Mad City
★ 6.2 · 1997 · 114m · Thriller · Drama
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
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Opera Prima
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Lions for Lambs
2007 · ★ 6
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A Thousand Billion Dollars
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Bloody Sunday
2002 · ★ 7.2
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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Sardinia Kidnapped
1968 · ★ 5.7
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The Restoration
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Ransom
1996 · ★ 6.7
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Roar
1981 · ★ 5.9
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