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Mona Lisa (1986)

★ 6.9 · 291 ratings on TMDB

Sometimes love is a strange and wicked game.

Mona Lisa poster★ 6.9

George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.

DirectorNeil Jordan
CastBob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Clarke Peters, Joe Brown, Kate Hardie, Michael Caine
GenresCrime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
The emergence reading

Mona Lisa keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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