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Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a Senate committee to help investigate Gates. Raven, seek β¦ing Gates for revenge, meets Ellen on the train; their relationship gradually evolves from that of killer and potential victim to an uneasy alliance against a common enemy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | murder mysteryconspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | san francisco californiawheelchairnightclublos angeles californiahoteltrain |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivehitmansingerpolice |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | chemical factorybroken wristrefineryfake injuryrailyardtelephone boxplaying cardtear gaspower failurefianceclothing storegolden gate bridgepolice officer shot in the chesttreasonmagic trick β¦pickpocketpolice officer shotcellarfogsenatorthunderstormgas maskrailway stationcarnivalcaptivepropagandafalling down stairsheart attackmonkeyauditionfugitivepolice officer killedfemme fataledouble crosschild abusedinerdisguisecatface slapdreambased on novel (See All) |
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorabl β¦e successor being finally chosen. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | wheelchairlos angeles californiahotel |
Characters: | hitmansingerpolice |
Story: | telephone boxpolice officer shotfalling down stairsheart attackfugitivepolice officer killedcatbased on novel |
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)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclubhoteltrain |
Characters: | police detectivehitmanpolice |
Story: | telephone boxtear gasfalling down stairspolice officer killeddisguisebased on novel |
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: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | nightclubhotel |
Characters: | police shootout |
Story: | police officer shot in the chestpolice officer shotfugitivepolice officer killeddouble crossdinerface slap |
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced against β¦their better judgment to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclubhotel |
Characters: | singer |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | pickpocketcellarfogfugitivefemme fataleface slapbased on novel |
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | wheelchairnightclub |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivehitmanpolice |
Story: | chemical factoryplaying cardcarnivalfugitivepolice officer killeddouble crossface slap |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | san francisco californiahotel |
Characters: | hitmanpolice |
Story: | senatorfugitivedouble crossdisguise |
The Big Sleep is the story of a private investigator, named Philip Marlowe, hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his youngest daughter, Carmen, from being blackmailed about her gambling debts; things almost immediately unravel and blow up from here, as Marlowe finds himself deep within a β¦web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, gambling, and organized crime. Marlowe, with the help of the General's eldest daughter, Vivian, skillfully plot to free the family from this web and trap the main main behind much of this mischief, Eddie, to meet his end at the hands of his own henchmen. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailmurder |
Locations: | wheelchairlos angeles california |
Characters: | police |
Story: | thunderstormfemme fataledinerface slapbased on novel |
Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones. Pretending to be cops, Smith and Jones kidnap Lynn and confront β¦Gene with a simple choice -- kill California governor Eleanor Grant in 90 minutes or less, or Lynn will die. Watson is given a gun, six bullets, and a name tag, and he is told to go to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and kill Eleanor, who is giving an afternoon speech. While Jones is watching Lynn in a van, Smith watches Watson in order to prevent Watson from alerting the authorities. Watson must quickly find some way to get himself and Lynn out of this seemingly impossible situation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | wheelchairlos angeles californiahoteltrain |
Story: | senatorcaptivefalling down stairsdouble crossdisguiseface slapdream |
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; β¦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: | blackmailmurder |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | police officer killedfemme fataledouble crossdinerface slapbased on novel |
Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he's ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once, Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie who shot Whit β¦and absconded with $40,000. He traces her to Acapulco...where the delectable Kathie makes Jeff forget all about Sterling... Back in the present, Whit's new job for Jeff is clearly a trap, but Jeff's precautions only leave him more tightly enmeshed... (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailmurder |
Locations: | san francisco californianightclubhotel |
Characters: | police |
Story: | telephone boxfemme fataledouble crossdinerface slapbased on novel |
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 a β¦nd is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case? (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | nightclublos angeles californiahoteltrain |
Characters: | police |
Story: | police officer killedfemme fataledouble crossface slap |
The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during the early stages of WWII. Despite the pressure he constantly receives from the local authorities, Rick's cafe has become a kind of haven for refugees seeking to obtain illicit letters that β¦will help them escape to America. But when Ilsa, a former lover of Rick's, and her husband, show up to his cafe one day, Rick faces a tough challenge which will bring up unforeseen complications, heartbreak and ultimately an excruciating decision to make. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclubhoteltrain |
Characters: | singerpolice |
Period: | world war two |
Story: | pickpocketfograilway stationpropagandadouble cross |
A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to β¦ prison, Kimble's transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble takes up his own investigation to find who really killed his wife, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | hoteltrain |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | falling down stairsfugitivepolice officer killeddouble crossdisguisedream |
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 β¦an begins to investigate the murders despite orders from his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations... (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | san francisco californiahotel |
Characters: | police shootouthitmanpolice |
Story: | golden gate bridgepolice officer shot in the chestpolice officer shotfalling down stairspolice officer killeddouble crossdisguisebased on novel |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Characters: | hitmanpolice |
Story: | police officer shot in the chestpolice officer shotfugitivepolice officer killeddouble crossdinerdisguiseface slapbased on novel |
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and β¦is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailmurder |
Locations: | wheelchairnightclubhotel |
Characters: | police detective |
Story: | heart attackmonkeydisguisebased on novel |
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: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | tear gaspolice officer shotheart attackdouble crossdisguisecat |
A violent Hong Kong action film, this is the story of an assassin, Jeffrey Chow (aka Mickey Mouse) who takes one last job so he can retire and care for his girlfriend Jenny. When his employers betray him, he reluctantly joins forces with Inspector Lee (aka Dumbo), the cop who is pursuing him. Togeth β¦er, the new friends face the final confrontation of the gangsters out to kill them. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivehitmansingerpolice |
Story: | playing cardpolice officer shot in the chestpolice officer shotdouble crossdisguisecat |
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: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | nightclubhoteltrain |
Characters: | police shootouthitmanpolice |
Story: | falling down stairsheart attackpolice officer killedfemme fataledouble crossdinerface slapdreambased on novel |
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star develo β¦ping her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | police shootoutsingerpolice |
Story: | fogsenatorgas maskmonkeypolice officer killedfemme fataledouble crossdisguisedream |
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.
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailmurder |
Locations: | los angeles californiahotel |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivehitmanpolice |
Story: | senatorcaptivepolice officer killeddouble crossface slap |
In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, trigge β¦ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivehitmanpolice |
Story: | police officer shotfalling down stairspolice officer killedfemme fataledouble cross |
Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing β¦ to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | san francisco californianightclubhotel |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | police officer shot in the chestpolice officer shotpolice officer killed |
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, β¦ 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: | murder |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | telephone boxrailway stationpolice officer killeddinerdisguise |
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: | murder |
Locations: | nightclublos angeles californiahotel |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | police officer shot in the chestpolice officer shotfalling down stairsdouble crossdisguise |
John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she β¦ is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, he believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | san francisco californiahotel |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | clothing storegolden gate bridgepolice officer killedfemme fatalebased on novel |
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme β¦to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | los angeles californiatrain |
Characters: | police |
Story: | telephone boxrailway stationfemme fataledouble crossbased on novel |
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability t β¦o put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | wheelchairnightclubhotel |
Characters: | police detectivesingerpolice |
Story: | falling down stairsfugitivepolice officer killeddouble crossdream |
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: | blackmailmurder |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | police officer shotfogpolice officer killeddiner |
Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as THE GRAVEDIGGER. Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he an β¦d Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | police detectivehitmanpolice |
Story: | railyardfalling down stairsfugitivepolice officer killeddinerface slap |
Nick Hathaway, an extremely talented hacker who has gone astray, finds his way out of a 15 year prison sentence when parts of a computer code he once wrote during his youth appears in a malware that triggered a terrorist attack in a nuclear power plant in China. This opportunity will reunite him wit β¦h an old friend but will also put him in the middle of a power game between the American and Chinese government as well as an arch villain hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his freedom and his life. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailmurder |
Locations: | nightclublos angeles californiahotel |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice |
Story: | police officer shotfugitivepolice officer killed |
Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Qualley), he encounters less licens β¦ed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | wheelchairlos angeles californiahotel |
Characters: | hitmanpolice |
Story: | magic trickgas maskfalling down stairsfemme fataledouble crossdinerdream |
It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Sergeant John O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, w β¦hose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it's the cops. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclublos angeles californiahotel |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivehitmanpolice |
Story: | police officer shotfalling down stairspolice officer killedfemme fatale |
Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There is only one witness, a thief named Luther β¦Whitney. They are sure he'll talk, but when? The Secret Service is determined to keep him quiet, but catching a thief isn't always easy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | wheelchairhotel |
Characters: | police detectivehitmanpolice |
Story: | disguiseface slapbased on novel |
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: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | hitmansingerpolice |
Story: | captivefalling down stairsfugitivedinerbased on novel |
In New York City, detective Billy Taggart goes to court for the murder of the rapist Mikey Tavarez, but the Mayor Nicholas Hostetler and the Chief of Police Carl Fairbanks vanish with important evidence and Billy is declared not guilty by the judge; however, he leaves the police department. Seven ye β¦ars later, Billy is a private detective and lives with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow, who is an aspiring actress and the sister of Mikey's victim. His secretary Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal) is trying to collect part of the debts to save their business. In the week of the elections, Hostetler summons Billy and offers $25,000 to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler, whom he believes is having a love affair. Billy discovers that Cathleen is meeting Paul Andrews, who is the coordinator of the campaign of Jack Valliant, the opponent of Hostetler and favorite in the election. When Paul is found dead on the street, Billy finds that he had been double-crossed by Hostetler and he decides to investigate the truth behind Paul's murder. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | hoteltrain |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivehitmanpolice |
Story: | pickpocketdouble cross |
Michael Mason, a pick-pocket living in Paris steals a bag with a teddy bear in it. Not realizing the toy contains a timed bomb, he tosses it aside on a busy street. A few seconds later it explodes, killing four people. CCTV footage reveals Masons face and the French police tag him as a terrorist thr β¦eat. The explosion, although botched, was set up by a select group of the French Interior Ministry as a decoy so they can make a half billion dollar digital transfer from a bank, (closed on French National Day) -hence the title Bastille Day. In a separate CIA investigation the unruly agent Sean Briar, discovers the real story behind Masons "terrorist attack". The two men, on different sides of the law, collaborate to bring the corrupt members of the Ministry down. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | pickpocketgas maskfalling down stairsfugitivedouble crossdisguise |
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. Mean β¦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)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | wheelchairtrain |
Characters: | police shootouthitmanpolice |
Story: | fugitivedinerdisguise |
Mickey Knox and Mallory Wilson aren't your typical lovers - after killing her abusive father, they go on a road trip where, every time they stop somewhere, they kill pretty well everyone around them. They do however leave one person alive at every shootout to tell the story and they soon become a me β¦dia sensation thanks to sensationalized reporting. Told in a highly visual style. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | tear gasfugitivepolice officer killedfemme fataledouble crosschild abusedinerface slapdream |
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, for the first time, finds himself on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and bat β¦tling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | nightclubhotel |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detective |
Story: | police officer shotgas maskpolice officer killedfemme fataledouble cross |
Frank Martin, played by newcomer Ed Skrein, a former special-ops mercenary, is now living a less perilous life - or so he thinks - transporting classified packages for questionable people. When Frank's father (Ray Stevenson) pays him a visit in the south of France, their father-son bonding weekend t β¦akes a turn for the worse when Frank is engaged by a cunning femme-fatale, Anna (Loan Chabanol), and her three seductive sidekicks to orchestrate the bank heist of the century. Frank must use his covert expertise and knowledge of fast cars, fast driving and fast women to outrun a sinister Russian kingpin, and worse than that, he is thrust into a dangerous game of chess with a team of gorgeous women out for revenge. From the producers of LUCY and the TAKEN trilogy, THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED is a fresh personification of the iconic role of Frank Martin, that launches the high-octane franchise into the present-day and introduces it to the next generation of thrill-seekers. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | wheelchairnightclubhotel |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | gas maskfemme fataledouble crossdisguise |
James Bond continues on his fourth mission, with his aim to recover two stolen warheads. They have been taken by the evil SPECTRE organization. The world is held hostage and Bond heads to Nassau. Here, he meets the beautiful Domino and is forced into a thrilling confrontation with SPECTRE agent Emil β¦io Largo, on board his boat, the Disco Volante. Will 007 prevent the killing of millions of innocent victims? (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailmurder |
Locations: | nightclubhotel |
Story: | power failurecarnivalheart attackfemme fataledouble crossdisguisebased on novel |
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)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | hitmanpolice |
Story: | gas maskrailway stationpropagandadouble cross |
At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith is called in to investigate but before getting there, he gets a call from someone who instructs him to pick up Joh β¦n Connor, a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs. When they arrive there Web thinks that everything is obvious but Connor tells him that there's a lot more going on. (Read More)
Subgenre: | murder mystery |
Themes: | blackmailmurder |
Locations: | wheelchairlos angeles california |
Characters: | police detectivepolice |
Story: | senatorbased on novel |
Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas ('Anton Yelchin' (qv)) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows-up with an entourage of ghostly bodachs - predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction - Odd knows that his town is in serious t β¦rouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy ('Addison Timlin' (qv)) and the local sheriff ('Willem Dafoe' (qv)), Odd plunges into an epic battle of good vs evil to try to stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. Based on the best-selling thriller by Dean Koontz. (Read More)
Subgenre: | conspiracy |
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice |
Story: | pickpocketpolice officer shotcarnivalpolice officer killeddouble crossdinerdreambased on novel |
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: | murder |
Locations: | hoteltrain |
Characters: | hitmanpolice |
Story: | railway stationfemme fataledouble crossface slapdream |
Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel, a sleazy magician who has agreed to turn state's evidence against the Vegas mob. The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-target Sparazza, places Aces into protective custody-under the superv β¦ision of two agents dispatched to Aces' Lake Tahoe hideout. When the word of the price on Aces' head spreads into the community of ex-cons and cons-to-be, it entices bounty hunters, thugs-for-hire, deadly vixens and double-crossing mobsters to join in the hunt. With all eyes on Tahoe, this rogues' gallery collides in a comic race to hit the jackpot and rub out Aces. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | wheelchairnightclublos angeles californiahotel |
Characters: | hitmanpolice |
Story: | police officer killeddinerdisguise |
Robert Rath is a seasoned hitman who just wants out of the business with no back talk. But, as things go, it ain't so easy. A younger, peppier assassin named Bain is having a field day trying to kill said older assassin. Rath teams up with a computer hacker named Electra to defeat the obsessed Bain.
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | propagandapolice officer killeddouble crosscat |
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a n β¦ew wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailparanoiamurder |
Locations: | wheelchairnightclub |
Characters: | police shootoutpolice detectivepolice |
Story: | railyardplaying cardmagic trickfalling down stairspolice officer killeddouble crossdisguiseface slap |