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Título original: After Dark Neo-Noir Cinema 3
Año: 1991-2002
Pais: USA
Código de región: B
Contenido: Blu-Ray
EAN: 9337369041261
Imagen: various
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Subtítulos: various
Calificación por edades: various
Género: Thriller
Reparto: various
Director: various
Sinopsis:
Enter the grimy shadows of neo-noir with these six dark modern films of crime, corruption and vengeance.
Packed with remarkable performances from Joe Mantegna, Willem Dafoe, Samuel L. Jackson, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Chiwetel Ejiofor, this six-film journey will take you through the underbelly of society, through rain-soaked streets and blurred morality.
Limited Edition 6-Disc Hardbox packed with brand NEW special features including audio commentaries and interviews, plus an exclusive booklet featuring essays on Homicide by Jen Johans, The Crossing Guard by Blake Howard, and Dirty Pretty Liars by Maria Lewis.
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HOMICIDE
Worldwide first on Blu-ray!
Acclaimed playwright and filmmaker David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross) directs this powerful and provocative film starring Joe Mantegna as a detective torn between his faith and career.
Bobby Gold is a tough yet devoted cop who is thrust into the otherwise routine murder investigation of an elderly Jewish shopkeeper. What seems a straightforward case soon unravels to become a bewildering urban odyssey of intrigue and conspiracy.
Four out of four stars from Roger Ebert.
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WHITE SANDS
Willem Dafoe stars as a small-town sheriff who finds himself in grave danger when he uncovers a dead body in the desert with $500,000 in this gripping neo-noir crime thriller.
Also starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Scarface, The Abyss), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), and Mickey Rourke (Barfly, Johnny Handsome), and directed by Roger Donaldson (The Bounty).
To untangle a mystery, a small-town lawman assumes the identity of a murdered FBI agent and goes undercover inside a global crime ring. This precarious new life steers him toward a sinister weapons runner, an FBI sting operative and a mysterious woman of means.
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THE CROSSING GUARD
Oscar-winner Sean Penn (newly interviewed for this release) produced, wrote and directed this neo-noir classic starring the masterful Jack Nicholson as a tormented father who seeks vengeance on the man who killed his daughter.
Freddy Gale has spent the last six years counting down to this day. Today, the man who was responsible for the hit-and-run death of Freddy’s young daughter is being released. Devastated by his loss and driven by vengeance, Freddy is finally going to pay back his daughter’s killer… if it’s the last thing he does.
Also starring female juggernauts Robin Wright (House Of Cards), Anjelica Huston (The Life Aquatic), and Piper Laurie (Carrie, Twin Peaks).
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HEAVEN'S PRISONERS
Worldwide first on Blu-ray!
The crime novel by James Lee Burke comes to life in this neo-noir crime thriller, the story of a former police detective thrust into a world of murder and deception after witnessing a drug smuggler’s plane crash into a bayou.
Starring Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch (Road House), Mary Stuart Masterson (At Close Range), Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives) and Eric Roberts (King Of The Gypsies), with a screenplay by Harley Peyton (Twin Peaks) and Scott Frank (Logan).
Once a tough New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux has turned in his badge and left the city with his wife Annie, for the peaceful beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. A plane crash brings a little girl into his life – and with her comes a trail of murder and deception.
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UNDER SUSPICION
Based on the hit 1981 French film Garde à vue, this neo-noir thriller stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Bellucci and Thomas Jane.
A Chief Inspector interviews a prominent attorney, who has discovered a brutal murder victim’s body. However, during the course of the night the crime’s only witness slowly becomes the inspector’s prime suspect…
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DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
Nominated for an Academy Award, Dirty Pretty Things stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Audrey Tautou (Amelie), and Sergi López (Pan’s Labyrinth).
Part of an invisible working class, Nigerian exile Okwe and Turkish chambermaid Senay toil at a west London hotel that is full of illegal activity. Then late one night Okwe makes a shocking discovery, which creates an impossible dilemma and tests the limits of all they know.
“A creepy, tightly knit suspense film that, on the fly, reveals more about the lives of immigrants in London than the most scrupulously earnest documentary.” – The New Yorker
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