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Tagged with "false-identity" keyword

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Bird on a Wire
[1990, USA] from $1.99
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Rick has been given a new identity by the FBI for helping convict a drug dealing FBI agent. Fifteen years later his former fiance recognises him. Rick's FBI 'minder' has been replaced by a corrupt agent who helps the drug dealing FBI agent and his accomplice locate him. There are many subsequent chase scenes as Rick and girlfriend revisit his former haunts.
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Romance | Thriller |
Actors: Mel Gibson |  Goldie Hawn |  David Carradine |  Bill Duke |  Stephen Tobolowsky |  Joan Severance |  Harry Caesar |  Jeff Corey |  Alex Bruhanski |  John Pyper-Ferguson |  Clyde Kusatsu |  Jackson Davies |  Florence Patterson |  Tim Healy |  Wes Tritter | 
Directors: John Badham | 
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Bird on a Wire (1990)
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Bulletproof Tough cop. Hostile witness. (1 more taglines...)
[1996, USA] from $1.99
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The criminals Rock Keats (Damon Wayans) and Archie Moses (Adam Sandler) are best friends and have been stealing cars together for one year. Archie invites Rock to join the gang of the drug lord Frank Colton (James Caan) without knowing that Rock is indeed the undercover detective Jack Carter, assigned to get evidences against Frank. During the police raid against a heroin shipping of Frank, Archie accidentally shoots Jack in his head. Once recovered, Jack declares Archie his enemy, and arrests him. But the former mates have to join forces against Frank's gangsters and many dirty cops.
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime |
Actors: Damon Wayans |  Adam Sandler |  James Caan |  Jeep Swenson |  James Farentino |  Kristen Wilson |  Larry McCoy |  Allen Covert |  Bill Nunn |  Mark Roberts |  Mark Casella |  Andrew Shaifer |  Monica Potter |  Jonathan Loughran |  Steve White | 
Directors: Ernest R. Dickerson | 
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Bulletproof (1996)
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Casanova A partially true story about lies told, virtue lost and love found. (3 more taglines...)
[2005, USA] from $1.99
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Casanova is love with Francesca, who thinks he is a friend of himself even though he is engaged Victoria, who is the love of Giovanni, Francessca's brother. Francessca is betrothed to Paprizzio who thinks Casanova is the feminist writer Guardi, who is really Francessca's nomme de plume. Amidst all these secret identities and misunderstandings, the Catholic Church sends Pucci to bring Casanova and Guardi to trial for heresy.
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance |
Actors: Heath Ledger |  Sienna Miller |  Jeremy Irons |  Oliver Platt |  Lena Olin |  Omid Djalili |  Stephen Greif |  Ken Stott |  Helen McCrory |  Leigh Lawson |  Tim McInnerny |  Charlie Cox |  Natalie Dormer |  Philip Davis |  Paddy Ward | 
Directors: Lasse Hallström | 
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Casanova (2005)
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Femme Fatale Nothing is more desirable or more deadly than a woman with a secret
[2002, France] from $1.99
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller |
Actors: Rebecca Romijn |  Antonio Banderas |  Peter Coyote |  Eriq Ebouaney |  Edouard Montoute |  Rie Rasmussen |  Thierry Frémont |  Gregg Henry |  Fiona Curzon |  Daniel Milgram |  Jean-Marc Minéo |  Jean Chatel |  Stéphane Petit |  Olivier Follet |  Eva Darlan | 
Directors: Brian De Palma | 
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Femme Fatale (2002)
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Gosford Park Tea At Four. Dinner At Eight. Murder At Midnight.
[2001, UK, Germany, Italy, USA] from $1.99
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Set in the 1930's the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. The story centers around the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on and secrets are revealed, it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it...?
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery |
Actors: Maggie Smith |  Michael Gambon |  Kristin Scott Thomas |  Camilla Rutherford |  Charles Dance |  Geraldine Somerville |  Tom Hollander |  Natasha Wightman |  Jeremy Northam |  Bob Balaban |  James Wilby |  Claudie Blakley |  Laurence Fox |  Trent Ford |  Ryan Phillippe | 
Directors: Robert Altman | 
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Gosford Park (2001)
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New Guy, The A zero will rise (1 more taglines...)
[2002, USA] from $1.99
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Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek going through a hellish senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the technics of being cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris, to make new friends where he soon gains respect from the jocks and geeks alike. Dizzy then gets noticed by the head cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football team gain self-respect to win games. But things unknowingly begin to turn sour when Danielle's disgruntled boyfriend begins investigating into "Gil Harris'" past to uncover any dirt on him.
Genres: Comedy |
Actors: DJ Qualls |  Eliza Dushku |  Zooey Deschanel |  Jerod Mixon |  Parry Shen |  Lyle Lovett |  Eddie Griffin |  Sunny Mabrey |  Ross Patterson |  Matt Gogin |  Horatio Sanz |  Tony Hawk |  Geoffrey Lewis |  Charlie O'Connell |  Gene Simmons | 
Directors: Ed Decter | 
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New Guy, The (2002)
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Reservoir Dogs Seven Total Strangers Team Up For The Perfect Crime. They Don't Know Each Other's Name. But They'... (4 more taglines...)
[1992, USA] from $1.99
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Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won't get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller |
Actors: Harvey Keitel |  Tim Roth |  Michael Madsen |  Steve Buscemi |  Chris Penn |  Lawrence Tierney |  Randy Brooks |  Kirk Baltz |  Quentin Tarantino |  Edward Bunker |  Steven Wright |  Rich Turner |  David Steen |  Tony Cosmo |  Stevo Polyi | 
Directors: Quentin Tarantino | 
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Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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Score, The There are no partners in crime
[2001, USA, Germany] from $1.99
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Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. Soon Max, his good friend and financial partner in the illegal affairs, comes along with an offer Nick can't refuse: A historical and priceless French sceptre has been discovered while being smuggled into the country. It is now under massive surveillance in the Montreal Customs House, and soon to be returned to France. Nick has to team up with Max' man inside, the young, talented and aggressive thief Jackie Teller to get the precious item, and suffer no more financial problems ever. Only one question remains: Who will trick whom out of their share?
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller |
Actors: Robert De Niro |  Edward Norton |  Marlon Brando |  Angela Bassett |  Gary Farmer |  Jamie Harrold |  Frank Oz | 
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Score, The (2001)
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Talented Mr. Ripley, The How far would you go to become someone else. (2 more taglines...)
[1999, USA] from $1.99
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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller |
Actors: Matt Damon |  Gwyneth Paltrow |  Jude Law |  Cate Blanchett |  Philip Seymour Hoffman |  Jack Davenport |  James Rebhorn |  Sergio Rubini |  Philip Baker Hall |  Celia Weston |  Fiorello |  Stefania Rocca |  Ivano Marescotti |  Anna Longhi |  Alessandro Fabrizi | 
Directors: Anthony Minghella | 
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Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999)
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