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A young boy dies from a stray bullet during a shootout between a cop and mob family member who had previously been supiciously given probabtion, only to break its terms. New York's Deputy Mayor, Kevin Calhoun starts digging for information.
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | mafiacorruptionfuneralpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police funeralmayorpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | deputy mayordrug dealergovernment corruptionpolitical corruptionpolice partnersmounted policegreedy developerreal estate dealreal estate developmentlegal aidreal estate developerurban renewaltugboatpolitical cover upinquiry β¦child shotdealeramazing grace hymninternal affairsprobationharlem manhattan new york citycity hallresignationdirty copfemale lawyerbrooklyn bridgeidealismgreeksenatorbrooklyn new york citypress conferenceloyaltystrong female charactercrime bossscandaldeath of childcover upjudgemanhattan new york city (See All) |
The naked corpse of Captain Elisabeth Campbell, daughter of Lieutenant General "Fighting Joe" Campbell, is found staked out on the urban warfare range of Fort MacCallum. Army CID detectives and ex-lovers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill are called in to investigate, and find themselves wrapped up in a β¦maelstrom of sexual impropriety and misguided face-saving. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upamazing grace hymncover up |
A family of police officers - patriarch, two sons, and a son-in-law - deals with corruption in a precinct in Washington Heights. Four officers die in an ambush at a drug dealer's apartment. It's brother Francis's precinct, so when the investigation led by brother Ray finds hints of police corruption β¦, there's pressure to close ranks and save Frankie's career. Dad, a police brass, promises Ray that he and Frankie can clean things up, and Ray should focus on catching the drug dealer who killed the cops. Meanwhile, brother-in-law Jimmy, a hothead and an enforcer, is visited at home by a lowlife. Is Jimmy involved in the corruption? Where can this take the family? (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionfuneralmurder |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police funeralpolice |
Story: | drug dealerdealerinternal affairsbrooklyn new york cityloyaltycover upmanhattan new york city |
JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ens β¦uing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest, and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracyconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | mayorpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upcity hallscandalcover up |
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco i β¦s haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Locations: | new york city |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upsenatorcover up |
Thomas Craven is a detective who has spent years working the streets of Boston. When his own daughter is killed outside his own home, Craven soon realizes that her death is only one piece of an intriguing puzzle filled with corruption and conspiracy, and it falls to him to discover who is behind the β¦ crime. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police detective |
Story: | political corruptionsenatorcover up |
Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign against Helen G β¦ahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, followed by the loss of the 1962 California gubernatorial race, seem to signal the end of his career. Yet, although wholly lacking in charisma, Nixon remains a brilliant political operator, seizing the opportunity provided by the backlash against the antiwar movement to take the presidency in 1968. It is only when safely in office, running far ahead in the polls for the 1972 presidential election, that his growing paranoia comes to full flower, triggering the Watergate scandal. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpolitics |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover uppress conferencescandalcover up |
A 25 year old female White House staffer, Carla Town, is murdered in the White House. D.C. homicide detective Regis is assigned to investigate, only to find evidence suppressed by the Secret Service. After suspecting a cover-up, Regis convinces Secret Service Agent Nina Chance to assist in uncoverin β¦g the truth. The President's son Kyle Neil is a prime suspect, as he was having sex with Carla within an hour of her murder. While the investigation ensues, the President, Jack Neil, is holding meetings with top military personnel regarding North Korea's holding 23 U.S. military personnel hostage. Regis confronts top Secret Service Agent Spikings at his home shortly after Spikings returns with evidence leading to the murder. The home is attacked and Spikings is killed, but Regis makes it out alive with Agent Chance's assistance, and with the evidence tape. White House adviser Jordan presents false evidence to the President that his son killed Carla and forces the President to say he will announce his resignation at 10 p.m. the following day. Regis and Chance break into the White House via underground tunnels, stop the President from resigning, and arrest Jordan for conspiracy to murder. Jordan pulls a gun, injures Agent Chance, and is killed by multiple Secret Service agents. A news briefing states there were false rumors of the President resigning, and also falsely state that Agent Spikings was killed in the gunfire exchange between Jordan and the Secret Service. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upresignationscandalcover up |
Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There is only one witness, a thief named Luther β¦Whitney. They are sure he'll talk, but when? The Secret Service is determined to keep him quiet, but catching a thief isn't always easy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover uppress conferencecover up |
On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby, supposedly avenging the president's death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes β¦, but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people, Garrison conducts his own investigation, bringing about backlash from powerful government and political figures. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | mafiacorruptionpoliticsmurder |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upcover up |
Major Ben Marco ('Frank Sinatra' (qv)) is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw ('Laurence Harvey (I)' (qv)), even won the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where β¦two members of his squad are killed by Shaw. He's put on indefinite sick leave and visits Shaw in New York. Shaw for his part has established himself well, despite the misgivings of his domineering mother, Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin ('Angela Lansbury' (qv)). She is a red-baiter, accusing anyone who disagrees with her right-wing reactionary views of being a Communist. Raymond hates her, not only for how she's treated him but equally because of his step-father, the ineffectual U.S. Senator John Iselin ('James Gregory (I)' (qv)), who is intent on seeking higher office. When Marco learns that others in his Korean War unit have nightmares similar to his own, he realizes that something happened to all of them in Korea and that Raymond Shaw is the focal point. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upsenatorpress conferencecover upmanhattan new york city |
In New York City, detective Billy Taggart goes to court for the murder of the rapist Mikey Tavarez, but the Mayor Nicholas Hostetler and the Chief of Police Carl Fairbanks vanish with important evidence and Billy is declared not guilty by the judge; however, he leaves the police department. Seven ye β¦ars later, Billy is a private detective and lives with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow, who is an aspiring actress and the sister of Mikey's victim. His secretary Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal) is trying to collect part of the debts to save their business. In the week of the elections, Hostetler summons Billy and offers $25,000 to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler, whom he believes is having a love affair. Billy discovers that Cathleen is meeting Paul Andrews, who is the coordinator of the campaign of Jack Valliant, the opponent of Hostetler and favorite in the election. When Paul is found dead on the street, Billy finds that he had been double-crossed by Hostetler and he decides to investigate the truth behind Paul's murder. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | mayorpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | city hallfemale lawyerbrooklyn bridgebrooklyn new york citycover upjudgemanhattan new york city |
Sometime in the 1970's, police officers from New York City wanted a safe haven to live, away from the dangers of the streets of New York City, this is when they established a "Cop Land" in the small New Jersey town of Garrison. Freddy Heflin who was always admired by the New York cops wanted to beco β¦me one, but because he was deaf in one ear this prevents him from achieving his goal, but has become sheriff of Garrison. Recently there have been a dark omen surrounding the NYPD, and Freddy is now investigating on this case, then Internal Affairs officer Mo Tilden is also on the case and asks Freddy for help, but Freddy could not. Now Freddy suspects that a New York City cop named Ray Donlan might be one of the many cops who is corrupted by the mob and other criminals. Now, Freddy must find a cop who is nicknamed "Superboy" who can testify against Donlan and protect him, before Donlan finds Superboy and kills him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | mafiacorruptionfuneralmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police funeralmayorpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | internal affairscity halldirty coppress conferencecrime bosscover upmanhattan new york city |
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter 'Bob Woodward (I)' (qv) covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund o β¦rganizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and 'Carl Bernstein (I)' (qv) to it. They find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party, and eventually into the White House itself. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpolitics |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upscandalcover up |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miser β¦ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiacorruptionfuneralmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police funeralpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerharlem manhattan new york cityfemale lawyerbrooklyn bridgecrime bosscover upjudgemanhattan new york city |
After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass medi β¦a. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracyconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Story: | political corruptionpolitical cover upsenatorpress conferencescandalcover up |
Tom Farrell is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is to report to the secretary of defense David Brice. He starts an affair with Susan Atwell not knowing that she is Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a β¦KGB mole! Tom could soon become a suspect when a Polaroid negative of him was found at Susan's place. He now has only a few hours to find the killer before the computer regenerates the photo. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upsenatorloyaltycover up |
Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to β¦get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in, he still refuses to 'go with the flow', in the hope that one day, the truth will be known. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpolitics |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | mayorpolice |
Story: | drug dealerinternal affairsidealismpress conferencemanhattan new york city |
Based on a true story of James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather and FBI informant who had a "secret trading" deal with his brother, William "Billy" Bulger, a state senator and a Boston public figure, and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down the Italian mob and mafia in Bosto β¦n, which went awry and things turned massively violent. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders, and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI's Boston office to confirm that Whitey Bulger was one of the most notorious criminals in US history and also one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List criminals. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | mafiacorruptionfuneralmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | drug dealersenatorpress conferenceloyaltycrime bosscover up |
A petty thief is gunned down in an alley and a Congressman's assistant falls in front of a subway - two seemingly unrelated deaths. But not to wisecracking, brash newspaper reporter Cal McAffrey who spies a conspiracy waiting to be uncovered. With a turbulent past connected to the Congressman and th β¦e aid of ambitious young rookie writer Della Frye, Cal begins uprooting clues that lead him to a corporate cover-up full of insiders, informants, and assassins. But as he draws closer to the truth, the relentless journalist must decide if it's worth risking his life and selling his soul to get the ultimate story. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police detective |
Story: | political corruptionpress conferencescandal |
Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. Almost before he can draw a breath in his new position, one of the president's closest friends and his family are m β¦urdered in their sleep by what appears to by drug cartels. Ryan is called in to investigate, but unknown to him the CIA has already sent a secret field operative to lead an illegal paramilitary force in Colombia against cartels. Things get even more complicated when his team is set up and he loses an agent in the field and a friend of his wife's, who was the murdered agent's secretary, is murdered that same day. Ryan must then risk not only his career, but his life to expose the truth behind the mystery. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionfuneralpoliticsmurder |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upsenatorpress conferencecrime bosscover up |
William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, β¦ and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | mafiamurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerbrooklyn bridgebrooklyn new york citycrime bossmanhattan new york city |
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomi β¦ngs of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionidealismsenatorscandal |
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and una β¦mbitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionfuneralpoliticsmurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionidealismscandalcover up |
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: | mafiacorruptionmurder |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerbrooklyn bridgebrooklyn new york citycrime boss |
Frank Horrigan is a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as a hand-picked agent by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a President to an assassin when Kennedy died. Now, former CIA assassin Mitch Leary is stalking the current President, β¦ who is running for re-election. Mitch has spent long hours studying Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan, telling him of his plans to kill the President. Leary plans to kill the president because Leary feels betrayed by the government -- Leary was removed from the CIA, and the CIA is now trying to have him killed. After talking to Leary, Horrigan makes sure he is assigned to presidential protection duty, working with fellow secret service agent Lilly Raines. Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he's more than willing to take a bullet. White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent refuses to alter the President's itinerary, while Horrigan's boss, Secret Service Director Sam Campagna, is supportive of Horrigan. As the election gets closer, Horrigan begins to doubt his own abilities, especially when Horrigan's colleague Al D'Andrea is killed by Leary. But Horrigan may be the only one who can stop Leary. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover uppress conferencecover up |
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)
Themes: | mafiacorruptionfuneralpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police funeralmayorpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerfemale lawyeridealismpress conferencecrime bosscover upjudge |
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld ('Christian Bale' (qv)), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser ('Amy Adams (III)' (qv)) β¦is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso ('Bradley Cooper (I)' (qv)). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. 'Jeremy Renner' (qv) is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn ('Jennifer Lawrence (III)' (qv)) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiacorruptionmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | mayor |
Story: | political corruptionsenatorpress conferencestrong female charactercrime bossscandal |
The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring β¦out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything? (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Characters: | mayorpolice |
Story: | political corruptionpolitical cover upcover up |
This stylish Brian De Palma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his mo β¦vies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | politicsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upcover up |
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)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionfuneralmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police funeralpolice |
Story: | cover up |
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for t β¦he FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the presβ¦ (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Locations: | new york city |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionpolitical cover upcover upjudge |
It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Sergeant John O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, w β¦hose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it's the cops. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiacorruptionmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerstrong female charactercrime bossdeath of childjudge |
Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones. Pretending to be cops, Smith and Jones kidnap Lynn and confront β¦Gene with a simple choice -- kill California governor Eleanor Grant in 90 minutes or less, or Lynn will die. Watson is given a gun, six bullets, and a name tag, and he is told to go to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and kill Eleanor, who is giving an afternoon speech. While Jones is watching Lynn in a van, Smith watches Watson in order to prevent Watson from alerting the authorities. Watson must quickly find some way to get himself and Lynn out of this seemingly impossible situation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionsenatorpress conference |
Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as THE GRAVEDIGGER. Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he an β¦d Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerbrooklyn bridgebrooklyn new york citycrime bossmanhattan new york city |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police |
Story: | drug dealerharlem manhattan new york citybrooklyn new york citycrime bossmanhattan new york city |
After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, β¦ his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiacorruptionfuneralmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerdirty copcrime boss |
Turk and Rooster, two aging NYPD detectives and longtime partners, are hunting a serial killer who is murdering sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues, and when they start working with a younger investigative team, Perez and Riley, tensions between the two teams is inevitable, especia β¦lly since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend, also a homicide detective. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerharlem manhattan new york citydeath of childmanhattan new york city |
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within t β¦heir midst. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiafuneral |
Characters: | police funeralpolice |
Story: | internal affairscrime boss |
Having seen his father killed in a major gang fight in New York, young Amsterdam Vallon is spirited away for his own safety. Some years later, he returns to the scene of his father's death, the notorious Five Points district in New York. It's 1863 and lower Manhattan is run by gangs, the most powerf β¦ul of which is the Natives, headed by Bill "The Butcher" Cutting. He believes that America should belong to native-born Americans and opposes the waves of immigrants, mostly Irish, entering the city. It's also the time of the Civil War and forced conscription leads to the worst riots in US history. Amid the violence and corruption, young Vallon tries to establish himself in the area and also seek revenge over his father's death. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionfuneralmurder |
Locations: | new york city |
Story: | political corruptionamazing grace hymnbrooklyn bridgecrime bossmanhattan new york city |
In Brooklyn, amid drug deals, violence, casual racism, poverty, housing projects, and corrupt cops, we follow three officers: Tango, African-American, working undercover, believing he's earned a promotion to a desk job but told he has to set up the bust of an ex-con who saved his life; Sal, who'll c β¦ommit murder to get cash; and, Eddie, the precinct's oldest beat cop, a week to go before retirement, assigned to mentor an earnest rookie. Can this end well for any of the three? (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerbrooklyn new york city |
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
Subgenre: | political conspiracy |
Themes: | politicsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Story: | government corruptionpolitical corruptionreal estate developmentreal estate developerharlem manhattan new york citycity hallbrooklyn bridgebrooklyn new york city |
Matt Scudder is a former cop now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was killed. Scudder takes the job. He does some re β¦search and thinks the men he is looking for have done this more than once. And that everyone they grabbed is connected to a drug dealer. He was about to give up when they grab another girl and Scudder tries make sure she's returned alive. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Story: | drug dealerdealerbrooklyn bridgebrooklyn new york citydeath of child |
This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction led by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for 'th β¦e bosses'. Eventually, the group become big-time when Black himself becomes a boss; all the while, Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart, and to top it off, the mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows if he walks away from the mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiamurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police |
Story: | drug dealerbrooklyn bridgeloyaltymanhattan new york city |
On April 15, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, Police Sgt, Tommy Saunders is pulling security duty on the annual Boston Marathon when the Tsarnaev brothers strike with their homemade bombs in an act of terrorism. In the resulting chaos as the wounded are cared for, Saunders and his comrades join forces wi β¦th the FBI to get to the bottom of this attack. As the investigation continues, the Tsarnaev brothers realize that the authorities are close to identifying them and attempt to flee the city to continue their fanatical mayhem. To stop them, a police manhunt is performed that would have bloody confrontations and a massive dragnet shutting down the City of Boston to make sure there is no escape from the law. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police funeralmayorpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | drug dealerpress conferencedeath of child |
Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his met β¦tle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiacorruptionmurder |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police |
Story: | drug dealerpolitical corruptiondealerbrooklyn bridge |
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and β¦is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | mafiamurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | police detective |
Story: | press conferencecrime bosscover upjudge |
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorabl β¦e successor being finally chosen. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiafuneralmurder |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police |
Story: | drug dealerdirty copcrime bossmanhattan new york city |
In suburban Reston, Virginia, George Washington University American History professor Michael Faraday is still mourning the death of his wife, FBI agent Leah Faraday, after three years. His inside knowledge of the agency colors what he teaches in his classes. Although on good terms with Leah's ex-pa β¦rtner, Whit Carver, and the agency in general, Michael wants the agency at least to acknowledge their responsibility in her death in the line of duty. Michael is moving on with his personal life, he being in a serious relationship with his former teaching assistant Brooke Wolfe. Although he likes Brooke, Michael and Leah's nine year old son, Grant Faraday, may not yet be quite ready for Brooke to be a permanent part of their lives. It is only in helping adolescent Brady Lang who he sees in medical distress that Michael meets his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang, Brady's parents. In the process, Michael and Brooke becomes friends with the Langs, as Grant and Brady become friends. However, the more time that he spends with them and catches discrepancies in their stories, Michael becomes suspicious that the Langs may not be everything they appear on the surface. As such, Michael, against Brooke's concerns of invasion of the Lang's privacy, begins his own investigation of Oliver in particular. What Michael discovers has serious national security implications, as well as possible life threatening dangers to him, Brooke and Grant. (Read More)
Subgenre: | political conspiracypolitical thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | corruptionpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | political corruptionpolitical cover upcover up |
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.
Subgenre: | political thrillerconspiracy |
Themes: | funeralpoliticsmurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | idealismcover up |