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Crime movies
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This criminal comedy follows two federal agent brothers who are assigned to escort two VIP-persons, two beautiful sisters. And what nobody of them knows is that FBI uses the situation to track down the dangerous serial kidnapper. But, eventually, two typical Afro-Americans Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans) should be disguised as Brittany (Maitland Ward) and Tiffany Wilton (Anne Dudek) for the kidnapper to be catched. The thing they apparently never dream about is to become two white chicks! |
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In 1983, Senator Vernon Trent is running a high-profile re-election campaign. Los Angeles cop Mason Storm videotapes a meeting where Trent hires killers to kill his opponent so he won't lose the election. When Mason's cover is blown, he gets away temporarily, but when he calls in this information to his partner Kevin O'Malley, he is overheard by corrupt cops who work for Trent. On his way home, Mason stops at a liquor store to pick up some champagne to celebrate his undercover coup with his wife Felicia and his 5-year-old son Sonny. 5 thugs come into the store with guns and blow away the cashier, and Mason kills the thugs. At home, Mason tucks Sonny in, and Mason and Felicia open the champagne. The corrupt cops who overheard Storm's call to Kevin go to Storm's house and start firing their guns. Felicia is killed, and Sonny is missing and presumed dead. Mason himself, declared dead at the hospital, revives only to remain in a coma. Kevin enlists the help of a doctor to keep Mason's survival a secret until he can recuperate and give information on his assailants. 7 years later, in 1990, Kevin has been forced off the LAPD, with Trent and his men now running the show. Mason is in a coma center under the alias of "John Doe," and he's being cared for by nurse Andrea "Andy" Stewart. Mason wakes up from his 7 year coma, and takes some time to recover. After recovering, Mason is reunited with Sonny, who is now 12-years-old, and Mason plans his revenge on Trent. |
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A university professor, Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote), finds a pile of letters for the former lodger of his apartment. The letter author is a woman prisoner named Lydia Davis (Nastassja Kinski) who has served 6 years of 30-year sentence for the murder of her lover's wife. Intrigued by the contents of the letters, Burke makes up his mind to visit Lydia in prison and falls in love with her at first sight. Lydia asserts that she is innocent. After a while she somehow contrives to escape from prison and darkens his door. In order to stay out of jail himself the professor takes persistent attempts to collect the evidence and prove that his mistress has been the victim of a frame by her ex-lover. |
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In an abandoned house, detective Louis Burke confronts a maniac called the Sandman. Although the Sandman nearly kills Burke, Burke manages to stop him with a bullet. Sixteen months later, Burke joins a task force put together by the governor to investigate a series of unexplained deaths in the Harrison Penitentiary. While Burke poses as an inmate, attorney Amanda Beckett acts the role of his wife. In the penitentiary, Burke is forced to survive in an environment so dismal and filthy that it makes a public restroom in New York City look like a room in a five star hotel. Burke does succeed in befriending a few of the inmates, including Hawkins and Priest, who help him with the investigation. More inmates are mysteriously murdered. Burke's cell-mate is killed, and prison guard DeGraff puts Burke in solitary confinement, where he's interrogated and beaten. As if that's not enough, the Sandman ends up at Harrison. As it turns out, the prisoners are being murdered for their body organs. Back on the outside, Beckett attends a party given by Vogler, the state's attorney general. Just as she's preparing to tell him about the murders at the prison, Beckett receives a call from her assistant, who identifies Vogler's henchman Keane as the man behind the murders, which also involve Dr. Gottesman, the surgeon who harvests the organs to be sold to people who are in desperate need of them. The assistant's suspicions are confirmed when Vogler tries to kill Beckett. Burke begins an escape from the penitentiary, pursued by the Sandman and hundreds of angry inmates who have been set free and armed with the knowledge that Burke is a cop. Burke and the Sandman have brutal showdown in which Burke tries to get the Sandman out of the way so he can go after Vogler, Keane, and Gottesman. |
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Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified. The murders that have happened since Jack arrived in Los Angeles just don't sit right with him. When the killer, known as the "Family Man", kills Ellen DunLeavy, who happens to be Jack's ex wife and the mother of his two kids, and Ellen's husband Andrew DunLeavy, it becomes personal - especially when Jack's prints are found on Ellen's body. Jack meets with his military mentor Smith, not knowing that Smith is in cahoots with local crime boss Frank Deverell. |
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Former killer Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis) and shy dentist Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry) return to the screen: Jimmy is still calm and sarcastic and Nicholas's is still all nerves. Nicholas's wife is kidnapped by Hungarian mobsters and he craves for Jimmy's assistance. When Jimmy gets to know that the kidnapper of Oz's wife is none other than his former classmate and rival (and also the well-known hitman), he agrees to help Nicholas leaving his usual cooking and housekeeping practice. |
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In the 60´s, the Puerto Rican Carlito Brigante, the Afro-American Earl and the Italian Rocco become best friends while in prison. When they are released, Rocco intermediates a heroin business with a family of the Italian Mafia leaded by Artie Bottolota Sr. Carlito negotiates with the lord Leroy "Hollywood Nicky" Barnes the area where the trio could operate in his neighborhood and sooner the three friends become powerful. Later, Carlito dates and has an affair with the beautiful Leticia. When Earl decides to move to Barbados with his girlfriend and leave the heroin business, his stupid younger brother causes a situation with the Italian mobsters, and Carlito and Rocco have to resolve the mess to save their lives. |
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This brutal, action-packed drama tells the story of John Eastland (Robert Ginty), a war veteran who is determined to take the law into his own hands after his best buddy, Michael Jefferson (Steve James), is attacked and left permanently paralyzed by a gang of street thugs. Jefferson saved John's life while they were serving in Vietnam, so Eastland considers it to be his duty to take revenge for his brother-in-arms. |
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Two stories, 14 years apart, converge in a suburb of New York. Manuel Esquema, an international financier, whose face is badly scarred, is flying from Miami to help a New York politician negotiate a plea bargain with the Justice Department. Years before, this financier was a fresh-faced cabaña boy at a Miami Beach resort who fell in love with a young woman on holiday with her husband. The husband is now the pol, and he thinks he dispatched the cabaña boy long ago. What are Esquema's plans: revenge, mercy, or a complicated plan to seek again the woman's love? |
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America’s greatest secret weapon is unleashed again as three glamorous crime-fighting Charlie's Angels - Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore) and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu) - reunite for a challenging new adventure. This time, they are assigned to investigate the theft of two silver bands containing important encrypted ID information for every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Some witnesses’ being murdered, the Angels must stop the perpetrator of the crimes, mysterious ‘fallen’ Angel Madison Lee (Demi Moore). |
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The drama revolves around Tristan Price (Jesse Metcalfe), a young guy who has it all: plenty of money, a loving family, a gorgeous girlfriend, a promising future —and complete boredom! Once at the cub, the thrill-seeking guy meets and forges an unlikely friendship with his former college mate Sebastian Cole (Corey Large), a charismatic but sleazy drug dealer who ensnares him into the sordid underworld of drugs, sex and murder. Tristan soon comes to realize that his newfound friend is really an insidious enemy who seeks to exploit his contacts with Tristan's upper crust friends and family. |
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One night in Detroit, during a shoot-out at a chop shop, Detroit cop Axel Foley sees his boss, Inspector Douglas Todd, getting killed by a well dressed man. Using his last breath, Inspector Todd tells Axel to get the man who shot him, and Axel says that he will do that. Axel does some looking around, and finds the killer's vehicle at Wonder World, a theme park in Beverly Hills, California. In Beverly Hills, Axel is reunited with his friend Billy Rosewood, who tells Axel that John Taggart is now retired and living in Arizona. Billy is now the deputy director of operations for joint systems interdepartmental operational command (JSIOC). Billy also has a new partner named Jon Flint. Axel checks out Wonder World, which is owned by Dave "Uncle Dave" Thornton. At Wonder World, Axel rescues two kids who are stuck on a ride that broke down, and after this, Axel is taken to see the park's head of security, Ellis DeWald, and Axel recognizes DeWald as Inspector Todd's killer. Jon refuses to believe this, because DeWald is one of Jon's friends. Ellis runs a counterfeiting ring that uses the theme park as a front. Axel is also falling in love with Janice Perkins, who works at the park. When Dave gets shot by DeWald's men, Axel is accused of being the man who shot Dave. With the help of Billy and Jon, Axel sets out to prove his innocence and get revenge on DeWald. |
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George Armitage's comedy of a charismatic drifter (Owen Wilson) who heads for the exotic North Shore of Oahu. There on Hawaii, he soon discovers that whether he is looking for a new con or a little romance, temptation is everywhere. He forms a dubious alliance with a powerful local businessman (Morgan Freeman) and falls for the seductive and criminally-minded lover (Sara Foster) of his boss's rival. Adventurers want to double-cross a wealthy developer (Gary Sinise) and his allies (Charlie Sheen, Vinnie Jones). |
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When the assistant district attorney of San Francisco investigates the mysterious death of an important millionaire he discovers that the first suspect in this case is a friend of his who is married to an important lawyer. Now it is difficult for him to distinguish between what is reality and what should be reality. |
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After Vincenzo Armani Windbreaker Cortino (Lloyd Bridges), the clumsy leader of a powerful mafia family, has been shot 47 times and survived an attempted hit, he starts thinking about the meaning of life. The aging crime patriarch must choose one of his sons as his worthy successor to disorganize crime in the country once and for all. Vincenzo has two sons: the courageous war hero Anthony (Jay Mohr) and the psychopath and drug addict Joey (Billy Burke). Which of them will the wise Don choose?
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To be a cop is a boy’s dream. To be an officer is a police cadet’s dream. Meanwhile, to be a National Security officer means to be a loser. Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence) is expelled from The Los Angeles Police Department due to his systematic violation of discipline and he has no choice but to take a job as a lowly security guard with ‘National Security’. Owing to a twist of fate, Earl teams up with Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn), who has been framed by Earl and also kicked out of police academy. Needless to say, Earl and Hank don’t get on with each other, and what is more, they may kill each other. But when they uncover a metal alloy smuggling operation led by Nash (Eric Roberts), they must make differences to catch the criminals red-handed and bring them o justice. |
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On a trip to a Mexican border town, three college friends stumble upon a human-sacrifice cult. |
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In Arizona, after twenty-one years in prison, Wilson is released at the same time as Lee Marvin and while driving back home, they have a conversation about their future plans. Lee is absolutely regenerated while Wilson plots revenge against the despicable criminal Mackey, who framed him and was the responsible for his conviction. Wilson invites Lee and Mackey to heist a bank and raise money. Meanwhile, a group of young smalltime crooks plan the heist of the same bank to raise money for drugs, booze and women, and the clumsy Connor becomes a serious threat for his friends with his shotgun. |
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Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan soon spins out of control. |
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This tense crime thriller tells the story of Sam (Edward Furlong) and Nadia (Bai Ling), two hapless bank robbers who reluctantly become involved in an explosive hostage situation after their perfect heist is botched. To make matters worse, two of their hostages turn out to be sadistic killers who begin slaying the hostages one by one. The thieves desperately try to defend themselves from a trigger-happy cop (Michael Madsen) and protect the innocent from the deranged killers. |
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