phillip Noyce
• Episode 5 / written by Scott Willson ; directed by Brian Kirk
• Episode 6 / written by Robin Shushan ; directed by Henry Bronchtein
• Disc three, episodes 7-9 and bonus features. Episode 7 / written by Amanda Ferguson ; directed by Brian Kirk
• Episode 8 / written by John R. Perrotta and Jay Hovdey ; directed by Allen Coulter
• Episode 9 / written by Eric Roth ; directed by Mimi Leder
• Bonus features.

This one hour drama centers on an intuitive tough guy named Chester "Ace" Bernstein, who has always been involved with gambling, from bookmaking and money laundering to casino operations. Recently released from prison after three years, he teams with Gus Demitriou, his longtime chauffeur and muscle, to craft a complex plan involving the Santa Anita Racetrack in California.

For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation and deceit, and with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making...Hans Fallada's dark and moving 1934 novel brilliantly describes a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, showing how our actions always catch up with us.
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Lauren Sheehan's career in medicine came to a halt after a sequence of violent events abroad. Now she's back in the safest place she knows--St. Helens, Wisconsin--cut off from career, friendship, and romance. Ben Hanson's aimless life bottomed out when he went to prison. But after his release, a surprising offer from his father draws him home. In Wisconsin, he finds his family fractured, still unable to face the truth behind his troubled cousin's death a decade earlier. As Lauren cautiously expands her world and Ben tries to unravel the mysteries of his family and himself, their paths intersect. Could each be exactly what the other needs? A compelling family drama and a surprising love story, THIS BRIGHT RIVER confirms Patrick Somerville's status as one of the most exciting young writers at work today.
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After three years in prison, Enrique returns home to the Bronx to find the world he knew has changed. His wife, Angela, struggles to hide an emotional affair, and his teenage son, Michael, explores a sexual transformation well beyond Enrique's grasp and understanding.

An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.
"After a paragliding accident, Philippe, a rich aristocrat, is confined to his home. He employs Driss as home help. Driss is a young guy from the projects recently out of prison - in short, the person the least adapted for the job. Vivaldi and Earth, Wind and Fire, fine language and slang, suits and jogging outfits come together and a clash is inevitable. Two worlds collide and win each other over to give birth to a friendship as crazy, funny, and fierce as it is unexpected. A unique relationship that will make sparks fly and render Philippe and Driss untouchable."--Unifrance website.

An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.

Jean Valjean is paroled after serving 19 years in prison for stealing some bread. He tries to steal silverware from a missionary, but is set straight by a bishop. Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine, a single mother turned prostitute and risks all when he helps her after she's nearly arrested by police officer Javert. Javert was a guard at the prison Valjean was in and is suspicious that the mayor and Valjean are the same person.

Jean Valjean is paroled after serving 19 years in prison for stealing some bread. He tries to steal silverware from a missionary, but is set straight by a bishop. Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine, a single mother turned prostitute and risks all when he helps her after she's nearly arrested by police officer Javert. Javert was a guard at the prison Valjean was in and is suspicious that the mayor and Valjean are the same person.