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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 140.
Crime, Drama, political film, thriller film
In an unnamed Latin American republic, in a remote mountainous region of the country, police sergeant Agustin Rejas, a former lawyer who left a job with a prestigious firm to join the police, is in charge of a little used checkpoint. When a pickup truck is stopped at the checkpoint, Rejas grows suspicious of the truck's occupants. He questions a passenger, who claims to be a laborer but is obviously educated and well spoken.
romantic comedy
Late one winter night, Swede rows up to a public dock in a dinghy. He hides when he spots a young woman who walks to the end of the pier. When a new night watchman (an uncredited Emory Parnell) notices her and fears she is about to jump, Swede stops him from bothering her.
Action Comedy, buddy film, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, Police Film
Keneely and Farrell are detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) vice squad. Although they show great talent for breaking up prostitution and drug rings, many of these enterprises are protected by crime boss Carl Rizzo, who exerts his influence throughout the city and the department. Evidence is altered before trial, colleagues refuse to help with basic police work, and the detectives are pushed to pursue other cases—mostly stakeouts on gay bars and public lavatories.
thriller film
In late 1970s Edinburgh, Nicky Dryden is arrested by Gary Keltie for enforcing the collection of money owed to a loan shark. In the present day, Dryden has left prison and changed his ways. He is now a feted sculptor displaying his first show and married to journalist Val.
Action Comedy, buddy film, buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Police Officer Alex Kearney is a patrolman in Bryn Mawr, an affluent, plush suburb of Philadelphia—until he stops an important businessman and his account of the incident is not believed. As punishment, he is assigned to work Downtown, considered the most dangerous, high-crime precinct in the city. Everyone at the precinct is certain that the 'by the book' suburban, pampered cop is going to get himself (and whoever is assigned as his partner), killed.
Crime, Drama
Bobby Baldano (William DeMeo) is the black sheep of his family. When he gets out of prison after serving a five-year sentence, his father (Armand Assante) has high hopes he will have a fresh start and come to work at Joseph Baldano & Sons Contracting, the legitimate and thriving multi-generational family business Bobby's grandfather built up from nothing. But Bobby's a mob connected street thug who gets caught back up in a life of inescapable crime.
Action, Drama
Harlan Banks (Steven Seagal) is a thief who has always picked his own jobs and tried to pull heists that would leave him room to help others. The work keeps getting riskier, and at the urging of his girlfriend Jada (Mari Morrow), Banks has decided to pull one final job, going in with some men who are planning a $20 million robbery. After the heist goes bad, Banks heads to Las Vegas, where Jada wants him to get a real job.
Action, Crime, Noir, thriller film
An old gangster, with a hard drive containing records of who he paid off, is targeted by a competition between dirty cops, internal affairs, etc. The dirty cops hire a thug to get into the safe (in the back of a diner) at midnight. He brings his friends and is too early for the time-release lock.
Crime, Drama, sport film
Detective Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is investigating the murder of Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), an astrophysicist at an observatory in New Orleans. She had presented a talk on black holes in the evening but was found dead in the morning by the manager of the observatory (Toby Jones). She had been shot in the face, but there was no weapon.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
While chasing an escaping suspect during a raid on a drug lab, Detective Malcolm “Mal” Toohey (Joel Edgerton) is shot and saved by his protective vest. After celebrating, Mal drives home drunk and hits a young boy on a bike with his side-view mirror. He calls an ambulance, but denies any involvement in the accident.
Action, Crime, Drama
A Swiss bank learns that the confidentiality of several anonymous numbered accounts has been compromised and blackmail threats have been made to five holders of the accounts. They include a crooked arms dealer, who received a demand for five million Swiss francs. He refuses to pay and is shot dead.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, family film, fantasy film, Horror, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
In Scotland, 994 A.D., Castle Wyvern is under attack by Vikings, led by the ruthless Hakon. The resident warriors struggle to repel the attack until the sun sets, where at night, the seemingly lifeless stone gargoyle statues awaken, revealing themselves to be real living gargoyles. Led by Goliath, the powerful gargoyle clan subsequently defends the castle and successfully forces the Vikings to retreat.
Crime, Drama, Police Film
Patrol Agent in Charge Jeb Maynard (Bronson) is trying to identify the killers of a young Mexican boy and Maynard's friend, veteran USBP Senior Patrol Agent "Scooter" Jackson (Wilford Brimley). Maynard is the Agent in Charge of Otay Border Patrol Station (a fictional composite of the actual El Cajon and Brown Field stations), located in the hills east of San Diego. He is later helped by the boy's mother, Elena Morales (Karmin Murcelo) and a rookie Patrol Agent, Jimmy Fantes (Bruno Kirby).
Crime, Drama
Edith Crawford, the widow of Governor Dick Crawford, confronts her brother, District Attorney John Grant, with a stack of unsigned love letters she found in her husband's private safe. John advises her to burn them. Edith refuses, vowing to punish the author of the letters.
Drama, Horror, thriller film
When an electrical power failure occurs, Cornelia Hilyard, a wealthy widow recuperating from a broken hip, becomes trapped between floors in the cage-like elevator she has installed in her mansion. With her son, Malcolm, away for the Fourth of July weekend, she relies on the elevator's emergency alarm to attract attention, but the only response comes from an unsympathetic alcoholic derelict, George Brady, who steals some small items from the house. The wino sells the stolen goods to a fence, Mr.
Action, Military Film, rape and revenge film
Colonel Hogan is a highly-decorated Special Forces officer who leads a group of mercenaries. His current client is businessman Don Michaelson. A deal is struck, and Hogan recruits new troops; for training, Hogan orders them to kidnap civilians for use as targets in hunting exercises.
Mysterie, mystery film, Noir
When a bus crashes due to faulty steering, passenger Jim Ackland (John Mills) sustains a serious brain injury and a young girl under his care is killed. Guilt-ridden, he attempts suicide twice during his recovery. He starts a new job as an industrial chemist and gets a room in a hotel.
Comedy, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, teen film
Rena is a suicidal and naive teenage girl whose father John is serving a long prison sentence. She has an idealistic view of her father. Her boyfriend, the popular Kenton, only uses her for sex, and other teenage girls tease her relentlessly.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
The story follows the adventures of two Scottish youths from the Wester Hailes district of Edinburgh, played by Vincent Friell and Joe Mullaney, who, in rebellion to their drab lives in urban Scotland in the mid-1980s, become modern highwaymen. Donning masks of a clown and a wolf-man and riding a Suzuki GP 125 motorbike, they waylay and hold up with a toy gun tourist coaches in the Highlands, but in the process becoming a tourist attraction themselves. Having acquired substantial amounts of money, they proceed to become modern-day Rob Roys, doling it out to the poor of their city by scattering it on bike rides through its streets,…
Crime, Drama
In 1955 Munich, Veronika Voss is a neurotic, faded UFA film star who is said to have slept with Joseph Goebbels but is now struggling to get roles. While riding the U-Bahn, she meets sports reporter Robert Krohn and is intrigued that he does not know who she is. The two have lunch together, and Veronika is recognized in a jewelry shop by two older women who ask for her autograph, and comment on the death of Veronika's husband during World War II.
Crime, Drama, Noir, prison film
Ex-prizefighter Arnie Judlow (Jack Palance) is two years into a life sentence at California’s San Quentin prison for a murder committed in a jealous rage. He recently pushed a guard over a third floor railing, and knows he faces the gas chamber if the guard dies. With the help of his wife, Ruth (Barbara Lang), and his lookalike brother, Bill [Jack Palance), he devises a plan to escape.
Action, Crime
Molly, now a freelance photographer (having apparently abandoned law school) living in New York City, is at an art show and accidentally takes a picture of a woman who turns out to be her mother, who abandoned her over 14 years ago. Molly learns she has a sister and both are connected to a dangerous crime element. Molly goes to Los Angeles to find out if the woman is her mother.
Comedy, Crime, Secret Agent
The glamorous assassin Irma Eckman, disguised as an air stewardess, kills the oil tycoon Henry Keller with a booby-trapped cigar aboard his private jet, parachuting away before the plane explodes. She is picked up by a speedboat driven by her partner in crime, the equally beautiful Penelope. The villainous pair then murder David Wyngarde, making it look like a spear fishing accident.
Action, Comedy, Crime Comedy, spy film
Moore and Caine play dual roles - a pair of small-time con-men and a pair of inept nuclear physicists who believe they have invented a limitless supply of energy. The con men use their resemblance to the scientists to con their way into the scientists' safe deposit boxes and steal the formula, but in so doing, they become entangled in a shady world of spies and international intrigue. The film includes a number of cameo appearances, including Jenny Seagrove (Winner's partner at the time) playing two different roles, John Cleese, Patsy Kensit, Alexandra Pigg and Nicholas Courtney.