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It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. β¦ This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancee of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque "who-done-it" with an African-American theme. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | police brutalityracisminvestigationpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | african american |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | darwinian struggle for survivaljazz clubbiracialmiddle classcomic reliefjazz musicplot twiststabbed in the necktensiondressprivate detectiveshot in the armmissing personracial slurfemme fatale β¦braalcoholshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathwoman on topshootoutknifebased on novelsexviolence (See All) |
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: | suspense |
Themes: | racisminvestigationpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | plot twistprivate detectiveshot in the armracial slurfemme fataleshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathknifeviolence |
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates a β¦nd is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case? (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityracismmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | private detectiveracial slurfemme fataleshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolencesex |
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 brutalityracismmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | comic reliefracial slurfemme fataleshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutbased on novelviolence |
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 brutalityinvestigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | comic reliefstabbed in the neckshot in the armracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifebased on novelviolence |
Police ambush and kill several gang members in Los Angeles. Gang members make a pact of blood to strike back at police, and conduct a siege on the police station which is almost abandoned and due to be closed. Staff of the closing precinct and the criminals being held there while in transit must wor β¦k together to fight off the attacking gang members. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | police brutalitymurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | tensionshot in the armshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands of their daughter's illness and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to a β¦n adulterous rendezvous in a hotel. However, no sooner have they torn each other's clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda. Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles agrees with Lucinda who is reluctant to go to the police and soon finds he is powerless to resist the demands of the thief. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | tensionshot in the armfemme fataleshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutbased on novelviolence |
A mysterious man who has multiple jobs as a garage mechanic, a Hollywood stuntman and a getaway driver seems to be trying to escape his shady past as he falls for his neighbor - whose husband is in prison and who's looking after her child alone. Meanwhile, his garage mechanic boss is trying to set u β¦p a race team using gangland money, which implicates our driver as he is to be used as the race team's main driver. Our hero gets more than he bargained for when he meets the man who is married to the woman he loves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | stabbed in the necktensionshot in the armracial sluralcoholshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathknifebased on novelviolence |
An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow l β¦eads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know? (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | stabbed in the neckracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Themes: | police brutalitymurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | shot in the armracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
New York Police Detective John Shaft is the lead detective on a sensitive case, a young black man is severely beaten. The man's companions tell Shaft that their friend humiliated the one who was sprouting racial slurs at him. Shaft confronts him and he says he's Walter Wade Jr. , the son of a wealth β¦y man. Shaft finds that he has the id of a woman who's a waitress at the bar where Wade and the guy who was attacked were. When Wade continues to hurl racist comments, Shaft smacks him. Shaft later learns because of his actions Wade was granted bail and fled. Two years later, Wade returns and Shaft arrests him. At his hearing when the judge grants him bail, that's when Shaft throws his badge at the judge. He then sets out to get Wade by finding the waitress. Wade in the meantime asks a drug dealer named Peoples Hernandez to find the waitress and make sure she doesn't talk. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityracismmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | stabbed in the neckprivate detectiveracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutbased on novelviolence |
How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their s β¦treet. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads and pressure mounts, knowing his child's life is at stake the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigation |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | shot in the armmissing personalcoholshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | police brutalitymurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | stabbed in the neckracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
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: | police brutalityracismmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | racial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
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 brutalityinvestigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | racial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | racismmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | missing personracial sluralcoholshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifebased on novelviolence |
Sean Vetter and Demetrius Hicks are members of the DEA who are fighting an ongoing drug war on the California/Mexico border, they are most successful at it because of their edge of growing up on the street and being thugs converted to cops. The DEA busts one of the major players by the name of "Memo β¦" Lucero and imprison him in the United States but then a major player named Diablo then takes over the business and now he is now the major player targeted by Vetter and his team. But when Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible and in the process has to seek help from the imprisoned Lucero in order to catch Diablo. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when all Vetter can focus on is revenge... (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | police brutalitymurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | shot in the armracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Rick β¦y is the 'All-American' athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while 'Dough' succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre, who is lucky to have a father, 'Furious' Styles, to teach him to have the strength of character to do what is right and to always take responsibility for his actions. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityracismmurder |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | tensionracial sluralcoholshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathknifeviolencesex |
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: | suspense |
Themes: | police brutalitymurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | shot in the armshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, after escaping death from the previous movies are put on a hit list by The Triads. When blood thirsty mercenaries are on their tail they team up again with Leo Getz and Lorna Cole, a newcomer (Chris Rock) to finally put an end to the Triads for good.
Themes: | police brutalityracismmurder |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | shot in the armshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
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: | suspense |
Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | racial slurfemme fatalealcoholshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
A band straying into a secluded part of the Pacific Northwest stumbles onto a horrific act of violence. Because they are the only witnesses, they become the targets of a terrifying gang of skinheads who want to make sure all the evidence is eliminated.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | racismmurder |
Story: | stabbed in the necktensionracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
In an airport waiting room, a man in a wheelchair tells a stranger a story about a fixed horse race in 1979 that resulted in a family's deaths. In Manhattan, two bookies and the son of a Mob boss die. A young man just out of the shower answers the door to a neighbor woman and explains that he's visi β¦ting, has had a bad week, including being mugged, and doesn't know where his pal, who lives there, is. The neighbor is chatty; she's a coroner. Two thugs arrive and, believing the visitor to be the guy who lives there, take him to see the boss with the dead son, who tells him to kill the son of his Mob rival. Mistaken identity? What connects the threads? Cops are watching. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitymurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | stabbed in the neckracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolencesex |
Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Qualley), he encounters less licens β¦ed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy. (Read More)
Themes: | investigationpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | private detectiveshot in the armmissing personracial slurfemme fataleshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
1920's prohibition Chicago is corrupt from the judges downward. So in going up against Al Capone, Treasury agent Eliot Ness picks just two cops to help him and his accountant colleague. One is a sharp-shooting rookie, the other a seen-it-all beat man. The four of them are ready to battle Capone and β¦his empire, but it could just be that guns are not the best way to get him. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityracismmurder |
Story: | shot in the armalcoholshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutbased on novelviolence |
Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing β¦ to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | police brutalityracismmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | racial slurblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
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: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | stabbed in the neckracial slurshot in the headblood splattershot to deathknifebased on novelsexviolence |
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: | racismmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | racial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | stabbed in the neckshot in the armracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathknife |
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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | private detectiveracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifebased on novelviolence |
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.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | shot in the armshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
In Los Angeles, 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 corrup β¦t. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt over a 24-hour period. 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. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | shot in the armracial slurshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | stabbed in the neckshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathwoman on topshootoutknifeviolence |
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: | police brutalityinvestigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | tensionracial slurbrashot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolencesex |
Now that zombies have taken over the world, the living have built a walled-in city to keep the dead out. But all's not well where it's most safe, as a revolution plans to overthrow the city leadership, and the zombies are turning into more advanced creatures.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | racismmurder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | shot in the armracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
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.
Themes: | police brutalityracisminvestigationpoliticsmurder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | racial slurshot in the headblood splatter |
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: | police brutalitymurder |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | shot in the armracial slurshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathknifebased on novelviolence |
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: | suspense |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | shot in the armfemme fataleshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into β¦ obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | stabbed in the neckprivate detectivemissing personshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathknifesexviolence |
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: | police brutalityinvestigationmurder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | missing personracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathviolence |
Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azaze β¦l is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | comic reliefplot twistshot in the armshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
Ricky Santoro is a flamboyant and corrupt Atlantic City cop with a dream: become so well connected that he can become mayor. In lieu of that, he'll settle for keeping his comfortable lifestyle. On the night of the heavyweight boxing championship, Rick becomes mixed up in the assassination of the Sec β¦retary of Defense, an assassination involving his best friend. Becoming the investigating officer in the case, Rick soon uncovers a conspiracy to kill the Secretary and a mysterious woman in white. The conspiracy was shocking, but not half as shocking as the identity of its mastermind. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | politicsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | comic relieftensionshot in the armshot in the chestblood splattershot to death |
A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a terrifying riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorienting, alien and deadly landscape.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | police brutalitymurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | shot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
Some time after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race towards the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren (an infamous bounty β¦ hunter) and Chris Mannix (a man who claims to be Red Rock's new sheriff). Lost in a blizzard, the bunch seeks refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery. When they arrive they are greeted by unfamiliar faces: Bob, who claims to be taking care of the place while Minnie is gone; Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock; Joe Gage, a cow puncher; and confederate general Sanford Smithers. As the storm overtakes the mountainside, the eight travelers come to learn that they might not make it to Red Rock after all... (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | racismmurder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | tensionshot in the armracial slurshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith is called in to investigate but before getting there, he gets a call from someone who instructs him to pick up Joh β¦n Connor, a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs. When they arrive there Web thinks that everything is obvious but Connor tells him that there's a lot more going on. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | racisminvestigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | biracialblood splattershootoutbased on novelviolencesex |
Martin Riggs is an L.A. cop with suicidal tendencies and Roger Murtaugh is the unlucky police officer with whom Riggs is assigned. Together they uncover a huge drug-smuggling operation, and as their success rate grows so does their friendship.
Themes: | police brutality |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | shot in the armshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutviolence |
A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | private detectiveshot in the armshot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | tensionprivate detectivemissing personracial slurbrashot in the headshot in the chestblood splattershot to deathshootoutknifebased on novelviolence |
Nick Hathaway, an extremely talented hacker who has gone astray, finds his way out of a 15 year prison sentence when parts of a computer code he once wrote during his youth appears in a malware that triggered a terrorist attack in a nuclear power plant in China. This opportunity will reunite him wit β¦h an old friend but will also put him in the middle of a power game between the American and Chinese government as well as an arch villain hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his freedom and his life. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Story: | shot in the armshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutknife |
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)
Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationpoliticsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | private detectiveshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutknifeviolence |