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Crime movies
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This compelling psychological thriller centers upon a flagrant case of abduction in a small American town. One day Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a high school student with a desire to be a writer, is kidnapped and severely tortured by an atrocious serial killer. Two weeks later, the girl, dismembered of her hand and leg, miraculously manages to escape from the clutches of the monster of cruelty. After recovering consciousness, the traumatized girl claims to be a stripper named Dakota Moss (Lindsay Lohan), a character that she created in her story for a school assignment. "Dakota" insists that the real Aubrey is still alive but her life is hanging by a hair and that any delay may be fatal. |
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Seductive world of lies and sexual intrigue is taking place in Michael Caton-Jones' sequel to a classic erotic thriller by Paul Verhoeven. The story begins when Catherine Tramell, a brilliant and ageless Sharon Stone's character, falls in the river having sex with the famous sport star. Dr Michael Glass is involved to perform a psychiatric check of seductive Tramell who became the suspect again as the soccer star had died in the accident. Having moved from San Francisco to London, Catherine did not lose even a bit of her success as a famous best-selling writer and as a pernicious temptress, so Dr Glass soon felt the power of her bewitching sexuality and her grasp being slowly drawn into a labyrinth of Tramell's intrigue. |
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Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence), a FBI undercover agent, is out to expose the suspected creator of a deadly computer virus allowing access to some classified government intelligence files, which can become accessible for terrorists in such case. FBI is looking for a way to get inside Fuller's home to confirm or disprove Turner is "crossing the gender line" again and begins to play a role of a septuagenarian housekeeper. "Big Momma" gets the job, but while trying to figure out the truth about Fuller's possible criminal connections, Malcolm also finds himself developing a close relationship with the suspect's wife and kids. As always, "she" once again turns the house upside down. Along the way, "Big Momma" also helps bring the splintering Fuller family back together and, in turn, Malcolm develops a newfound approach to his own family problems, which includes stepson Trent and expectant wife Sherrie. |
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Peter Beaupre is the leader of a group of thieves who have stolen a valuable Air Force computer chip. When a bag mixup at the O'Hare Airport in Chicago causes Mrs. Hess, a grouchy old lady, to unknowingly take home the chip hidden inside of a toy remote control car, Beaupre and his followers Alice Ribbons, Earl Unger, and Burton Jernigan begin searching Mrs. Hess's neighborhood and breaking into houses searching for the chip. 8-year-old Alex Pruitt reports seeing Beaupre and his followers, but Alex's sister Molly, his brother Stan, and his parents Jack and Karen refuse to believe him. Beaupre and his followers figure out that the chip is in the Pruitt home, because Mrs. Hess has given the remote control car to Alex. Alex is left home alone with the chicken pox when Karen goes to work, Jack goes out of town on a business trip, and Molly and Stan go to school. When Beaupre and his followers break into the Pruitt house, Alex is ready with some of the most painful booby traps Beaupre and his gang will ever face. |
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The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami, Florida for their academy's commanding officer, Lassard, to receive a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement, which takes a turn involving a group of jewel thieves after their stolen loot that Lassard unknowingly has in his possession. |
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Patience Philips (Halle Berry) inadvertently discoveres a sinister secret of a mammoth cosmetics company she has the misfortune to work for as a graphic designer. She learns that a new beauty product has deadly side effects. Afraid of the disclosure, George Hedare (Lambert Wilson), the mean CEO, and his cold-blooded wife Laurel (Sharon Stone), the longtime "face" of the company, decide to get rid of the unwanted employee. But she was mystically resurrected and granted superhuman powers by an Egyptian cat. With incredible feline agility, strength, speed, heightened reflexes and senses, Patience becomes Catwoman who sets out to wreak vengeance on those who murdered her. |
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A gang is terrorizing citizens by robbing stores in the Wilson Heights district of town. Since a leak in the department is suspected, the Governor has chosen the officers from the police academy along with Captain Harris and Lt. Proctor to catch the criminals using old fashioned police work. When Commandant Lassard is indicted, the officers must bring the gang and Mr. Big to justice to clear him. |
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Cary Ford's rivals framed him, now he is to try to clear his name being accused for the murder of a well-known gang leader. Ford is a biker, and his foes will face the ardous task trying to get him. Prodigious stunts, super-sexy girls and a lot of tough scuffles imbue this movie with the spirit of the unimaginable speed and action. |
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Four bodies are found in New York City. Why, why, why? The coincidence? They all died 48 hours after logging on to a site named feardotcom.com. Tough detective Mike Reilly collaborates with Department of Health associate Terry Huston to research these mysterious deaths. The only way to find out though what really happened is to enter the site itself... |
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When a drug deal turns into a bloodbath, a junkie-gangster crosses paths with an illegal alien. The illegal alien ends up with the gangster's ID and uses it to create a new successful life as a US citizen. A near death experience causes the gangster to re-evaluate his life, and when he leaves prison three years later, he is clean, sober, and ready to put his life back together. But both men are haunted by their pasts and they are soon set on a collision course that may destroy them and the women they love. |
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Big Enos and Little Enos have opened a seafood restaurant and want to promote it in their usual fashion. The Bandit is unavailable this time, though, so they enlist Buford. "Trigger" is brought out of mothballs, a large fish is strapped to the roof of the car, and the new Bandit is on his way on another wild cross-country run. But where there is the Bandit, there is Sheriff Buford T. Justice. |
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Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for. |
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Russian mafia boss Konstantine Konali is laundering money under the guise of a legitimate business. The business: a highly addictive video game that allows him to bring down almost any security system controlled by a computer on which the game has been played, with a string of major robberies as the result. Desperate to nail Konali, Commandant Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov sends for help from America. Rakov decides to bring in someone he met at a convention a month ago. This person is Commandant Eric Lassard. Lassard briefs his team about the mission in Russia, then they head to Moscow. Along with Lassard in Moscow are Sergeant Larvell Jones, Sergeant Eugene Tackleberry, Captain Debbie Callahan, Cadet Kyle Connors, and Captain Thaddeus Harris. As they plan to nail Konali, he has cooked up a new scheme — create an even better version of the Game by making it good enough to bring down absolutely any computer security system in the world, including the systems that protect the databases that belong to world powers. |
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Post hurricane Katrina New Orleans- a place seething with extreme violence fueled by a crime wave gone out of control. Brutal Mexican drug lord Santiago Rodriguez busts out of jail with the help of his uncle, the head of Catalina Cartel. But his ''Get Out Of Jail'' card is not free. Its price is $15 million - the money his then girlfriend Maria hid after he was arrested by reckless police detective Travis Roundtree- and it won't be easy getting it back. Santiago's got two big problems:Maria now hates him and she is the only one who knows where the loot is stashed. There is also the legendary Thorn, a vicius hit man plotting revenge for the death of his niece. But Travis has it even worse he begins falling for Maria after being ordered to tack down Santiago at all costs. |
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A new boss of the American Yakuza, ruthless young Takura (Matt Westmore) achieves power in a fraudulent and murderous way. Knowing that he can rely only on his cunning and mercilessness in the world of big money and steel nerves, he annihilates his rival gangsters and former friends without hesitation. Having made a great deal with the Russian mafia, Takura is determined to kill the weapon purchasers so as to be an indisputable crime lord. However, he is unaware that an intrepid cop working under the shelter of the Russian mafia is intent to ruin his plans. |
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Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck), a lowly hitman in Los Angeles seeking the big score. He accepts an assignment to kidnap Brian (Justin Bartha), a disabled younger brother of a powerful Californian federal prosecutor, in order to save his mobster boss from incarceration. Gigli abducts the boy from his mental hospital and holds him as a hostage in his apartment. Having known of Gigli’s sympathy for the kidnappee, Louis (Lenny Venito), his boss, sends Ricki (Jennifer Lopez), a "lesbian assassin", to keep a close eye on Gigli to make sure he doesn't screw it up. When Larry and Ricki lodge together, waiting for further orders and taking a liking to Brian, Larry falls in love with a gorgeous, independent-minded female gangster. As time passes Ricki returns his affection. The events take an unexpected turn when Larry and Ricki receive orders to murder Brian. They both refuse point-blank to do it at the risk of their own lives. |
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The movie is based on real events in the life of the world's wealthiest rapper Curtis James Jackson, better known by his stage name 50 Cent. He achieved great success, following the motto "Through hardship to the stars." His life was no honeymoon. At the age of eight Curtis was left an orphan when his drug-dealing mother was murdered. He had to adjust to the streets, and at the age of twelve he began dealing narcotics. Having served out six months in prison and been shot nine times, Curtis decided to cut the strings of his criminal past and pursue his dream of becoming a rap artist. |
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Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders. |
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