A panicked woman’s decision to cover up an accidental crime will get out of control. Alone mother, with her ex-husband in prison and threatened by one of his accomplices, remains with the corpse of the accomplice killed in self-defense and who must escape. From the desire to protect his son, who is on parole, he hides the crime of police and his father (who was a policeman). Contained with remorse, she is unable to keep things secret, and those around her observe changes in her behavior...
Spenser, a former cop known more for the problems he created than for the ones solved, has come out of prison and wants to leave Boston forever. However, he is convinced by Henry, his former boxing coach and mentor, to help a potential amateur. This is Hawk, a tough and serious MMA fighter, who is convinced he will be a better opponent than Spenser has ever been. When two of Spenser’s former colleagues are killed, he recruits Hawk and his former girlfriend, Cissy, to help investigate and bring the culprits to justice...
The year 1933. Gareth Jones is a young Ukrainian journalist who gained fame after writing about his encounter with Hitler, and is now looking for the next important story. Soviet utopia is everywhere in the news, and he cannot help but wonder how Stalin is financing the rapid modernization of the Soviet Union. Jones decides to travel to Moscow in an attempt to get an interview with Stalin himself. There, the young man meets Ada Brooks, a British journalist, who reveals that the real story about the regime is violently suppressed. Hearing the rumors of government-led famine, a secret hidden by Soviet censors, Gareth manages to escape the authorities and travels clandestinely to Ukraine, where he witnesses the atrocities of starvation, where millions of people die, while all cereals are sold abroad. to finance the Soviet empire industry. Back in London, Gareth publishes an article that reveals the horrors he witnessed, but hunger is immediately denied by Western journalists living in Moscow, under pressure from the Kremlin. As death threats escalate, Gareth must fight for the truth. Soon, he meets a young author, a man by the name of George Orwell, to whom he shares his findings, thus influencing the great allegorical novel “Animal Farm...
Attorney Robert Bilott works in Cincinnati for a firm specializing in the defense of large chemical companies. On the verge of receiving a promotion, Bilott receives an unannounced visit from a farmer named Wilbur Tennant. Tennant, who knows Bilott’s grandmother, wants the lawyer to help him figure out what killed his cattle. Out of debt, Bilott visits Tennant’s farm – and is shocked by what he sees. He decides to investigate the situation, being sure he will win the case...
The Last Thing He Wanted (2020) follows the story of a journalist who becomes the subject of his own report after deciding to help his sick father negotiate a gun deal in Central America. Elena McMahon, a successful journalist and single mom, is investigating a gun deal in Central America, but things take an unexpected turn when the woman discovers her own father right in the middle of the business. Now a pawn in a risky and unknown game, Elena passes the other side of the law, putting her career and her own life in danger. Along with an American official with a tumultuous past, Elena has to analyze her own story in order to survive...
Based on the novel “In This Way I Was Saved” by author Brian DeLeeuw, Daniel Isn’t Real (2019) follows the story of a young man suffering from violent family trauma and invokes his imaginary childhood friend, Daniel, as a coping mechanism. in the face of suffering. At the age of 8, Luke, a traumatized boy, invents an imaginary friend named Daniel, who leads them both in a world full of fantasy and imagination. After Daniel instructs Luke to do something terrible, Luke is forced to leave him behind. However, twelve years later, Luke brings Daniel back, who now appears in the mood of a charming, manipulative young man with a terrifying secret agenda...
21 Bridges (2019) follows the story of a discredited NYPD detective, who gets the chance to redeem his past mistakes when he embarks on a dangerous mission. Involved in the fierce pursuit of criminals, he discovers a massive conspiracy that links his fellow police officers to a criminal empire. As the night unfolds, he is in a situation where he has to figure out who is actually following and who is following in his footsteps. As the search intensifies, extreme measures are being taken to prevent killers from escaping Manhattan, while authorities close all 17 bridges to prevent any entry or exit...
Mario, an exemplary man, works as a nurse in an asylum where everyone appreciates him. Antonio Padín is a well-known drug dealer from Galicia who, after leaving prison, enters the center where Mario works, due to a serious illness. Now, his two sons, Kike and Toño, are responsible for the family business. However, the failure of an operation will take Kike to prison, generating a huge debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño appeals to Mario to convince his father to take on his duty, but the man has his own plans. Eager to avenge his younger brother, one of Antonio’s drug dealers and an addict who died from an overdose, Mario wants Antonio to pay...
A New York jeweler by the name of Howard goes into all sorts of trouble. He makes risky bets, owes money to the mafia, cheats some of his clients by giving them fake watches that he claims are very expensive, holds up valuables that do not belong to him. It is not very clear how he got to live his life like that, with his soul at his mouth, on the edge of the precipice. The Safdie brothers don’t give us much information about his past, but we see that he is part of a Jewish business family. He has to maintain his family (three children and a wife who moved away from him), but also a separate apartment where he spends some evenings with his mistress, an employee of his shop...
In 1962 the Cuban Rocket Crisis takes place, the world is on the verge of a nuclear crisis. In Warsaw, Poland, a duel is hosted between the US chess champions and the USSR. The sudden collapse of the American player forces the Americans to find a replacement. The choice is of a forgotten genius mathematician, turned alcoholic...
