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1) Blow
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the life of George Jung, the man who established the cocaine market in the United States.
2) The cobra
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Paul Devereaux, a former Special Ops agent for the CIA, serves as the American government's secret weapon against the war on drugs and is given free reign to destroy the cocaine industry at any cost.
3) Black Out
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Nederlands
Description
If Guy Ritchie made THE HANGOVER in Amsterdam, it might look something like Black Out, an audacious crime thriller laced with colorful lowlifes, tough femmes fatales, corrupt cops, and outbursts of extreme violence. On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos wakes up next to a murdered man with no recollection of what happened the night before. He soon discovers that a group of gangsters have pinned him as the lone suspect in the theft of...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Richard Garay, a gay man living in Buenos Aires, is stifled by his job as an English teacher, his overbearing mother, and his need to hide his homosexuality, but his mother's death and an offer by two American diplomats set him on a course to a new life.
5) Crank
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A "parody of the old New Wave crime eroticism movies" (The New York Times), Trans-Europ-Express is a self- referential, neo-noir thriller, with heavy doses of sado-masochism, from the mind of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last year at Marienbad). On the train from Paris to Antwerp, a director (Robbe-Grillet) and his production team hash out the plot of a crime movie. Their story is enacted by Jean Louis-Trintignant (Amour), who plays Elias, a cocaine smuggler...
7) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.
8) True Romance
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Clarence meets Alabama. He then proceeds to accidentally kill her pimp. The two get married and acquire an unexpected wedding present - a suitcast full of cocaine. They hit the road and end up in Los Angeles, where they intend to sell the drugs and have enough money to live off. But, unknown to them, ruthless gangsters are on their tail, determined to reclaim their lost property.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Felicia Sullivan's volatile, beautiful, deceitful, drug-addicted mother disappeared on the night Sullivan graduated from college, and has not been seen or heard from in the ten years since. Sullivan, who grew up on the tough streets of Brooklyn in the 1980s, now looks back on her childhood-lived among drug dealers, users, and substitute fathers. Sullivan became her mother's keeper, taking her to the hospital when she overdosed, withstanding her narcissistic...
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