Posts Tagged ‘police-corruption’

Traffic (2000)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Benicio Del Toro | Jacob Vargas | Andrew Chavez | Michael Saucedo | Tomas Milian | Jose Yenque | Emilio Rivera | Michael O'Neill | Michael Douglas | Russell G. Jones | Lorene Hetherington | Eric Collins | Beau Holden | Peter Stader | James Lew
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

The Untouchables (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Sean Connery | Charles Martin Smith | Andy Garcia | Robert De Niro | Richard Bradford | Jack Kehoe | Brad Sullivan | Billy Drago | Patricia Clarkson | Vito D'Ambrosio | Steven Goldstein | Peter Aylward | Don Harvey | Robert Swan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

Magnum Force (1973)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Hal Holbrook | Ryan Mitchell | David Soul | Tim Matheson | Kip Niven | Robert Urich | Felton Perry | Maurice Argent | Margaret Avery | Richard Devon | Tony Giorgio | Jack Kosslyn | Bob March | Bob McClurg
Directors: Ted Post
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San Francisco Police Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. Meanwhile, those of the city’s criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callahan begins to investigate the murders despite the orders of his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations…

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Simon Pegg | Martin Freeman | Bill Nighy | Robert Popper | Joe Cornish | Chris Waitt | Eric Mason | Billie Whitelaw | Nick Frost | Peter Wight | Julia Deakin | Tom Strode Walton | Troy Woollan | Rory Lowings | Bill Bailey
Directors: Edgar Wright
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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn’t going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent “acidents”.

Man on Fire (2004)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Mexico | UK | USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Dakota Fanning | Marc Anthony | Radha Mitchell | Christopher Walken | Giancarlo Giannini | Rachel Ticotin | Jesús Ochoa | Mickey Rourke | Angelina Peláez | Gustavo Sánchez Parra | Gero Camilo | Rosa María Hernández | Heriberto Del Castillo | Mario Zaragoza
Directors: Tony Scott
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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy’s friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy’s new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.

Crossroads (1986)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ralph Macchio | Joe Seneca | Jami Gertz | Joe Morton | Robert Judd | Steve Vai | Dennis Lipscomb | Harry Carey Jr. | John Hancock | Allan Arbus | Gretchen Palmer | Al Fann | Wally Taylor | Tim Russ | Tex Donaldson
Directors: Walter Hill
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Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people’s prison first and to really learn the blues on the way to it’s origin: Mississippi Delta. Eugene doesn’t know yet about Willie’s deal with the devil, that he now wants to revoke.

Four Brothers (2005)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Tyrese Gibson | André Benjamin | Garrett Hedlund | Terrence Howard | Josh Charles | Sofía Vergara | Fionnula Flanagan | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Taraji P. Henson | Barry Shabaka Henley | Jernard Burks | Kenneth Welsh | Tony Nappo | Shawn Singleton
Directors: John Singleton
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.

Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Julianna Margulies | Nathan Phillips | Rachel Blanchard | Flex Alexander | Kenan Thompson | Keith Dallas | Lin Shaye | James Bruce | Sunny Mabrey | Casey Dubois | Daniel Hogarth | Gerard Plunkett | Terry Chen | Elsa Pataky
Directors: David R. Ellis
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When Sean Jones witnesses a murder, he is asked to fly from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against the notorious gangster Eddie Kim. However, Kim has paid an assassin to release a crate-full of deadly snakes loose when the plane is 30,000 feet in the air. Only FBI agent Neville Flynn can protect Sean and rally the passengers together in hope of landing in L.A. alive.

Dark Blue (2002)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Scott Speedman | Michael Michele | Brendan Gleeson | Ving Rhames | Kurupt | Dash Mihok | Jonathan Banks | Lolita Davidovich | Khandi Alexander | Dana Lee | Chapman Russell Way | Marin Hinkle | Jim Cody Williams | Eloy Casados
Directors: Ron Shelton
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD’s elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry’s brand of singlehanded “justice” on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue.

Training Day (2001)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Ethan Hawke | Scott Glenn | Tom Berenger | Harris Yulin | Raymond J. Barry | Cliff Curtis | Dr. Dre | Snoop Dogg | Macy Gray | Charlotte Ayanna | Eva Mendes | Nick Chinlund | Jaime Gomez | Raymond Cruz
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
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In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. ‘Training Day’ follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris’ methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.