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A Marine war veteran (John Boyega) faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Aug 29, 2022 - 7 comments

The robbers begin to print the money while Arturo Román, one of the hostages, starts making plans for escaping, assisted by his secretary and mistress Mónica Gaztambide, who is pregnant with his child. She is caught with a concealed cell phone and Berlin orders Denver to kill her. Meanwhile, Rio makes a mistake that leads to his and Tokyo's identities being discovered by the police.
posted by Carillon on May 7, 2020 - 1 comment

n the aftermath of a failed bank robbery by a woman named "Tokyo," a man called "the Professor" saves her from being caught by the police and proposes her a heist of drastic proportions. After a brief outline of the planned heist, the Professor, artfully guides a group of robbers: Tokyo, Rio, Berlin, Nairobi, Denver, Moscow, Oslo, and Helsinki to invade the Royal Mint of Spain in red jumpsuits and Salvador Dalí masks and take hold of 67 hostages as part of their plan to print and escape with €2.4 billion. The police investigator Raquel Murillo is put in charge of the case, but she remains completely unaware that the mastermind behind the heist is sidling towards her and getting closer than she could ever have imagined.
posted by Carillon on May 2, 2020 - 15 comments

The story of the 2007-2008 credit and housing bubble collapse, seen through the eyes of a handful of misfit financial investors who predicted it would happen. Based on the book by Michael Lewis.
posted by zarq on Dec 28, 2015 - 42 comments

Gordon and Bullock investgate an unusual bank robbery involving a crook with a garish costume. An old friend comes to visit Alfred. Bruno helps Penguin make a booze run. Fish goes to see the prison's manager. Barbara continues to hang out with Cat and Ivy.
posted by Small Dollar on Feb 23, 2015 - 22 comments

Red tips the FBI off about a bank that handles the accounts of numerous criminal enterprises without any paper trail, but it turns out he has ulterior motives.
posted by Small Dollar on Sep 30, 2014 - 8 comments