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Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger...

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Assa

Assa

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.7

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassinat...

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The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7.6

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area o...

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The Murder of Mary Phagan

The Murder of Mary Phagan

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Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The Murder of Mary Phagan, a 1987 two-part American TV miniseries made by Orion Pictures Corporation and distributed by National Broadcasting Company, is a dramatization of the story of Leo Frank, a f...

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Made in Britain

Made in Britain

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.2

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.

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Night Zoo

Night Zoo

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroa...

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Casualties of War

Casualties of War

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.1

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

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Streets of Fire

Streets of Fire

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to sa...

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Suspect

Suspect

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.6

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is a...

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The Package

The Package

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.

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