Once a Thief (1996)

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Country: Canada
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1996-09-29
Director: John Woo
Writers: Glenn Davis , William Laurin
Language: English
Stars: Sandrine Holt , Ivan Sergei (I) , Nicholas Lea , Robert Ito , Michael Wong Man-Tak , Alan Scarfe , Jennifer Dale , Nathaniel DeVeaux , Greg Chan , Young Ryu
Runtime: 92 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Matar a un ladrón (Spain) , John Woo's Die Unfassbaren (Germany) , Coeur de voleur: Affaires de famille (Canada) , John Woo's Once a Thief (United States of America) , Once a Thief (France, French Republic) , Me tin kalypsi tou nomou (Greece) , Missão Secreta 2 - À Prova de Fogo (Brazil) , Once a Thief , Bio jednom lopov (Croatia) , Les repentis (France, French Republic) , Once a Thief (Australia) , John Woo's The Thief (Germany) , John Woon Once a Thief - väkivaltainen perinne (Finland) , Рожденный вором (Russian Federation) , Missão Secreta (Brazil) , Leszámolás Felsőfokon (Hungary) , Soluzione estrema (Italy) , Zbrodnicze tradycje (Poland) , John Woo's Violent Tradition
Plot: Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong Kong, Mac is forcefully recruited into a clandestine international crime-fighting unit by a hard-nosed, menacing Director. He is teamed in Vancouver with Li Ann, who thought Mac was dead, and her new fiancé Victor Mansfield, an ex-cop who is attracted to the unorthodox methods of the agency. Conflict flares between Mac and Victor as the trio take on their assignment. They soon learn that their principal target is their foster brother Michael Tang, who had been given Li Ann as his future wife and who has vowed to hunt down the pair for their disloyalty to the "family".
IMDB:tt0116712