Pirated Copy

Oct 21, 2004

1h 30m

★ 4.1

Overview

Set against the backdrop of the contemporary black market for pirated DVDs in Beijing, Pirated Copy is a character-driven drama about the passion two couples have for each other and for film.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Comedy

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Cast

Shen Ming

Apollo Yu

Mei Xiao-Jing

Wang Yamei

The Unemployed

Hu Xiaoguang

Wife

Narenqimuge

Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.

6.0

Thunder Road

May 10, 1958

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.

6.5

I Walk Alone

Dec 31, 1947

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.

6.4

The Story of Temple Drake

May 6, 1933

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

4.8

I Cover the Waterfront

May 19, 1933

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

6.8

The Little Giant

May 20, 1933

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

6.5

The Racket

Nov 1, 1928

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

7.6

Blood Diamond

Dec 8, 2006

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

7.1

Baby Boy

Jun 27, 2001

The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.

6.3

A Slight Case of Murder

Feb 26, 1938

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

6.6

Ziegfeld Girl

Apr 25, 1941

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

6.0

The Squealer

Aug 20, 1930

A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.

6.2

City Streets

Apr 18, 1931

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

0.0

TS-CAM

Invalid Date

In the City of Saints, a woman's prayer gets painted and a failed cinematographer soothes his bitterness by uploading his recordings of film screenings for pay.

4.5

Roadhouse Nights

Feb 15, 1930

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.

6.7

Night Nurse

Jul 16, 1931

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

6.1

Feel My Pulse

Feb 26, 1928

A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.

5.0

Gangster's Boy

Nov 16, 1938

A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.

5.5

Broadway

May 8, 1942

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

0.0

My Buddy

Oct 12, 1944

A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.

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