Ninth Life

Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.

Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.

A former rodeo star, now a motel manager, meets a young man who is responsible for the violence that suddenly has seized his small town.

A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.