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Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the local police, but they aren't interested - Bobby was …their killer. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police brutalityabductionpsychopathinvestigationprisonmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Locations: | bus stationsmall town |
| Characters: | grandmother grandson relationshipdaughterpolicemanserial killerafrican americanpolice |
| Period: | 1990s1980s |
| Story: | florida evergladesmiami floridaconfession under tortureforced confessionfalse confessionpolice pathologistscottish americaneaten by an animalcambridge massachusettsbiblical passagelaw professorstabbed in chestvandalizing a carevergladeschristian fundamentalism …deep southdrawbridgereference to sherlock holmesdefense attorneyconvicted felonbiblical quoteharvardgangsta gripeunuchelectric chairchild rapepolice interrogationmatricidealligatornewspaper articledeath rowpatricideflyhit with a baseball batsouthern accentowlcastrationswampironyanimal attackdebatefloridarace relationssociopathchild murderblack americangraffitiwitnessmanipulationchampagnepolice officer killedconfessionchild in perilfalse accusationtied to a chairstabbed to deathfootballthroat slittingbound and gaggedreporterbare buttcorpsesurprise endingmale nuditybased on novelnudity (See All) |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationrevengemurder |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | defense attorneysouthern accentcastrationsociopathmanipulationconfessionreportercorpsesurprise endingmale nuditybased on novelnudity |
Mickey Knox and Mallory Wilson aren't your typical lovers - after killing her abusive father, they go on a road trip where, every time they stop somewhere, they kill pretty well everyone around them. They do however leave one person alive at every shootout to tell the story and they soon become a me …dia sensation thanks to sensationalized reporting. Told in a highly visual style. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police brutalitypsychopathprisonrevengemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | matricidedeath rowpatricidesouthern accentironyanimal attacksociopathwitnesspolice officer killedstabbed to deaththroat slittingbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise ending |
Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his actions against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his bosses son. He is recently widowed and is left with a 9 year old daughter, Maddy. He decides to quit the turbulent and demanding life of thrill for M …addy's sake and retires to a small town. His daughter fights off a boy who is bullying her at school, and this sets in motion a round of events that end in his direct confrontation with the local Meth drug lord. His past history with the biker gang also enters the arena, making matters more complex. But he has a mission in his mind to protect his daughter and he is ready to pay any cost that it demands. (Read More)
| Themes: | prisonmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | daughterpolice |
| Story: | drawbridgealligatorhit with a baseball batsouthern accentswamppolice officer killedchild in periltied to a chairstabbed to deathsurprise endingbased on novel |
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 …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 spe… (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathprisonmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | policemanpolice |
| Story: | florida evergladesmiami floridaalligatorsouthern accentswampfloridarace relationssociopathpolice officer killedthroat slittingbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise endingbased on novel |
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 … to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect. (Read More)
| Themes: | police brutalitypsychopathrevengemurder |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | serial killerafrican americanpolice |
| Story: | convicted felonhit with a baseball batsouthern accentpolice officer killedbare buttcorpsesurprise ending |
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationrevengemurder |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Locations: | bus stationsmall town |
| Characters: | police |
| Period: | 1980s |
| Story: | southern accentsociopathmanipulationpolice officer killedchild in perilstabbed to deaththroat slittingcorpsesurprise ending |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationrevengemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | police interrogationsouthern accentironysociopathmanipulationconfessionfalse accusationthroat slittingreportercorpsesurprise endingmale nuditybased on novel |
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 …ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | policemanafrican americanpolice |
| Period: | 1990s1980s |
| Story: | gangsta gripsociopathmanipulationpolice officer killedchild in perilfalse accusationtied to a chairthroat slittingbare buttcorpsesurprise ending |
The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the police arrested the right man; he discovers this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blond, pretty, and small fo …r their age. So he buys an old gas station in the mountains near the crimes in order to search for a tall man who drives a black station wagon, gives toy porcupines as gifts, and calls himself the wizard: clues from a drawing by the dead girl. Jerry's solitary life gives way to friendship with a woman and her small, blond daughter. Has Jerry neglected something that may prove fatal? (Read More)
| Themes: | investigationmurder |
| Characters: | daughterpolicemanserial killerpolice |
| Story: | false confessionironychild murderwitnessconfessionthroat slittingcorpsesurprise endingbased on novel |
In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of … one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon's execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same "modus-operandi" and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of associate Shelly Barnes, an FBI agent, his friend Frank Parks, and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigates some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigationprisonmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | policemanserial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | death rowwitnessmanipulationconfessiontied to a chairthroat slittingbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise ending |
Eldest son Ward Jansen is a star reporter for a Miami newspaper and has returned home with close friend Yardley to investigate a racial murder case. Younger brother Jack Jansen has returned home after a failed stint at university as a star swimmer. To help give his life some direction, Ward gives Ja …ck a job on their investigation as their driver. But into the mix comes the fiancee of the imprisoned convict who stirs up confusing feelings of love and lust for the young Jack. Meanwhile, Ward and Yardley's investigation stirs up deep-rooted issues of race and acceptance which could cause serious consequences for everyone involved. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigationprisonmurder |
| Story: | miami floridaalligatorswampfloridastabbed to deaththroat slittingreportermale nuditybased on novel |
Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas ('Anton Yelchin' (qv)) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows-up with an entourage of ghostly bodachs - predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction - Odd knows that his town is in serious t …rouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy ('Addison Timlin' (qv)) and the local sheriff ('Willem Dafoe' (qv)), Odd plunges into an epic battle of good vs evil to try to stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. Based on the best-selling thriller by Dean Koontz. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationrevengemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | policemanpolice |
| Story: | flyhit with a baseball batowlanimal attacksociopathmanipulationpolice officer killedchild in perilfalse accusationbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise endingbased on novel |
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.
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | daughterafrican americanpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | southern accentmanipulationpolice officer killedchild in perilfalse accusationfootballbare buttcorpsesurprise ending |
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 …ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationprisonmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Story: | gangsta gripsouthern accentsociopathmanipulationpolice officer killedchild in perilbound and gaggedbare buttcorpsesurprise ending |
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 … obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye. (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationprisonmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | small town |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | miami floridasouthern accentsociopathstabbed to deaththroat slittingbound and gaggedbare buttcorpsesurprise endingmale nudity |
A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Chased by police and shadowed by the killer, the driver's only help comes from a truck stop waitress.
| Themes: | police brutalitypsychopathmurder |
| Mood: | car chase |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1980s |
| Story: | sociopathfalse accusationthroat slittingbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise ending |
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: | independent film |
| Themes: | investigationrevengemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | african american |
| Story: | southern accentchild murderblack americanmanipulationpolice officer killedtied to a chairstabbed to deaththroat slittingcorpsesurprise ending |
An elite team of soldiers has been used against terrorists where they use astounding physical capabilities to overcome them. Victoria, a reporter, follows them and discovers a part of their secret. When one of the team kills her cameraman she tries to escape. Luc, one of the soldiers begins to have …flashbacks and turns sides and helps her as the remainder of the team follows to protect their secrets. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Mood: | car chase |
| Characters: | police |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | southern accentpolice officer killedfalse accusationstabbed to deaththroat slittingbound and gaggedreporterbare buttsurprise endingmale nuditynudity |
Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Ame …lia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer. (Read More)
| Themes: | abductioninvestigationrevengemurder |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | animal attacksociopathpolice officer killedchild in perilbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise endingbased on novel |
Sam Bowden ('Nick Nolte' (qv))is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver" type family-man. Max Cady ('Robert De Niro' (qv)) is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, a …nd he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss. (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathprisonrevengemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Story: | southern accentpolice officer killedchild in periltied to a chairthroat slittingbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise endingbased on novel |
A psychic doctor, John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins), works with an F.B.I. Special Agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell). After having lived in isolation for two years, since the death of his daughter, Clancy is asked by his friend Joe, an F.B.I. Speci …al Agent to help him solve several murders committed by a serial killer. The problem is that Ambrose is also psychic, and far ahead of Clancy. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | investigationmurder |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | daughterserial killerpolice |
| Story: | sociopathchild murderpolice officer killedbare buttcorpsesurprise ending |
The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire Martin comments on how he and Matt …are about the same height and he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt's guitar and left singing like Matt did. Twenty years later, an FBI profiler, Illeana Scott comes to Canada to help hunting down a serial killer Martin Asher who killed multiple men and lived by their identities. Martin's mother claims that she saw Martin in Quebec city and she tells the police that Martin is evil. The police also has an eyewitness James Costa who saw Asher kill his last victim... (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Locations: | bus station |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1980s |
| Story: | matricidewitnesspolice officer killedstabbed to deaththroat slittingcorpsesurprise endingbased on novel |
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 …maelstrom of sexual impropriety and misguided face-saving. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigationmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | daughterpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | forced confessionsouthern accentcorpsesurprise endingbased on novel |
Four tales of crime adapted from Frank Miller's popular comics, focusing around a muscular brute who's looking for the person responsible for the death of his beloved Goldie, a man fed up with Sin City's corrupt law enforcement who takes the law into his own hands after a horrible mistake, a cop who … risks his life to protect a girl from a deformed pedophile, and a hitman looking to make a little cash. (Read More)
| Themes: | police brutalitypsychopathrevengemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1990s1980s |
| Story: | forced confessioneaten by an animalelectric chaircastrationpolice officer killedconfessiontied to a chairthroat slittingsurprise ending |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh …ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police brutalitypsychopathrevengemurder |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | southern accentsociopathchild murdermanipulationchild in perilcorpsesurprise endingmale nuditybased on novelnudity |
Waking up in a undisclosed location in a unknown room two men, adam and gordon are trapped into a single room with a dead body. Given random tools with riddles hidnen around the room. Wondering who could have done this there are clues to who might of done it; the jigsaw killer. The question is not j …ust who but why would a serial killer leave two men in a room. Both adam and gordon hiding secrets they must trust and work together to get out or die...can they survive jigsaws game or die trying? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | psychopathmurder |
| Mood: | car chase |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Story: | police officer killedchild in perilstabbed to deaththroat slittingbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise ending |
A secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murde …rs LIVE on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies. (Read More)
| Themes: | abductionpsychopathinvestigationmurderrevenge |
| Characters: | policemanserial killerpolice |
| Story: | ironypolice officer killedchild in perilfalse accusationbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise ending |
In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are promoted to homicide detectives, workin …g together. Bucky becomes a close friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake, forming a triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress 'Elizabeth Short (I)' is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky's investigation leads him to a Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of a powerful and wealthy constructor that resembles the Black Dahlia. In an environment of corruption and lies, Bucky discloses hidden truths. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigationmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | daughterafrican americanpolice |
| Story: | police pathologistscottish americanhit with a baseball batchild murderblack americanchampagneconfessionthroat slittingcorpsebased on novelnudity |
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Gh …ostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger. (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationmurderrevenge |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Story: | sociopathpolice officer killedtied to a chairstabbed to deaththroat slittingbound and gaggedreportercorpsesurprise ending |
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and ma …ke them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story." (Read More)
| Themes: | police brutalitypsychopathinvestigationprisonrevengemurder |
| Mood: | car chase |
| Characters: | policemanserial killerpolice |
| Story: | sociopathwitnesstied to a chairstabbed to deathreportercorpse |
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 …murder, they have to pretend to be each other. (Read More)
| Themes: | police brutalitymurder |
| Mood: | car chase |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | miami floridafloridawitnesscorpsesurprise ending |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigationprisonmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | policemanserial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1990s1980s |
| Story: | false confessionwitnessconfessionchild in perilstabbed to deathreporter |
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 …trying to solve the case may also not be what they seem. (Read More)
| Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationmurder |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | animal attackpolice officer killedstabbed to deathbare buttsurprise endingmale nudity |
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 …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: | independent film |
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationprisonrevengemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | death rowwitnesspolice officer killedchild in perilfalse accusationthroat slittingcorpsesurprise ending |
A new film is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy...anything can happen.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | investigationrevengemurder |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | hit with a baseball batsociopathfalse accusationtied to a chairstabbed to deaththroat slittingbound and gaggedreportercorpsesurprise ending |
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.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police brutalitypsychopathprisonrevengemurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | grandmother grandson relationshipafrican americanpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | gangsta grippolice interrogationchild in perilsurprise ending |
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 …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: | police brutalitypsychopathinvestigationprisonmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Story: | false confessionanimal attacksociopathmanipulationpolice officer killedchild in perilfalse accusationtied to a chairbound and gaggedreportercorpsesurprise ending |
The story centers on a corporate climber who gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | abductionpsychopathinvestigationrevengemurder |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | policemanpolice |
| Story: | animal attacksociopathfalse accusationtied to a chairbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise ending |
Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programmed to detest violence. If he goes through the … program, his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating. (Read More)
| Themes: | police brutalitypsychopathprisonmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | police |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | hit with a baseball batsociopathmanipulationtied to a chairthroat slittingbound and gaggedreporterbare buttsurprise endingmale nuditybased on novel |
Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous convict Jericho Stewart (Kevin Costner). When he wakes up …with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and make the deal with him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationprisonmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | death rowsociopathpolice officer killedchild in periltied to a chairstabbed to deathbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise ending |
Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man who appears when you say his name five times, in front of a mirror. Of course, Helen doesn't believe all this stuff, …but the people of the area are really afraid. When she ignores their warnings and begins her investigation in the places that he is rumored to appear, a series of horrible murders begins. Could the legend be true? (Read More)
| Themes: | abductionpsychopathinvestigationprisonrevenge |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Story: | castrationchild murdergraffitifalse accusationcorpsesurprise ending |
Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hots …hot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts. (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationprisonmurderrevenge |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | policemanpolice |
| Story: | southern accentwitnessmanipulationconfessionsurprise ending |
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the pu …zzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigationrevengemurder |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Story: | police interrogationsociopathpolice officer killedtied to a chairstabbed to deaththroat slittingbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise endingmale nudity |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's … not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationprisonmurder |
| Characters: | policemanserial killerpolice |
| Story: | death rowsociopathchild murderwitnessconfessionfalse accusationstabbed to deathreporter |
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 …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: | independent film |
| Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationmurder |
| Mood: | car chaseneo noir |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | policemanafrican americanpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | newspaper articleblack americanmanipulationpolice officer killedcorpsesurprise ending |
Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the racial tension of the US South when he is arrested after the murder of a prominent businessman. Tibbs was simply waiting for his next train at the station in Sparta, Mississippi and the confusion is soon resolved but when local police chief Gillespie learns … that Tibbs is the Philadelphia PD's number one homicide expert, he reluctantly asks for his assistance. The murdered man, Mr. Colbert, had come to Sparta from the North to build a new factory and his wife and business associates immediately point the finger at Endicott, the most powerful man in the county and the one who had the most to lose if a major new employer comes to the area. Tibbs' life is clearly in danger but he perseveres in a highly charged and racially explosive environment until the killer is found. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigationmurder |
| Mood: | car chase |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | policemanafrican americanpolice |
| Story: | deep southrace relationsconfessionfalse accusationcorpsesurprise endingbased on novel |
In DELIVER US FROM EVIL, New York police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), struggling with his own personal issues, begins investigating a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the …frightening and demonic possessions that are terrorizing their city. Based upon the book, which details Sarchie's bone-chilling real-life cases. (Read More)
| Themes: | police brutalitypsychopathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | animal attackchild murderpolice officer killedconfessionchild in periltied to a chairstabbed to deathcorpsesurprise ending |
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 …is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | daughter |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | miami floridachristian fundamentalismsouthern accentfloridabare buttcorpsesurprise endingbased on novelnudity |
1 year after her mother's death, Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell), and her friends started experiencing some strange phone calls. They later learned the calls were coming from a crazed serial killer, in a white faced mask and a large black robe, looking for revenge. His phone calls usually consist of … many questions, the main one being: Whats your favorite scary movie? Along with many scary movie trivia, ending with bloody pieces of innocent lives scattered around the small town of Woodsboro. (Read More)
| Themes: | psychopathinvestigationrevengemurder |
| Locations: | small town |
| Characters: | serial killerpolice |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | false accusationtied to a chairstabbed to deaththroat slittingbound and gaggedcorpsesurprise ending |
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