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Crime movies
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All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there's something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistable Breathless Mahoney. |
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The riveting adventure story takes place in Santa Rita, Durango, in 1888 when a New York bank, aimed to put a railroad across Mexico, buys up all banks around this small town. Farmers who live on the soon-to-be-built rail line and owe money to the banks are terrorized by a merciless, uncompunctious, gun-wielding enforcer, Tyler Jackson (Dwight Yoakam), who evict them from their lands and kill them for resistance activities. Two charming women from different walks of life - the refined wealthy Spaniard Sara Sandoval (Salma Hayek) and the rough Mexican peasant Marнa Бlvarez (Penйlope Cruz) – join forces as bank robbers in order to seek revenge upon their common enemy.
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The movie tells an intriguing story about dark and dangerous streets of Essex, where drug, guns, and murder are quite natural for many people. Jason Locke (Sean Bean) is a crime boss who gets out of jail and comes back to Essex so as to regain his power over the town's criminal underworld. Locke is a half-psychotic, hot-tempered man who can kill anybody in his way without a moment's thought, and besides, he is so suspicious that doesn't trust even his wife, Lisa (Alex Kingstone). However, to claw back his old influence is no easy matter as it seems to be... |
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A New York police officer (Wahlberg) goes undercover in a dangerous crime scene to investigate abductions and drug-trafficking operations. He obtains backup with the help of another brave Hong Kong police officer (Yun-Fat) who works for the NYPD. They partner up together to stop the operation before the city goes down. The criminal orginization is called the "Fukanese Dragons" who are likely terrorists and illegal immigrants who are about to tear up Chinatown in New York City. |
| Johnny Handsome
[1989,
USA]
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| They changed his looks, his life and his future... but they couldn't change his past. |
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A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison. |
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Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop. His close friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over the recording company of Tommy and begins courting Tommy's girlfriend, Edie (Uma Thurman) and takes patronage over promising young singer (Christina Milian). A wannabe gangster, gay bodyguard and Russian gangsters makes his life more complicated. This film is a sequel to "Get Shorty", Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) co-stars in this movie, which can be of music lovers' interest. |
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Since the hit-and-run murder of his wife five years ago, Rennie Cray has crisscrossed America in his souped-up, stripped-down '68 Plymouth Barracuda, pursuing her killer. The man he seeks in a high-speed, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse is James Fargo, a merciless, wheelchair-bound pyschopath. Through a series of mechanical innovations, Fargo has turned his rampaging '72 Cadillac Eldorado into a monstrous extension of his own twisted body and mind. Now, their deadly battle of wits and wills is about to move into overdrive. And caught in their headlights is a tormented beauty who unwittingly holds the key to their ultimate showdown. |
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Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) leads a double life working as a hitman for his crime boss Paris (Avery Brooks) and maintaining two relationships, one with his unsuspecting Jewish fiancee Pam Shulman (Christina Applegate), and another with a gold-digging, hypocritical mistress Chantel (Lela Rochon). Unbeknownst to their boss, Mel and his teammates, Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips), Crunch (Bokeem Woodbine), Vince (Antonio Sabato Jr.), and Gump (Robin Dunne), decide to take an independent job for extra money and kidnap Keiko Nishi (China Chow), the daughter of a Japanese tycoon. In an ironic twist of fate, Jiro Nishi (Sab Shimono), whose business has recently gone burst, can’t pay a ransom of $1,000,000 for the release of his teenage daughter. Furthermore, Keiko proves to be the godkid of their powerful boss Paris, who orders his huge cohort to discover and send the captors to kingdom come. On top of it all, Mel falls for his kidnaping victim.
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Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) is a student and a biker, who accidentally becomes a witness of the brutal murder. The murder is mafia's doing, and the head of Brandon Lee's character instantly grows in price. False FBI agents and the hordes of scumbags try to do off the steadfast biker in this stunning action movie which is the star debut of Brandon Lee. The only one person who Jake can trust, is Powers Boothe's hero named Ryan Mace who addicted his life to drug mafia eliminating. |
| Point of No Return
[1993,
USA]
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| The Government gave her a choice. Death. Or life as an assassin. Now, there's no turning back. |
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If you like Luc Besson's "Nikita", you will maybe found this movie at least noteworthy, if not - perhaps you will enjoy it anyway because it's just another look at the same story of the young girl played by Bridget Fonda who became an offender and was sentenced then (the story is almost the same except an ending, it differs from "Nikita"). She killed the police officer during the armed robbery in which she took a part. Then she was enlisted by government to execute some covert and dangerous missions which involve dynamic and brutal action and style. |
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John Lyshitski is a car stealing slacker, with a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows it's entire population of both staff and cons by their fast names. Cursed with the old ill luck of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's been deemed a lost cause repeat offender in the eyes of everyone else. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides to ruin the man's legacy by having the judge's only offspring, Nelson Biederman IV, thrown in the slammer along with him. Here, the world-class selfish jerk learns a certain old lesson the hard way: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But has John somewhat gone too far in the payback department? |
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To avoid jail time, street racer Sean Boswell is sent to live with his father in Tokyo. There he discovers drift racing. After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt. |
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A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly. |
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By day, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) represents as a Hell's Kitchen defense attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a man with no fear, fighting for justice in the dark streets of the city. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil skips from high skyscrapers to pursue his enemies with his radar-like vision. The radioactive chemical accident left Matt blind but also granted him a "radar sense" which, combined with his superhuman senses of hearing, smell, taste and touch, allows him to perceive his environment far better than a sighted person. He is able to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, to sense a human body at a long distance, his heartbeat, blood circulation, to react to physical movements, etc. Daredevil’s enemies include Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, the biggest crime lord in New York, involved in extensive illegal activities such as drug running, smuggling, murder and dozens of other crimes. "Kingpin" is determined to hold the post of Mayor of New York but there is just one hitch. It is Daredevil who attempts to hamper him. Wanting to kill Daredevil standing in his way, Kingpin recruits psychotic killer Bullseye (Colin Farrell) who is famous for his targeting skills. Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who believes Daredevil to be responsible for her father's death and wants to take revenge on him. Sparks fly between the two heroes in this action-packed adventure fantasy. |
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Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom. |
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Ben and Sandra are hot and provocative lovers, but Sandra is unfortunately married to Ben's younger brother Jake, and soon Jake will find out about Ben. |
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There are no slightly corrupt cops as well as no slightly dead. The only question is, whether they remain policemen or become criminals. One day two narcotics officers, Armando Sancho (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Salim Adel (Cuba Gooding Jr.), catch the attention of the Internal Affairs Department which suspects they have their hands in the cookie jar. Though they are actually not without sin, they have never gone too far. Nevertheless, IA agents begin pressing them strongly. Caught between the hammer of the investigation and the anvil of drug trafficking, Sancho and Adel realize that it must be a frame and they have no chance to remain unsullied. But they have the opportunity to decide whether these will be spots of dirt and shame or blood spots of real gangsters and rogue cops.
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Two used car salesmen, Sid French (Joe Carnahan) and Bob Melba (Dan Leis), desperately need a large amount of money to pay off their debts. The guys can see no way out of the pickle they are in but they are unexpectedly offered an extraordinary deal. If they keep a cherry Pontiac Le Mans on their lot for two days, they will get $250,000. The buddies are fully aware that they get involved in a shady affair but, broken and driven to the wall, they see this as their only chance to get out of a financial hole and agree to keep the car. But when they smell trouble, it's too late to back up... |
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The gripping thriller discloses to viewers the truthful story about one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes of the last century. Ace police detectives and reporters struggled to discover the identity of a sophisticated remorseless Zodiac killer who walked around San Francisco unhindered, keeping its citizens in a constant state of abject terror. Moreover, the elusive criminal dared scoff at law enforcement officers by leaving perplexing ciphers at the crime scenes and sent a barrage of threatening messages to several newspapers.
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This violent, action-packed political thriller tells the story of Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer), the great-grandson of a famous bounty hunter in the Wild West and former CIA operative who struggled against Middle Eastern terrorists. After Los Angeles is rocked by a series of bloody bombings, Nick is called on to track down an international terrorist, Malak Al Rahim (Gene Simmons), who is now plotting to blow up a chemical plant containing lethal cyanide. |
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