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Detective Go Geon-soo is having a hard day, and the following events happen to him in less than 24 hours: He receives a divorce notice from his wife. His mother passes away. He and his coworkers are investigated by police inspectors over alleged embezzlement. Then on his way to his mother's funeral, β¦ he drives recklessly and commits a fatal hit and run. He tries to cover-up the accident by hiding the man's corpse in his deceased mother's coffin. But someone has been watching all along, and Geon-soo gets a mysterious call from a person claiming that he was the sole witness to the crime, who now begins to threaten him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | toy soldiercorpse in car trunkbody in a car trunkkilled by carhiding a dead bodykilled by a cardead body in a car trunkbody in trunkdead body in car trunkair ductphone ringingsurveillance footagesouth koreabody in a trunkfalling into water β¦police inspectorvideo surveillancedead mothersafeaquariumsurveillance cameramobile phoneburialtoyballoonloss of motherkeyunderwater scenehit by a carcoffinrevolvercell phonetelephone callexplosionviolencebloodgunfightdog (See All) |
Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, the unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it's not too late to start over. For most people it would be the adventure of a lifetime, but Allan Karlsson's unexpected journey is not his first. For a century he's made the worl β¦d uncertain, and now he is on the loose again. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police |
Story: | body in a car trunkdead body in a car trunkdead body in car trunkbody in a trunkpolice inspectormobile phonecell phoneexplosiongun |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al β¦ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmail |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | body in a car trunkdead body in a car trunksurveillance footagesurveillance camerakeycoffinrevolvercell phonetelephone callgundogbloodfightviolence |
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: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Characters: | police |
Story: | safehit by a carrevolvercell phoneexplosionviolencegunfightblood |
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police |
Story: | dead body in a car trunkvideo surveillanceunderwater scenecoffinrevolvercell phonefightdogviolencebloodgun |
Frank Martin, played by newcomer Ed Skrein, a former special-ops mercenary, is now living a less perilous life - or so he thinks - transporting classified packages for questionable people. When Frank's father (Ray Stevenson) pays him a visit in the south of France, their father-son bonding weekend t β¦akes a turn for the worse when Frank is engaged by a cunning femme-fatale, Anna (Loan Chabanol), and her three seductive sidekicks to orchestrate the bank heist of the century. Frank must use his covert expertise and knowledge of fast cars, fast driving and fast women to outrun a sinister Russian kingpin, and worse than that, he is thrust into a dangerous game of chess with a team of gorgeous women out for revenge. From the producers of LUCY and the TAKEN trilogy, THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED is a fresh personification of the iconic role of Frank Martin, that launches the high-octane franchise into the present-day and introduces it to the next generation of thrill-seekers. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Characters: | police |
Story: | surveillance footagebody in a trunkpolice inspectorsafekeyunderwater scenehit by a carcell phonefightviolence |
Inspector Wing of the Hong Kong Police Force has become the victim of a gang, led by the evil Joe. When his entire team is killed, Wing becomes a hapless drunk, feeling guilty for the deaths of his team. A young man with a troubled past pretends to be a police officer working on the case with Wing, β¦to get him back on his feet and begin an adventure to get revenge on the evil Joe and his Gang of Five, especially when it becomes personal. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | surveillance footagepolice inspectorsurveillance camerarevolvercell phoneexplosionfightviolenceblood |
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found deca β¦pitated. It is called an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "accidents". (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | police inspectorvideo surveillancedead mothersurveillance cameracell phonetelephone callexplosiongunfightviolencedogblood |
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star develo β¦ping her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmail |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | balloonkeyhit by a carcoffinrevolvercell phonetelephone callexplosionblooddogfightgunviolence |
Kevin Chan (aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord. Of course, the drug-lord isn't too happy about this, and frames Kevin with the murder of another cop (who happened to be on the take). Kevin has to clear hi β¦s name, whilst keeping himself from getting killed or arrested, and keeping his girlfriend from leaving him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | police inspectorhit by a carrevolvercell phonetelephone callexplosionfightbloodviolence |
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: | black comedy |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | surveillance footagebody in a trunksurveillance camerahit by a carcell phonetelephone callexplosionviolencedogfightblood |
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive.
Characters: | police |
Story: | dead motheraquariumkeyhit by a carrevolverexplosiongundog |
In 1848, a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico, so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita, Durango, and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The bank's henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women, Maria, the tough but uneducated daughter of a fa β¦rmer, and Sara, the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the now landless people and to seek revenge, Maria and Sara become bank robbers, veritable Robin Hoods. But Jackson and his hired guns are after them. What are the women's options? (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Story: | falling into waterpolice inspectorsaferevolverexplosiongunfightdogviolence |
The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin. Now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone! It's a big double-decker plane, so very concerned mother has a lot of te β¦rritory to cover in order to find her daughter. But as Kyle fights to discern the truth, she takes matters into her own hands. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | safesurveillance cameracoffintelephone callexplosiongunfightblood |
Charlie is an ex-professor turned reluctant call center employee who gets fired on the first day. Distraught at being unable to provide for his daughter Emily and wife Penelope, he accepts when Gus, an aspiring scam artist who presents Charlie with a seemingly snag-free plan to make some cash. The p β¦lan is to blackmail Reverend Smalls, a man of the cloth, who's frequently turned up in the company database of visitors to illegal porn sites. Gus plans to extort Reverend Smalls, with the intention of publicly exposing his secret shame should he refuse, thus potentially destroying the man's career. Normally cautious, Charlie is keen on participating in this scam, confident that the money he'll make from the scam will finally help turn things around for him and his family. Joined by one-time teenage pageant queen Josie McBroom, Gus's ex, the plan goes ahead, but it all goes wrong as Reverend Smalls dies thanks to this trio, with this only being the start of their troubles. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Characters: | police |
Story: | toyhit by a carrevolvercell phonetelephone callgunbloodviolence |
Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just β¦when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music? (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | dead body in a car trunkbody in a trunkmobile phoneloss of motherkeyhit by a carrevolvercell phonetelephone callexplosiongunbloodviolence |
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
Characters: | police officer |
Story: | south koreaaquariumburialkeycell phoneviolencedogblood |
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | south koreahit by a carcell phoneviolencefightdogblood |
A fine art auctioneer mixed up with a gang joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster than anyone could have anticipated.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Story: | dead body in a car trunkdead body in car trunkbody in a trunkunderwater scenehit by a carrevolvercell phoneviolenceblood |
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)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmail |
Characters: | police |
Story: | body in trunkbody in a trunkvideo surveillanceaquariumrevolverdogviolenceblood |
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police |
Story: | phone ringingbody in a trunkrevolvercell phonetelephone callexplosionviolencegunfightblood |
Elise (Angelina Jolie) sits next to an American tourist, Frank (Johnny Depp), on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted by police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but also the mobster whose money her lover stole.
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | falling into waterpolice inspectorsafecell phoneexplosion |
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.
Characters: | police officer |
Story: | mobile phoneburialkeyhit by a carcell phoneexplosionfightdogbloodviolence |
Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts, two eloping high-school graduates.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | body in a trunktoyhit by a carcoffinrevolvercell phonegunbloodfightviolence |
In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas M β¦idlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | dead motherburialloss of motherrevolvercell phoneexplosiongundogbloodviolence |
David Kirmani,a medical professional, lives in an apartment with his sweetheart, Erica Bain, a radio host, and his dog. They usually take the dog out for a stroll in nearby Central Park and let him run and fetch. One day while at the park they let the dog run without a leash, and when he does not re β¦turn or respond to their calls, they frantically search for him. They eventually find him being held by three men who want a reward. When David refuses, they start to molest Erica and David intervenes. Two of the men assault the couple, while the third uses a camcorder to film this incident. Erica is knocked unconscious, and regains her senses several days later in a hospital. She is told the shocking news that David was killed and the dog is missing. A traumatized Erica returns home to try and regain her life. She also visits the police station but does not get much help. Fearful of a repeat of this type of incident, she gets an unlicensed gun and carries it with her all the time. One day she witnesses some youths terrorizing subway passengers, forcing them to get off at the next station. When they approach her, she shoots them dead. She uses her gun several more times, always gunning down people committing violent crimes. One day she is summoned to the police station to identify a man who may have been responsible for David's death and the assault on herself. She does recognize him, but refuses to identify him. Subsequently she finds out his whereabouts and plans to avenge her loβ¦ (Read More)
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | surveillance footagepolice inspectoraquariumsurveillance camerahit by a carcell phonetelephone callviolencegunfightdogblood |
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)
Themes: | blackmail |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | surveillance cameramobile phonehit by a carcell phonetelephone callexplosiongunblood |
Michael Mason, a pick-pocket living in Paris steals a bag with a teddy bear in it. Not realizing the toy contains a timed bomb, he tosses it aside on a busy street. A few seconds later it explodes, killing four people. CCTV footage reveals Masons face and the French police tag him as a terrorist thr β¦eat. The explosion, although botched, was set up by a select group of the French Interior Ministry as a decoy so they can make a half billion dollar digital transfer from a bank, (closed on French National Day) -hence the title Bastille Day. In a separate CIA investigation the unruly agent Sean Briar, discovers the real story behind Masons "terrorist attack". The two men, on different sides of the law, collaborate to bring the corrupt members of the Ministry down. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | surveillance footagepolice inspectortoycell phoneexplosionviolencefightblood |
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | loss of mothercoffincell phonetelephone callviolencegun |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de β¦tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police |
Story: | dead body in a car trunkbody in a trunkburialcoffintelephone callgundogviolenceblood |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate β¦ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | surveillance cameraburialcoffinrevolvercell phoneexplosiondogviolencebloodfight |
Turkish and his close friend/accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets badly beaten by Pitt, a 'pikey' ( slang for an Irish Gypsy)- who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxin β¦g promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including 'Cousin Avi', 'Boris The Blade', 'Franky Four Fingers' and 'Bullet Tooth Tony'. Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog! (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Story: | body in trunkloss of motherhit by a carrevolverviolencebloodfightdog |
Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods--human or otherwise--from one place to another. No questions asked. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his β¦ tricked-out BMW, Frank adheres to a strict set of rules, which he never breaks. Rule One: Never change the deal. Rule Two: No names--Frank doesn't want to know whom he's working for, or what he's transporting. Rule Three: never look in the package. Frank's newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he's done in the past. He's been hired by an American known only as "Wall Street" to make a delivery; but when Frank stops along the route, he notices his package is moving. Violating Rule Three, Frank looks inside the bag, finding its contents to be a beautiful, gagged woman. Frank's steadfast adherence to his other two rules--which make up his basic code of survival--also quickly fails, hurtling him and his new companion on a road leading to shocking secrets, deadly complications, and the last thing that Frank ever expected to come to believe: that rules are made to be broken. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police |
Story: | body in a trunkunderwater scenehit by a carrevolvercell phoneexplosionfightblood |
Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horsemen, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real. This puts agents Dylan Rhodes of the FBI and Alma Dray of β¦Interpol on the case to find out how they did it. However, this mystery proves difficult to solve even with the insights of the professional illusion exposer, Thaddeus Bradley. What follows is a bizarre investigation where nothing is what it seems with illusions, dark secrets and hidden agendas galore as all involved are reminded of a great truth in this puzzle: the closer you look, the less you see. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police |
Story: | safekeyunderwater scenecell phoneexplosionbloodfight |
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)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | safeaquariumrevolvercell phonetelephone callexplosionviolencegunfightblood |
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)
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | surveillance footagebody in a trunkrevolvercell phoneexplosionbloodviolence |
Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by β¦ the alias L. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | underwater scenehit by a carcell phoneexplosionviolencegunfightblood |
Gal, Deedee, Aitch and Jackie, having left behind respective lives of ill-repute, bask in the sun of Spain and in the most essential brand of leisure. A hazy yarn of barbecues, beer and botched hunting expeditions make up their retirements, until a sudden and unforeseen disruption emerges from their β¦ past. Enter the childishly violent and hilariously edgy Don Logan. Through a series of side-splitting negotiations and irrevocable acts, retired crook Gal is forced to shake off the rust and accept one last mission, put forth by the menacing Logan, his ex-mentor. A heist of legendary proportion and personal implications, this job should make for one hell of an encore. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Story: | safemobile phoneunderwater scenecell phonetelephone callviolenceblood |
Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey ('Will Smith (I)' (qv)) and Marcus Burnett ('Martin Lawrence (I)' (qv)) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin Johnny Tapia ('Jordi Molla' (qv)), whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched β¦ off an underground war. Meanwhile, things get sexy between Mike and Syd ('Gabrielle Union' (qv)), Marcus's sister. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | body in trunkhit by a carexplosiongunbloodviolence |
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue. After they recover the box, they discover that it has the β¦ capability to decode all existing encryption systems around the world, and that the agents who hired them didn't work for the Government after all... (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police |
Story: | body in trunkair ductbody in a trunkvideo surveillancerevolverdog |
A group of young American ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities are hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency. They must utilize their different talents and band together for a final job enabling them to escape the agency forever.
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Story: | body in a trunkaquariumkeyexplosiongunblood |
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 β¦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: | black comedy |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | body in a car trunkbody in a trunkhit by a carrevolvercell phoneexplosionviolencefightdogblood |
Sok-woo, a father with not much time for his daughter, Soo-ahn, are boarding the KTX, a fast train that shall bring them from Seoul to Busan. But during their journey, the apocalypse begins, and most of the earth's population become flesh craving zombies. While the KTX is shooting towards Busan, the β¦ passenger's fight for their families and lives against the zombies - and each other. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Story: | south koreamobile phonehit by a carcell phonetelephone callexplosionfightbloodviolence |
Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But β¦his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | body in trunkbody in a trunkexplosionviolenceblood |
Lazy court-process clerk and stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord, h β¦e panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him--and it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they're not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia: incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police |
Story: | mobile phonetoyhit by a carrevolvercell phonetelephone callexplosionviolencegunfightblood |
For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the "Ice Man". At the Hunter's Point Raceway, Jack confronts Tyrone Burroughs and Arthur Brock. Jack kills Brock in self defense, but Burroughs escapes, and Jack is in danger of going β¦to prison because Brock's gun can't be found. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day. Jack tries to convince Reggie to help him clear his name and find the Ice Man, but Reggie says he won't help unless Jack gives Reggie the $500,000 that Jack has been holding on to for Reggie. Jack refuses to give Reggie the money unless Reggie helps him. After the bus that is transporting Reggie away from the prison is forced to crash by two bikers and Jack gets shot by the same two bikers, Jack forces Reggie to help him by having the hospital release Reggie into his custody. Reggie recognized one of the bikers as Richard "Cherry" Ganz, the brother of Albert Ganz, the escaped convict Jack killed years ago. Jack got shot because Cherry wants revenge for Albert's death, and Cherry and his partner Willie Hickok are the hitmen who have been hired to kill Reggie. Burroughs, who works for the Ice Man, was trying to hire Brock as insurance, just in case Cherry and Hickok fail. Blake Wilson, the head of the Internal Affairs division, obviously doesn't like Jack, because Wilson will stop atβ¦ (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | revolverexplosiongunfightbloodviolence |
In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal wh β¦o has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy - and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. But is either willing to turn on their friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover? (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | surveillance cameramobile phoneburialcoffinrevolvercell phonetelephone callexplosionbloodviolencegunfight |
From a cell, a man tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but half his mind is occupied with the corru β¦ption charges he is facing. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in Madeleine White, a high-power broker with a hidden agenda. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane, if they are so competent and they know they won't get one? Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is the thieves' leader in a cell? (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmailmoney |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | video surveillancesafetelephone callexplosionviolencegun |
After a thirteen-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a six-year-old boy, Guem-Ja Lee seeks vengeance on the man truly responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | blackmail |
Characters: | police |
Story: | south koreaaquariumviolencegundogblood |
A biochemist and his dishy wife arrive in Berlin for a conference at which a scientist and his controversial Arab funder will announce breakthrough research. While his wife checks into the hotel, he grabs a cab to return to the airport for his briefcase, left at the curb. En route, an auto accident β¦puts him in a coma, from which he awakes four days later without identification and with gaps in his memory. He goes to the hotel: his wife refuses to recognize him and another man has claimed his identity. With help from a nurse, the cab driver, a retired Stasi agent, and an academic friend, he tries to unravel what's going on. Is the answer in the briefcase? (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Story: | surveillance footagevideo surveillancesurveillance cameraunderwater scenehit by a carcell phoneexplosionviolencefight |