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After the death of his journalist brother, the life of an ex-special forces soldier turned bodyguard changes dramatically. It becomes clear that his brother was murdered and those responsible for his death are very powerful people. He wants revenge and begins to hunt down and 'liquidate' those responsible for his brother's death. In doing so, he uncovers a ring of corruption extending to the highest levels of society and government.
2) Shanghai
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An American man living in Shanghai finds love while discovering a political conspiracy.
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Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....
5) The deal
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A political thriller with an all star cast which includes Christian Slater, Selma Blair, Angie Harmon, and Robert Loggia. A timely political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
6) Dakota
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An increasing railroad expansion intrigues a gambler and his new wife to move to North Dakota hoping to cash in on the land boom.
8) The Batman
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Batman must investigate Gotham City's hidden political corruption when the Riddler begins murdering key political figures.
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Leverage follows a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford exposed scams and recovered stolen items worth millions. But his life hit the skids when his insurance company allowed his ailing 8-year-old son to die. Years later, Nate gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists that right corporate and governmental injustices...
10) America grows up
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The great Comstock silver strike: October 29th, 1873. John Mackay and James Fair have invested close to $300,000 into the apparently worthless Comstock mine in the hopes of discovering silver. People are losing faith and increasingly suspicious of stock manipulation and fraud. Then they receive the big news.
The overthrow of the Tweed Ring: November 7th, 1871. New York citizens are fed up with the corruption of William Tweed who has gained political...
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It's 1985 in an alternate reality and a record store clerk Nick Brady begins to experience strange visions transmitted from an extra-terrestrial source he calls VALIS. He uproots his family and moves to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music executive with a secret mission to overthrow the oppressive government. With the help of his best friend, himself and a beautiful, mysterious woman named Silvia, Nick finds himself drawn into a conspiracy...
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The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corruptgovernment institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
16) Graceland
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Family man Marlon Villar is the long-time driver of Manuel Chango, a corrupt Filipino politician. While he and his daughter accompany his boss' preteen daughter home, Marlon is ambushed and the wrong girl is kidnapped. The driver's life takes a sudden, terrifying turn which propels him into a horrifying downward spiral and, as events in his life unravel, Marlon, Changho, and their families become entangled in a game of deceit and betrayal that will...
17) State of play
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When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.
18) Breadcrumbs
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When a woman returns to Uruguay, the stage for her tragic past, her conscience is painfully torn between the political and the personal. Will she move past her haunted history and live peacefully as a mother and grandmother, or face her demons by joining a lawsuit on behalf of women who were sexually abused during the country's reign of dictatorship?
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When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
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