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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 8.3

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. Th...

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Rockers

Rockers

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Horsemouth, a drummer living in a ghetto of Kingston, plans to make money selling records. After his prized motorcycle is stolen, his plans fall through and he's forced to adapt.

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Porridge

Porridge

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godf...

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Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 6.8

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an al...

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Borsalino

Borsalino

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 6.8

In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster b...

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Gentlemen in White Vests

Gentlemen in White Vests

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better...

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The North Avenue Irregulars

The North Avenue Irregulars

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 6.7

When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.

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Uptown Saturday Night

Uptown Saturday Night

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

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Perfect Friday

Perfect Friday

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 6.4

The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help...

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The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 6.4

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.

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