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Crime movies
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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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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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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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Heavy Rainfall causes a Indiana river to swell and flood the town. All inhabitants are forced by public services to leave instantly. Tom and his uncle Charlie work for a money transport firm and their assignment is to evacuate all cash from the banks along the flooding river. So, their truck is loaded with about three million Dollars. Hank tries to prevent further flooding, as he's the guy responsible for the dam up the river, but he has to open one gate in order to save the old dam from breaking. Only the police under the Sheriff's leadership stay in town to prevent looting. As the water level rises, Tom and Charlie's Truck gets stuck in the flooded road. This is the moment, Jim, an elderly thief, and his gang have been waiting for. In an attempt to get the money from the truck, Charlie gets shot and Tom swims off to save the cash bags. While trying to hide, he meets Karen, who resisted to leave the old church she has been restoring for eight months. She thinks he is a looter, and calls the cops to bring him in. But as the Sheriff finds out about that much cash in a situation like this, he radios his old pal Hank, up at the dam... |
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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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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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Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. A personal tragedy has left him dispassionate about the world and his work and he lives his life in limbo. In the midst of this existential crisis he attends a high school reunion and meets three old friends; acquaintances he's tried to forget but who now emerge like ominous shadows from his past. Once again, face to face with the love of his life, Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder. Wanted by the police for a heinous killing, he must choose between succumbing to his darkest desires or the light that will renew his faith in himself and his future. |
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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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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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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. |
| Sonny
[2002,
USA]
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| His life was the morning after, until he decided to change the night before. |
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Nicholas Cage's directorial debut stars James Franco as a young man who was raised by his whorehouse-holding mother Jewel (Brenda Blethyn) as a male prostitute who provides sexual service for wealthy women. But when he is back from Army service, he changes his mind and wants to make some essential changes in his career. Along with his pretty colleague Carol (Mena Suvari) he tries to break free from his imperious mother. But he is in requisition as the most favorite gigolo of the whorehouse thus to make a reality of his decision won't be so easy. |
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Jared Cole and his girlfriend Sam Nicholson are a young couple living in the Caribbean. Jared is an unemployed diver whose dream is to find treasure in the Caribbean Sea and Sam works at a local resort as a shark handler. When Jared's best friend Bryce Dunn, a selfish New York lawyer and his new girlfriend Amanda Collins arrive, the two couples spend a couple of days experiencing paradise. But, they discover an airplane on the sea floor that crashed during a hurricane and they find the cargo on-board the airplane is cocaine. Jared and Sam's lives are in danger, when Bryce and Amanda make a deal with a dangerous drug lord who wants the cocaine. Jared's rival, Treasure Hunter Derek Bates learns what they are doing and tries to negotiate the cocaine to raise money for a expedition where he intends to find a sunken boat with treasure. Jared, Sam, Bryce, and Amanda find themselves racing against time to find the shipwreck before somebody else does. |
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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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The thrilling movie tells the story of American journalist Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez) assigned to travel to Juбrez, a Mexican bordertown, so as to investigate 400 unsolved cases of raped and murdered women. In Juбrez, she meets up with her former colleague and boyfriend, Alfonso Diaz (Antonio Banderas), who is now the editor of the local newspaper. The two join efforts to uncover the shocking truth and soon find the sole survivor of the atrocious attack, Eva Jimenez (Maya Zapata), who shudders at the mere thought of it. After a great deal of reluctance Eva finally breaks the silence and tells what has happened to her. While tracking down the serial killers, Adrian and Diaz are unaware that their investigation may be fraught with serious consequences...
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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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Set in Chicago during the Depression era, the hilarious crime comedy concerns powerful mob boss Angelo "Snaps" Provolone (Sylvester Stallone) who emphatically promises his dying father (Kirk Douglas) to quit his life of crime. Determined to fulfil his father's last wish, Snaps goes into legitimate banking. However, he is soon faced with a variety of problems and comes to realize that going straight is no easy matter. |
| Red Heat
[1988,
USA]
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| Moscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them mad. Making them partners. |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome their differences in order to recapture him. |
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Best friends will always help you even if they are not asked to. Wayne Lefessier (Steve Zahn) and J.D. McNugent (Jack Black) discover that their bosom buddy Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs) is planning to make the most terrible clam: to lead a cold-hearted beauty, Judith Fessbeggler (Amanda Peet ) to the altar. They plot to get their luckless buddy out of the clutches of this spiteful and ambitious damsel. Unfourtunately, the dudes are not famous for doing things in a proper way, therefore they are so senseless as to play "James Bond" and kidnap Judith. In her absence the dim-witted guys want to bring Darren and his old flame, Sandy Perkus (Amanda Detmer), together. So the duo starts to realize their risky screwball plan! |
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Ladies and Gentlemen! Elvis has left the building. And he has taken $ 3 million. It’s also important to mention that THIS Elvis is armed to the teeth and abnormally dangerous. We strongly recommend you not to ask him to sing ‘Love Me Tender’, otherwise you will go to the next world.
Recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane (Kurt Russell) and his cellmate Thomas Murphy (Kevin Costner) decide to rob one of the largest casinos in Las Vegas during International Elvis Week. Dressed up to the nines as Elvis impersonators and teamed up with Hanson (Bokeem Woodbine), Franklin (Christian Slater) and Gus (David Arquette), they manage to hit the jackpot. As usual things go awry when the guys begin sharing the stolen loot. As it turns out Murphy intends to keep all the money for himself and to eliminate his partners-in-crime in a traditional way, that is, to shoot them point-blank.
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Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a shy common teenager, living with his mother, father and little brother in a suburban house. But he is also a very efficient undercover CIA agent. He is assigned by CIA director (Keith David), with the support of his instructor Ronica Miles (Angie Harmon), to date Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) in order to be invited to her birthday party and get close and spy Natalie's father, Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan). Dr. Connors is a brilliant scientist, who has developed some sort of micro-robots with the intention of controlling oil leakage from tankers. However, the investors of the experiment intend to use the device as a powerful weapon. |
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