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Pub. Date
[2009]
Summary
While a scandalous murder trial rocks the city, it's business as usual at the law offices of Crane Poole & Schmidt, which means a caseload of criminal insanity, hostage situations, cross-dressing, cannibalism and outright mayhem. Ethically-challenged newcomer Jeffrey Coho fits right in, lustful litigator Denny Crane finally meets his match, and attorney Alan Shore continues to stretch the boundaries of the law.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
They say friendship isn't one big thing, it's a million little things, and that's true for a group of friends from Boston who bonded under unexpected circumstances. Some have achieved success, others are struggling in their careers and relationships, but all of them feel stuck in life. After one of them dies from suicide unexpectedly, it's just the wake-up call the others need to finally start living. Each friend realizes that they need to finally...
3) The Departed
Summary
In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation...
Pub. Date
c2005
Summary
As a promising young silversmith apprentice in Boston, Johnny Tremain's life is forever changed when a tragic accident results in a severe burn to his hand. Forced to seek other work, Johnny finds himself a messenger for a patriotic newspaper, The Boston Observer, where he becomes involved with Paul Revere, Dr. Joseph Warren, Josiah Quincy, and a young newspapaer apprentice -- all members of a secret organization called the Sons of Liberty.
Pub. Date
2010
Summary
After being evicted, hardworking single mom Elaine Cheng tries to maintain a normal life for her children, Raymond and Tina. They squat in a Boston apartment as Elaine juggles a number of jobs, including working for a questionable pyramid scheme. When Elaine doesn't return home one night, nobody knows the kids are home alone, and they are left to fend for themselves. Raymond, a budding inventor, realizes he needs to come up with a plan to take care...
Pub. Date
2017.
Summary
The seventh and final season of the show, which is as thrilling and dangerous as the show has ever been, opens in the aftermath of a shooting that took place in the prior season's finale episode. The team must use every tool at their disposal to find the elusive Alice Sands they've been hunting for, and bring her to justice before she succeeds in destroying Jane's life.
7) Cell
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
An apocalyptic thriller about a mysterious signal that reprograms the minds of cellphone users around the globe.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Summary
Amanda McCready is a 4-year-old who has disappeared from her Boston home. The police make little headway in solving the case, so the girl's aunt hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Patrick and Angie must face...
Pub. Date
2006
Summary
Ethically-challenged attorney Alan Shore settles in at a wealthy and powerful legal firm that focuses primarily on civil cases. With some help from veteran attorney Denny Crane, Shore quickly makes his mark winning cases no one would take. In doing so, he develops a rival in his colleague Brad Chase, who has been assigned to the office partly to keep an eye on the increasingly eccentric (and possibly senile) Denny Crane. Though his questionable conduct...
Pub. Date
c2008
Summary
Join a quirky team of misfit coroners willing to put their forensic skills to the test. Smart, conflicted and unconventional, Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist whose obsession for solving homicides goes beyond the autopsy table. But the driving force behind her hard-core, unorthodox investigative style is the one crime she hasn't been able to solve-- her mother's murder.
13) The town
Pub. Date
2010
Summary
Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves. Special features include the extended cut.
Summary
FBI agent Paul Smecker (Dafoe) is on the trail of two vigilante brothers (Flanery and Reedus) whose spiritual sense of right and wrong has turned Boston's streets red with blood. The victims: villains and mob bosses whom the authorities have been powerless to stop. Now, Smecker finds himself torn between whether he should catch the killers ... or join them.
15) Mystic River
Summary
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quite life, but harbors some...
16) Eileen
Pub. Date
[2024]
Summary
In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.
17) Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Summary
Thomas Crown is a rich, well-educated Boston businessman. He's very good at what he does, but business is apparently no longer enough of a challenge for him--he's bored to within an inch of his life. So Crown has adopted an interesting hobby--he robs banks. He robs banks with such intricate, elaborate, Rube Goldberg-esque plans that it is impossible to trace anything back to him. His sole pleasure in life is getting away with it all. Needless to say,...
