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Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon always wanted to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. But for a good guy, he's awfully vicious. After several complaints over his roughing people up, his boss, Insp. Nicholas Foley, demotes him. Foley tells him he's a good man, but needs to get hi …s head on straight and be more like Det. Lt. Thomas, who has just gotten a promotion. Meanwhile, Tommy Scalise has an illegal dice game going and is looking to make a sucker out of the rich Ted Morrison, who was brought in by Ken Paine and his beautiful wife Morgan. She figures out too late her husband is using her as a decoy. Paine strikes her when she refuses to play along. The chivalrous Morrison intervenes but Paine knocks him out cold. That seems to be the worst of it, but later it turns out the guy is dead; and Paine looks guilty. Soon Dixon has fallen in love with Morgan - but not before losing his temper again and committing a terrible deed that he tries to cover up. Morgan's father, a tale-spinning taxi driver, may take the rap for it. It's up to Dixon to try to pin the blame on Scalise. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitypolice investigationgamblingbrutalityinvestigationgangsterinfidelity |
Locations: | taxi driverpolice carpolice stationtaxinew york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolice arrestpolicemandetectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | gambling houseillegal gamblingwashington heights manhattan new york cityblack and white filmexcessive forceevidence tamperingdemotionracketeerpolice precinctsuckerbad copslangeye witnessmanslaughtergang leader …pool hallgang membermurder witnessfashion modelcentral park manhattan new york citywar heroset upgamblerinvestigatorpolice inspectorpigeonblack and whiteframe upcamera shot of feetaccidental deathsergeantitaliancover upconfessioncigar smokingstabbingmanhattan new york cityinterrogationfistfightbeatingcigarette smokingbased on novelviolencefight (See All) |
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.
Themes: | police investigationgamblinginvestigationgangster |
Locations: | police carpolice stationtaxi |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetective |
Story: | evidence tamperingeye witnessinvestigatorpolice inspectorcigar smokinginterrogationbeatingcigarette smokingbased on novelviolencefight |
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 ma …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: | police brutalityinvestigation |
Locations: | taxi driverpolice stationtaxinew york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | murder witnesscentral park manhattan new york citycigar smokingstabbingmanhattan new york cityfistfightcigarette smokingviolencefight |
In Los Angeles, a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D. detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrup …t. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt over a 24-hour period. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitygamblingbrutalityinvestigation |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | policemandetectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | bad copgang memberpigeonframe upcigar smokingbeatingcigarette smokingfightviolence |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
Themes: | police investigationinvestigation |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | police arrestdetective |
Story: | evidence tamperingpolice inspectorcover upconfessionbeatingcigarette smokingbased on novel |
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 …ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitypolice investigationbrutalityinvestigationgangster |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | police detectivedetectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | gang membersergeantcover upcigar smokinginterrogationbeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miser …ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitypolice investigationbrutalityinvestigationgangsterinfidelity |
Locations: | police stationnew york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | cover upmanhattan new york cityinterrogationfistfightbeatingfightviolence |
In Melbourne, the Chinese Chef Jackie has a successful show on television. The drug lord Giancarlo and his gang are dealing cocaine with The Demons gang, but they fight against each other. During the shooting, the snoopy reporter Diana and her partner are accidentally exposed and they flee with a VH …S tape with the footage of the negotiation. On the street, she stumbles with Jackie and he helps her fighting against the gangsters. When they are escaping in his car, her tape accidentally mixes with other videotapes that Jackie has in a box on the backseat of his car. Jackie goes to his apartment and meets his girlfriend Miki while his nephews "borrow" the tape to watch. Meanwhile Giancarlo's gangsters are looking for the tape and abduct Miki. Jackie's friend Romeo, who is a police detective, chases the gangsters with other policemen while Jackie teams up with Diana and his friend Lakisha to release Miki from Giancarlo. (Read More)
Themes: | brutalityinvestigationgangster |
Locations: | police carpolice stationtaxi |
Characters: | police detectivedetectivefather son relationship |
Story: | gang leadergang memberitaliancigar smokinginterrogationfistfightbeatingfightviolence |
In Monroe, Tennessee, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months' fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfi …eld pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him? (Read More)
Themes: | investigation |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | frame upsergeantcover upstabbingfistfightbeatingfight |
A family of police officers - patriarch, two sons, and a son-in-law - deals with corruption in a precinct in Washington Heights. Four officers die in an ambush at a drug dealer's apartment. It's brother Francis's precinct, so when the investigation led by brother Ray finds hints of police corruption …, there's pressure to close ranks and save Frankie's career. Dad, a police brass, promises Ray that he and Frankie can clean things up, and Ray should focus on catching the drug dealer who killed the cops. Meanwhile, brother-in-law Jimmy, a hothead and an enforcer, is visited at home by a lowlife. Is Jimmy involved in the corruption? Where can this take the family? (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitypolice investigationinvestigation |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | policemandetectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | washington heights manhattan new york cityframe upcover upmanhattan new york citybeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
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 …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
Themes: | police investigationinvestigationinfidelity |
Locations: | police carpolice stationnew york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolice arrestdetectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | frame upconfessionmanhattan new york cityinterrogationcigarette smokingbased on novelviolencefight |
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Themes: | police brutalitybrutalitygangster |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | police precinctsergeantfistfightcigarette smokingviolencefight |
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 …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: | investigation |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetective |
Story: | frame upaccidental deathcover upinterrogationbeatingcigarette smokingfight |
After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, … his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitygamblinginvestigationgangster |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | police detectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | murder witnesssergeantinterrogationviolence |
After completing a lengthy prison sentence, one-time drug kingpin Frank White returns to New York intent on reestablishing his empire and making things as they were before he left. Others of course have taken over the business during his absence but that clearly isn't going to stop White. While he i …s gunning down the opposition, he decides he's going to give away the money he'll make to modernize the hospital in his old neighborhood. Drug dealers aren't the only thing he has to worry about however: a group of rogue cops decide they are going to take him down. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitygamblingbrutalitygangster |
Locations: | taxi driverpolice cartaxinew york city |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | cigar smokingmanhattan new york citybeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son, firefighter Jeremy Coleman barely escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against the crime lord, Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshals. When his new identity …becomes compromised Jeremy is forced to take an unexpected course of action in order to get his life back and save the lives of those he loves. (Read More)
Themes: | police investigationbrutalityinvestigationgangster |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetective |
Story: | gang leaderinterrogationfistfightbeatingviolencefight |
Sometime in the 1970's, police officers from New York City wanted a safe haven to live, away from the dangers of the streets of New York City, this is when they established a "Cop Land" in the small New Jersey town of Garrison. Freddy Heflin who was always admired by the New York cops wanted to beco …me one, but because he was deaf in one ear this prevents him from achieving his goal, but has become sheriff of Garrison. Recently there have been a dark omen surrounding the NYPD, and Freddy is now investigating on this case, then Internal Affairs officer Mo Tilden is also on the case and asks Freddy for help, but Freddy could not. Now Freddy suspects that a New York City cop named Ray Donlan might be one of the many cops who is corrupted by the mob and other criminals. Now, Freddy must find a cop who is nicknamed "Superboy" who can testify against Donlan and protect him, before Donlan finds Superboy and kills him. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitybrutalityinvestigationgangsterinfidelity |
Locations: | police carpolice stationnew york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | cover upcigar smokingmanhattan new york citybeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh …ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitybrutalityinfidelity |
Locations: | police carpolice stationnew york city |
Characters: | police detectivedetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | gang leadergang memberinterrogationcigarette smokingbased on novelviolence |
Detective Sergeant Tom Brant who is dispatched to take down a serial killer hell bent on killing off the police force one by one. "The Blitz" manages to slip through the grasp of Tom every time, and with the precious lives of his colleagues diminishing one by one, Tom is led to the question: if we c …an't protect our own, then what good are we? (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitypolice investigation |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | police detective |
Story: | pool hallpolice inspectorcamera shot of feetinterrogationbeatingcigarette smokingbased on novel |
After a clumsy operation trying to capture a drug dealer, the N.Y.P.D Detectives Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges are suspended for one month by their Captain Romans. Jimmy decides to sell his rare baseball card to pay for his daughter's expensive wedding while his jealous partner believes that his wife … is cheating on him with their next-door neighbor. When Jimmy sells his card to a memorabilia store, the place is burgled by two small-time thieves and the detective loses his card. They track down the thieves. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationgangster |
Locations: | police stationnew york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | gang leaderaccidental deathinterrogationfistfightviolence |
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, …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: | police brutalityinvestigationgangster |
Locations: | police carpolice stationtaxi |
Characters: | police detectivedetectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | gang leadergang memberpolice inspectorinterrogationfistfightbeatingviolencefight |
Themes: | police brutalitygangster |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | set upcigar smokinginterrogationfistfightbeatingcigarette smokingfightviolence |
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
Themes: | police investigationbrutalityinvestigation |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | interrogationbeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are promoted to homicide detectives, workin …g together. Bucky becomes a close friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake, forming a triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress 'Elizabeth Short (I)' is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky's investigation leads him to a Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of a powerful and wealthy constructor that resembles the Black Dahlia. In an environment of corruption and lies, Bucky discloses hidden truths. (Read More)
Themes: | police investigationinvestigationgangster |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | police detectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | cover upconfessioninterrogationfistfightbeatingcigarette smokingbased on novelfightviolence |
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 …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: | gamblinggangster |
Locations: | taxi drivertaxinew york city |
Characters: | detective |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | gamblerframe upfistfightcigarette smokingbased on novel |
Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. the stealing of one bat, a 30 foot long snake and the mane of a lion from a zoo. All the latest BAIT magazines were also recently stolen, and some chemicals that when are mixed correctly develops a very deadly gas. All these …thefts have one thing in common; visit cards with the word "PAGAN" left at the crime scenes. Solving these crimes, including why plenty of police vehicles have been stolen lately, involves the usual; to drink coffee at strip tease bars, rescue kidnapped virgins from drowning and lose their jobs. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityinvestigation |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetective |
Story: | sergeantcigar smokinginterrogationfistfightcigarette smokingfight |
An elite DEA team raids the safe house of a drug cartel and hide $10 million in the plumbing. When they go back to retrieve the money it is not there. The team is under investigation for the missing $10 million. Then after a couple months the investigation is lifted. The team trains together again a …nd then celebrates at a strip club. Then one of the team is murdered. He wakes up in his RV on railroad tracks. Then a second team member is nailed to the ceiling. The third team member is gunned down at his remote cabin. There is a female City of Atlanta investigator in charge of the murders. After investigating the cartel angle, the twisted truth comes to light. (Read More)
Themes: | police investigationbrutalityinvestigationinfidelity |
Characters: | police detectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | investigatorframe upcover upcigar smokinginterrogationcigarette smokingviolence |
Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Ame …lia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer. (Read More)
Themes: | investigation |
Locations: | taxi driverpolice carpolice stationtaxinew york city |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | pool hallmanhattan new york citybased on novelviolence |
Dr. Alex Cross is on his last police duty to track down an assassin called Picasso, who's been torturing and killing rich businessmen in Detroit. Soon when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits to end this once and for all.
Themes: | police brutalitypolice investigation |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | police detectivedetectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | interrogationfistfightbeatingbased on novelfightviolence |
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs in …to the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitypolice investigationbrutalitygangster |
Locations: | taxi drivertaxinew york city |
Characters: | policeman |
Story: | washington heights manhattan new york citymanhattan new york cityviolence |
Frank Keller is a New York detective investigating a case of a serial killer who finds the victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers. Keller falls in love with Helen, the main suspect in the case.
Themes: | police investigationinvestigation |
Locations: | police stationnew york city |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | investigatormanhattan new york citycigarette smoking |
In New York City, detective Billy Taggart goes to court for the murder of the rapist Mikey Tavarez, but the Mayor Nicholas Hostetler and the Chief of Police Carl Fairbanks vanish with important evidence and Billy is declared not guilty by the judge; however, he leaves the police department. Seven ye …ars later, Billy is a private detective and lives with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow, who is an aspiring actress and the sister of Mikey's victim. His secretary Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal) is trying to collect part of the debts to save their business. In the week of the elections, Hostetler summons Billy and offers $25,000 to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler, whom he believes is having a love affair. Billy discovers that Cathleen is meeting Paul Andrews, who is the coordinator of the campaign of Jack Valliant, the opponent of Hostetler and favorite in the election. When Paul is found dead on the street, Billy finds that he had been double-crossed by Hostetler and he decides to investigate the truth behind Paul's murder. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalityinvestigationinfidelity |
Locations: | police carnew york city |
Characters: | police detectivedetectivehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | frame upcover upmanhattan new york cityfistfightbeatingviolencefight |
In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for th …eir marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned. (Read More)
Themes: | investigationinfidelity |
Locations: | taxi |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | police inspectorframe upcover upconfessioncigar smokingstabbingcigarette smoking |
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 …k together to fight off the attacking gang members. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutalitybrutality |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Story: | police precinctcover upfistfightbeatingcigarette smokingviolencefight |
Ben must prove he is good enough to date cop James' sister. By doing this he goes on a "Ride Along" to show that he is not weak and he will do whatever it takes to get James' approval but along the way runs into a few obstacles that he has to overcome in a very funny way.
Themes: | police brutalitypolice investigationinvestigation |
Locations: | police carpolice station |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | interrogationfistfightbeatingfightviolence |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Themes: | police brutalitybrutalitygangster |
Locations: | police station |
Characters: | police detectivedetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | interrogationfistfightbeatingcigarette smokingfightviolence |
Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her...
Themes: | police investigationinfidelity |
Locations: | taxinew york city |
Characters: | police detectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | pigeoncover upconfessioncigarette smoking |
In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, raped and tied and gagged with her underwear. Detective Park Doo-Man and Detective Cho Yong-koo, two brutal and stupid local detectives without any technique, investigate the murder using brutality … and torturing the suspects, without any practical result. The Detective Seo Tae-Yoon from Seoul comes to the country to help the investigations and is convinced that a serial-killer is killing the women. When a third woman is found dead in the same "modus-operandi", the detectives find leads of the assassin. (Read More)
Themes: | police investigationbrutalityinvestigation |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetective |
Story: | set upviolencefight |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
Themes: | investigation |
Locations: | taxi driverpolice stationtaxi |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemanhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | murder witnesspolice inspectorconfessionstabbinginterrogationcigarette smokingviolence |
Themes: | gamblingbrutalityinvestigationgangster |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | frame upcigar smokinginterrogationfistfightbeatingcigarette smokingviolencefight |
Turk and Rooster, two aging NYPD detectives and longtime partners, are hunting a serial killer who is murdering sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues, and when they start working with a younger investigative team, Perez and Riley, tensions between the two teams is inevitable, especia …lly since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend, also a homicide detective. (Read More)
Themes: | police brutality |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | washington heights manhattan new york citycentral park manhattan new york cityconfessionmanhattan new york citycigarette smoking |
Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. A …s a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on the corrupt policeman however, the Grandis have their own plans for Vargas and they start with his wife Susie. (Read More)
Themes: | investigationgangster |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemanhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | pigeonframe upcover upcigar smokingbased on novelfight |
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. … Meanwhile, one of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head. Blinded by greed, his involvement draws his gang, the kid, Keong, and the whole neighborhood into a deadly crossfire. When the lazy cops fail to successfully resolve matters, Keong takes things into his own hands. Needless to say, much spectacular kung-fu and outrageous action sequences follow.... (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Locations: | taxi driverpolice carpolice stationtaxinew york city |
Story: | gang leaderpool hallcigar smokingmanhattan new york cityinterrogationfistfightbeatingviolencefight |
In German-occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movi …e premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history. (Read More)
Themes: | brutalityinvestigation |
Characters: | detective |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | war herocamera shot of feetsergeantitalianstabbinginterrogationfistfightviolence |
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 …(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: | police brutalitypolice investigationgangster |
Locations: | police stationtaxi |
Characters: | police detectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | cigar smokinginterrogationfistfightbeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
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 …e between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... (Read More)
Locations: | police stationnew york city |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetective |
Story: | evidence tamperingeye witnessmanslaughtermanhattan new york cityviolence |
In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose …his license and his dream job. (Read More)
Themes: | police investigation |
Locations: | taxi driverpolice carpolice stationtaxi |
Characters: | police detectivepoliceman |
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 …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)
Themes: | brutalityinvestigationinfidelity |
Locations: | taxi drivertaxi |
Story: | sergeantcover upconfessionstabbinginterrogationfistfightbeatingcigarette smokingviolencefight |
Kevin Chan (aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord. Of course, the drug-lord isn't too happy about this, and frames Kevin with the murder of another cop (who happened to be on the take). Kevin has to clear hi …s name, whilst keeping himself from getting killed or arrested, and keeping his girlfriend from leaving him. (Read More)
Themes: | brutalitygangster |
Locations: | police carpolice stationtaxi |
Characters: | police detectivepolicemandetective |
Story: | police inspectorframe upfistfightbeatingviolencefight |
Wilee is one of 1,500 bike couriers in Manhattan who rides on the edge by having a bike with no brakes. On this day, Wilee has a delivery that is so valuable that a corrupt NYC Detective, who needs the money, begins to chase Wilee throughout the city to get it before the envelope is delivered.
Themes: | gambling |
Locations: | police stationtaxi |
Characters: | police detectivedetective |
Story: | central park manhattan new york citymanhattan new york cityinterrogationbeatingcigarette smoking |