John Dahl
Publisher
Showtime Networks Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Appears on list
Description
In an economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a complicated and compromised chief of police is forced to decide how far he's willing to go when the son of the woman he loves is accused of murder. A harrowing journey into the lives of a small town with big secrets, where people are driven by loyalty, love, and desperation, and bad choices come far too easy.
2) Joy ride
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Description
It's all fun and games when two brothers take off cross-country to bring home a pretty college friend. But the joeks end when a prank backfires and they find themselves stalked by a vengeful trucker who won't give up his relentless chase until somebody pays with their life.
3) Rounders
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Description
A young man who is a reformed gambler returns to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
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Description
Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Penninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually surrendered and the troops were marched off to prison. Along...
5) You kill me
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He is a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not the touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel, a woman who is dangerously...
