The cocaine trade of the 70s and 80s had an indelible impact on Miami turning the once sleepy retirement community into one of the world's most glamorous and nefarious cities. In "Cocaine Cowboys" we hear from some of the dealers, killers et al about the effect Colombia's Medellin cartel's $20 billion business had on the city. In particular we hear about Griselda Blanco, the Godmother of the business, a vicious psychopath whose feats helped turn Miami into the murder capital of North America. find out more...

Intense thriller with Fishburne as the undercover cop trying to bring down the big boys and Goldblum excellent as Fishburne's lawyer-turned-dealer partner. As Fishburne realises what a political pawn he has become, he has to re-examine his past to establish his motives. Utterly absorbing filmmaking with a hip hop soundtrack to match.

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St. Jude Square is a neighborhood living in fear and despair. The dueling gangs of local kingpins Dash and Antuan terrorize the streets and the citizens live without a shred of hope... until mysterious stranger Ryan Hong (Cung Le) arrives in town. He begins to play one gang against the other using his unparalleled martial arts skills, and by calling on the teachings of his brilliant mentor Tiano (Jean-Claude Van Damme) to find the strength to battle back. However, just as he begins to bring t find out more...

 

Judge Dredd is assigned to evaluate Cassandra Anderson, a rookie with powerful psychic abilities, but a heinous crime calls them to a neighbourhood where law enforcement rarely dares to tread; a 200 story vertical slum controlled by prostitute turned drug lord Ma-Ma. Soon the duo find themselves up against a relentless wave of heavily armed th find out more...

An elite battalion of police officers, known as BOPE, are pretty much the only thing that the drug dealers living in the favelas of Rio De Janerio fear - aside from each other. But the man who commands them wants out; the unrelenting brutality of his job is beginning to fracture both his mind and family life. The Captain has one goal: to find a worthy replacement, untainted by the corruption that riddles his fellow colleagues, and the potential shows itself in the form of two very different but find out more...

From Hong Kong's king of action, John Woo, comes a high-tech adventure which has maximum visual thrills and zero credibility, but is none the worse for it. Good guy John Travolta demonstrates his loyalty to the F.B.I in spectacular style by having the face of psycho killer Nicolas Cage transplanted on to his own, in order to save L.A from a huge Special Effect. Cage, meanwhile, in characteristically maniacal mode, has decided to add to the confusion by pilfering Travolta's endearingly twinkly fe find out more...

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A multi-stranded tale of tragedy after tragedy unfolds against an icy Finnish backdrop. Following the sacking of a school teacher we follow a chain of misfortune from victim to victim; a loser car-thief, an ex-alcoholic vacuum salesman, who falls off the wagon in spectacular style, a depressed policewoman, a computer hacker and the policewoman's husband amongst others. A dark, uncompromising film which shows how fickle and cruel fate can be. There are some moments of humour but they are jet jet find out more...

Gripping 'hood thriller with James Belushi and the late Tupac Shakur (in the last role before his murder) as two bad-ass detectives who've hit on the perfect scam. While Belushi's glamorous girlfriend acts as the bait in a bogus drug deal, a drive-by shooting enables the corrupt cops to snatch the dead dealer's cash without fear of exposure. As far as the paperwork goes, the murder is obviously gang-related, and, therefore, solved. But the pair start to sweat when they unwittingly kill an underc find out more...

Adrenaline-fueled car chase drug-smuggling cop drama from the big city across Franco-Spanish border.

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