Lucky grows up in a South African township in the post-apartheid era and is caught between the desire to go university and the lure of easy money from violent crime.
A decade on an we see him as a struggling taxi-driver before his transformation into a businessman who uses violence to reclaim inner-city Joburg tenement blocks from the drug-dealers and hookers who inhabit them and from the rich white slum landlords who own them. Thus the ambitious gangster realises an aim of the revolution
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TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA (1986)
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Chilling and fast-moving thriller as a secret service agent goes out to avenge the death of his partner at the hands of a ruthless money forger. A very violent and stylish movie which has prompted many inferior immitations. Real edge-of-seat action from the director of "The French Connection".
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