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Themes: | death of daughterdrug usecorruptioninvestigationprisondrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | francenightclubboatmotorcyclecarswimming poolhospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | year 1981year 197520th century1970s1980s |
Story: | heroin addictreference to francois mitterrandminister of interiorjumping into a swimming poolcitroenmagistratedeabullet proof vestmarseilleunited states of americaloss of daughterdjloss of husbandbulletproof vestdrug overdose β¦discodeath of husbandheroinautomobiledrug addictjudgeweaponwomannew yorkgangnewspaperwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsebased on true storypistolcigarette smokinggunbloodviolence (See All) |
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: | corruptioninvestigationdrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | nightclubmotorcycleswimming pool |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | djbulletproof vestheroindrug addictjudgegangshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolviolencebloodgun |
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)
Themes: | death of daughterprisonmurderdeath |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | bulletproof vestweaponwomangangshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingviolenceblood |
Based on a true story of James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather and FBI informant who had a "secret trading" deal with his brother, William "Billy" Bulger, a state senator and a Boston public figure, and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down the Italian mob and mafia in Bosto β¦n, which went awry and things turned massively violent. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders, and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI's Boston office to confirm that Whitey Bulger was one of the most notorious criminals in US history and also one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List criminals. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptioninvestigationdeathmurder |
Locations: | nightclubhospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Period: | year 1981year 1975 |
Story: | bulletproof vestheroindrug addictwomangangnewspapershot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsebased on true storypistolcigarette smokingviolenceblood |
An intertwined drama about the United States' war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his crack-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin's wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss's motives.
Themes: | drug usecorruptiondrugsdeathmurder |
Locations: | swimming pool |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | bulletproof vestdrug overdoseheroindrug addictjudgewomanviolence |
The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside t β¦heir differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past. (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughtermurder |
Locations: | boatmotorcyclecar |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 20th century1980s |
Story: | citroenloss of daughterautomobileweaponwomancorpse |
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: | prisondrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | carhospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | drug overdoseheroindrug addictgangwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolcigarette smokingbloodgunviolence |
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: | drugsdeath |
Locations: | nightclubboatswimming pool |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | bulletproof vestheroinweaponshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolviolenceblood |
Porter is bad, but his neighbours are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie wife. He survives and returns, looking to recover his share from the robbery of an Asian crime gang. The money has passed into the hands of "the β¦Outfit", a slick gangster organisation that runs the city. He has to make his way through a world populated by heroin dealers, prostitutes, sado-masochists, gunmen and crooked cops, a place where torture is a way of life. His only friend is a former employer, a prostitute, and her loyalty is in question, given she now works for the Outfit. He makes good early progress, but then falls into the hands of Fairfax, the crime boss. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptiondrugsdeath |
Locations: | car |
Characters: | police |
Story: | drug overdoseheroindrug addictwomangangshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingbloodviolencegun |
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: | investigationdrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | carhospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | drug overdosedeath of husbanddrug addictwomanshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolviolenceblood |
Brooklyn, 1988. Crime is rife, especially drugs and drug violence. A Russian thug is building his heroin trade, while everyone laughs at the cops. Brothers have chosen different paths: Joe has followed his father Bert into New York's Finest; he's a rising star. Bobby, who uses his mother's maiden na β¦me, manages a club. Bobby too is on the rise: he has a new girlfriend and a green-light to develop a Manhattan club. Joe and Bert ask him to help with intelligence gathering; he declines. Then, Joe raids Bobby's club to arrest the Russian. From there, things spiral out of control: the Russian puts out a hit on Joe, personal losses mount, and Bobby's loyalties face the test. (Read More)
Themes: | drug useinvestigationprisondrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | nightclubmotorcyclehospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | discoheroinshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolcigarette smokinggunviolenceblood |
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea. In and out of prison, Ronni β¦e's unpredictable tendencies and the slow disintegration of Reggie's marriage threaten to bring the brothers' empire tumbling to the ground. (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughterdrug useinvestigationprisondeathmurder |
Locations: | nightclubcar |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | 20th century |
Story: | drug overdoseautomobilejudgeweapongangnewspaperwatching tvshot in the headshot to deathbased on true storypistolcigarette smokingviolencebloodgun |
Thomas Craven is a detective who has spent years working the streets of Boston. When his own daughter is killed outside his own home, Craven soon realizes that her death is only one piece of an intriguing puzzle filled with corruption and conspiracy, and it falls to him to discover who is behind the β¦ crime. (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughtercorruptioninvestigationmurderdeath |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | loss of daughtershot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolbloodviolencegun |
"Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.
Themes: | drug usedrugsdeathmurder |
Locations: | boatmotorcyclehospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | bullet proof vestweapongangwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsebased on true storypistolcigarette smokingviolencebloodgun |
After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Finn and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents and sadistic dea β¦ler Pooh-Bear. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptionmurderdeath |
Locations: | motorcyclehospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | bulletproof vestdrug overdoseheroindrug addictshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingbloodviolence |
Brazil, 1960s, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970s: Li'l Ze has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bene is the only one to keep him on t β¦he good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years, and he wants no part of it. Yet he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980s: Things are out of control between the last two remaining gangs...will it ever end? Welcome to the City of God. (Read More)
Themes: | drug usemurderdeath |
Locations: | nightclubmotorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 1970s1980s |
Story: | discodrug addictgangnewspaperwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathbased on true storypistolviolencebloodgun |
Three amateurs stickup a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Brad Pitt plays the hitman hired to track them down and restore order.
Themes: | drug usedrugsdeathmurder |
Locations: | car |
Story: | heroinautomobiledrug addictwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingviolenceblood |
Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his met β¦tle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptiondrugsdeathmurder |
Locations: | nightclubcarswimming pool |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | citroenloss of husbanddiscodrug addictweaponwomanwatching tvshot in the headshot to deathpistolgunviolenceblood |
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: | corruptioninvestigationprisondrugsdeathmurder |
Locations: | nightclubmotorcycle |
Characters: | police |
Story: | bulletproof vestheroinweaponwomanshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolbloodviolence |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston β¦police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a speβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughtercorruptionprisondrugsdeathmurder |
Locations: | nightclubboathospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | heroin addictloss of daughterautomobiledrug addictgangshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingviolenceblood |
Martin Blank is a freelance hitman who starts to develop a conscience, which causes him to muff a couple of routine assignments. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he attends his 10th year High School reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (a Detroit suburb where he's also contracted t β¦o kill someone). Hot on his tail are a couple of over-enthusiastic federal agents, another assassin who wants to kill him, and Grocer, an assassin who wants him to join an "Assassin's Union." (Read More)
Themes: | drug usecorruptiondeathmurder |
Locations: | boatmotorcycle |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | djautomobileweaponwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingbloodviolence |
After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, β¦ his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse. (Read More)
Themes: | drug usecorruptioninvestigationprisondrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | heroindrug addictwatching tvshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolbloodviolence |
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: | investigationmurderdeath |
Locations: | car |
Characters: | police |
Story: | united states of americaautomobileweaponwomanshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolviolence |
An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having a β¦n affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece. (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughterdrug useinvestigationprisondrugsdeathmurder |
Locations: | motorcycleswimming pool |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | heroinjudgewomanwatching tvshot to deathpistolcigarette smokinggunbloodviolence |
Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he β¦ is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. (Read More)
Themes: | drugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | nightclubcarhospital |
Characters: | police |
Story: | bulletproof vestheroinautomobileweaponwomanshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolviolenceblood |
Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them are guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Soze is felt. It becomes β¦ clear that each one of them has wronged Soze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Soze? (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughterprisondeathmurder |
Locations: | boatcar |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | year 19811980s |
Story: | loss of daughterautomobileweaponshot to deathcorpsecigarette smokingviolencebloodgun |
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influenc β¦e of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo. (Read More)
Themes: | drug useprisonmurderdeath |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s1980s |
Story: | drug overdoseheroindrug addictgangwatching tvbased on true storycigarette smokinggunviolenceblood |
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: | corruptioninvestigationmurderdeath |
Locations: | car |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | united states of americajudgeweaponwomannew yorkshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolviolence |
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, β¦and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price. (Read More)
Themes: | drug useprisondrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | swimming pool |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s1980s |
Story: | deadrug overdosediscojudgegangbased on true storypistolcigarette smokingbloodgun |
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 β¦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)
Themes: | death of daughterinvestigationdeathmurder |
Locations: | carhospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | bulletproof vestdeath of husbandshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolgunviolenceblood |
Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violen β¦t war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg. (Read More)
Themes: | investigationprisonmurderdeath |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | 20th century1970s |
Story: | judgeweaponwomangangnewspaperwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathbased on true storypistolcigarette smokinggunbloodviolence |
An elite DEA team raids the safe house of a drug cartel and hide $10 million in the plumbing. When they go back to retrieve the money it is not there. The team is under investigation for the missing $10 million. Then after a couple months the investigation is lifted. The team trains together again a β¦nd then celebrates at a strip club. Then one of the team is murdered. He wakes up in his RV on railroad tracks. Then a second team member is nailed to the ceiling. The third team member is gunned down at his remote cabin. There is a female City of Atlanta investigator in charge of the murders. After investigating the cartel angle, the twisted truth comes to light. (Read More)
Themes: | corruptioninvestigationmurderdeath |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | deabulletproof vestdrug addictwomanshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingbloodviolence |
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to t β¦he hallowed halls of the Honky House.. (Read More)
Themes: | investigationdrugsmurder |
Locations: | nightclubhospital |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | heroinwomanshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolviolencegunblood |
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: | corruptioninvestigationprisondrugsdeathmurder |
Locations: | nightclubcarhospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | bulletproof vestdrug addictgangshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingviolenceblood |
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a β¦murder, they have to pretend to be each other. (Read More)
Themes: | drugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | nightclubcarswimming pool |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | heroinautomobileshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolgunviolenceblood |
William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, β¦ and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. (Read More)
Themes: | drugsmurder |
Locations: | nightclubcar |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | marseilleheroinautomobileshot in the chestbased on true storypistolcigarette smokingblood |
In England, retired Royal Marine Harry Brown spends his lonely life between the hospital, where his beloved wife Kath is terminally ill, and playing chess with his only friend Leonard Attwell in the Barge pub owned by Sid Rourke. After the death of Kath, Len tells his grieving friend that the local β¦gang is harassing him and he is carrying an old bayonet for self-defense; the widower suggests him to go to the police. When Len is beaten, then stabbed to death in an underground passage, Inspector Alice Frampton and her partner Sergeant Terry Hicock are sent to investigate. They pay Harry a visit but don't have good news; the police have not found any other evidence, other than the bayonet, in order to arrest the hoodlums. This mean that should the case go to trial the gang would claim self-defense. Harry Brown sees that justice will not be granted and decides to take matters into his own hands. (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughterinvestigationdrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | motorcyclehospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | drug overdoseheroindrug addictgangshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokinggunviolenceblood |
A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by his past connections and the naive machinations of his lawyer and best friend. Hoping to raise enough money to get away from New York, Carlito Brigante takes on the job of running a n β¦ightclub, renews an affair with a dancer but old associates and old instincts suck him back into a world of violence and mistrust. (Read More)
Themes: | prisondrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | nightclubboathospital |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | discoshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolviolenceblood |
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 β¦k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
Themes: | investigationprisondeathmurder |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s1980s |
Story: | judgenewspaperwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathbased on true storypistolcigarette smokinggunviolenceblood |
LAPD lieutenant Mike Harrigan ('Danny Glover' (qv)) and his cocky detective partner Jerry Lambert ('Bill Paxton' (qv)) soon realize that what seemed a bloody feud between voodoo high priest King Willie's ('Calvin Lockhart' (qv)) Jamaican gangs and Ramon Vega's ('Corey Rand' (qv)) Colombian drug gang β¦ is actually the work of a scary third party. Peter Keyes's ('Gary Busey' (qv)) federal team shields the crime scene even for the LAPD, but after forensics proves it must be an alien, who keeps making victims, the chase brings them all together. (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 20th century |
Story: | united states of americaweaponwomangangshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolviolenceblood |
Set in the 1970s in a metropolis called "Bay City," this is the tale of two police detective partners, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson, and Dave Starsky, who always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey, rely on omniscient street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes β¦ in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod, telling the story of their first big case (as a prequel to the TV show), which involved a former college campus drug dealer who went on to become a white collar criminal. (Read More)
Themes: | prisondrugsmurder |
Locations: | nightclubmotorcyclecarswimming poolhospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | discowomanshot in the chestcorpsepistolviolence |
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goe β¦s to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking. (Read More)
Themes: | drug useinvestigationdrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | carswimming poolhospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | death of husbandwomanwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolgunbloodviolence |
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murde β¦red. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan... (Read More)
Themes: | corruptioninvestigationprisondeathmurder |
Locations: | carswimming pool |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | united states of americaautomobilejudgeweaponwomanshot in the chestshot to deathpistolcigarette smokingviolence |
In South Central Los Angeles, street cops Brian and Mike are partners - balls-out cowboys patrolling the streets as Latino gangs are in a power struggle with Blacks. Brian and Mike get lucky a couple of times, making big drug and human-trafficking busts, so a Mexican cartel orders their deaths. We m β¦eet Mike's pregnant wife (whom he married out of high school) and watch Brian's search for a soul mate. There are internal squabbles within the ranks of the LAPD and lots of squad-car conversation. Can the lads escape the cartel's murderous reach? (Read More)
Themes: | investigationdeathmurder |
Locations: | car |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | bullet proof vestweaponshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolviolencegunblood |
A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to β¦ prison, Kimble's transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble takes up his own investigation to find who really killed his wife, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well. (Read More)
Themes: | drug usecorruptioninvestigationprisondeathmurder |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | automobilejudgeweaponnewspapershot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingblood |
Despite being no saint herself, Julia Cody has shielded her seventeen year old son, Joshua "J" Cody, from her Melbourne-based criminal relatives who they have not seen in years. After Julia dies in front of J's eyes from a self-inflicted heroin overdose, J, who is slightly detached from life, feels β¦he has no choice but to contact his maternal grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, the family matriarch, for a place to live. Smurf rules the family with a borderline incestuous love over her three sons, the quietly menacing Andrew "Pope" Cody, the hyperactive Craig Cody, and the barely of age Darren Cody. Pope and his best friend, Barry "Baz" Brown, are armed robbers, with Darren their up and coming apprentice, while Craig is a mid level drug dealer. Melbourne's Armed Robbery Squad is after specifically Pope, who is hiding out. But when the standoff between the Codys and the Armed Robbery Squad is brought up a notch, an all out war ensues, with some casualties and J caught in the middle. The only grounding in J's life is his girlfriend, Nicky Henry. With those casualties comes an investigation by Homicide Detective Senior Sergeant Nathan Leckie, who knows the Codys are involved in some of those deaths. As Leckie tries to get J on his side, J has to figure out how best to get himself out from the middle, where he trusts neither side. J also wants to figure out how to exact what he considers justice in an all around bad situation. (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughterdrug useinvestigationmurderdeath |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | bulletproof vestdrug overdoseheroinwatching tvshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsebased on true storypistolcigarette smokingviolenceblood |
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: | drug usedrugsmurderdeath |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | loss of husbanddeath of husbandheroinshot in the headshot in the chestshot to deathpistolcigarette smokingviolencegun |
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: | drug useinvestigationdrugsmurderdeath |
Characters: | husband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | bulletproof vestdrug addictgangnewspaperwatching tvshot in the chestshot to deathpistolcigarette smokingbloodviolencegun |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con β¦vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Themes: | death of daughterdrug useprisondrugsdeathmurder |
Locations: | swimming poolhospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | loss of daughterloss of husbanddeath of husbanddrug addictwatching tvcorpsepistolcigarette smokingbloodgun |
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost β¦(Tip T.I. Harris), a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the "takers" carefully plot their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer (Matt Dillon) inches closer to apprehending the criminals. (Read More)
Themes: | prisondeathmurder |
Locations: | nightclubmotorcyclecarswimming poolhospital |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
Story: | bulletproof vestdrug addictshot in the chestshot to deathcorpsepistolcigarette smokingbloodviolence |