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Frank Dooley ('John Candy' (qv)) , a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defense lawyer named Herman Kane ('Eugene Levy (I)' (qv)) in their new careers... as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to inves β¦tigate corruption within the company and their union. They soon make enemies of everyone, but can the unlikely duo save the day ? (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truck explosiontruckmotorcycle |
Characters: | ex lawyersecurity guardfather daughter relationshiphomosexualpolice |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | union meetingtanker truckarmed robberycat stuck in treepsstcareer changefat guyplea bargainsteam roomman dressed as a womandobermanpeep showfemale bodybuilderrottweilerpretending to be gay β¦crooked copdog attacksex shopoverturning carcross dresserclimbing a treeaerobicsski masktransvestismuniontraffic jamframedscene before opening creditsarmored carex copbazookalingerie slipsaunatarget practiceburglartransvestiteorganized crimemansioncaliforniacatshootoutthree word title (See All) |
In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, trigge β¦ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionrobberymurder |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | cross dresserski maskscene before opening creditsarmored carex coptransvestiteorganized crimeshootout |
A series of strange robberies brings Axel Foley back to Beverly Hills to help his two fellow cops solve the case. All the familiar faces of the first film are back...
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | scene before opening creditsarmored cartarget practicecaliforniashootout |
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon at the scene of the crime, the t β¦wo have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | plea bargainman dressed as a womancross dresserframedarmored carorganized crimecaliforniashootoutthree word title |
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost β¦(Tip T.I. Harris), a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the "takers" carefully plot their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer (Matt Dillon) inches closer to apprehending the criminals. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | security guardfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | armed robberyarmored carorganized crimeshootout |
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a n β¦ew wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truckmotorcycle |
Characters: | security guardfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | man dressed as a womanrottweilerdog attackoverturning cararmored carorganized crimeshootoutthree word title |
Los Angeles street racer Dominic Toretto falls under the suspicion of the LAPD as a string of high-speed electronics truck robberies rocks the area. Brian O'Connor, an officer of the LAPD, joins the ranks of Toretto's highly skilled racing crew undercover to convict Toretto. However, O'Connor finds β¦himself both enamored with this new world and in love with Toretto's sister, Mia. As a rival racing crew gains strength, O'Connor must decide where his loyalty really lies. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truckmotorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Story: | overturning carcaliforniashootout |
In Seattle, detective Quentin Conners is unfairly suspended and his partner Jason York leaves the police force after a tragic shooting on Pearl Street Bridge, when the hostage and the criminal die. During a bank heist with a hostage situation, Conners is assigned in charge of the operation with the β¦rookie Shane Dekker as his partner. The thieves, lead by Lorenz, apparently do not steal a penny from the bank. While chasing the gangsters, the police team disclose that they planted a virus in the system, stealing one billion dollars from the different accounts, using the principle of the Chaos Theory. Further, they find that Lorenz is killing his accomplices. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | ski maskex copshootout |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truckmotorcycle |
Characters: | security guardfather daughter relationshippolicehomosexual |
Story: | overturning cararmored carbazookaorganized crimemansionshootout |
Four adopted brothers come to avenge their mother's death in what appears to be a random killing in a grocery store robbery. However, the boys' investigation of the death reveals more nefarious activities involving the one brother's business dealings with a notorious local hoodlum. Two cops who are β¦trying to solve the case may also not be what they seem. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | police |
Story: | crooked coporganized crimeshootout |
When his daughter is kidnapped and held in exchange for priceless diamonds, the leader of a crew of highly skilled urban thieves (DMX) forges an unlikely alliance with a Taiwanese Intelligence officer (Jet Li) to rescue her. Their race against the clock to find the precious stones ultimately unravel β¦s a plot to distribute a deadly new weapon of war. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | security guardfather daughter relationship |
Story: | pretending to be gayarmored carshootout |
Charlie's got a 'Job' to do. Having just left prison, he finds one of his friends has attempted a high risk job in Italy right under the nose of the Mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far so Charlie takes over the 'Job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars and a bus, he hopes to brin β¦g Torino to a standstill, steal the Gold and escape. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Story: | traffic jamarmored carorganized crimecat |
David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVit β¦o). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | organized crimeshootout |
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | armored carex coporganized crimeshootout |
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an L.A.P.D. detecti β¦ve... (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | burglarshootout |
1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; β¦Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | organized crimemansionshootout |
The true story of Danny Greene, an impoverished but charismatic young Irish-American who rises to power as president of the longshoreman's local union and is charged with corruption but evades serious jail time by becoming an FBI informant. With fearless nerve he joins forces with a Mafia gangster t β¦o rise to power in Cleveland's underworld, gaining the reputation of a Robin Hood-like figure with nine lives as he escapes countless assassination attempts. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Story: | unionorganized crimeshootoutthree word title |
San Francisco Police Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. You Meanwhile, those of the city's criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callah β¦an begins to investigate the murders despite orders from his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations... (Read More)
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Story: | armed robberytarget practiceorganized crimeshootout |
Earl and Hank have only one thing in common: they're both L.A.P.D. rejects. One just got kicked out, the other can't even get in. After confronting each other on opposite sides of the law during a traffic stop that escalates out of control, these two luckless individuals end up partnered as lowly se β¦curity guards. Despite being damned to the lowest rung of the law enforcement ladder, Earl and Hank uncover a sophisticated smuggling operation led by Nash and his band of thugs. When Earl and Hank get their hands on some hot property, they go on the run from, first the bad guys, then the L.A.P.D.--led by Lt. Washington and Detective McDuff. What these two unlikely partners do to law enforcement is a crime, but they just might save the day. That is, if they don't kill each other first. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruption |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | ex coptarget practiceshootout |
To be a Pet Detective, you have to understand both the criminals and animals. Ace Ventura goes even further... He behaves like a criminal animal. When a football team's mascot (a dolphin) is stolen just before the Superbowl, Ace Ventura is put on the case. Now, who would want to steal a dolphin, and β¦ why? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | police |
Story: | man dressed as a womancross dressertransvestismmansioncatshootout |
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a β¦murder, they have to pretend to be each other. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | policehomosexual |
Story: | mansionshootout |
Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just β¦when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music? (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truckmotorcycle |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | armed robberyoverturning cartraffic jamscene before opening creditsorganized crimeshootout |
Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. the stealing of one bat, a 30 foot long snake and the mane of a lion from a zoo. All the latest BAIT magazines were also recently stolen, and some chemicals that when are mixed correctly develops a very deadly gas. All these β¦thefts have one thing in common; visit cards with the word "PAGAN" left at the crime scenes. Solving these crimes, including why plenty of police vehicles have been stolen lately, involves the usual; to drink coffee at strip tease bars, rescue kidnapped virgins from drowning and lose their jobs. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionrobbery |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | overturning carmansionshootout |
Playboy Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) becomes the new publisher of Los Angeles' "The Daily Sentinel" after the sudden death of his father. Britt's party life is about to change when he and his driver and kung fu expert, Kato (Jay Chou), stop a robbery. With the help of Kato, Britt starts a new career of f β¦ighting crime as the masked superhero "The Green Hornet". (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Story: | armored carbazookaorganized crimemansionshootoutthree word title |
Porter is bad, but his neighbours are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie wife. He survives and returns, looking to recover his share from the robbery of an Asian crime gang. The money has passed into the hands of "the β¦Outfit", a slick gangster organisation that runs the city. He has to make his way through a world populated by heroin dealers, prostitutes, sado-masochists, gunmen and crooked cops, a place where torture is a way of life. His only friend is a former employer, a prostitute, and her loyalty is in question, given she now works for the Outfit. He makes good early progress, but then falls into the hands of Fairfax, the crime boss. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionrobbery |
Characters: | police |
Story: | fat guyorganized crimeshootout |
Former criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off, they start to uncover a deeper conspiracy they both β¦ need to solve in order to survive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptionrobberymurder |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Story: | shootout |
Detroit cop Axel Foley is delighted when he receives a surprise visit from his best friend Mikey Tandino, who lives in California. Not long after Mikey arrives in Detroit, Mikey is killed, right in front of Axel, by a man named Zack. Axel follows Zack to Beverly Hills, California, where Beverly Hill β¦s police department Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Detective Billy Rosewood and Rosewood's partner, Sergeant John Taggart, to keep an eye on Axel. Axel visits his friend Jenny Summers, who works in an art gallery. With Jenny's help, Axel discovers that Zack works for Jenny's boss, Victor Maitland, the man who owns the art gallery. Maitland is a drug kingpin who is using the gallery as a front, and Maitland had Zack kill Mikey after Maitland accused Mikey of stealing some of Maitland's bonds. With the help of Jenny, Billy, and Taggart, Axel does what he can to make sure Maitland and Zack won't kill any more people. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | security guardpolicehomosexual |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | pretending to be gaymansionshootoutthree word title |
An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having a β¦n affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece. (Read More)
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphomosexualpolice |
Story: | armed robberyorganized crimemansioncaliforniashootout |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston β¦police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a speβ¦ (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | overturning carorganized crimemansionshootoutthree word title |
Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them are guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Soze is felt. It becomes β¦ clear that each one of them has wronged Soze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Soze? (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptionrobberymurder |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | organized crimeshootoutthree word title |
An elite DEA team raids the safe house of a drug cartel and hide $10 million in the plumbing. When they go back to retrieve the money it is not there. The team is under investigation for the missing $10 million. Then after a couple months the investigation is lifted. The team trains together again a β¦nd then celebrates at a strip club. Then one of the team is murdered. He wakes up in his RV on railroad tracks. Then a second team member is nailed to the ceiling. The third team member is gunned down at his remote cabin. There is a female City of Atlanta investigator in charge of the murders. After investigating the cartel angle, the twisted truth comes to light. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Story: | armored carmansionshootout |
In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly β¦ by - he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionrobberymurder |
Characters: | security guard |
Story: | armed robberyorganized crimemansionshootout |
Martin Blank is a freelance hitman who starts to develop a conscience, which causes him to muff a couple of routine assignments. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he attends his 10th year High School reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (a Detroit suburb where he's also contracted t β¦o kill someone). Hot on his tail are a couple of over-enthusiastic federal agents, another assassin who wants to kill him, and Grocer, an assassin who wants him to join an "Assassin's Union." (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | security guardfather daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | unionmansionshootoutthree word title |
A vicious serial-killer is on the loose in San Francisco and the police trace a link to a small town further down the coast. When Harry Callahan upsets the press and the mayor in his usual style, he's shipped out of town to investigate while the heat is on. With the help of his new Magnum handgun Ha β¦rry goes on the trail leaving behind the usual trail of dead criminals along the way. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | armed robberytarget practiceorganized crimeshootout |
Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn't follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it's very di β¦fficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | ski maskorganized crimeshootout |
In New Orleans, the hit men James Bonomo, a.k.a. Jimmy Bobo, and Louis Blanchard execute the dirty cop Hank Greely in a hotel room. But they are betrayed and Louis is stabbed in a bar by the mercenary Keegan while waiting for the payment of the contract. Meanwhile the Washington D.C. police detectiv β¦e Taylor Kwon comes to New Orleans to investigate the murder of Greely, who had stolen evidences from the Police Department. Soon he is shot by two dirty detectives but Jimmy saves his life. Jimmy brings Taylor to the shop of his daughter Lisa and she removes the bullet from his shoulder and nurses him. Taylor and Jimmy form the most unlikely partnership to investigate the crimes and after contacting the intermediate Ronnie Earl that had hired Jimmy and Louis, they discover a network of corruption formed by the lawyer Marcus Baptiste and the entrepreneur Robert Nkomo Morel. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurder |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | ex coporganized crimemansionshootout |
In the midst of an elaborate conspiracy, an expert negotiator is driven to the edge when he's framed for the murder of his partner, as well as embezzling money from his department's pension fund. His only chance to prove his innocence is to take hostages himself, acquire the services of another expe β¦rt negotiator, and find out who's running the conspiracy before it's too late. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | crooked copframedshootout |
The RIDE ALONG 2 sequel picks up about a year after our heroes' last adventure. Plans for a quick trip to Miami go bad. With the wedding upcoming, James reluctantly takes Ben with him to Miami to follow up on a lead connected to a drug ring case he's been trying to crack. In Miami, they meet Maya, a β¦ no-BS homicide detective who lets them know Miami is her turf. They also encounter AJ, a shady cocky computer hacker who reveals evidence that implicates a well-respected local businessman, the wealthy Antonio Pope. Pope harbors a vicious streak and rules South Florida's drug trade. If Ben and James can convince the authorities that Pope is a brutal crime boss they'll stop his spree. If they fail, well there may not be a wedding after all. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truckmotorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Story: | overturning carorganized crimemansionshootout |
Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang (Donnie Yen) and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora' β¦s Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | security guard |
Story: | overturning carclimbing a treetraffic jamframedarmored carshootout |
A crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of β¦the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built. (Read More)
Themes: | corruption |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | mansionshootout |
Inspector Wing of the Hong Kong Police Force has become the victim of a gang, led by the evil Joe. When his entire team is killed, Wing becomes a hapless drunk, feeling guilty for the deaths of his team. A young man with a troubled past pretends to be a police officer working on the case with Wing, β¦to get him back on his feet and begin an adventure to get revenge on the evil Joe and his Gang of Five, especially when it becomes personal. (Read More)
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | armed robberyoverturning carex coptarget practiceorganized crimeshootout |
Kevin Chan (aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord. Of course, the drug-lord isn't too happy about this, and frames Kevin with the murder of another cop (who happened to be on the take). Kevin has to clear hi β¦s name, whilst keeping himself from getting killed or arrested, and keeping his girlfriend from leaving him. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | truckmotorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | organized crimeshootout |
A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. Deep undercover, and with his life in danger, he strives to prove these athletes are the architects of the mind-boggling crimes that β¦are devastating the world's financial markets. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Story: | overturning cartarget practiceshootout |
Vincent Downs is a cop in Las Vegas, who's partnered with a crooked cop. His partner asks him to steal some drugs, which they do. But what they don't know is that the drugs belong to a crime family, the Novaks who goes after anyone who crosses them. And Rob Novak the man who was handling the drug sa β¦le sets his sights on the man who sold him the drugs, casino boss Rubino. Rubino discovers Downs was the one who stole the drugs so he has Downs' son abducted and tells Downs to bring the drugs to his casino. Jennifer Bryant, an idealistic cop who wants to take down every criminal including the Novaks. Recently one her busts went bust and she did everything by the book. She thinks all the men are patronizing her. When she meets Downs she gets a vibe off of him and follows him. Downs brings the drugs to the casino and hides the drugs. Downs meets with Rubino and asks for his drugs. Downs wants his son first before he gives him the drugs. Rubino shows him his son and goes to get the drugs but Bryant finds the drugs and takes them. When Downs learns what she did he scrambles to find a way to save his son. And Novak needs the drugs desperately and goes after everyone especially Downs who is latter asisted by his wife and son to defeat these foes. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionrobberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | crooked copoverturning carorganized crimeshootout |
Martin Riggs finally meets his match in the form of Lorna Cole, a beautiful but tough policewoman. Together with Roger Murtaugh, his partner, the three attempt to expose a crooked former policeman and his huge arms racket. The crooked cop (Jack Travis) thwarts them at every turn, mainly by killing a β¦nyone who is about to talk, but Murtaugh has personal problems of his own as his family are brought into the equation. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | crooked coparmored carex copcaliforniacatshootout |
When drug violence worsens on the USA Mexico border, the FBI sends an idealistic agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) on a mission to eradicate a drug cartel responsible for a bomb that had killed members of her team.
Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurder |
Story: | traffic jamarmored carorganized crimemansionshootout |
Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and t β¦ry to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor--'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'--as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending.... (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Characters: | security guardfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | ski maskarmored carcaliforniashootout |
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh ('Robert De Niro' (qv)) is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas ('Charles Grodin' (qv)). The FBI has had no success in locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In ord β¦er to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin Dorfler ('John Ashton (I)' (qv)), a rival bounty hunter. On their long cross-country trip to LA, the two get to know each other and they build up a strange friendship. (Read More)
Themes: | police corruption |
Mood: | car chase |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | ex coporganized crimeshootout |
After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things go wrong for Joey after a neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find that kid and the gun before the police and the mob do.
Themes: | police corruptionmurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | police |
Story: | ski maskorganized crimeshootout |
Frank Martin, played by newcomer Ed Skrein, a former special-ops mercenary, is now living a less perilous life - or so he thinks - transporting classified packages for questionable people. When Frank's father (Ray Stevenson) pays him a visit in the south of France, their father-son bonding weekend t β¦akes a turn for the worse when Frank is engaged by a cunning femme-fatale, Anna (Loan Chabanol), and her three seductive sidekicks to orchestrate the bank heist of the century. Frank must use his covert expertise and knowledge of fast cars, fast driving and fast women to outrun a sinister Russian kingpin, and worse than that, he is thrust into a dangerous game of chess with a team of gorgeous women out for revenge. From the producers of LUCY and the TAKEN trilogy, THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED is a fresh personification of the iconic role of Frank Martin, that launches the high-octane franchise into the present-day and introduces it to the next generation of thrill-seekers. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | security guardpolice |
Story: | overturning carorganized crimeshootout |