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1) Wire room
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A federal agent who is on wire room duty listens in as the target is attacked in his home by a hit squad, and must protect the investigation and the target's life from the confines of a room located fifty miles away.
2) Fargo
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Language
English
Description
A car salesman sets in motion a complicated series of events when he decides to mastermind the kidnapping of his wife for ransom.
3) Collateral
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. Together, Vincent and Max find themselves in a non-stop race against time. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive....
4) Bad country
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1983, a veteran Baton Rouge detective, Bud Carter, infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer, Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organization, including its architect, Lutin.
5) Ronin
Language
English
Description
In a world where loyalties are easily abandoned and allegiances can be bought, a new and deadlier terrorist threat has emerged -- free-agent killers! The Cold War may be over, but a new world order keeps a group of covert mercenaries employed by the highest bidder. These operatives, known as "Ronin, " are assembled in France by a mysterious client for a seemingly routine mission: steal a top-secret briefcase. But the simple task soon proves explosive...
Series
Language
Nederlands
Formats
Description
Schneider, a hitman, gets a call from Mertens on the morning of his birthday. He has a last-minute assignment for Schneider who refuses the request because it is his birthday. Mertens insists that it is an important matter. When they meet in Mertens' office, Schneider is told that the target is Ramon Bax, a writer. He lives alone in a secluded place. "It's an easy job. With a little luck you're back home before noon." Schneider accepts the assignment....
7) Cat Ballou
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
When her father is murdered by a powerful businessman, a woman hires a has-been gunfighter to help her gain revenge.
8) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought ... Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene"--Container.
9) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
10) Killer Joe: DVD
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When a drug dealer can't pay his debts, he hires a contract killer to kill his mother for her insurance money.
11) Red Rock west
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An unemployed Texan walks into a tavern in Red Rock, Wyoming, and is mistaken for a professional hit-man.
12) End of watch
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
13) Blood simple
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A jealous husband hires a detective to murder his wife and her lover.
14) Panic
Pub. Date
[2001], 2000.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
All Alex's life he has worked for his father in the family's murder-for-hire business. Now his life is out of control. In the throws of a mid-life crisis, he wants out of the business and he wants change in his life. Unfortunately, his father won't let him quit.
16) The job
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Unemployed Bubba Brady gets a tip from a drifter about a job offer. His girlfriend, Joy, is thrilled because it means they can finally start a family. But the job is not as advertised. Though the opportunity is real, Brady will have to learn if he has the killer instincts to do what it requires.
17) A perfect murder
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Steven Taylor, a rich commodities trader about to lose his fortune, is married to young, rich Emily, who is having an affair. In order to solve both of his problems, he plots to have his wife killed.
18) Contract killer
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Seeking a hundred million reward set up the Japanese Yakuza for finding the killer of their boss, Fu, in desperate need of money, choose to become a contract killer and teams up with an agent who is willing to show him the Japanese underworld. Now, Fu and his agent are about to discover the killer no one is expected.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After he betrays Mr. Wei, the ruthless crime boss who hired him to avenge his son's death, professional killer, John Lee goes on the run. Enlisting the aid of beautiful document forger Meg Coburn, Lee attempts to return to his family in China before they are victimized by his betrayal. But Wei's army of "replacement killers" is hot on his trail, and now both he and Meg are targets of their impressive firepower. With both sides fully armed and determined...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Detective Emmett Young is determined to rid Philadelphia of a psychotic serial killer when he discovers he has a painful terminal illness. An ex-cop convinces Young that putting out a contract on himself is the best way to go. Now the race is on to stop the body count before his time is up.
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