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161) Carlito's way
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
When Carlito is released from prison on a technicality, he feels that this is his chance to go straight. However, his cronies from the past and younger gangsters who are trying to make a name for themselves, make this impossible.
162) The asphalt jungle
Series
Criterion collection volume 847
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
A heist is being set up to be pulled off by Doc, who has recruited a small gang to help him carry it out. Everything he could possibly think of was taken care of, down to the very last detail. It's the night of the heist and suddenly Doc's luck turns sour when betrayal strikes and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Seemingly reformed ex-con Zequi is about to marry the love of his life -- the lovably nerdy Lucy -- but wedding-day jitters turn into a full-blown fiasco, and Lucy calls the wedding off. Once they're all seaside, Lucy runs into her high school sweetheart Mario, who is the coach of the opposing squad, and Zequi finds himself a rival in more than one competition.
164) Innocent
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"How far would you go to prove it? After David Collins serves seven years of a life sentence for murdering his wife, the court decides he was wrongfully convicted. That's the good news. The bad: His life is shattered. Everyone in his small, seaside village thinks he's guilty, including his children. How can he win them back from the guardian--his dead wife's sister--who loves the children as much as she detests David? And who killed his wife?...
165) Jailhouse rock
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Vince takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out. However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he decides to form his own label, and soon he becomes an overnight sensation. As he becomes a superstar, his...
166) Mona Lisa
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After Gordon Gekko is released from prison, he forges an alliance with his daughter, Winnie's, fiancé, Jake, in an effort to reclaim his place at the top of Wall Street. They learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing.
168) Les miserables: DVD
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In early 19th century France, the paroled prisoner, Jean Valjean, seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while, he is obsessively pursued by the policeman, Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
169) A nous la liberté
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.
170) Pale flower
Series
Criterion collection volume 564
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
DVD special ed.
Language
日本語
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jump back into the black van and rejoin The A-Team in all 22 explosive season four episodes, their most action-packed adventures yet! Team up again with B.A., Hannibal, Murdock and Face as they take on hardhearted kidnappers, corrupt millionaires, ruthless drug dealers, and even a Mob kingpin.
172) High Sierra
Series
Criterion collection volume 1099
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Two-Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band...
173) The informers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 1980s. Centers on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap - a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster - and the very bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs and one another with total abandon. They don't realizing that they are dancing on...
174) Wild Rose: DVD
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house.
175) They live by night
Series
Criterion collection volume 880
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent...
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When raunchy, ruckus Sunnyvale Trailer Park residents, Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, end up in prison for robbing an ATM machine, they end up spending 18 months in jail. When they get out, they decide to hatch a plan to pull off 'The Big Dirty.' Their plan is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable. After this heist, the boys will be able to quit their life of crime forever.
178) The upside: DVD
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy. From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities." --
179) House of strangers
Series
Fox film noir volume 17
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"When Max Monetti first gets out of prison, life seems good. The bank founded by his father and now run by his brothers is thriving. The society woman he loves has waited seven long years for him. But for Max, every day of those seven years was filled with hatred. And when he learns that his father died because he was squeezed out of the bank by the brothers after Max took a rap for him, that hatred bubbles to the surface, obliterating everything,...
180) Les misérables
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
The story of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector, Javert, who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.
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