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Armin Mueller-Stahl plays Hungarian family man Mike Laszlo, whose American citizenship is suddenly threatened when reports unearthed from a UN basement link him to horrific war crimes as part of an SS Death Squad.

He immediately turns to his daughter, defense lawyer Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) who dismisses the charge, assuming it to be a simple case of mistaken identity. When the case progresses quickly to court, Ann goes against the advice of her peers and represents her father to defend him against the onslaught of allegations thrown at him by the prosecution (Frederic Forrest). As the case progresses, more and more of Mike’s past is opened up and we, as an audience, share Ann’s growing doubts of exactly what it was her father did in the Hungarian Army.

Its not until the lack of definitive evidence puts her father in the clear, that Ann discovers the truth she has been hiding from as both a lawyer and a daughter.

In a film brimming with strong performances (Mueller-Stahl, Forrest and Rooker are all excellent), it’s the incredible Jessica Lange who is key to its success. Her ability to take the audience with her on Ann’s emotional journey is a tribute to the actor’s natural talent to convey strength, vulnerability and utter heart break with such apparent ease.

Director Costa-Gavras (here re-teaming with Betrayed screenwriter Joe Eszterhas) has, thankfully, allowed his actors to carry the film and resisted the temptation to get too energetic with his camera. Despite some heavy political undertones and the unsettling idea that someone you love is capable of unspeakable evil, Gavras manages to keep the simple theme of family very much in the foreground. It’s in the relationships between Mike Laszlo, Ann and her son (played by an impressive Lukas Haas) that the impact of the case is truly felt.

Music Box is a non-flashy, intelligent piece of adult film-making which offers a purely character-driven story and packs a powerful emotional punch.

2.13GB | 2h 00m | 1024×432 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E027FB4CECA9415/Costa-Gavras_-_(1989)_Music_Box.mkv

Language(s):English, Hungarian
Subtitles:Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

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Hank and Frannie don’t seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Fanny leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship. Each one of them meets their dream mate, but as bright as they may seem, they are but a stage of lights and colours. Will true love prevail over a seemingly glamorous passion?

Brooklyn Academy of Music writes:
After the era-defining successes of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola nearly derailed his career with this exorbitantly expensive but gorgeously stylized musical romance, featuring songs by Tom Waits. Millions were spent (and lost) on a lavish soundstage recreation of Las Vegas, a neon dream against which two lovers (Forrest and Garr) break up and have affairs over the course of one Fourth of July.

One.from.the.Heart.1981.Reprise.Cut.576p.BluRay.x264-PTP.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 33 min
Size: 	2.32 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.275
Audio
#1:  	English 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 94.0 kb/s (Commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola)

https://nitro.download/view/74D8E7B5D879FE7/One.from.the.Heart.1981.Reprise.Cut.576p.BluRay.x264-PTP.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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The plot
Based in part on detective-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett’s early experiences as a Pinkerton detective, this moderately-noir film has Hammett (using his little-known first name, Sam) involved in an elaborate extortion plot by his former detective agency mentor, Jimmy Ryan. Ryan shows up at Hammett’s San Francisco digs searching for a mysterious Chinese girl, Crystal Ling. He calls in a marker from Hammett’s days at the detective agency to get his help in finding the girl, who turns out to be a very sexy and shrewd former prostitute and porn star. She has photographs of San Francisco’s most influential citizens engaged in sexual fantasy with her and she means to turn them into a million-dollar payday. The tubercular Hammett must cope with an unfriendly police force, a mysterious gunsel intent on inflicting serious harm, and betrayal by supposed friends; to save the reputations of the powerful while tweaking their collective noses
Written by Joe Jurca, imdb.com

Hammett.1982.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 36 min
Size: 	1.48 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	702x552 ~> 981x552
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 000 kb/s
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Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/719C25D33046F5F/Hammett.1982.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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