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Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have ch …arges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police corruptionmurder investigationcorruptionseductionbetrayaldeathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | boatbar |
| Characters: | lusthitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | woman wearing only a man's shirtwhite pantieshush moneyevidence tamperingzydecoconflict of interestpayoffdrug ringinternal affairsbrass knucklescajunmagnetopposites attractmarching banddistrict attorney …united states of americaharborinvestigatornew orleans louisianacynicismreconciliationswitchbladecrying manvideotapeorganized crimescantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiessurprise endingexplosiondancingsex (See All) |
1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; …Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | district attorneycynicismswitchbladeorganized crime |
A former rock star, Johnny Boz, is brutally killed during sex, and the case is assigned to detective Nick Curran of the SFPD. During the investigation, Nick meets Catherine Tramell, a crime novelist who was Boz's girlfriend when he died. Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman, a …nd though Nick is more or less convinced that she murdered Boz, he is unable to find any evidence. Later, when Nilsen, Nick's rival in the police, is killed, Nick suspects of Catherine's involvement in it. He then starts to play a dangerous lust-filled mind game with Catherine to nail her, but as their relationship progresses, the body count rises and contradicting evidences force Nick to start questioning his own suspicions about Catherine's guilt. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder investigationcorruptionseductionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | lustdetectivepolice |
| Story: | cynicismscantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiessurprise endingdancingsex |
In New Orleans, the hit men James Bonomo, a.k.a. Jimmy Bobo, and Louis Blanchard execute the dirty cop Hank Greely in a hotel room. But they are betrayed and Louis is stabbed in a bar by the mercenary Keegan while waiting for the payment of the contract. Meanwhile the Washington D.C. police detectiv …e Taylor Kwon comes to New Orleans to investigate the murder of Greely, who had stolen evidences from the Police Department. Soon he is shot by two dirty detectives but Jimmy saves his life. Jimmy brings Taylor to the shop of his daughter Lisa and she removes the bullet from his shoulder and nurses him. Taylor and Jimmy form the most unlikely partnership to investigate the crimes and after contacting the intermediate Ronnie Earl that had hired Jimmy and Louis, they discover a network of corruption formed by the lawyer Marcus Baptiste and the entrepreneur Robert Nkomo Morel. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | new orleans louisianaswitchbladeorganized crimeexplosion |
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull … it off? (Read More)
| Themes: | seductionmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | boatbar |
| Characters: | lustdetectivepolice officer |
| Story: | white pantiescynicismscantily clad femalecleavagepantiessurprise endingexplosiondancing |
Four tales of crime adapted from Frank Miller's popular comics, focusing around a muscular brute who's looking for the person responsible for the death of his beloved Goldie, a man fed up with Sin City's corrupt law enforcement who takes the law into his own hands after a horrible mistake, a cop who … risks his life to protect a girl from a deformed pedophile, and a hitman looking to make a little cash. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice |
| Story: | switchbladeorganized crimescantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiessurprise endingexplosion |
Suzanne Stone (Maretto) knows exactly what she wants. She wants to be a television newscaster and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is fo …rced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary. (Read More)
| Themes: | seductionmurder |
| Characters: | lusthitman |
| Story: | white pantiescynicismscantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiessex |
Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | white pantiesswitchbladeorganized crimescantily clad femalecleavagepantiesdancing |
An 8 year old Amish boy and his mother are traveling to Philadelphia, on their way to visit the mother's sister. While waiting at the train station, the young boy witnesses a brutal murder inside one of the bathroom stalls. Police detective John Book is assigned to investigate the murder of the man, … who was a undercover cop. Soon after, Book finds out that he's in great danger when the culprits know about his investigation and hides out in the Amish community. There, he learns the way of living among the Amish locals, which consists of non-violence and agriculture. Book soon starts a romance with the mother of the little boy, but their romance is forbidden by the Amish standards. But, it's not long before the bad guys find out Book's whereabouts. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | detectivepolice |
| Story: | switchbladescantily clad femalecleavagedancing |
The thief Laurie Ash steals the expensive diamond jewel called 'Eye of the Serpent' in an audacious heist during an exhibition in Cannes 2001 Festival. She double-crosses her partners and is mistakenly taken as Lily, a woman who lost her husband and son in an accident and is missing since then, by a …n ordinary family. One day, while having bath in Lily's bathtub, Lily comes back home and commits suicide. Laurie assumes definitely Lily's identity, goes to America where she marries a rich man, who becomes the Ambassador of USA in France. When Laurie returns to France, her past haunts her. (Read More)
| Themes: | corruptionseductionbetrayalmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | lust |
| Story: | cynicismscantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiessurprise ending |
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 …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: | betrayalmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | boat |
| Characters: | lustpolice |
| Story: | district attorneyorganized crimescantily clad femalecleavagepantiessurprise endingdancing |
Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to …get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in, he still refuses to 'go with the flow', in the hope that one day, the truth will be known. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruption |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | police officerpolice |
| Story: | payoffinternal affairsdistrict attorneycynicismdancing |
A family of police officers - patriarch, two sons, and a son-in-law - deals with corruption in a precinct in Washington Heights. Four officers die in an ambush at a drug dealer's apartment. It's brother Francis's precinct, so when the investigation led by brother Ray finds hints of police corruption …, there's pressure to close ranks and save Frankie's career. Dad, a police brass, promises Ray that he and Frankie can clean things up, and Ray should focus on catching the drug dealer who killed the cops. Meanwhile, brother-in-law Jimmy, a hothead and an enforcer, is visited at home by a lowlife. Is Jimmy involved in the corruption? Where can this take the family? (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurderdeath |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | hush moneyinternal affairs |
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 … crime. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder investigationcorruptionbetrayaldeathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officer |
| Story: | videotape |
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: | corruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | marching bandcynicismswitchbladeorganized crimesurprise endingexplosiondancing |
Frank Keller is a New York detective investigating a case of a serial killer who finds the victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers. Keller falls in love with Helen, the main suspect in the case.
| Themes: | seductionmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | woman wearing only a man's shirtinvestigatorsurprise ending |
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 …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: | police corruptioncorruptionbetrayaldeathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | boatbar |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | switchbladeorganized crimescantily clad femalecleavagepantiessurprise endingexplosion |
When drug violence worsens on the USA Mexico border, the FBI sends an idealistic agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) on a mission to eradicate a drug cartel responsible for a bomb that had killed members of her team.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionbetrayaldeathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitmanpolice officer |
| Story: | cynicismorganized crimesurprise endingexplosion |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston …police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spe… (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionseductionbetrayaldeathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | boatbar |
| Characters: | hitmanpolice officerpolice |
| Story: | cynicismcrying manorganized crimesurprise endingexplosiondancing |
1920's prohibition Chicago is corrupt from the judges downward. So in going up against Al Capone, Treasury agent Eliot Ness picks just two cops to help him and his accountant colleague. One is a sharp-shooting rookie, the other a seen-it-all beat man. The four of them are ready to battle Capone and …his empire, but it could just be that guns are not the best way to get him. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurderdeath |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | switchbladeorganized crimeexplosion |
Rose Cooper is an uptight and by-the-book cop whose name has become a verb synonymous with screw-ups, and she's found a chance to redeem herself. She has been assigned to protect a federal witness, Daniella Riva, the vivacious and outgoing widow of a drug boss. As the two polar opposites race throug …h Texas, they find themselves pursues by everyone from crooked cops to murderous gunmen. However, their greatest obstacle to making this out alive may be themselves as they learn that Cooper has now been considered a fugitive fleeing with Danielle. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurderdeath |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | white pantiesorganized crimewomanpantiesdancing |
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | murder investigationcorruptiondeathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | lustdetective |
| Story: | cajunmarching bandinvestigatornew orleans louisianapantiessurprise endingdancing |
A day in the life of the employees of Empire Records. Except this is a day where everything comes to a head for a number of them facing personal crises - can they pull through together? And more importantly, can they keep their record store independent and not swallowed up by corporate greed?
| Themes: | seduction |
| Characters: | lustpolice |
| Story: | white pantiesreconciliationscantily clad femalecleavagepantiessurprise endingdancingsex |
LAPD detective Tom Ludlow is a ruthlessly efficient, unorthodox undercover cop. Captain Jack Wander always covers for Tom, as do even his somewhat jealous colleagues. After technically excessive violence against a vicious Korean gang during the liberation of a kidnapped kid sex slave, Tom becomes th …e target of IA's hotshot, captain James Biggs, who feels passed over after Wander's promotion to chief. Tom's corrupt, disloyal ex-patrol partner Terrence Washington sides with IA but is killed during a shop robbery in Tom's presence. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptionmurder investigationcorruptionmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | detectivepolice |
| Story: | conflict of interestsurprise endingsex |
San Francisco Police Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. You Meanwhile, those of the city's criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callah …an begins to investigate the murders despite orders from his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations... (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptionmurder investigationcorruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | district attorneyorganized crimepantiessurprise endingexplosion |
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: | police corruptioncorruptionmurderdeath |
| Characters: | hitmanpolice |
| Story: | drug ringorganized crimewoman |
Open-minded architect Paul Kersey returns to New York City from vacationing with his wife, feeling on top of the world. At the office, his cynical coworker gives him the welcome-back with a warning on the rising crime rate. But Paul, a bleeding-heart liberal, thinks of crime as being caused by pover …ty. However his coworker's ranting proves to be more than true when Paul's wife is killed and his daughter is raped in his own apartment. The police have no reliable leads and his overly sensitive son-in-law only exacerbates Paul's feeling of hopelessness. He is now facing the reality that the police can't be everywhere at once. Out of sympathy his boss gives him an assignment in sunny Arizona where Paul gets a taste of the Old West ideals. He returns to New York with a compromised view on muggers... (Read More)
| Themes: | murder investigationdeathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | detectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | white pantiesswitchbladescantily clad femalecleavagepanties |
Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. The district attorney on the case is Katheryn Murphy who wants to prove that although Sarah had taken drugs that night and was acting provocatively while in the bar, this is no reason for her to be so brutally attacked and the men re …sponsible should be brought to justice. (Read More)
| Themes: | betrayal |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | lustdetectivepolice |
| Story: | white pantiesdistrict attorneyscantily clad femalecleavagepantiesdancingsex |
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 … 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)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police corruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | boat |
| Characters: | hitmanpolice |
| Story: | harbororganized crimesurprise endingexplosion |
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
| Themes: | seduction |
| Locations: | boatbar |
| Characters: | lust |
| Story: | white pantiesswitchbladescantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiesdancingsex |
Crime novelist Catherine Tramell is living in London, and becomes the center of police investigation (yet again) when her football player boyfriend drowns in a car accident and it is revealed that he was already dead because of a drug overdose before Tramell drove the car into water. Police psychoan …alyst Dr. Michael Glass is called for examining Tramell, and is intrigued by the seductive and manipulative woman. On the other hand , his friend Det. Roy Washburn is sure Tramell is guilty. Tramell asks Glass to treat her for her 'risk addiction' problem, and with each therapy session , Glass gets more and more suspicious about her intentions. As more and more murders are committed, including that of Glass's ex-wife, Glass becomes obsessed with proving Tramell's guilt even though the evidence is contradictory . (Read More)
| Themes: | murder investigationseductionmurder |
| Characters: | lustpolice |
| Story: | scantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiessex |
A film about two homicide detectives' ('Morgan Freeman (I)' (qv) and ('Brad Pitt' (qv) desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopath …ic "John Doe" ('Kevin Spacey' (qv)) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Somerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills (Pitt) scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer... (Read More)
| Themes: | murder investigationmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | lustdetectivepolice |
| Story: | white pantiesdistrict attorneyswitchbladescantily clad femalepantiessurprise ending |
Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together.. …. until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | betrayalmurderdeath |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitmanpolice |
| Story: | new orleans louisianareconciliationswitchbladeorganized crimewomandancing |
In the midst of an elaborate conspiracy, an expert negotiator is driven to the edge when he's framed for the murder of his partner, as well as embezzling money from his department's pension fund. His only chance to prove his innocence is to take hostages himself, acquire the services of another expe …rt negotiator, and find out who's running the conspiracy before it's too late. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | police officerpolice |
| Story: | surprise endingexplosion |
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, … 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 |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | drug ringcynicismorganized crime |
With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, "El Mariachi," director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi," where an itinerant musician, looking for w …ork, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown. (Read More)
| Themes: | corruptiondeathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitman |
| Story: | organized crimescantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiessurprise endingexplosion |
In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are promoted to homicide detectives, workin …g together. Bucky becomes a close friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake, forming a triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress 'Elizabeth Short (I)' is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky's investigation leads him to a Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of a powerful and wealthy constructor that resembles the Black Dahlia. In an environment of corruption and lies, Bucky discloses hidden truths. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptioncorruptionmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | lustpolice officerpolice |
| Story: | white pantiesswitchbladescantily clad femalecleavagepantiesdancing |
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.
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | betrayaldeathmurder |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitman |
| Story: | new orleans louisianacynicismorganized crimesurprise ending |
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 …s name, whilst keeping himself from getting killed or arrested, and keeping his girlfriend from leaving him. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | police corruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | videotapeorganized crimesurprise endingexplosion |
This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a …foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence. (Read More)
| Themes: | betrayaldeathmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | hitmanpolice |
| Story: | united states of americacrying manorganized crimescantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiesexplosion |
Corky, a lesbian ex con hired to work in an apartment as a plumber, meets neighbors Caesar, who launders money for the Mafia, and his girlfriend Violet. The two women have a love affair and decide to steal $2,000,000 that Caesar has in custody before he gives them back to Mafia boss Gino Marzone. Ca …esar is set up by the two scheming women as a scapegoat but things start to go wrong when he reacts in an unexpected way... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | seductionmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | lustpolice officerpolice |
| Story: | scantily clad femalewomancleavagepanties |
Four adopted brothers come to avenge their mother's death in what appears to be a random killing in a grocery store robbery. However, the boys' investigation of the death reveals more nefarious activities involving the one brother's business dealings with a notorious local hoodlum. Two cops who are …trying to solve the case may also not be what they seem. (Read More)
| Themes: | police corruptionmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | united states of americaorganized crimewomansurprise ending |
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 … 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: | corruptionbetrayaldeathmurder |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | drug ringorganized crimesurprise endingexplosiondancing |
Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, …who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | seductionmurder |
| Characters: | lustdetectivepolice |
| Story: | woman wearing only a man's shirtwhite pantiesscantily clad femalecleavagepantiesdancingsex |
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 …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: | police corruptioncorruptionbetrayaldeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | organized crimescantily clad femalewomanpantiessurprise endingexplosion |
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, … 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: | police corruptionmurder investigationcorruptionmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | district attorneynew orleans louisianaorganized crimepanties |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miser …ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | corruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | switchbladeorganized crimepantiessurprise endingexplosiondancingsex |
The unluckiest man in Vegas - a guy whose bad luck is contagious - is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love with a cocktail waitress and gets "lady luck," which throws the situation into reverse. Things turn nasty when the casi …no director tries to break up the romance. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | white pantiesorganized crimescantily clad femalecleavagepantiesdancingsex |
Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the a …rrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police. (Read More)
| Themes: | murderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | lustdetectivepolice officerpolice |
| Story: | white pantiesscantily clad femalewomancleavagepantiessurprise endingdancingsex |
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 …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)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | corruptionbetrayalmurderdeath |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | bar |
| Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice |
| Story: | united states of americavideotapewomansurprise ending |
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