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Prisoners

2013 · Thriller · Denis Villeneuve · 2h 33m

Two little girls vanish from a street on Thanksgiving, and while a detective works the case one of the fathers decides the police are moving too slowly. Long, dark and rainy, and it gets ugly.

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  • Strongly realistic

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