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Action, Crime, Martial arts
Sergeant Dutton Hatfield is working for the American embassy. His latest assignment is to escort a supposed team of scientists inside the Research Development Institute facility outside Tel Aviv, Israel. However, the scientists are revealed to be terrorists in disguise, led by Colonel Baron.
Crime
This is a story about the biggest financial fraud attempted in Hong Kong, directed at the Government of Hong Kong and all 7 million Hong Kong citizens... no one is free from the scheme. Within the four decades of guarding Hong Kong's financial integrity, the ICAC has never come across an opponent so huge and so well organized as in the Z Torrent file...
Crime
thumb|Lobby card for the film Simon Dayton is in fear for his life and seeks the help of Mr. Wong to protect him. Just prior to meeting Mr.
Crime, documentary film, Documentation
The film focuses on the two main protagonists Jens Söring, son of a German diplomat, and Elizabeth Haysom, the daughter of the murdered couple. Both were sentenced to life in prison.
Crime
In Prohibition-era San Francisco, rival bootleg gangs rule the underworld. At the heart of the turf war is the "Bridge Street Gang," led by brutal and unrelenting Mike Luego (Walter Long). When a truckload of his liquor is hijacked by the notorious “Blackjack” Connell (Eddie Gribbon), Luego vows vengeance—and blood.
Action, Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, thriller film
Harlan Woodruff (Randy Spelling) is a Salsa musician from Wyoming, on a road trip to Los Angeles to realise his dream of making it big as a percussionist. It is revealed that Harlan had a troubled childhood, having found his dead father frozen in a fishing hole. En route to Los Angeles, he runs into Jude (Jason Priestley), a career criminal on the run from two hit men, Al and Dwayne (Mike Starr and Sean Blakemore), who want to retrieve stolen merchandise from him.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Mike Farrell is induced by con artists Brandy Kirby and attorney Vincent Mailer to purloin a rich couple's $10 million-dollar estate by having Farrell pose as their long-lost son. When the old man refuses to change his will, Mailer decides to kill the couple and Kirby plays along. Farrell refuses to assist and Mailer plans to kill him as well.
Crime, Detective
The Fein family of police, led by Paul Fein, now a police commissioner, investigate the murder of a local priest who had ties with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off the case. Paul's eldest son Detective Ben and youngest son Patrolman Eddie deal with the investigation and soon find themselves targeted by hitmen who proceed to harass the entire family to try to get them to drop the case. Meanwhile, Paul's eldest daughter Kate has doubts about her job when a young, 12-year-old criminal who she represented is paroled and later killed in a robbery when Eddie's partner is also killed.
Crime, Drama
Carrie Roberts is a bright high school student, looking forward to graduation with her friends. One night, she goes to a friend's party where she meets Alex Kelly, a handsome athlete at another high school. When Carrie decides to head home, Alex offers to take her seeing that they live close by.
Comedy
Lester March is a 25-year-old orphan who is an electronics repairman. However, his real passion is detective novels, and he dreams of becoming a detective himself someday. His best friend, Pete Flint, is a detective, and they see a television program about a wealthy single woman, Cecilia Albright, who is looking for her long-lost nephew.
Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller
Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered into traffic. As Schrader and Minks investigate the murder, the case is complicated by a finger found in the stomach of the victim.
Comedy, Crime, Drama, thriller film
André Ferren learns from his girlfriend and co-worker Susan Winters that the biggest client of his brokerage firm, Hermann Rolf, not only wants to replace André with Susan, but asked Susan on a date. André orders Susan to go on the date and Rolf asks Susan to marry him. Susan agrees on the condition that Rolf entrust his fortune to André as a gift.
Crime, mystery film
Private investigator Mike Hammer assists a prostitute being assaulted. He cannot help noticing a unique ring on her finger. Later, when she is found murdered that ring is missing.
Crime
A prince, the heir apparent to a large empire, was once the lover of Alice Faulkner's sister. During their love affair, he had written some incriminating letters to her. Alice was given these letters for safe keeping on the deathbed of her sister.
Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy
With the end of Prohibition, bootlegger Remy Marco (shown as "Marko" in one sequence) becomes a legitimate brewer, but he slowly goes broke because the beer that he makes tastes terrible, and everyone is afraid to tell him so. After four years, with bank officers preparing to foreclose on the brewery, he retreats to his Saratoga summer home with his daughter Mary coming home from school. Remy also takes along an orphan from his old stomping grounds, only to find four dead mobsters who had planned to ambush him but were killed by another gang member, who lurks around the residence.
Adventure, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Sam Carter is a jeweller's clerk who dreams of stealing a fortune in diamonds and eventually does so, but he kills a man in the process. He then embarks on the high life, but is pursued across Europe by private detective Milo March, a woman named Trudi Hall, and two thugs, Martin Lomer and Gerard Heinz. These characters end up trying to outwit each other over the largest diamond, which is worth $700,000, on a train travelling to London.
Action, Crime, thriller film
After his friend is killed, former cop Kurt Harris (Jeff Wincott) goes undercover and infiltrates the "Peacemakers", a vigilante street gang led by corrupt mayoral candidate Rachel Larkin (Brigitte Nielsen). While there, Harris discovers that the group is involved in illegal schemes to achieve power over the city.
Crime, Horror, Mysterie
Philippe Darvas is a theatre director whose Grand Guignol theatre is thought to be linked to a series of murders.
Superhero
Wealthy publisher Britt Reid and his trusted Korean valet and sidekick disguise themselves as the crime fighting vigilantes, The Green Hornet and Kato. Over the course of 15 chapters, they battle the growing power of ruthless crime lord "Boss" Crogan and his varied rackets and henchmen across the city. Unknown to them, Crogan also has strong ties to foreign powers unfriendly to the United States.
Comedy, Drama
Set during the Great Depression, Blondie Johnson quits her job after her boss sexually harasses her. She and her sick mother are then evicted from their apartment and are unable to get any government relief funds. After her mother dies, Blondie is determined to become rich.
Drama, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1947 Hollywood, Orson Welles had a divorce from Rita Hayworth. When he travels to Rome for the lead role in Black Magic, an actor is murdered on set and Welles finds himself allured by the deceased's beautiful stepdaughter. Soon he becomes embroiled in dangerous political games as the run-up to post-war elections surfaces.
Action, Comedy, Drama
Situated in Boston, Albert Paul 'Pally' LaMarr (Kiefer Sutherland) is a 35 year old police officer who has recently suffered a heart attack while facing a bandit, forcing him into retirement. The loss of his career created a void that drove him into depression and left him contemplating suicide. His wife, Charlotte LaMarr (Radha Mitchell) calls Pally's half-brother Ray LaMarr (Anthony LaPaglia) to come and visit him with the intention of bringing his spirits up.
Crime, Science fiction
On New Year's Eve 1938 in New York, lawyer Billy Cooper notices stranded English showgirl Jennie Carr gazing hungrily at other diners' plates in a restaurant and offers to buy her a meal. However, the restaurant has run out, so he invites her to his apartment. Before they arrive, Abel, another hungry, unemployed person, sneaks in for a chicken leg.
black comedy film, Crime, Drama
Tony wants to be a hitman for the Mafia, but first he has to learn from a master. Enter Stevie "The Rose" Rosellini - cool, eats veggie dogs and quotes Nietzsche. Greco may not agree with Stevie's style, but he has to complete his training so he can go back and kill the Mafia's accountant, who is about to turn state's evidence.