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1) Amsterdam
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
3) Jack Reacher
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2013]
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
4) Brian Banks
Language
English
Formats
Description
The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks (Greg Kinnear) and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim...
5) The attorney
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
Song Woo-seok has no clients, connections, nor college degree, but his eye for business and appetite for money make him the most successful lawyer in town. But at the peak of his success, a local teenager is falsely accused of a crime, then beaten and tortured while waiting in jail. Shocked by these conditions, Song takes the case no one else will, and changes the course of his life.
6) Jack Reacher
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-cop Nick Cassidy escapes from prison to plan the ultimate heist: steal a $40 million diamond from cutthroat businessman David Englander, and in the process prove his innocence. From the ledge of the famous Roosevelt Hotel, with the whole world watching, Cassidy plays a clever game of cat & mouse with the NYPD while his dutiful brother Joey works against the clock to extract the diamond and clear his brother's name.
8) Police story
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"A cop on the run from a false murder charge in this career-defining showcase of electrifying full-contact fight scenes and death defying stunts."--Container.
9) No way out
Language
English
Description
No way out: A powerful tale of intrigue set in the political whirl of Washington and the inner corridors of the Pentagon.
Company business: Two spies--one American, one Soviet--form an unlikely alliance when the CIA and KGB unite to assassinate them.
10) The jacket
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A Gulf War veteran has returned home only to be convicted of a murder he didn't commit. While in an institution for the criminally insane he is mysteriously transported to the future where he hopes to make changes that can alter the course of history.
11) Hang 'em high
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
12) L'argent
Series
Criterion collection volume 886
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
When an innocent prank goes wrong, it becomes the definitive moment in a man's life. A forged 500 franc note is accidentally passed to an unsuspecting young man. Ignorant of its origins, he tries to use the bill but is apprehended for forgery.
13) The trial
Series
Criterion collection volume 1191
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka's novel, Orson Welles₂s film casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, McCarthyism, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement, one of his boldest...
14) Tank
Publisher
Universal City Studios
Pub. Date
2004, c1984
Language
English
Description
Sergeant-Major Zack Carey is completing his final stint of duty at a post in a small southern town. After defending a prostitute, he finds himself doing battle with the town's sheriff. When Zack's son Billy is jailed on a phoney drug charge, the Sergeant takes justice into his own hands with help from his personal World War II Sherman Tank.
15) Jack Reacher
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
16) Gang related
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Corrupted detectives framed an innocent man for the murder of an undercover DEA agent.
17) Contratiempo
Publisher
Amarok Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Accused of a murder of which he pleads not guilty, the successful businessman Adrián Doria hires the services of Virginia Goodman, the country's best witness trainer. In the course of one night, both will work to find a reasonable doubt that will release him from prison. The appearance of a new witness threatens to destroy the strategy of defense, forcing them to recompose the pieces of a crossword puzzle that defies all the laws of logic.
18) Hang 'em high
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this American version of spaghetti Western, Clint Eastwood plays an innocent rancher who is about to be hung by the angry lynch mob who mistook him for a rustler and killer. Saved at the last moment by a passing marshal, Eastwood is taken before a notorious 'hanging judge.' The judge deputizes Eastwood, provided that Eastwood arrest his tormenters and bring them back for trial
19) Phantom lady
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The manner and cowardice of Albert Lory, a mother-fixated, slovenly school teacher in an unnamed country in Europe, are the subjects of his students' cruel jokes. Yet Lory's true inner courage is brought to light when the Nazis try to bribe him to keep his mouth shut in a court where he is being tried for a murder he did not commit. Instead, in the face of Nazi threats, he stands and delivers an impassioned speech on the preciousness of liberty.
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