Michael Mann
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English
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"Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, Manhunter, and Miami Vice, teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel--an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat--an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the iconic film"--
2) Heat 2
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Language
Español
Description
Un día después del final de Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) se encuentra escondido en Koreatown; está herido, medio inconsciente y tratando desesperadamente de escapar de Los Ángeles. Lo persigue el detective del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Horas antes, Hanna había matado al compañero de Shiherlis, Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), en un tiroteo bajo las luces estroboscópicas al pie de una pista del...
Author
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English
Description
China's transition to a market economy has propelled its remarkable economic growth since the late 1970s. In this book, Nicholas R. Lardy, one of the world's foremost experts on the Chinese economy, traces the increasing role of market forces and refutes the widely advanced argument that Chinese economic progress rests on the government's control of the economy's "commanding heights." In another challenge to conventional wisdom, Lardy finds little...
5) Miami vice
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ricardo Tubbs lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy. The two work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group. He becomes romantically involved with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge. Identity and fabrication...
6) Manhunter
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A retired detective enters the dreams of a serial killer in order to catch him and almost loses his own sanity.
7) Thief
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Michael Mann ("Manhunter") directs a stunning piece of neo-noir set in the rain-soaked streets of Chicago and starring James Caan ("Rollerball") at his toughest. Caan plays Frank, a jewel thief and former convict who is looking to settle down with his girlfriend (Tuesday Weld, "Who'll Stop The Rain?") and begin a family. But when his ‘fence’ is thrown from a window and the Chicago mafia begin to flex their muscles, his hopes of a quiet life become...
8) The aviator
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Depicts the life of Howard Hughes - billionaire, industrialist, movie producer, inventor, aviator - and the love affairs, Hollywood stardom, corporate battles and brilliant aeronautical invention that defined him from the mid-1920s through the 1940s.
9) The aviator
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An epic biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.
10) Manhunter
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Three years after leaving the police force, Will Graham is begged by an old colleague to return, to help track down a murderer who operates at full moon and has murdered two entire families. Endowed with a sixth sense, Graham has never used conventional ways to find psychopaths. Instead, he has developed a method which is dangerous for his own mental health for it allows him to be accepted by people with deranged minds and enables him to construct...
11) Collateral
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
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....
12) Ali
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Description
The life and career of Muhammad Ali, from the 1964 fight with Sonny Liston to the 1974 championship bout with George Foreman.
13) Heat
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
14) Public enemies
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The classic novel by James Fenimore Cooper about the French and Indian War, and a white frontiersman raised by Indians.
A passionate romance between the adopted son of the Mohicans and the daughter of a proud British Colonel is set against the backdrop of the frontier ravaged by war. Their love withstands the elements of fate amidst the brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in the mountains and virgin forests...
16) Public enemies
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.
17) Ferrari
Publisher
Decal Releasing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari and his wife built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
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Series
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English
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Ryko "Spyder" Rymbersa is the owner of the most exclusive kink and fetish club, Temptation. A Master within the club and a single father outside the club.Not everything is as it seems in Ryko's life. He wants to find a woman who not only craves the kind of kinks he does but falls in love with his son Tanner.Larkin Pedience, a Shibari Mistress. She is hiding from a secret that may eventually find her.She is tired of men who think she is weak or dumb...
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English
Description
How do you effectively transition your company from qualified vendor status to a trusted partner and advisor to your clients? In "The Journey to Sales Transformation: Twenty-Five Axioms for Becoming a Trusted Partner to your Customers", sales and business expert Bob Nicols Jr. explains exactly what organizations need to do. Told through the fictional parables and the lessons learned by his characters, the story provides a set of 25 truths that help...
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English
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Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington of AVATAR FRANCHISE, CLASH OF THE TITANS), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and transplanted New York City Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan of WATCHMEN, TV'S MAGIC CITY) as they track a sadistic serial killer who dumps his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call "The Killing Fields." Before long, the killer changes the...