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The Business (2005)
The Business (2005)
2005 | Action, Crime, Drama
7
7.4 (5 Ratings)
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Good Gangster Film
Far from being in the same league as Goodfellas, Casino. However this is an enjoyable British film showing the rise and fall of an East London gangster getting involved in the drug scene in Spain. Set in the 80's with the typical fashion of the time but with a great soundtrack to boot. Quite violent, brutal and with a lot of swearing as well but an interesting story all the same.
  
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
2007 | Action
7
7.0 (12 Ratings)
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Second and (currently) last of the Nic Cage starring National Treasure movies, with this particular one a bit more globe-trotting (US, Paris, London) than its predecessor and which sees the Gates family out to clear the name of one of their ancestors, who has just been implicated in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.

Cue more running about, following clues that (eventually) lead to another hidden treasure...

And no, I don't mean Dame Helen Mirren as Ben Gates mum.
  
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ClareR (6157 KP) rated Black and Blue in Books

Jan 24, 2022  
Black and Blue
Black and Blue
Stuart Prebble, Parm Sandhu | 2022 | Biography, Crime, Law
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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This was a fantastic memoir about Parm Sandhu - the most senior woman of colour in the London Metropolitan Police at the time she retired. She’s clearly a woman with drive, determination and ambition. The discrimination that she had to deal with within the Met Police is both unbelievable and wholly believable (sorry, Met Police 🤷🏼‍♀️).
It was a book that flowed really well, and a quick read, even if it wasn’t an easy one in parts.
  
Sharpe's Revenge (1997)
Sharpe's Revenge (1997)
1997 | Action, Documentary, Drama
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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1196 made-for-TV movie based on one of the last of the original run of Sharpe novels, set in 1814 during the peace of Amiens and in which Sharpe is framed for the theft of Napoleons treasure by his old enemy Ducos.

Meanwhile, his wife Jane travels back to London and embarks on an affair, after withdrawing all his money from the bank using the Power of Attorney he had given her prior to the Battle of Toulouse.