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Ms .45

1981

Ms .45

1981
6.7
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick her up.
The Long Riders

1980

The Long Riders

1980
6.7
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
Gideon's Trumpet

1980

Gideon's Trumpet

1980
6.2
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
Sitting Ducks

1980

Sitting Ducks

1980
5.6
Two small-time thieves come together in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true.
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

1980

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

1980
6.4
An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
Penitentiary

1979

Penitentiary

1979
5.3
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.
Human Experiments

1979

Human Experiments

1979
4.6
A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.
Concrete Cowboys

1979

Concrete Cowboys

1979
5
Two Montana saddletramps head to Nashville to open up a detective agency. At first, the agency begins on a lark but, soon, they get involved in a case involving a kidnapped singer and an intricate blackmail scheme.
The Swap

1979

The Swap

1979
3.7
Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.
Scum

1979

Scum

1979
7.1
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
Repeater

1979

Repeater

1979
A deconstructed crime thriller, inspired by the French new wave, in which a woman’s confession of murder is not as simple as it seems.
The Lady in Red

1979

The Lady in Red

1979
6
A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
Over the Edge

1979

Over the Edge

1979
7.2
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
Love and Bullets

1979

Love and Bullets

1979
5.9
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
Little Italy

1978

Little Italy

1978
6
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.
Matilda

1978

Matilda

1978
5.2
A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978
6.8
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
The Black Panther

1977

The Black Panther

1977
5.8
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century

1977

Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century

1977
3.7
Professor Wassermann is asked by industry magnate Morgan Hunnicut to lead an expedition to study the giant Yeti creature found frozen in a large ice block on Newfoundland's coast. The professor does not know that Hunnicut intends to use the prehistoric creature as a trademark of its multinational industrial group. A very big mistake.
A Piece of the Action

1977

A Piece of the Action

1977
5.6
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.