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While holidaying in Switzerland, Lawrence and his wife Jill are asked by a dying friend, Louis Bernard, to get information hidden in his room to the British Consulate. They get the information, but when they deny having it, their daughter Betty is kidnapped. It turns out that Louis was a Foreign Off β¦ice spy and the information has to do with the assassination of a foreign dignitary. Having managed to trace his daughter's kidnappers back to London, Lawrence learns that the assassination will take place during a concert at the Albert Hall. It is left to Jill, however, to stop the assassination. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | humiliationdancekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftopkitchenlondon englandsnowchurch |
Characters: | policemanfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | dentist chairtelephone calldisbelieving authoritiesst. moritz switzerlandroyal albert hallshaving brushsoundproof roompulling a tooththreatening letterclay pigeon shootingtraced callconcert ticketforeign agentplainclothes officerconsoling hug β¦sense of humoryoung childwalking on a ledgehypnotic tranceknockout gasshoot to killski jumpingburning evidencewirelesschimetooth extractionreligiositydentistrytooth pullingeveningrecord albumtoy trainbullet holehypnotistconcert hallbreaking down a doorsneezehotel managerscreaming in fearsneezingthreat to killbrandysharpshooterenglishwomanjealous husbandexpressionismshot through a doororganmattressknittingenglishmanchapelhypnotismlanguage barrierpocket watchpolice inspectorshot through a windowpractical jokesiegehypnosisdentistphone boothimpersonationassassination attemptrecord playerreference to william shakespeareshot in the armkeypolice officer killedradiodinnerspytelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutcryingsingingdancingdog (See All) |
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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | shot through a doorshot through a windowsiegephone boothshot in the armpolice officer killedshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish produc β¦tion, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
Themes: | dancemurder |
Locations: | kitchensnow |
Characters: | policeman |
Story: | telephone callscreaming in fearjealous husbandhypnotismhypnosisrecord playertelephonecryingdancing |
Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a phone booth in belief it is P β¦am, Stu is on the line with a dangerous yet intelligent psychopath with a sniper rifle. When realizing it is not a joke, Stu is placed in a powerful mind game of wits and corruption. The New York City Police eventually arrive thereafter and demand Stu comes out of the phone booth- but how can he when if he hangs up or leaves the booth he will die? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | humiliationmurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | telephone calltraced callbullet holephone boothtelephone |
A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. "Condor" must find out who did this and get in from the cold before the hitmen get him.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | telephone callshot through a doorphone boothrecord playerspytelephoneshot to deathsinging |
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Gareth Mallory (Ralph Fiennes), the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. W β¦ith MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows - aided only by field agent, Eve (Naomie Harris) - following a trail to the mysterious Silva (Javier Bardem), whose lethal and hidden motives have yet to reveal themselves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftoplondon englandchurch |
Characters: | police |
Story: | chapelshot through a windowsiegeassassination attemptshot in the armpolice officer killedradiospyshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftopkitchenchurch |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | siegephone boothpolice officer killedradiotelephoneshot in the chestshot to death |
Evelyn Salt is a CIA agent and highly respected by all, including her boss, Ted Winter. Out of the blue, a Russian spy walks into their offices and offers a vital piece of information: the President of Russia will be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to New York City to attend the funeral of β¦ the recently deceased U.S. Vice President. The name of the assassin: Evelyn Salt. Concerned about the safety of her husband, who she cannot contact, she goes on the run. Winter refuses to accept that she is a mole or a double agent but her actions begin to raise doubts. Just who is Evelyn Salt and what is she planning? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchensnowchurch |
Characters: | police |
Story: | walking on a ledgeshot through a doororganassassination attemptspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdog |
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife β¦ is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | humiliationkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchenlondon england |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | telephone callmattressphone boothimpersonationassassination attempttelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutcryingsingingdancingdog |
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: | humiliationkidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftop |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | telephone callpolice inspectorphone boothpolice officer killedtelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets β¦ Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night. (Read More)
Themes: | dancekidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchen |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | telephone callshot through a doorpocket watchshot through a windowshot in the armradioshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutcryingsingingdancing |
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry β¦, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet. Their only hope is to perform one last unprecedented stunt to clear their names and reveal the mastermind behind it all. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnapping |
Locations: | rooftopkitchenlondon england |
Story: | telephone callhypnotistenglishmanhypnotismhypnosisimpersonationtelephone |
Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands of their daughter's illness and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to a β¦n adulterous rendezvous in a hotel. However, no sooner have they torn each other's clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda. Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles agrees with Lucinda who is reluctant to go to the police and soon finds he is powerless to resist the demands of the thief. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | telephone callshot through a windowshot in the armdinnershot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdog |
Sherlock Holmes ('Robert Downey Jr.' (qv)) and his longtime trusted associate, Doctor Watson ('Jude Law' (qv)), take on their arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty ('Jared Harris (I)' (qv)), with the help of Holmes' older brother Mycroft Holmes ('Stephen Fry (I)' (qv)) and a gypsy named Simza ('Noomi Rap β¦ace' (qv)). (Read More)
Locations: | london englandsnow |
Story: | pocket watchpolice inspectorshot through a windowassassination attemptshot in the armshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdancing |
Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the accidental secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they β¦ eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. In the years since MI-7's top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier's life, they must hunt down the highly unorthodox agent. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action. With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7. With mere days until a heads of state conference, one man must use every trick in his playbook to protect us all. For Johnny English, disaster may be an option, but failure never is. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | rooftopkitchenlondon englandsnowchurch |
Story: | shot through a windowhypnosisassassination attemptkeyspyshot in the chestdancingdog |
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: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | snowchurch |
Characters: | policemanfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | telephone callpolice inspectorshot through a windowphone boothassassination attemptshot in the armpolice officer killedtelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdancing |
Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choos β¦e between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftop |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | telephone callsharpshootersiegetelephoneshot to deathshootout |
Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored, and lonely living off his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life is his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker, Sarah (Mary-Louis Parker). Sara β¦h is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces Frank back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into Frank's past and the people he used to work with. Like Frank they are all RED ... Retired Extremely Dangerous. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | kitchensnow |
Characters: | police |
Story: | traced callthreat to killshot through a windowimpersonationassassination attemptspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
Passengers on a scheduled train out of the mountainous European country of Mandrika are delayed by a day due to an avalanche, and thus get up close and personal with each other out of necessity in the only and what becomes an overcrowded inn in the area. Once the train departs, the one person who it β¦ is uncertain is on the train is a middle aged English governess named Miss Froy. Iris Henderson, who was vacationing in Mandrika with girlfriends before heading back to England to get married, is certain that Miss Froy was on the train as they were in the same compartment and they had tea together in the dining car, but all those people who can corroborate her story don't seem to want to do so. Iris' thoughts are easily dismissed as a possible concussion as Iris was hit over the head just before boarding the train. Iris will take anyone's help in finding Miss Froy, even that of an Englishman named Gilbert, a musicologist with whom she had a not so pleasant encounter at the inn the evening before. As Iris and Gilbert go on their quest throughout the train, they believe there is a conspiracy among many of the passengers against the validity of there being a Miss Froy. But if there is a conspiracy, Iris and Gilbert still have to find Miss Froy and find out why anyone would want to kidnap a middle aged English governess. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | london englandsnow |
Story: | telephone calleveningbrandyexpressionismsiegeimpersonationspyshot to deathshootoutsingingdancing |
Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder β¦. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets a beautiful blond, Eve Kendall, who helps him to evade the authorities. His world is turned upside down yet again when he learns that Eve isn't the innocent bystander he thought she was. Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | telephone callwalking on a ledgephone boothassassination attemptspytelephoneshot in the chestshot to death |
The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized β¦ city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftoplondon englandsnow |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | phone boothassassination attemptpolice officer killedradiospytelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
Jason Bourne is again being hunted by the CIA. It begins when Nicky Parson a former CIA operative who helped Bourne, who went under and now works with a man who's a whistle blower and is out to expose the CIA's black ops. Nicky hacks into the CIA and downloads everything on all their Black Ops, incl β¦uding Treadstone which Bourne was a part of. And Heather Lee, a CIA agent, discovers the hack and brings it to the attention of CIA Director Dewey, the man behind the Black Ops. He orders Parsons be found and, hopefully, Bourne, too. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftopkitchenlondon england |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | telephone callassassination attemptpolice officer killedspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
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.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | snowchurch |
Characters: | police |
Story: | siegepolice officer killedtelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdog |
Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the co β¦de to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | policemanfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | telephone callshaving brushpolice inspectorassassination attemptrecord playershot in the armspytelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdancingdog |
Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town, a police detective (Pacino) accidentally shoots his own partner while trying to apprehend a suspect. Instead of admitting his guilt, the detective is given an unexpected alibi, but this "solution" only multiplies β¦the emotional complexity and guilt over his partner's death. He's also still got a murder to solve, in addition to the blackmail and framing of an innocent bystander being orchestrated by the man they were chasing. There's also a local detective (Swank) who is conducting her own personal investigation... of his partner's death. Will it all come crashing down on him? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | telephone callhotel managerpolice officer killedtelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdog |
Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Story: | telephone callshot through a doorshot through a windowshot in the armpolice officer killedshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutcrying |
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 β¦rt negotiator, and find out who's running the conspiracy before it's too late. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | shot in the armpolice officer killedshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdog |
Two Irish brothers accidentally kill mafia thugs. They turn themselves in and are released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and start knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he comes to catching the β¦ Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | rooftopchurch |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | telephone callshot through a doorpolice inspectorphone boothshot in the armshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdancing |
Neil Jordan's depiction of the controversial life and death of 'Michael Collins (XIV)' (qv), the "Lion of Ireland", who led the IRA against the UK and helped found the Irish Free State in 1922.
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | rooftoplondon englandchurch |
Characters: | policemanfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | burning evidencekeyspysingingdancing |
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | rooftop |
Characters: | policeman |
Story: | hotel managershot through a windowassassination attemptshot in the armshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdog |
Okwe is an illegal Nigerian immigrant leading a hard life and struggling to survive in London's underground. He works as a hotel receptionist in the night time and as he has a doctor degree he practices some medicine, during the day, in a very odd way. Besides that he must constantly escape from Imm β¦igration officers. One day Okwe discovers by chance an illegal scheme of surgeries is being lead by Juan, his boss in the hotel. Juan quickly comes up with a tempting proposal: if Okwe accepts to perform the illegal surgeries he makes a lot of money and gets legalized situation in the U.K. Can Okwe keep his moral values intact? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Locations: | kitchenlondon englandchurch |
Characters: | policemanfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | language barrierimpersonationkeycryingdancing |
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 |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | sharpshooterassassination attemptshot in the armpolice officer killedshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous convict Jericho Stewart (Kevin Costner). When he wakes up β¦with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and make the deal with him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | london englandchurch |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | shot through a windowassassination attemptkeypolice officer killedspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
CIA chief Hunley (Baldwin) convinces a Senate committee to disband the IMF (Impossible Mission Force), of which Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is a key member. Hunley argues that the IMF is too reckless. Now on his own, Hunt goes after a shadowy and deadly rogue organization called the Syndicate.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | london england |
Story: | phone boothshot in the armkeyspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is th β¦e initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | telephone callshot through a windowkeypolice officer killedspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
After accomplishing the assignment of dismantling a human trafficking organization, the former military and drifter Jack Reacher goes to Washington to invite his liaison, Major Susan Turner, to have dinner with him. However, he meets her substitute, Colonel Sam Morgan, who explains that Major Turner β¦ has been arrested and accused of espionage. Jack seeks out her veteran lawyer, Colonel Bob Moorcroft, who explains that Major Turner has also been accused of the murders of two soldiers in Afghanistan. Further, he also tells Jack he is being sued, accused by a woman of being the father of her fifteen year-old daughter, Samantha. When Moorcroft is murdered, Jack is accused of being the killer and sent to a prison. He sees that Turner and he have been framed and also that Turner will be killed by two assassins. However, he rescues her and they flee. Soon, they realize that there is a conspiracy involving military people from the army and a government contractor that is a powerful arms dealer. Jack also learns that Samantha is in danger and Turner and he rescue her. They decide to protect her since a skilled assassin is hunting them down while they try to find the motive of the conspiracy. Who can be trusted? (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftopkitchenchurch |
Characters: | police |
Story: | telephone callshot through a windowassassination attemptpolice officer killeddinnertelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Thumbprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing under control for two years now but his a β¦lter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to kill again. When he does kill a couple while they are making love, he is seen and photographed by someone who also has his own death and murder fetish. In a parallel story, the police detective investigating the murder is having problems of her own. She is going through a messy divorce and a violent criminal who had vowed revenge some years before has escaped from prison and is after her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftopkitchenchurch |
Characters: | policemanmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | telephone calltelephoneshot in the chestshootoutcryingdancing |
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: | humiliationmurder |
Locations: | rooftopkitchenchurch |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | telephone callbreaking down a doorreference to william shakespearepolice officer killedspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutcryingsinging |
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | telephone callshot through a windowassassination attemptpolice officer killedtelephoneshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn β¦'t, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder |
Story: | telephone callthreat to killshot through a windowphone boothassassination attemptshot in the armtelephoneshot in the chestshot to death |
Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September 2001. She is a reluctant participant in extreme duress applied to the detainees, but believes that the truth may only be obtained through such tac β¦tics. For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she says he is. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | humiliation |
Locations: | london england |
Story: | shot through a doorphone boothassassination attemptspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdog |
With his reputation in tatters after a painfully unsuccessful delivery of a distinguished Japanese client, former triple-A executive protection agent, Michael Bryce, two long years after the disgraceful incident, is now reduced to a mere second-class bodyguard for hire. Under those circumstances, Br β¦yce would do anything to prove his worth once again, and as a result, it won't be long before he accepts an offer from Interpol to escort the renowned international assassin Darius Kincaid from Manchester to the Hague. The task seems simple: Bryce only needs to transport the contract killer from point A to point B, nevertheless, Kincaid, as the only one with the guts and enough hard evidence to testify against a tyrannical Belarusian dictator, is an obvious target, while the trip to the Netherlands is long and hazardous. Without a doubt, this a race against the clock as the mismatched duo will have to put aside their grudges, in a non-stop concerto for bullets. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftoplondon englandchurch |
Characters: | police |
Story: | telephone callshot through a windowassassination attemptshot in the armpolice officer killedshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutsingingdog |
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found deca β¦pitated. It is called an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "accidents". (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | rooftoplondon englandchurch |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Story: | telephone callbreaking down a doorpolice inspectorreference to william shakespeareshot in the armshot to deathshootoutdog |
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: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftop |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | shot through a doorpolice inspectorshot through a windowphone boothshot in the armpolice officer killedshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | shot through a doorshot through a windowsiegephone boothpolice officer killedshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdog |
After the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of t β¦he future. The President of the United States, his formidable secret service head and a British MI-6 agent who trusts no one are the only people that have any hope of stopping it. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | london englandchurch |
Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
Story: | shot through a doorpolice inspectorshot through a windowassassination attemptshot in the armspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
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: | dancemurder |
Locations: | kitchenchurch |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | shot through a doorshot through a windowrecord playerradioshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdancing |
A gun-for-hire "Hitman" is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe. But even 47 couldn' β¦t anticipate a "random equation" in his life exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | rooftoplondon englandchurch |
Characters: | police |
Story: | impersonationshot in the armkeyshot in the chestshot to deathshootout |
JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ens β¦uing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest, and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | rooftop |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | telephone callpocket watchimpersonationshot in the armtelephoneshot in the chestshot to death |
Hard drinking, burnt out ex CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life until he's hired as a bodyguard to protect nine year old Pita Ramos. Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim some of his soul, but when pita is kidnapped, Creasy's fiery rage is finally released and he will stop at nothing to sa β¦ve her as he sets out on a dangerous, revenge fuelled rescue mission. (Read More)
Themes: | kidnappingmurder |
Locations: | rooftop |
Characters: | police |
Story: | telephone callpolice officer killedspyshot in the chestshot to deathshootoutdog |