Pirated Copy

Oct 21, 2004

1h 30m

★ 4.4

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

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6.1

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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.

7.1

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6.5

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.

5.1

I Cover the Waterfront

May 19, 1933

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

6.8

The Little Giant

May 20, 1933

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6.2

City Streets

Apr 18, 1931

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

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.

6.6

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.

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.

6.2

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.

4.5

Roadhouse Nights

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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.

6.0

Feel My Pulse

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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.

6.5

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0.0

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4.9

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5.5

Broadway

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Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

6.4

Dance, Fools, Dance

Feb 7, 1931

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