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Crime movies
| Tango & Cash
[1989,
USA]
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| Two of L.A.'s top rival cops are going to have to work together... Even if it kills them. |
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Ray Tango is a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Gabriel Cash is a Los Angeles narcotics cop who has long, disheveled hair, and dresses in worn-out sweatshirts. Even though they are rivals, Tango and Cash are the two best narcs in LA, which infuriates drug kingpin Yves Perret. Perret wants Tango and Cash out of the way, so Perret frames them for the murder of an undercover FBI agent. Perret's plan is to have Tango and Cash killed in prison in order to avoid risking all-out war with the LAPD. But Tango and Cash accept a plea bargain that will give them 18 months in a minimum-security prison, then Perret arranges for their destination to be diverted to a maximum-security prison where Perret's minions proceed to torture Tango and Cash. Tango and Cash are forced to work together in a spectacular escape from the prison. After the escape, Tango and Cash set out to prove their innocence, and Cash has a romance with Tango's sister Catherine "kiki" Tango. |
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When Rowena Price (Halle Berry), a reporter for a major New York paper, launches an investigation into murdering her childhood friend Grace (Nicki Aycox), the trail leads her to Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), a powerful chief executive officer of a large advertising agency. What she needs to bring the supposed killer to justice is to get the goods on him. With the support of her associate Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi), she starts playing the bitter perilous game, posing as Katherine, a temp secretary at Hill's company, and Veronica, a girl the concupiscent Hill flirts with in an Internet chat room. Weaving an intricate web for her prey to get caught, she unwittingly becomes entrapped in a web of deceit, betrayal, manipulation and false truths.
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the terrifically funny sequel of the family-oriented movie "Home Alone". Kevin's (Macaulay Culkin) family goes to Florida to have a holiday, but the young boy gets lost in the NY airport. Now he is to turn the Big Apple into a huge playground, because he has credit cards enough to be independent, as it seems to him. But his old foes Harry (Joe Pecsi) and Marv (Daniel Stern) are out of prison and they accidentally meet the boy in New Yourk. Well, Kevin has a lot of tricks to put them away back to prison. |
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Jessie is an ageing career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. So when Adam approaches Jessie with a scheme for a burglary he's shocked, but not necessarily disinterested.... |
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Rick has been given a new identity by the FBI for helping convict a drug dealing FBI agent. Fifteen years later his former fiance recognises him. Rick's FBI 'minder' has been replaced by a corrupt agent who helps the drug dealing FBI agent and his accomplice locate him. There are many subsequent chase scenes as Rick and girlfriend revisit his former haunts. |
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Tough cop from L.A. who had lost his parents, meets the murderer in the Little Tokyo, and the show begins - he should fight against Yakuza and one of its powerful leaders. Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee unite as two cooperating cops in an all-out war against the drug underworld: athletic Dolph as Sgt Kenner and the cunning, humorous Brandon as Johnny Murata. |
| No Mercy
[1986,
USA]
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| When passion and hatred know no limits, expect no mercy. |
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Maverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done. The result is that both the guy and Jillette's partner wind up very dead, while a stunning blonde in on the setup disappears. He heads south to settle the score and soon finds himself being hunted, with the girl in tow and the local police anything but happy. New Orleans may never be the same again. |
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Lucky (Wesley Snipes), a former drug dealer who is released from prison, decides to make a clean break with the past and lead a respectable life. But all his good intentions turn to dust when he goes to his fellow gangster’s birthday party at a strip club where he finds himself at the hub of a showdown between the mafia and corrupt police. Lucky picks up gorgeous stripper Angie (Jackie Quinones) and makes off with a case full of money. Trying to fling off their pursuers, they cross the path of two vicious serial killers, Chang (James Hiroyuki Liao) and Cass (Cybill Shepherd), a housewife with a sadistic streak, who also join a game of cat and mouse...
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When Mona's key won't fit in her Yugo, she tries it in her son's; when it works, she borrows his car. The brakes fail; she goes through the guard rail, into the river, and drowns. When police chief Rash learns that the brake lines were cut, he looks for a murderer. Suspect one: Mona's dim son Jeff, whom she constantly denigrated. Suspect two: her husband Phil, whom she constantly belittled and who's having an affair with Rona, a waitress with a secret of her own. Suspect three: Jeff's landscape partner Bobby, who wants Jeff out, has yelled at Mona that he'd like to rip out her ovaries, and who is soon to be Rash's son-in-law. Can Rash find the killer and keep Bobby out of jail? |
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A cheerful, trustful and dare-devil criminal named Archie Moses makes friends with Rock Keats (Damon Wayans), unaware of his being an undercover cop, actually named Jack Carter, assigned to catch the ruthless drug lord Frank Colton (James Caan). Keats wins not only Archie's confidence but also his affection as he comes to his rescue in a fight. Archie graciously invites him to join Colton's gang and even get him involved in a multimillion-dollar drug smuggling operation. During the police raid, Carter is accidentally shot in the head by his best buddy who flees to Arizona. After recovering, Keats returns to his duties only to discover that Archie is arrested and agrees to turn state's evidence against the villainous drug king pin. But there is only one condition: he wants to be escorted to California by his former friend. Carter has nothing to do but to agree. Once friends and now bitter enemies, Moses and Carter, however, join forces when they find themselves pursued by violent assassins hired by the vengeful Colton. |
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In this modern music-driven dramedy, Alison Lang (Anne Hathaway) and Emily (Bijou Phillips) are two naïve, bored teenage girls living in a wealthy neighborhood of Los Angeles. Fascinated with hip-hop culture, the pretty girls intend to explore life outside of their safe and familiar world and set out on a fun-filled adventure journey to East L.A., unaware that even the most innocuous actions may have serious consequences. |
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After David Lamont (Marc Blucas), a horror novel agent, moves into a luxury penthouse apartment, he finds himself haunted by an anonymous villainous stalker. First David receives photos depicting a hair-raising crime scene that apparently has taken place in his new home. Some time later, he begins receiving videotapes documenting every step he takes and every move he makes. With the aid of his assistant Rebecca Fay (Shiri Appleby), the paranoia-gripped agent desperately tries to discover the identity of the insidious stalker. |
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After having served a 6-year sentence for car theft, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) is about to go at large. His cellmate and best buddy Nick Cassidy (James Frain) is to be released from prison the same day but he is suddenly killed during a prison mutiny with only three days left to serve. Rudy makes up his mind to assume his dead cellmate's identity to start a relationship with his gorgeous pen pal, Ashley Mercer (Charlize Theron). Rudy, however, is unaware that Ashley's brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise) and his gang of thugs plot to rob a gambling casino in Michigan where Nick used to work, thus, Ashley is just tempting bait for Nick to be trapped into an armed heist on Christmas Eve. And now this seemingly funny idea of pretending to be Nick can cost Rudy his life. |
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In this criminal comedy Bendjamins are not a family as you might firstly think. It's the persons who are usually portrayed on the pieces of paper commonly known as a hundred bucks, and they appear rather frequently in this picture, starring Ice Cube and Mike Epps as they are lured by the magic Bendjis. Bucum Jason (Ice Cube), a bounty hunter, is to bring Reggie Wright (Mike Epps) to justice, but, eventually, gets involved into Reggie's shady dealings. An expression "Head hunter" takes on the special significance in view of the hundred bucks which are respectively crowned with Benjamin Franklin's head, and these heads are abound... |
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They are adversaries by code but allies by circumstance. Anthony Fait (DMX) is the leader of a crew of professional urban thieves. Su (Jet Li) is a Taiwanese Intelligence officer. They join forces to make war against their common enemy Yao Ling (Mark Dacascos). Tony’s sole object is to rescue his daughter Vanessa (Paige Hurd) kidnapped and held in exchange for priceless diamonds, meanwhile Su aims at taking revenge on the man who once tried to take his life. |
| Blue Steel
[1990,
USA]
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| For a rookie cop, there's one thing more dangerous than uncovering a killer's fantasy. Becoming it. |
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A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her. |
| Outlaw
[2007,
UK]
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| There will be no excuses. The guilty will be punished. No one is above OUTLAW |
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On his return from Iraq, soldier Danny Bryant (Sean Bean) is shocked to discover that the state of the country has changed much. In England organized crime, drug smuggling, drug addiction, and brigandage flourish. Unwilling to put up with it, he assembles Gene Dekker (Danny Dyer), barrister Cedric Munroe (Lennie James), university student Sandy Mardell (Rupert Friend), and hotel security guard Simon Hillier (Sean Harris) to form a vigilante group. They perceive that the actions of the government and police are insufficient and take enforcement of law into their own hands, meting out 'frontier justice.'
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Scott Roper is a wisecracking hostage negotiator. When his friend and fellow police officer is assassinated by a dangerous jewel thief, he is prepared to do just about anything to bring the killer to justice. But as his quiet investigation progresses, he must also train an ultra smart SWAT sniper to become a negotiator just like him. |
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FBI agent Joel Campbell (James Spader) spent over five years chasing a cunning serial killer, David Allen Griffin (Keanu Reeves). Frustrated and all to pieces after many years of a fruitless search, Campbel can hardly comprehend the maniac's perverted logic and goes into retirement. He moves to Chicago in the hope of finding peace of mind and beginning a new life. Nothing seems to prevent him from making a clean break with his terrible past. But some months later, murder wave swamps Campbell's new hometown. This is undoubtedly the handiwork of David Griffin who decides to play a sadistic cat-and-mouse game with Campbell and mails him photos of his soon-to-be victims. Campbell must stop the gruesome killer by all means otherwise he will be Griffin's final victim. |
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