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Crime movies
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Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way. |
| City by the Sea
[2002,
USA]
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| When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son. |
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Detective Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is an ideal campaigner whose incorruptible reputation is known well. But this cop has a skeleton in the cupboard: his father was executed for the murder many years ago, a child was killed. Vincent is an incarnated atonement; "serving and protecting", he does his best to expiate his father's crime. But the poison seed' sprouts of the past are bitter and dire: LaMarca gets to know the part of his own son Joey (James Franco) in the crimes of the present; this awful knowledge obliges him to make the difficult choice between his professional duty and the love for his son. This film is based on the real events being an outstanding one between the other crime-themed movies. |
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Zed has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he's up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl, he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There's only one problem: Zed's call-girl, Zoe, just happens to work at the bank which is to be robbed! |
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A border agent involved in drug smuggling decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market. |
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Frank Castle's family was murdered as a payback for his final FBI undercover assignment when the son of a criminal-minded, ruthless businessman named Howard Saint (John Travolta) was mistakenly killed by Castle. He had lost any confidence in the police & courts to put the killer of the family and his thugs behind the bars and aims to wreak vengeance by tracking down the offenders responsible for the demise. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees - only his ferocious intelligence, his years of fighting experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those rejected by society's criminals. Dave (Ben Foster), Bumpo (John Pinette), and Joan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are the Castle's fellow outcasts combined with him to get the job done as he hunts down Saint. Thrilling stunt work, gunfights, and huge explosions are abundant in this creation of Jonathan Hensleigh's directorial mind. |
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When the four greatest arch super-criminals ever to plague Gotham City join forces, their only objective can only be the entire world! Armed with Penguin-personalized a pre-atomic submarine, an army of ruthless pirates, exploding sharks and octopi, and an arsenal of polaris missiles, the Penguin, the Joker, the Riddler and Catwoman have set their sights on the United World Security Council! Can the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin, stop the United Underworld before its too late? Will they save the Security Council from almost certain dehydration? Can they possibly save the free world from the four most powerful villains it has ever seen? One hint: The worst is yet to come...! |
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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop. |
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"Starsky & Hutch" takes place in the 70s. Two guys played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are stripped of their badges, done by a drug kingpin (Vince Vaughn) and totally ripped off in a disco contest. Vaughn's character is a maniacal drug lord with an absurd moustache who is prone to dramatic outbursts. So, yeah, they got some scores to settle. Driving a red and white Ford Torino and solving cases with the assistance of their informant Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg), they investigate their latest case, and soon realize that the culprit is none other than Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn), the criminal involved in their first bust. |
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One of the most dangerous and perfidious spies in the world, charismatic Gabriel Shear (John Travolta), once a CIA agent and now a criminal genius, has the intention of stealing $9 billion in illegal government funds. To steal dirty money, however, he needs a superhacker able to break into the most complicated computer system. It is Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) who can pull off the impossible. After having done time for hacking into the FBI's cyber surveillance systems, Stanley, penniless, computerless and solitary, leads a miserable life. Gabriel, along with his charming henchman Ginger Knowles (Halle Berry), entices him into breaking the law once again in exchange for custody of his daughter Holly (Camryn Grimes) he lost in a divorce. |
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Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas), a special agent, suggests there is a neo-Nazi plot in the White House. Suddenly he finds himself framed, blackmailed and relieved of his duties. He goes on the run, and in spite of chased by the own colleagues from secret service, he conducts his own investigation trying to find the responsible. Garrison keeps trying to prove his innocence and to protect President's life from mortal danger. Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland and Kim Basinger are starring. |
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This breath-taking thriller revolves around Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) and Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith), a middle class young couple who purchase their dream house – a fabulous mansion in the upscale San Francisco neighborhood of Pacific Heights. In order to pay the huge mortgage payments, they decide to rent two apartments on the first floor. Everything goes well until they meet a charming, elegant, smooth-talking and prosperous looking man named Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton) who seems to be an ideal tenant. When Carter moves in, he turns the couple's peaceful life into a living hell by refusing to pay his rent, making annoying humming noises in the middle of the night and breeding cockroaches in his apartment. The psychotic tenant schemes to drive his landlords to bankruptcy and then buy their property cheaply at mortgage foreclosure sales. When Hayes moves from what remains of the apartment in search of a new victim, Patty tracks him down to wreak her vengeance... |
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Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary public accountant returning home from his ex-wife's funeral and is met by Mr Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia) who kidnap his daughter (Courtney Chase) and give him a gun, six bullets, a name-tag that will give him access to anywhere in a specific hotel, and the itinerary of Governor Grant (Marsha Mason) and is informed that he must kill the Governor in 1 hour and 15 minutes or his daughter will die. The rest of the movie follows Mr. Watson as he desperately attempts to warn the Governor without the knowledge of the two and finds out that the conspiracy against her reaches all the way to those she trusts most. |
| Bugsy Malone
[1976,
UK]
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| Every year brings a great movie. Every decade a great movie musical! |
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A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan". |
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After their last big score, two master jewel thieves, Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), decide to give up their criminal careers and settle down on a paradisiacal island, hoping to relax and enjoy the fruits of their ‘labor’. However, Burdett’s nemesis, federal agent Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson) who has spent seven years in dogged but abortive pursuit of the crafty thief, wants to make sure that the retired criminal keeps his promise. Upon arrival in the Bahamas, the suspicious agent begins to shadow Max because the Diamond Cruise ship moored to the island where they are staying happens to have the third Napoleon diamond aboard. The cat-and-mouse game begins again! Will Max steal the unique diamond? Will Stan finally catch him red-handed?
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An Army sergeant (Samual Jackson) takes six of his special troops on a training mission into the rain-soaked Colombian jungles and only two come out alive. When the rescue mission arrives, they see one soldier (Brian Van Holt) killing another and carrying a wounded comrade (Giovanni Ribisi). As the interrogation begins, the soldier refuses to talk to anyone other than another Ranger. The investigating officer (Connie Nielsen) protests, but her commanding officer (Timothy Daly) nonetheless brings in a former Ranger and current DEA agent (John Travolta) to help. The agent is currently on suspension from DEA for allegedly accepting a bribe. From this point on, the plot continues to twist and turn and offers numerous surprises that keeps the story interesting. |
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Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard's hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon? |
| Revolver
[2005,
UK, France]
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| The greatest trick that he ever pulled was making you believe that he is you. |
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In this Guy Ritchie's highly stylized crime drama a recently released ex-convict hotshot gambler Jake (Jason Statham) sets into motion a complex revenge plot against the man who killed his sister-in-law and put him behind bars. Being rarely allowed to play in the casinos because he's a winner, he is invited to sit in on a private game when he beats an opponent in the person of his foe, a gangster Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), and humiliates him. Dorothy sends a hitman to kill Jake, but there are some people who help Jake to protect himself and who are out to take gone-too-far Dorothy down. |
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A sheriff (Thornton) begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised. |
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Will you kill for a good story? If you are James Cooper, a 28 year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom, you will. After all, your girlfriend was just crowned the "voice of a new America" by the New York literati, and you waste your days editing third-rate textbooks in a dreary Chicago basement. Your first book got panned. Your agent just dumped you. You have no future. But when your girlfriend's corpse ends up sprawled beneath your bedroom window, you finally know what to write about. Crime Fiction is the story of murder, betrayal and outrageous artistic fortune. |
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In the city of Frank (in fact, deep inside the body of Frank Detomello (Bill Murray), a zoo worker) there are houses, donut shops, parks, a TV station, hospitals, traffic jams and, of course, a police station. Osmosis Jones (voiced by Chris Rock) is a white blood cell hero of our time. He is a cop to keep order and peace in the city. When Frank eats a germ-infected egg, the villainous virus Thrax (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) invades his body. Ozzy teams up with a recruit cold pill Drix (voiced by David Hyde Pierce) to prevent the entire city from the deadly epidemic. |
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