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1) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Description
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
2) Cat Ballou
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Language
English
Description
When her father is murdered by a powerful businessman, a woman hires a has-been gunfighter to help her gain revenge.
3) Bad country
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1983, a veteran Baton Rouge detective, Bud Carter, infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer, Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organization, including its architect, Lutin.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucas is a solitary assassin hired to kill a young woman, Ella. When he can't bring himself to pull the trigger the plan falls apart, setting in motion a twisted game of cat and mouse. Now both are marked for death and forced to form an uneasy alliance. Relentlessly pursued across Europe, their only hope for survival is to expose those responsible for brutally murdering her family and bring them to justice.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Nederlands
Formats
Description
Schneider, a hitman, gets a call from Mertens on the morning of his birthday. He has a last-minute assignment for Schneider who refuses the request because it is his birthday. Mertens insists that it is an important matter. When they meet in Mertens' office, Schneider is told that the target is Ramon Bax, a writer. He lives alone in a secluded place. "It's an easy job. With a little luck you're back home before noon." Schneider accepts the assignment....
6) Collateral
Language
English
Description
Max is a cab driver. For twelve years, faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he has long since forgotten--until tonight. When a drug cartel learns of their impending indictment by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness. Vincent is a contract killer. He has one night in L.A.--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Vincent hijacks Max and his cab, making Max collateral--an expendable...
7) The guilty
Series
Publisher
Studio S Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
High roller Callum Crane (Bill Pullman) is a lawyer at the top of his game. No one could beat him and no one said 'no' to him except Sophie (Gabrielle Anwar). But when he crosses the line, she wants justice. Now Crane hires a seemingly wayward teenager (Devon Sawa) to get rid of Sophie once and for all. But he's about to learn that sometimes you can't rely on someone else to do your dirty work.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Seeking a hundred million reward set up the Japanese Yakuza for finding the killer of their boss, Fu, in desperate need of money, choose to become a contract killer and teams up with an agent who is willing to show him the Japanese underworld. Now, Fu and his agent are about to discover the killer no one is expected.
10) Rain fall
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Rain Fall follows John Rain, a former U.S. Special Forces operative turned lethal assassin whose clients pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. In the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat, Rain is brought to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam. When the CIA lists a woman that Rain has come to love as a target, his worlds collide"--Container.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Detective Emmett Young is determined to rid Philadelphia of a psychotic serial killer when he discovers he has a painful terminal illness. An ex-cop convinces Young that putting out a contract on himself is the best way to go. Now the race is on to stop the body count before his time is up.
14) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A car salesman sets in motion a complicated series of events when he decides to mastermind the kidnapping of his wife for ransom.
15) End of watch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
16) Blast of silence
Series
Criterion collection volume 428
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron's New York City noir film is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball details of urban living and the imposing beauty of the city. At once visually ragged and artfully composed, and featuring rough, poetic narration...
17) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Language
English
Description
When Marty, the owner of a Texas backwoods bar, hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend, he opens a door into the criminal world that he'll never be able to shut. The sleazy hit man decides instead to shoot Marty, thereby collecting his unearned fee and eliminating the only person who could implicate him-- or so he thinks. Tweaked, and some original music restored, by the Coens in 2001.
18) Prizzi's honor
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley, the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free lance killer, to eliminate someone who double crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall in love their jobs become complicated. Their jobs become impossible when each is given a contract that neither can go through with.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
When Colleen, an artist, is convinced that her boyfriend is cheating on her, she decides to put a stop to it. The gun she threatens him with accidentally goes off, and now with her boyfriend dead and in her basement, she hooks up with Daniel. Daniel is a singer and an assassin, who just can't seem to bring himself to actually kill anyone. When Colleen learns that Daniel was to kill her boyfriend, and Daniel discovers the boyfriend is dead already,...
20) Red Rock west
Publisher
TVA Films [distributor]
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An unemployed Texan walks into a tavern in Red Rock, Wyoming, and is mistaken for a professional hit-man.
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