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Thamizh thug for hire in the city of Chennai who has no ties to anyone and will do any dirty work as long as the money as good. He meets a young girl named Shruthi and they fall in love. But there are two obstacles in the path of their romance : firstly, Shruthi detests Thamizh's violent ways and se β¦condly, police sub-inspector Govindan is pursuing Shruthi obsessively with intent of making her his mistress. Meanwhile, Dubai-based crime lord Ali Bhai has arrived in Chennai for the purpose of silencing his chief rival gangster Narasimhan and also to meet Thamizh who is rising within the gang's ranks. However, during the meeting, Ali Bhai is arrested in a police raid conducted by Police Commissioner Mohammed Moideen Khan and his gang hatches a morally abhorrent plan in order to secure his release. (Read More)
Themes: | murder of fatherblackmailobsessiondeath of fatherkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | shedelevatornightclubtrain |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover coptrapped in an elevatorfight in a train compartmentjumping off a trainthrown from a trainobjectification of womenindecent proposalmollchennairival gangsleep deprivationtinnituscrime lordkidnapped girlinfiltration β¦wetting pantsgang warharassmentmeetingsexismconfrontationdamsel in distresscrime bosscorrupt copundercoverorganized crimeattackone against manypolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headremakebeatingshootoutone word titlebloodfight (See All) |
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)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime lordwetting pantsdamsel in distresscrime bosscorrupt copundercoverorganized crimeone against manypolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownbeatingshootout β¦fightblood (See All) |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime lorddamsel in distresscrime bossundercoverorganized crimeone against manyone man armyshot in the headremakebeatingshootoutfight |
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within t β¦heir midst. (Read More)
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | tough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime bossundercoverorganized crimepolice officer killedcriminalshowdownshot in the headshootoutblood |
In Jakarta, Indonesia, Lieutenant Wahyu organizes the invasion of an apartment building that is the safe house of the powerful and cruel drug lord Tama and his gang. The SWAT team breaks in the building but one lookout sees and warns the gangsters and the police force is trapped on the seventh floor β¦. They learn that Lt. Wahyu has not informed his superiors about the operation. Now the police officers have to fight with limited ammunition against the armed and dangerous gangsters. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime lordcrime bosscorrupt copundercoverorganized crimeone man armyshot in the headbeatingshootoutfightblood |
In the near future, the worst ghettos of Paris, France are literally walled off and among the worst is District B13. Controlled by the ruthless crime lord, Taha, a young righteous punk named Leito is determined to bring him down. When the boss retaliates by kidnapping his sister, Lola, a rescue atte β¦mpt by Leito is destroyed by betrayal that gets him arrested and Lola kept in the clutches in Taha. Six months later, a crackerjack undercover cop named Damien is given a urgent mission: a neutron bomb has been stolen by Taha in District B13 which has an automatic timer function engaged and set to detonate in less than 24 hours. Now with time running out, Damien and Leito must work together to find and stop the bomb, but there is far more to this crisis than any of the field players realize. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | tough guypolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime lorddamsel in distresscrime bosscorrupt copundercoverorganized crimecriminalshot in the headbeatingshootoutfight |
He thought it was over. After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen - a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls - rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a normal life. He couldn't have been more wrong. Formida β¦ble though they may have been, Rama's opponents in that fateful building were nothing more than small fish swimming in a pond much larger than he ever dreamed possible. And his triumph over the small fry has attracted the attention of the predators farther up the food chain. His family at risk, Rama has only one choice to protect his infant son and wife: He must go undercover to enter the criminal underworld himself and climb through the hierarchy of competing forces until it leads him to the corrupt politicians and police pulling the strings at the top of the heap. And so Rama begins a new odyssey of violence, a journey that will force him to set aside his own life and history and take on a new identity as the violent offender "Yuda." In prison he must gain the confidence of Uco - the son of a prominent gang kingpin - to join the gang himself, laying his own life on the line in a desperate all-or-nothing gambit to bring the whole rotten enterprise to an end. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime lordgang warcrime bosscorrupt copundercoverorganized crimeone against manypolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootout β¦fightblood (See All) |
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. β¦ Meanwhile, one of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head. Blinded by greed, his involvement draws his gang, the kid, Keong, and the whole neighborhood into a deadly crossfire. When the lazy cops fail to successfully resolve matters, Keong takes things into his own hands. Needless to say, much spectacular kung-fu and outrageous action sequences follow.... (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | crime lordgang warcrime bossundercoverorganized crimeone against manyone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutbloodfight |
In an innocent heartland city, five are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But instead of confessing, the accused man writes the words, "Get Jack Reacher." Reacher himself sees the news report and turns up in the city. The d β¦efense is immensely relieved, but Reacher has come to bury the guy. Shocked at the accused's request, Reacher sets out to confirm for himself the absolute certainty of the man's guilt, but comes up with more than he bargained for. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | damsel in distresscrime bosscorrupt coporganized crimeone against manypolice officer killedone man armyshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutblood |
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | tough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime bosscorrupt copundercoverpolice officer killedcriminalshowdownshot in the headremakeshootoutfightblood |
Bomber terrorist's elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer tries to unload any passengers off, Payne will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack's superior, and Jeff Dan β¦iels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevatortrain |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | trapped in an elevatordamsel in distressundercoverone against manypolice officer killedone man armyone word titlefightblood |
A vicious serial-killer is on the loose in San Francisco and the police trace a link to a small town further down the coast. When Harry Callahan upsets the press and the mayor in his usual style, he's shipped out of town to investigate while the heat is on. With the help of his new Magnum handgun Ha β¦rry goes on the trail leaving behind the usual trail of dead criminals along the way. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | crime bossorganized crimeone against manyone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutblood |
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: | kidnapping |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copundercoverpolice officer killedshowdownshot in the headshootoutfightblood |
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: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcorrupt copundercoverorganized crimepolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutfightblood |
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 β¦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: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | undercover copkidnapped girlconfrontationundercoverone against manypolice officer killedone man armyshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutone word titlefightblood |
In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton's Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approve β¦s of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fatherkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | tough guypolice officer |
Story: | gang warcorrupt coporganized crimeone against manyone man armyshowdownbeating |
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)
Themes: | death of fatherkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | damsel in distresscorrupt coporganized crimeone against manypolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutbloodfight |
Themes: | obsessionkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevatornightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | crime bossorganized crimeattackone against manypolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutbloodfight |
It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Sergeant John O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, w β¦hose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it's the cops. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fathermurder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime bosscorrupt coporganized crimepolice officer killedcriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutblood |
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: | obsessionmurder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copinfiltrationgang warcrime bossundercoverorganized crimepolice officer killedcriminalshot in the headbeatingshootoutfightblood |
Mark Kaminski is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Luigi Patrovita, enlists Kaminski in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement in β¦to the FBI if Patrovita is taken down. To accomplish this, Kaminski must go undercover and join Patrovita's gang. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | crime bossundercoverorganized crimeone against manyone man armyshowdownshootoutblood |
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at t β¦he beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Utah meets surfer Bodhi and gets drawn into the lifestyle of his new friend. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | undercover copundercoverpolice officer killedshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutfightblood |
Themes: | death of fatherkidnappingmurder |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | damsel in distresscrime bossorganized crimepolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutfightblood |
Vincent Downs is a cop in Las Vegas, who's partnered with a crooked cop. His partner asks him to steal some drugs, which they do. But what they don't know is that the drugs belong to a crime family, the Novaks who goes after anyone who crosses them. And Rob Novak the man who was handling the drug sa β¦le sets his sights on the man who sold him the drugs, casino boss Rubino. Rubino discovers Downs was the one who stole the drugs so he has Downs' son abducted and tells Downs to bring the drugs to his casino. Jennifer Bryant, an idealistic cop who wants to take down every criminal including the Novaks. Recently one her busts went bust and she did everything by the book. She thinks all the men are patronizing her. When she meets Downs she gets a vibe off of him and follows him. Downs brings the drugs to the casino and hides the drugs. Downs meets with Rubino and asks for his drugs. Downs wants his son first before he gives him the drugs. Rubino shows him his son and goes to get the drugs but Bryant finds the drugs and takes them. When Downs learns what she did he scrambles to find a way to save his son. And Novak needs the drugs desperately and goes after everyone especially Downs who is latter asisted by his wife and son to defeat these foes. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevatornightclub |
Characters: | tough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcorrupt copundercoverorganized crimepolice officer killedcriminalshowdownshot in the headremakebeatingshootoutone word titlefightblood |
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: | murder |
Locations: | elevatortrain |
Characters: | tough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime bosscorrupt copundercoverorganized crimepolice officer killedcriminalshot in the headremakebeatingshootoutfightblood |
Ben must prove he is good enough to date cop James' sister. By doing this he goes on a "Ride Along" to show that he is not weak and he will do whatever it takes to get James' approval but along the way runs into a few obstacles that he has to overcome in a very funny way.
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime lorddamsel in distresscrime bosscorrupt copundercovershowdownbeatingshootoutfightblood |
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: | murder |
Locations: | nightclubtrain |
Characters: | tough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime bossundercoverorganized crimepolice officer killedcriminalshootoutblood |
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia sce β¦ne and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | gang warcrime bossorganized crimepolice officer killedshowdownshootoutblood |
The future America is an irradiated waste land. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One - a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called "Judges" who possess the combined powers of judge β¦, jury and instant executioner. Known and feared throughout the city, Dredd is the ultimate Judge, challenged with ridding the city of its latest scourge - a dangerous drug epidemic that has users of "Slo-Mo" experiencing reality at a fraction of its normal speed. During a routine day on the job, Dredd is assigned to train and evaluate Cassandra Anderson, a rookie with powerful psychic abilities thanks to a genetic mutation. A heinous crime calls them to a neighborhood where fellow Judges rarely dare to venture - a 200 storey vertical slum controlled by prostitute turned drug lord Ma-Ma and her ruthless clan. When they capture one of the clan's inner circle, Ma-Ma overtakes the compound's control center and wages a dirty, vicious war against the Judges that proves she will stop at nothing to protect her empire. With the body count climbing and no way out, Dredd and Anderson must confront the odds and engage in the relentless battle for their survival. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevatortrain |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | crime lordgang warcrime bosscorrupt coporganized crimeone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutone word titlebloodfight |
After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son, firefighter Jeremy Coleman barely escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against the crime lord, Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshals. When his new identity β¦becomes compromised Jeremy is forced to take an unexpected course of action in order to get his life back and save the lives of those he loves. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officer |
Story: | crime lordcrime bossorganized crimeone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutfightblood |
An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Characters: | tough guy |
Story: | gang wardamsel in distresscrime bossorganized crimeone against manypolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownremakebeatingshootoutblood |
Medical student, Sunita, is driven by curiosity to study the case of Sanjay Singhania, who is afflicted with short-term memory loss. She runs into him, befriends him, and finds out that he is out to kill a seemingly benevolent citizen, Ghajini Dharmatma. After warning the latter of the impending dan β¦ger, she subsequently comes across a number of diaries written by Sanjay and attempts to put together a jigsaw puzzle as to how a successful and wealthy businessman became a crazed recluse, who re-lives his past through tattoos on his body, notes and Polaroid photographs on the wall of his Hiranandani Complex flat, and his sole obsession of carrying out his deadly mission - little knowing that Ghajini and his goons are out to erase every bit of evidence he has gathered and thus ensure that he ends up remembering nothing. (Read More)
Themes: | obsessionmurder |
Locations: | elevatortrain |
Characters: | tough guypolice officer |
Story: | trapped in an elevatorfight in a train compartmentone man armyshowdownshot in the headremakebeatingone word titlefightblood |
It's vacation time for Det. James Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get compli β¦cated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot by L.A. crime boss Steven Reign and Triad Ricky Tan, an ex-cop who played a mysterious part in the death of Det. Lee's father. Throw in a power struggle between Tan and the gorgeous but dangerous Hu Li and the boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella. Then again, it may turn up more excitement than Carter was looking for during his vacation. (Read More)
Themes: | murder of father |
Locations: | elevatornightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime bossundercoverorganized crimepolice officer killedshowdownshootoutblood |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | elevatortrain |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officer |
Story: | crime lordcrime bossorganized crimeone against manyone man armyshowdownshot in the headshootoutfightblood |
John Triton is a heroic Marine who returns home after being discharged--against his will--from the Iraq War. Stateside, he finds himself back in action, when a group of murderous diamond thieves on the run led by a merciless criminal named Rome has kidnapped his wife and John goes on a chase through β¦ the South Carolinian wilderness to retrieve her. With everything on the line, the Marine will stop at nothing to carry out his toughest and most important mission. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Characters: | action herotough guy |
Story: | damsel in distresscorrupt copone against manypolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownbeatingshootoutblood |
In Melbourne, the Chinese Chef Jackie has a successful show on television. The drug lord Giancarlo and his gang are dealing cocaine with The Demons gang, but they fight against each other. During the shooting, the snoopy reporter Diana and her partner are accidentally exposed and they flee with a VH β¦S tape with the footage of the negotiation. On the street, she stumbles with Jackie and he helps her fighting against the gangsters. When they are escaping in his car, her tape accidentally mixes with other videotapes that Jackie has in a box on the backseat of his car. Jackie goes to his apartment and meets his girlfriend Miki while his nephews "borrow" the tape to watch. Meanwhile Giancarlo's gangsters are looking for the tape and abduct Miki. Jackie's friend Romeo, who is a police detective, chases the gangsters with other policemen while Jackie teams up with Diana and his friend Lakisha to release Miki from Giancarlo. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | gang wardamsel in distresscrime bossorganized crimeone against manypolice officer killedone man armyshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutfight |
NYPD cop John McClane goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly in Los Angeles where she works for the Nakatomi Corporation. While they are at the Nakatomi headquarters for a Christmas party, a group of bank robbers led by Hans Gruber take control of the building and hold everyone hostage β¦, with the exception of John, while they plan to perform a lucrative heist. Unable to escape and with no immediate police response, John is forced to take matters into his own hands. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | damsel in distressone against manypolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutbloodfight |
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to forc β¦e them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance begins and in this fight, Robocop must decide where his loyalties lie. (Read More)
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | organized crimeattackone against manypolice officer killedone man armyshowdownshootoutbloodfight |
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: | blackmaildeath of fatherkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevatornightclubtrain |
Characters: | tough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | gang warcrime bosscorrupt coporganized crimepolice officer killedcriminalshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutblood |
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)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclubtrain |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | crime bossundercoverorganized crimeshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutblood |
Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chase β¦d by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes...and this time, it's all or nothing. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | action herotough guy |
Story: | crime bossorganized crimeone against manyone man armycriminalshowdownremakebeatingbloodfight |
Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as THE GRAVEDIGGER. Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he an β¦d Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fathermurder |
Characters: | action heropolice officerpolice |
Story: | crime bosscorrupt coporganized crimeone against manypolice officer killedone man armyshot in the headbeatingshootoutblood |
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a n β¦ew wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailobsessionkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevatornightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | damsel in distresscrime bosscorrupt coporganized crimeone against manypolice officer killedone man armycriminalshowdownbeatingshootoutbloodfight |
When not solving murders in Tinseltown, Detective Joe Gavilan and his rookie partner Kasey Calden both moonlight in other fields: Gavilan sells real estate (poorly), and Calden aspires to become an actor (Brando, namely). Assigned to the vicious in-club slaying of a promising young rap act, the two β¦detective delve into the recording industry where they hope to find answers - ideally ones that also come with property buyers or auditions. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fathermurder |
Locations: | elevatornightclubtrain |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | corrupt copundercoverbeatingshootoutfight |
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: | kidnapping |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice |
Story: | crime bosscorrupt coporganized crimeone against manyone man armycriminalshot in the headremakebeatingshootoutblood |
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: | blackmailkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | elevatornightclub |
Characters: | police officerpolice |
Story: | crime bosscorrupt coporganized crimeattackpolice officer killedcriminalshot in the headbeatingshootoutblood |
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: | blackmailkidnappingmurder |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | harassmentorganized crimeone against manypolice officer killedone man armyshowdownshot in the headbeatingshootoutfightblood |
Joe is a professional hit man who picks someone off the street to do his errands, and after he is finished kills that person. His next assignment takes him to Bangkok, and as usual, he finds a street-wise guy named Kong to help him. After Kong has a close call and learns who Joe is, Kong asks him to β¦ train him and he does. Joe also meets a local girl who is deaf and spends time with her. However, Joe has a hard time keeping his other life from her. It also appears that the person who hired Joe, breaks his rule of complete anonymity and tries to find him. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | nightclubtrain |
Characters: | tough guy |
Story: | crime bossorganized crimeone against manyone man armyshowdownshot in the headremakebeatingshootoutblood |
The year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years - and it's meant billions for OmniCorp's bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they β¦see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) - a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit - is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcorrupt copundercoverone against manyone man armyshot in the headremakeshootoutone word title |
The RIDE ALONG 2 sequel picks up about a year after our heroes' last adventure. Plans for a quick trip to Miami go bad. With the wedding upcoming, James reluctantly takes Ben with him to Miami to follow up on a lead connected to a drug ring case he's been trying to crack. In Miami, they meet Maya, a β¦ no-BS homicide detective who lets them know Miami is her turf. They also encounter AJ, a shady cocky computer hacker who reveals evidence that implicates a well-respected local businessman, the wealthy Antonio Pope. Pope harbors a vicious streak and rules South Florida's drug trade. If Ben and James can convince the authorities that Pope is a brutal crime boss they'll stop his spree. If they fail, well there may not be a wedding after all. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | action herotough guypolice officerpolice |
Story: | undercover copcrime lordcrime bossundercoverorganized crimeshowdownshootout |