Mona Lisa(1986)
Sometimes love is a strange and wicked game.
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date.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.
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George
Simone
Thomas
Mortwell
Anderson
May
Cathy
Jeannie
Dudley
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