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Shade (2003), a film by Damian Nieman, is an American neo-noir crime thriller. In an underground mob poker game that gets robbed, a cheating man defends himself during a gunfight, leaving only him and one gangster alive. A Mexican standoff ensues. Hustlers Tiffany and Charlie Miller meet with poker player Larry Jennings while he’s winning a game. They form a partnership to work a game with a potential $20,000 profit. The third member of their team, Vernon, is introduced as a card mechanic and blackjack dealer. In a flashback, Vernon switches out the contents of the shoe while his accomplices win $40,000 from the ...

Based on the 1949 film of the same name, Mighty Joe Young (1998) is a grandiose movie. The plot revolves around a colossal mountain gorilla, Joe, who is taken to a wildlife reserve in Los Angeles by his young caretaker and a zoologist, for his safety against poachers. The film was expertly directed by Ron Underwood. During her childhood, Jill Young and her mother Ruth, who is a primatologist, conduct research on mountain gorillas in the Pangani Mountains of Central Africa. One day, while observing an infant gorilla and its mother, Jill names him Joe. However, their peaceful life is disturbed when poachers led by Andrei ...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) is a British silent crime film directed by Walter West. Set in 1846, Todd and Anthony Hope arrive in London to be greeted only by a crazed beggar woman. As they sail into the city, Todd reveals that he has been there before, but not in quite some time. He makes his way to his old stomping grounds on Fleet Street, where he discovers Mrs. Nellie Lovett’s pie shop. Mrs. Lovett claims to make the worst meat pies in London due to the high cost of meat. The upstairs of her building has remained empty since its previous tenant, barber Benjamin Barker, was falsely ...

Richard Fleischer’s Armored Car Robbery (1950) is a thrilling heist film about a meticulously planned robbery of an armored car during its stop at a sports stadium. However, things go wrong and a determined Los Angeles cop takes up the chase. Meanwhile, criminal mastermind Dave Purvis hatches a plot to rob the final pickup of the day. In his quest for accomplices, he enlists struggling Benny McBride, who calls upon low-level criminals Al Mapes and Ace Foster to join the gang. Benny’s motivation is to win back his estranged wife Yvonne, but little does he know that she is now seeing someone else – ...

Notorious (1946) is an American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring an all-star cast including Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains. In April 1946, Alicia Huberman is recruited by government agent T.R. Devlin to infiltrate a group of escaped Nazis in Brazil. Despite initial resistance from Alicia, Devlin persuades her to help by revealing recordings of her heated arguments with her father and professing her love for America. The two ...

Citizen Kane (1941) is a gripping American drama that showcases the multi-talented Orson Welles as director, producer, and lead actor. Collaborating with Herman J. Mankiewicz, Welles brought to life a screenplay that would become his first feature film. The story takes place in Xanadu, a magnificent mansion situated on an expansive Florida estate where the wealthy Charles Foster Kane spends his final days. Clutching a snow globe and whispering ‘Rosebud’ as his dying breath, Kane’s death sets off a media ...