What movie was a 2013 American black comedy-crime depicting the story of Mel Weinberg?
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Mel Weinberg Melvin "Mel" Weinberg (born December 4, 1924) is a former American con artist, charlatan and federal government informant who is known for his involvement in the Abscam sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Weinberg was, at the time of the scandal, a convict who was hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct the operation in exchange for a probation sentence. His story was portrayed in the 2013 film "American Hustle", with Christian Bale playing Irving Rosenfeld, based on Weinberg's role in the scandal.
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American Hustle American Hustle is a 2013 American black comedy-crime film directed by David O. Russell. It was written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell, inspired by the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams as two con artists who are forced by an FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) to set up an elaborate sting operation on corrupt politicians, including the mayor of Camden, New Jersey (Jeremy Renner). Jennifer Lawrence plays the unpredictable wife of Bale's character. Principal photography on the film began on March 8, 2013, in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York City.
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The Pope of Greenwich Village The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 American crime black comedy film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan and Burt Young. Page was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her two-scene role. The film was adapted by screenwriter Vincent Patrick from his novel of the same name.
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Bad Milo! Bad Milo! is a 2013 American horror comedy film written by Jacob Vaughan and Benjamin Hayes and directed by Jacob Vaughan. The film stars Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Peter Stormare, Stephen Root, Mary Kay Place, and Patrick Warburton. The film had its world premiere at SXSW on March 10, 2013, and was released on video on demand on August 29, 2013, prior to being released in a limited release on October 4, 2013, by Magnet Releasing.
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Lucky Bastard (2013 film) Lucky Bastard is a 2013 found footage horror film and the directorial debut of American producer Robert Nathan. The film had its world premiere in May 2013 at the Monaco Film Festival and was given a limited theatrical release on February 14, 2014 in the United States. It stars Don McManus as a porn site owner that finds more than he anticipated when he hires a seemingly docile young man (Jay Paulson) to have sex on camera. The film's portrayals of sex and violence resulted in the movie gaining a NC-17 rating. The film staff was given recommendations on how to change this to an R rating, but they declined because "if we recut it there won’t be any movie left".
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Mela Hudson Mela Hudson (born July 24, 1987) is an American actress, and producer best known for her roles in Men in Black 3, The Sisterhood of Night, and Hits. Hudson made her producer debut in 2013 for such films as "Presence", and "Resident Evil: Red Falls", which was highly recognized by CAPCOM and the Resident Evil franchise.
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The Dance Of Death The Dance Of Death (Vietnamese: "Vũ điệu Tử thần" ) is a 2013 Vietnamese criminal, action and psychology film directed by Bui Tuan Dung.
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ID–WithoutColors ID–WITHOUTCOLORS is a 2013 German documentary film by Riccardo Valsecchi produced by the Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg. The film follows the 2012 sentence of the administrative court of Koblenz, Western Germany, which on February 27, dismissed a complaint by a black German man who was asked to show his papers while traveling by train. The judges ruled that skin color was reasonable grounds on which to carry out ID checks. The sentence confirmed for the first time the existence and practice of racial profiling in Germany since World War II. ID–WITHOUTCOLORS follows the works of such associations as KOP-Berlin, ISDB, Reach Out, Gangway Neukölln, which work in this field in Berlin, as well as it gives voices to activists, victims, policemen and politicians, analyzing deeply the psychological aspects of the practice of racial profiling on the victims.
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The Forger (2014 film) The Forger is a 2014 American crime thriller film directed by Philip Martin and starring John Travolta. It started filming in October 2013. It was released to theaters on April 24, 2015.
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Parker (2013 film) Parker is a 2013 American action crime film directed by Taylor Hackford and written by John J. McLaughlin. Starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, the film is adapted from "Flashfire", the 19th Parker novel, written by Donald Westlake under the pen name Richard Stark.
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The Power Inside The Power Inside is a 2013 social film developed by Intel and Toshiba. It is Intel and Toshiba’s third social film after "The Beauty Inside" (2012) and "Inside" (2011). Directed by Josh Gordon & Will Speck and starring Harvey Keitel, Analeigh Tipton, and Craig Roberts, the film is broken up into six filmed episodes interspersed with interactive storytelling that all takes place on the main character's Facebook timeline. It's Hollywood's first social film that gives the audience the chance to help determine the fate of the world.
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House of Versace House of Versace is a 2013 American television biographical drama film written and directed by Sara Sugarman and starring Gina Gershon. Based on a book of the same name written by Deborah Ball, it depicts real life events of the Versace family, and particularly designer Donatella Versace inheriting the Versace fashion house following the murder of her brother Gianni.
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2013 New York divorce torture plot The 2013 New York divorce torture plot was a sting operation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation against a gang that had been torturing Jewish men into granting their wives religious divorces. It began with the apprehension of Rabbi David Wax, and culminated in the arrest of a group of rabbis from New York under the direction of Mendel Epstein, including Jay Goldstein, Binyamin Stimler, and Martin Wolmark, who were involved in the planned kidnapping and torture of a fictitious Jewish husband in Middlesex County, New Jersey, with the purpose of obtaining from him a get. Epstein and his men were found guilty of attempted kidnapping in 2015, and were sentenced to prison, while Epstein's son, David Epstein, was acquitted.
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McCanick McCanick is a 2013 American crime-drama mystery film directed by Josh C. Waller. It stars David Morse, Mike Vogel, Trevor Morgan, Ciarán Hinds, and Cory Monteith. This was one of Cory Monteith's final feature film roles along with "All The Wrong Reasons" - both films were released at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival a few weeks after his death. "McCanick" had its theater release on March 21, 2014.
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Escape from Tomorrow Escape from Tomorrow is a 2013 American independent dark fantasy psychological horror film, the debut of writer and director Randy Moore. It tells the story of an unemployed father having increasingly bizarre experiences and disturbing visions on the last day of a family vacation at the Walt Disney World Resort. It premiered in January at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was later a personal selection of Roger Ebert, shown at his 15th annual film festival in Champaign, Illinois. The film was a 2012 official selection of the PollyGrind Film Festival, but at the time filmmakers were still working on some legal issues and asked that it not be screened.
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Test (film) Test is a 2013 American drama film, written and directed by Chris Mason Johnson. The film was screened in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Fack ju Göhte Fack ju Göhte (intentional misspelling of "Fuck you, Goethe") is a 2013 German comedy directed by Bora Dağtekin and starring Elyas M'Barek and Karoline Herfurth, while upcoming actors Max von der Groeben and Jella Haase appear in supporting roles. The film was produced by Rat Pack Filmproduktion in coproduction with Constantin Film.
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The Wee Man The Wee Man, also released as Gangster, is a 2013 Scottish gangster film directed by Ray Burdis which depicts the true life story of Scottish criminal Paul Ferris. It stars Martin Compston and John Hannah.
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The Citizen (film) The Citizen is a 2013 American drama independent film directed by Sam Kadi, written by Sam Kadi, Samir Younis, Jazmen Darnell Brown, and starring Khaled El Nabawy, Agnes Bruckner, Rizwan Manji, William Atherton, and Cary Elwes. "The Citizen" was filmed in New York City, Detroit Masonic Temple in Detroit Michigan, and the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Michigan. The film premiered on September 20, 2012 at the Boston Film Festival.
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I Used to Be Darker I Used to Be Darker is a 2013 independent drama film set and shot in Maryland, the third feature film directed by Matthew Porterfield.
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Beneath the Darkness Beneath the Darkness is a 2011 American teen thriller black comedy film directed by Martin Guigui and starring Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller and Aimee Teegarden.
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Black Mass (film) Black Mass is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, based on the 2001 book "Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob" by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. The film has an ensemble cast including Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard, Rory Cochrane, Adam Scott, Dakota Johnson and Corey Stoll.