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Detective Vic Mackey is the leader of an elite Strike Team unit, a group of cops effective at eliminating crime but also operating under Vic's own set of rules. But his rules sometimes cross the fine line between legal and illegal. Now the precinct has a new captain who doesn't like Vic's tactics and wants to bust him off the force-- even as the captain finds himself going to Vic for help whenever the going gets rough.
64) Change of habit
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Three women, keeping secret the fact that they are nuns, are assigned to a ghetto clinic to assist a young doctor who falls in love with one of them.
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Follows the efforts of four young women struggling to escape the limitations of the Atlanta housing projects, from Aisha, whose fashionable life is abruptly halted by her husband's imprisonment, to Molly, whose low self-esteem blinds her to her husband's infidelity.
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In the hood, every day is about struggle and survival, and no one understands that more than twenty-two-year-old Kaeyla "Goldie" Dennis. She's been the "wifey" of an older, wealthy man since she was fifteen, but the discovery of their affair by his real wife brings to a crushing end her hoodfabulous lifestyle in their low-rise project in Newark. After trying every hustle she can think of to make money, Goldie gets an irresistible offer from a sexy...
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Television series of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to keep both the streets safe and their self-interests intact. In this season, after scoring big with the money train, the Strike Team plays it cool to avoid arousing suspicion as Dutch and Claudette investigate the robbery and murder of two Armenian gangsters. Tensions are stretched even further...
68) Riding the tiger
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Ten-year-old Danny is bored and lonely when he hops on the back of the exciting and somewhat scary tiger that offers him a ride, but he soon discovers that it's easier to get on the tiger than it is to get off.
69) The pawnbroker
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A long time ago, Sol Nazerman was a professor. He had a wife, children. Then the Germans came. Sol survived the concentration camp, his family did not. Now, as the pawnbroker in a shop owned by a racketeer, he grows increasingly bitter and callous, withdrawing still further from the world around him. His eager assistant Jesus looks to him as both a teacher and a father figure, but Sol eschews involvement or compassion. This detachment leads to a tragedy,...
70) La haine: Hate
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Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.
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"Widower Noah Davis feels a strong calling to move from his affluent congregation to a struggling inner city mission. Along with his young daughters, he moves into the Salvation Street Mission, where the whole family must pitch in to make the place livable before they can even think about helping the crime-ridden community. With a lot of faith, belief, and elbow grease, the impossible starts to become very much a possibility, until a local gang threatens...
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Rapper Make$'s wifey, Harriet Jordan, finds herself out in the cold financially after Make$ is imprisoned for his role in the brutal rape of Luscious' friend and his business partner, Kaeyla "Goldie" Dennis, a misguided young woman who once ran a strip club out of her apartment.