China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.

Secret Agents

2004

French

5.4

♡ 7

26%

Frédéric Schoendoerffer Director

Monica Bellucci as Barbara / Lisa

Vincent Cassel as Brisseau

Jay Benedict as L'Américain

Najwa Nimri as Maria Menendez

From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...

Short Sharp Shock

1998

German

7.1

♡ 3

77%

german-turkish living together

street gang

Thriller

underworld

Fatih Akin Director

Idil Üner as Ceyda

Mehmet Kurtulus as Gabriel

Fatih Akin as Nejo

Oscar Ortega Sánchez as Waffenhändler

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.

Jackie Brown

1997

English

7.5

♡ 153

88%

based on novel or book

Quentin Tarantino Director

Quentin Tarantino as Answering Machine Voice

Robert De Niro as Louis Gara

Samuel L. Jackson as Ordell Robbie

Michael Keaton as Ray Nicolette

Hattie Winston as Simone

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

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