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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring James Russo, ranked
In 1970s New York City, Lefty Ruggiero, an aging gangster in the Bonanno crime family, is introduced to a jewel thief named Donnie Brasco, who impresses Lefty by threatening a diamond dealer whom Donnie suspects of having sold Lefty a zirconia set ring, priced as a real diamond one. Donnie is revealed to be Joseph D. Pistone, an undercover FBI agent, whose wife, Maggie, is not fond of his undercover position.
In Montana in 1882, Boss Spearman is an open range cattleman, who, with hired hands Charley, Mose, and Button, is driving a herd cross country. The town is controlled by a ruthless Irish immigrant land baron, Denton Baxter, who hates open-rangers. Mose is badly beaten and jailed by the marshal, Poole. The only friendly inhabitant is Percy, a livery stable owner.
Over the course of almost two decades, the Green River Killer wreaked havoc on Washington State with a string of horrifying murders. The miniseries chronicles the experiences of a young runaway named Helen Hel Remus, who, due to a combination of unfortunate circumstances and poor decisions, crosses paths with the notorious serial killer.
Dean Corso is a New York City rare book dealer who is hired by wealthy collector Boris Balkan. Torchia is alleged to have written the book in collaboration with the Devil, and only three copies survived when he and his works were burned for heresy. Corso retrieves the book and travels to Toledo, Spain, to speak to the Ceniza Brothers, book restorers who owned Balkan’s copy before the Telfers.
In 2013, an unnamed and clean-shaven nomad enters the Oregon flatlands, trading Shakespearean performances for food and water. In one of the towns, the nomad is forced into the ranks of the Holnists, the predominant neo-fascist militia in the area and branded on his shoulder with their symbol, a figure 8. Their leader, General Bethlehem, schemes to take over the fallen United States with his regime.
Two teenage sisters, Sandra and Beth, live with their alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend. Tired of their miserable home life, they plot and carry out a plan to murder their mother in hopes of achieving a better life. They make the murder look like an accident, but when the police start investigating, they become suspicious of the sisters. The movie explores the events leading up to the murder and the sisters’ attempts to cover their tracks.
The same assailant kidnaps the 11-year-old daughter and girlfriend of a father whose wife had been raped and killed in front of his daughter three years previously. While the authorities work to find the kidnapper, the two, who are being held captive in a bunker beneath Grand Central Station, plan their escape.