Crime, Gangster Film, Police Film, crime film, drama film
Steve Ventura, the French station head of Drug Enforcement Administration, is unable to find a way to expose and arrest a drug baron named Jacques Brizzard, whose henchmen were responsible for killing one of Ventura's undercover agents in Marseille. Given that Brizzard is politically well connected to numerous affiliations, the law enforcement is finding it difficult to prove that Brizzard is involved in various crimes including murder. After several failed efforts of trying to cover an angle on Brizzard, Ventura comes to the conclusion that he couldn't take down the crime lord by the book, especially after Brizzard's henchmen make an…
Merle Hench (Eric Roberts), nicknamed "The Butcher", is a henchman for gangster Murdoch (Robert Davi) until Hench takes the fall for his boss. Having survived, Hench will earn his nickname on a mission for revenge. Merle dies after killing Murdoch's gang The Vegas mobsters show up and take their money back, but Janie gets the winnings from Merles last bet, buys the diner and names it after Merle
John George Haigh is raised in a Yorkshire village by sheltering parents who fellowship with the strict Plymouth Brethren. His father teaches him that their family is different from others, being among "God's elect"; but as an adult John turns to petty crime. He marries Beatrice 'Betty' Hamer, who becomes pregnant with his child.
A discredited expatriate American professor, Theo Wilkins, has called on a young protégé and sophisticated thief, Paul Mason, to come over from the US to the south of France and help him pull off one final heist. He has masterminded a caper to steal $4,000,000 in French francs from the underground vault of the casino of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Wilkins has recruited a team of thieves – including Melanie, an exotic dancer – but he needs someone he can trust, Mason, to keep them all in line during the crime.
Crystal Shackleford lures two strangers, solicitor Jerome K. Arbutny and charming and erudite drunkard Johnny West to her London flat on Chinese New Year in 1938 because of her belief that if three strangers make the same wish to an idol of Kwan Yin, Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny, the wish will be granted. Since money will make their dreams come true, the three go in on a sweepstakes ticket for the Grand National horse race together and agree that they will not sell the ticket if it is chosen, but will hold on to it until the race is run.
American Gun centers around three stories dealing with the results of gun use: an inner city school principal, a single mother, and an A student who works at her family's gun shop.
Frankie Dunlan, an American soldier in the Vietnam War, runs alone through the jungle. As his voice narrates, he reveals that he "goes back there every night" before waking up in his rundown New York apartment, next to his wife Cathy and their deformed infant son. The couple argue over Frankie's unemployment and their son's health, with Frankie believing the baby's deformities are a result of chemical weapons like Agent Orange used during the war.
Wilbur Walsh (Bud Spencer) and Matt Kirby (Terence Hill) are in Miami, looking for work as longshoremen. The area is managed by shady dealers who refuse to give them a job. The dealers are beaten up and have three of their cars wrecked in the process.
Ten years ago, CIA agent Jake Hopper was stationed in Thailand. A fight with thugs resulted in his partner, Sunti escaping with his life after accidentally killing a woman. Following that, Jake left the CIA and returned to the United States when his wife died, while Sunti became a Buddhist monk to atone for his sins.
Darcy Walker, a police detective, becomes the Black Scorpion, a costumed crime fighter, after her father is murdered. She does not reveal her secret identity to her partner Michael Russo. She is aided by Argyle, a technology expert and former car thief.
Frank McBain is a Los Angeles cop and former CIA operative, who left the agency after a botched mission where his partner Jack Benson lost his life. His failure garnered him the animosity of U.S. Army lieutenant Devon Shepard, who was caught in a love triangle with the two men, and the disdain of his peers, who suspected that he may have caused his colleague's death to keep Shepard to himself.
American writer Tom Ricks arrives in Paris to be closer to his young daughter, who lives with his ex-wife. The divorce was prompted by Tom's mental illness, from which he has apparently recovered. After his possessions and money are stolen, he accepts a job as a night guard for Sezer, a local crime boss who owns a run-down hostel.
left|thumb|Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers and Basil Rathbone in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) Holmes is called into the "Inner Council" of British Intelligence by Sir Evan Barham, to assist in stopping Nazi saboteurs operating in Britain, whose activities are announced in advance in radio broadcasts by "The Voice of Terror". Gavin, one of Holmes's operatives, is killed with a German dagger in his back. Before he dies, Gavin utters the word "Christopher." Later, Holmes and Watson go to the Limehouse district of London, where they meet with Gavin's wife Kitty.
Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
The Times of Harvey Milk documents the political career of Harvey Milk, who was San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor. The film documents Milk's rise from a neighborhood activist to a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination in November 1978 at San Francisco's city hall, and the Dan White trial and aftermath.
After an increasing number of his clients fail to make good on their payments, Mr Thigo decides to take matters into his own hands, travelling to London to make an example of local bad boy and debtor Nick. Thigo gives Nick just 24 hours to pay back the £100,000 he owes, and, as an incentive, Thigo holds Nick's wheelchair-using mother hostage. Since Nick is already financially challenged, he is forced to be creative in order to come up with the money.
Twenty years after her daughter's mysterious disappearance, Darlene Hagen (Anna Gunn), a recovering alcoholic, is preparing to hold a family Christmas celebration with her best friend Gretchen (Janeane Garofalo). But her former brother-in-law Jack (Linus Roache) shows up for the dinner without warning and brings an unexpected and dangerous twist to the event—as he arrives not only with gifts but also with a terrible secret. Locked in the house by a heavy storm, they start a brutal game of revenge.
In the mid-1980s, Danny Scoular marries Beth. Several years later, the couple have two children and Danny is a striking miner, who is sentenced to six months in prison for assaulting a police officer during a protest. Upon his release, the mine in his Scottish village has closed and he is banned from mining regardless, having to rely on Beth to bring in a wage in order to support the family.
Crime, Komödie, comedy drama, political thriller film
Former student radical Moses Wine now works as a private investigator. He is contacted by Lila, an ex-girlfriend from his college days, who is working in the election campaign for Miles Hawthorne, a politician who is running to be Governor of California. Lila takes Moses to meet Hawthorne's campaign coordinator Sam Sebastian, who is concerned about a fake campaign flyer supposedly showing former Berkeley radical Howard Eppis together with Hawthorne and endorsing him.
Jennifer Stanton is a wealthy, rebellious teenager whose father, Bill, is overprotective, strict, and controlling, while her mother, Susan, barely takes her side. When Bill prohibits Jennifer from attending a concert, this—along with Bill's strictness in general—becomes the last straw for her boyfriend, Brad, who breaks up with her. The following morning, Bill admonishes Jennifer for dressing in clothing he deems too 'revealing' for school and forces her to change.
Psychological Thriller, Splatter Film, crime film, horror film, thriller film
Dr. Alan Feinstone is in the maximum security mental hospital he was sentenced to at the end of the first film. While talking to the psychiatrist, he remembers the murders he committed in his mind, while convincing the doctor that it was another man who did those things.
The film follows a series of encounters of a group of patrolling Police Tactical Unit troopers during one night, which starts off when the patrol-team tries to help a sergeant of the District Anti-Triad Squad of the Hong Kong Police Force, Lo Sa, to retrieve his lost service-issue revolver after he was assaulted by a group of triad members. The films portrays the police officers' use of extra-legal means to achieve the results of investigations and reveals the complex relationships between criminals and police officers, the hostility amongst criminals themselves and even the rivalry among different bureaux within the Hong Kong Police Force.
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) and his new invention, a bombsight, in escaping a Gestapo trap in Switzerland. Holmes and Franz fly to London, where Holmes places him under the protection of his friend, Dr.
Hazel Aiken (Carroll Baker) runs an electrolysis business from her home that also serves as a front for arranging murders for clients. She employs only women as assassins and rents rooms to some of them. Her household includes her husband (Gordon Oas-Heim), her elderly mother (Mary Boylan), and her daughter-in-law Mary (Susan Tyrrell), who lives there with her baby while waiting for her absent husband to return.
The film is based on the 1986 FBI Miami shootout that occurred on April 11, 1986. Two former army buddies, Michael Lee Platt (played by David Soul) and William Russell Matix (Michael Gross), commit a series of murders and bank robberies in Miami, Florida. Matix and Platt were close friends who ran a tree-cutting service, and both had Army commando training.
