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Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Nederlands
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....
2) Collateral
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. Together, Vincent and Max find themselves in a non-stop race against time. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive....
3) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been hailed by critics and audiences worldwide as a film that redefined cinema. Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters, including a pair of low-rent hitmen, their boss's sexy wife, and a desperate prizefighter, in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating blend of crime-thriller-drama-comedy that is completely original and entirely unforgettable.
5) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Formats
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Publisher
Acquisition - PPC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The hunter becomes the hunted when an elite assassin is given his final contract: to kill seven people around the world only to discover the targets are equally skilled assassins hired to kill him. His only shot to survive is to uncover the mysterious mastermind behind the deadly plot before it's too late.
8) 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.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two rival crime families. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances between them, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, he takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to remain the last man standing.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"'A mercy killing and nine other kick ass one acts' is a dynamic play anthology featuring ten previously produced, actor driven, dialogue driven, energy driven plays - each of which is simply infectious for performers and audiences alike. It is made up of a unique collection of comedies, dark comedies, theatre of the absurd and satire, perfect to utilize in college theatre departments, Equity theatres or even the more daring community theatre."--Amazon....
12) 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.
13) A perfect murder
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
To Manhattan's elite, Wall Street wheeler-dealer Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful, accomplished Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like a perfect murder. It isn't. In fact, very little is what it seems.
15) Beckman
Publisher
Pure Flix
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Aaron Beckman is finished, done with a life lived in the shadows as a cruel gun for hire. Now, his soul cries out for healing, peace, forgiveness, and grace. In desperation, he appeals to the church and is welcomed by an ailing pastor like a long-lost son. However, his journey towards salvation is cut short when his adopted daughter is kidnapped by a deranged cult leader named Reese.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1057
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Jim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cold crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically post-modern take on the hit-man thriller. In one of his defining roles, Forest Whitaker brings a commanding serenity to his portrayal of a Zen contract killer working for a bumbling mob outfit, a modern man who adheres steadfastly to the ideals of the Japanese warrior code...
19) End of watch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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.
20) St. Ives
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Ex-crime reporter Raymond St. Ives has elegant taste, a yen for gambling and an unfinished novel in his typewriter. When he crosses paths with sinister Oliver Procane, he gets something else: a price on his head.
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