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Summary
Covert intelligence operative Michael Westen has been punched, kicked, choked and shot. Now he's being burned, and someone's going to pay. When Michael receives a "burn notice, " blacklisting him from the intelligence community and compromising his very identity, he must track down a faceless nemesis without getting himself killed in the process. Meanwhile, Michael is forced to double as a private investigator on the dangerous streets of Miami in...
2) Honest thief
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Summary
Separated from his friends and family, and on the verge of losing it all, Michael Westen goes deep undercover, joining forces with a mysterious woman and infiltrating a sinister terrorist network. With time running out, Michael must do whatever it takes to stay alive and protect his loved ones. But now, he may be forced to go too far.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Summary
Master spy Michael Westen is back, and this time, he's joined by Jesse Porter, a no-nonsense counterintelligence expert who has been burned himself. Along with go-to guy Sam and the dangerously sexy Fiona, the team takes on a barrage of outlaw biker gangs, drug dealers, and a worldwide terrorist threat.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Summary
There's trouble in paradise for former CIA operative Michael Western and his cohorts, and the streets of Miami are hotter, and deadlier, than ever before. In hot pursuit of his old nemesis, Michael must take down Anson Fullerton and find a way to free Fiona from prison, where she is being targeted by a murderous foe. Michael goes full force to save Fiona as he takes on cold-blooded assassins, diabolical drug cartels, uneasy alliances, and explosive...
Pub. Date
[[2012]
Summary
A new day breaks for Michael Westen when he's reinststed by the CIA, but his good fortune is impossible short-lived. Framed for murder and blackmailed by a diabolical foe, Michael and his team must do whatever it takes to clear his name and catch a killer. Michael finally comes face-to-face with the man who burned him, leading to an explosive finale, after which nothing will ever be the same.
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"A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story's focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not...
9) Wrath of man
Pub. Date
[2021]
Summary
A man must move hundreds of millions of dollars for an armored truck company in Los Angeles.
10) LBJ
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
In the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Johnson faces off against enemies from within his own party and his own White House as he frantically struggles to secure the legitimacy of his presidency before it slips through his fingers forever. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
11) Believe in me
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
Coach Clay Driscoll is a small town basketball coach who seems to have everything going against him. A team he doesn't want. A town that doesn't support girl's sports and small town politics that threaten to undermine any chance he has of winning. But his pride and his "girls" refuse to let him quit. Both the young women and their hard-headed coach fight for equality and a share of the dream, taking on the town prejudice and their own self-doubt....
12) Changeling
Pub. Date
[2009]
Summary
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
13) Villains
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
Mickey and Jules are lovers on the run, headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State. When their car dies after a gas station robbery, they break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.
14) Extinction
Pub. Date
2015
Summary
After surviving the zombie apocalypse for nine years, Patrick decides it's time to leave and search for food. But what he discovers is even worse than zombies.
15) Honest thief
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
After falling in love and wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
16) Wrath of man
Pub. Date
[2021]
Summary
Armored car employees are caught by surprise when a new co-worker unleashes violent vigilante justice on a crew of thieves who attempt to hijack his truck. When it happens again...and again... their hero worship begins to turn to suspicion while he remains ferociously focused on achieving his private goal.
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Summary
First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads-driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet...
