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Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evβ¦idence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir rain |
Locations: | canada elevator motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | escape artist single mother lawyer brother brother relationship doctor husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera airplane ticket wrongful conviction trash bag missing evidence false passport family argument female doctor murder accusation murder weapon helicopter tour police dragnet emergency stop lab results forged papers β¦kids playing county jail test result forged document female convict sports arena ankle jersey the garment prius drug money appeal conviction community college don quixote getaway car drain lip reading meth lab locked in a closet button innocent murder victim blood test remake of french film red light insulin planning fingerprints rainy night protective male pittsburgh pennsylvania miscarriage of justice customs collage haiti venezuela ticket diabetes in medias res cash dumpster prison visit mugging coincidence roadblock no title at beginning hospital bed blood stain time in title trash deaf crowd flight gunfire divorcee evidence attempted suicide zoo attorney passport railway station based on film witness fugitive argument van birthday party subway four word title drug dealer woman foot chase handcuffs camera shot in the chest fire number in title kiss (See All) |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | single mother lawyer brother brother relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | wrongful conviction missing evidence conviction miscarriage of justice evidence attempted suicide attorney woman handcuffs camera |
When a prisoner transport plane crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan, skillfully escapes and saves lives at the same time. Deputy Sam Gerard and his team of U.S. Marshals pursue relentlessly, but Gerard begins to suspect that there is more to the exceptional fugitive than what he has been told. Meanβ¦while, Sheridan struggles to avoid capture while seeking answers of his own. Until the final scene, both Gerard and Sheridan are in jeopardy of the unknown. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | bar |
Story: | surveillance camera wrongful conviction miscarriage of justice roadblock passport fugitive foot chase handcuffs fire |
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The nearest New York Police officer immediately responds to a screaming woman and calls dispatch. More Officers arrive with SWAT and tactical command along with fire-fighters. The police then dispatch a police psychoβ¦logist personally requested to talk him down from the ledge. However, things aren't as they seem. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | elevator bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera prison visit no title at beginning fugitive four word title woman foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest fire |
Dr. Miranda Grey is a psychiatrist who works in a penitentiary, in the mental institution sector. She is married with Dr. Douglas Grey, the chief of department where Dr. Pete Graham also works. Chloe Sava, a patient of Dr. Miranda formerly abused by her stepfather, claims that she is frequently rapeβ¦d by the devil in her cell. After leaving the asylum in a stormy night, Dr. Miranda has a car accident, and when she wakes up, she is an inmate of the institution, being accused of an horrible crime and having no memory of the incident. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance escape murder |
Mood: | neo noir rain |
Characters: | lawyer doctor husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera female doctor murder victim fingerprints roadblock blood stain evidence fugitive woman foot chase fire kiss |
A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to⦠prison, Kimble's transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble takes up his own investigation to find who really killed his wife, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape murder |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | doctor husband wife relationship |
Story: | wrongful conviction miscarriage of justice fugitive van subway drug dealer foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest fire |
When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the "murder".
Themes: | escape murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | lawyer doctor husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | wrongful conviction evidence fugitive foot chase handcuffs camera shot in the chest |
Robert Dean is a mild-mannered lawyer who works in Washington D.C. He is on the trail of a kingpin named Pintero. Meanwhile, a politician named Thomas Reynolds is negotiating with Congressman Phillip Hammersley about a new surveillance system with satellites. But, Hammersley declines; Reynolds has Hβ¦ammersley killed, but the murder is caught on tape, and the taper is chased by Reynolds' team of NSA agents. The guy must ditch the tape, so he plants it on Dean (unbeknownst to Dean). Then, the NSA decides to get into Dean's life. That is when Dean's life began to fall apart all around him, with his wife and job both gone. Dean wants to find out what is going on. Then, he meets a man named "Brill" who tells him that Dean has something that the government wants. Dean and Brill formulate a plan to get Dean's life back and turn the tables on Reynolds. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera evidence witness fugitive shot in the chest fire kiss |
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 througβ¦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: | escape murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | crowd witness fugitive argument van birthday party drug dealer woman handcuffs shot in the chest |
1999, Claremont, California. Middle-class kids, in their 20s, talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. On impulse, Johnβ¦ny and a couple pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach. Zach's okay with it, figuring his brother will pay the debt soon. Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Is Zach in danger? (Read More)
Themes: | robbery murder |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | lawyer brother brother relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | trash attorney witness fugitive van birthday party drug dealer shot in the chest |
Thinking Pulitzer Prize and hoping to bring down a President, D.C. political columnist Rachel Armstrong writes that the President ignored the findings of a covert CIA operative when ordering air strikes against Venezuela. Rachel names the agent, Erica Van Doren, a woman whose young daughter is in Raβ¦chel's son's class at school. The government moves quickly to force Rachel to name her source. She's jailed for contempt when she refuses. She won't change her mind, and the days add up. Chaos descends on Van Doren's life as well. First Amendment versus national security, marriage and motherhood versus separation. What's the value of a principle? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | female convict venezuela prison visit attorney van birthday party four word title woman shot in the chest |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's⦠not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
Themes: | escape murder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | canada motorcycle restaurant |
Characters: | single mother lawyer husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | wrongful conviction miscarriage of justice railway station witness woman handcuffs camera |
In New Orleans, the notorious bank thief and family man Will Montgomery steals $10m with his partners Vincent, Riley Jeffers and Hoyt. However, he has an argument with Vincent in the runaway and Hoyt leaves Will behind. He tries to flee but the FBI agent Tim Harlend organizes a manhunt and Will is cβ¦aptured, but he burns the stolen money to get rid of the evidence against him. Eight years later, Will leaves the prison and he goes to the house of his teenage daughter Alison Loeb, who has issues against him. Alison leaves Will alone in a coffee shop and takes a cab to go to a session with her shrink. However, a couple of minutes later, Will receives a phone call from Vincent, who is presumed dead, telling that he has abducted Alison and will kill her unless he receives the $10m of the last robbery. Now Will has twelve hours to find a way to rescue his daughter from the hands of the psychopath Vincent. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | elevator motorcycle restaurant bar |
Story: | cash evidence fugitive argument van foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest fire |
Christian Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, starβ¦ting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance escape murder |
Mood: | neo noir rain |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | insulin diabetes in medias res passport fugitive van foot chase handcuffs camera shot in the chest |
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 anβ¦d Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night. (Read More)
Themes: | escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir rain |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | in medias res fugitive subway drug dealer foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest fire |
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost β¦(Tip T.I. Harris), a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the "takers" carefully plot their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer (Matt Dillon) inches closer to apprehending the criminals. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | motorcycle bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | planning no title at beginning subway drug dealer foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest |
On April 15, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, Police Sgt, Tommy Saunders is pulling security duty on the annual Boston Marathon when the Tsarnaev brothers strike with their homemade bombs in an act of terrorism. In the resulting chaos as the wounded are cared for, Saunders and his comrades join forces wiβ¦th the FBI to get to the bottom of this attack. As the investigation continues, the Tsarnaev brothers realize that the authorities are close to identifying them and attempt to flee the city to continue their fanatical mayhem. To stop them, a police manhunt is performed that would have bloody confrontations and a massive dragnet shutting down the City of Boston to make sure there is no escape from the law. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationship doctor husband wife relationship |
Story: | police dragnet no title at beginning fugitive van drug dealer handcuffs shot in the chest fire |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | elevator bar |
Characters: | lawyer doctor husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | female doctor venezuela attempted suicide foot chase handcuffs camera |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediateβ¦ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | elevator motorcycle |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera getaway car van subway woman foot chase handcuffs camera shot in the chest |
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon at the scene of the crime, the tβ¦wo have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance escape murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | wrongful conviction murder weapon cash drug dealer foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest |
Recently divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah have bought a new home in New York. On their tour around the mansion, they come across the panic room. A room so secure, that no one can get in. When three burglars break in, Meg makes a move to the panic room. But all her troubles don't stop thereβ¦. The criminals know where she is, and what they require the most in the house is in that very room. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape murder |
Mood: | neo noir rain |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera insulin diabetes divorcee woman foot chase fire |
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates aβ¦nd is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case? (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir rain |
Locations: | elevator motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | subway foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest fire |
Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. It brings back memories of her experiences in The Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. September 1944. Rachel is in trouble when her hiding place is bombed by allied troβ¦ops. She gets in contact with a man from the resistance and joins a group of Jews who are to be smuggled across the Biesbosch by boat to the freed South Netherlands. Germans from a patrol boat murder them all however. Only Rachel is able to escape. She is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers. When Kuipers' son is captured after trying to smuggle weapons, he asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmfuhrer Ludwig Muntze. Soon she will find out the attack in the Biesbosch wasn't a coincidence. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance escape murder |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | lawyer doctor father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | insulin diabetes coincidence roadblock evidence fugitive van woman handcuffs camera kiss |
Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John⦠convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | prison visit birthday party drug dealer woman foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest |
Rudy Baylor is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married womaβ¦n. Will he be up to the task? (Read More)
Themes: | escape murder |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | lawyer doctor husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | evidence attorney woman handcuffs |
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 yeβ¦ars later, Billy is a private detective and lives with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow, who is an aspiring actress and the sister of Mikey's victim. His secretary Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal) is trying to collect part of the debts to save their business. In the week of the elections, Hostetler summons Billy and offers $25,000 to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler, whom he believes is having a love affair. Billy discovers that Cathleen is meeting Paul Andrews, who is the coordinator of the campaign of Jack Valliant, the opponent of Hostetler and favorite in the election. When Paul is found dead on the street, Billy finds that he had been double-crossed by Hostetler and he decides to investigate the truth behind Paul's murder. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir rain |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | evidence subway woman handcuffs camera shot in the chest |
Based off of a one time T.V. show, two Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officers Jim Street and Brian Gamble were sent in to foil an extremely violent bank robbery. Although they thwarted the robbery, they shot a hostage in the process. Street was suspended from S.W.A.T. while Gamble was fired altogether. After⦠6 months, a veteran S.W.A.T. officer, Daniel Harrelson or "Hondo", is told to assemble a S.W.A.T. team for his division. He chooses other S.W.A.T. officers as well as 3 rookies. However, after they pass the S.W.A.T. training, they receive a message that a French crime boss, known as Alex Montell is trying to escape from prison. This will not be easy to prevent, especially after Montell promises $100 Million to his rescuers. (Read More)
Themes: | robbery escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | single mother lawyer |
Story: | customs van birthday party subway foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest |
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: | surveillance murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Story: | roadblock flight subway drug dealer foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest |
David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. He is an uncomplicated man stuck in a monotonous life. Day in and day out he drives an armored vehicle, transporting millions of other people's money with no escape in sight. The only glimmer of excitement is his fliβ¦rtatious work crush Kelly Campbell who soon lures him into the scheme of a lifetime. Along with a group of half-brained criminals led by Steve Chambers and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $17 million in cash...only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall. With the bandits blowing the millions on lavish and ridiculous luxuries, they leave behind a glaring trail of evidence. Now on the lam and in over his head, David must dodge the authorities, evade a hilarious hit man, Mike McKinney, and try to turn the tables on the ones he trusted most. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera cash no title at beginning evidence fugitive van foot chase handcuffs |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark β¦question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | elevator bar |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera crowd evidence argument woman camera kiss |
Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate⦠espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible - inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. (Read More)
Themes: | escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | elevator motorcycle bar |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | planning customs no title at beginning gunfire fugitive van foot chase shot in the chest fire kiss |
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 diβ¦fficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Story: | miscarriage of justice van drug dealer woman foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest fire |
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⦠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: | surveillance escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | elevator motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | lawyer doctor |
Story: | getaway car no title at beginning railway station woman handcuffs camera shot in the chest kiss |
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)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir rain |
Locations: | motorcycle restaurant |
Characters: | doctor husband wife relationship |
Story: | passport fugitive van subway foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest fire |
Elise (Angelina Jolie) sits next to an American tourist, Frank (Johnny Depp), on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted by police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but also the mobster whose money her lover stole.
Themes: | surveillance murder |
Story: | remake of french film no title at beginning passport railway station subway woman foot chase handcuffs camera kiss |
LA cabbie Max Durocher is the type of person who can wax poetic about other people's lives, which impresses U.S. Justice Department prosecutor Annie Farrell, one of his fares, so much that she gives him her telephone number at the end of her ride. Although a dedicated man as seen through the efficieβ¦ncy in which he does his work, he can't or won't translate that eloquence into a better life for himself. He deludes himself into believing that his now twelve year cabbie job is temporary and that someday he will own his own limousine service. He even lies to his hospitalized mother that he already owns one, with a further lie that he tells her as such primarily to make her happy, rather than the truth which is that he won't do anything to achieve that dream. One night, Max picks up a well dressed man named Vincent, who asks Max to be his only fare for the evening. For a flat fee of $600, plus an extra $100 if he gets to the airport on time - Vincent wants Max to drive him to five stops that evening. Max somewhat reluctantly agrees. Max learns the hard way at their first stop when a body falls from a third story apartment window and lands dead on top of his cab that Vincent is a contract hit man. Vincent's main goal, as per his current contract, is to kill five people, one at each of the stops, but he will not let others get in the way of that goal, even if it means killing them, including Max. As Vincent forces Max to continue driving him for the evening, Max tries slyly at everyβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | elevator bar |
Characters: | lawyer mother son relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera mugging coincidence no title at beginning attorney witness subway woman foot chase shot in the chest |
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, triggeβ¦ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | elevator restaurant bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | red light van drug dealer foot chase handcuffs shot in the chest fire number in title |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fouβ¦r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | elevator restaurant bar |
Characters: | doctor husband wife relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera customs divorcee passport camera kiss |
In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas Mβ¦idlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | lawyer brother brother relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | getaway car roadblock gunfire fugitive four word title shot in the chest fire |
In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the coβ¦mpany of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | passport subway foot chase handcuffs |
Whip Whitaker is a commuter airline pilot. While on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta something goes wrong and the plane starts to fly erratically. With little choice Whip crashes the plane and saves almost all on board. When he wakes up in the hospital, his friend from the airline union introduces hβ¦im to a lawyer who tells him there's a chance he could face criminal charges because his blood test reveals that he was intoxicated with alcohol and cocaine. He denies being impaired, so while an investigation is underway, he is told to keep his act together. However, letting go of his addiction is not as easy as it seems... (Read More)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | lawyer father son relationship |
Story: | conviction blood test flight divorcee attorney drug dealer woman kiss |
Themes: | surveillance robbery escape murder |
Mood: | car chase neo noir |
Locations: | elevator motorcycle bar |
Characters: | doctor husband wife relationship |
Story: | ticket no title at beginning fugitive foot chase camera shot in the chest fire kiss |
John and Jane Smith are a normal married couple, living a normal life in a normal suburb, working normal jobs...well, if you can call secretly being assassins "normal". But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret, until they are surprised to find each other as targets! But on their qβ¦uest to kill each other, they learn a lot more about each other than they ever did in five (or six) years of marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | escape murder |
Mood: | car chase rain |
Locations: | elevator motorcycle restaurant bar |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera passport witness woman handcuffs shot in the chest fire kiss |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a paβ¦st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance robbery murder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | miscarriage of justice attorney woman foot chase camera fire |
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an L.A.P.D. detectiβ¦ve... (Read More)
Themes: | robbery escape murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | elevator restaurant |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | evidence argument drug dealer handcuffs shot in the chest fire |
Mick Haller is a defense lawyer who works out of his Lincoln. When a wealthy Realtor is accused of assaulting a prostitute, Haller is asked to defend him. The man claims that the woman is trying to get some money out of him. But when Haller looks at the evidence against him, he learns that this case⦠might be linked to an old case of his. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | elevator bar |
Characters: | lawyer mother son relationship |
Story: | prison visit evidence witness woman shot in the chest |
An admired high school hockey player with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periodβ¦s of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. (Read More)
Themes: | robbery escape murder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | brother brother relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | meth lab planning woman camera shot in the chest kiss |
The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin. Now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone! It's a big double-decker plane, so very concerned mother has a lot of teβ¦rritory to cover in order to find her daughter. But as Kyle fights to discern the truth, she takes matters into her own hands. (Read More)
Themes: | robbery murder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | single mother husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | surveillance camera flight subway woman handcuffs |
A man is murdered. Two men witness it. A blind man who hears the killer, and a deaf man who sees them. The police don't think they're credible witnesses, but the killers don't want to take any chances. The two men must now work together to save themselves and bring the killers to justice.
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Story: | lip reading deaf witness fugitive subway handcuffs kiss |
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and maβ¦ke them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story." (Read More)
Themes: | robbery escape murder |
Mood: | car chase |
Locations: | restaurant bar |
Characters: | lawyer husband wife relationship |
Story: | witness foot chase handcuffs camera shot in the chest fire number in title |