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A Most Violent Year

2014 · Crime · J. C. Chandor · 2h 5m

A heating-oil businessman in 1981 New York tries to close the biggest deal of his life while his trucks are hijacked and prosecutors circle. Quiet and tense, mostly conversations in cold rooms.

  • Strongly realistic

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