In Cold Light
Fresh out of prison, Ava's attempt to reclaim her drug operation collapses when she witnesses a brutal crime, forcing her to flee into a nightmarish underworld where allies are scarce and enemies multiply by the minute.
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The Virtuoso
2021★ 5.9
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Wardriver
2026★ 7.3
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2022★ 7.3
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2025★ 6.2
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6 Bullets
2012★ 6.3
An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
City of Ghosts
2002★ 5.9
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Red Right Hand
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Black Site
2022★ 6.0
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Canary Black
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Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
Until Death
2007★ 6.0
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Violent Ends
2025★ 6.2
Lucas Frost, an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence, tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma. He is suddenly pulled back into the family business he so despises when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery on a local scrap yard and an innocent life is caught in the crossfire.
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2025★ 6.7
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