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Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.

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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Political Thriller

In 1967, a visit by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran to West Berlin leads to a clash between the West German student movement and German police. In the chaos, unarmed protestor Benno Ohnesorg is fatally shot by policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras, outraging the West German public, including left-wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof, who claims in a televised debate that West Germany is a fascist police state. Inspired by Meinhof's rhetoric, radical communists Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader mastermind the Frankfurt department store firebombings of 1968.

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The Base (1999)

Action, thriller film

When an army operations officer is gunned down on the Fort Tillman Army Base near the US-Mexican border, the Pentagon sends their top Army Intelligence officer -- Major John Murphy -- to assume a bent undercover identity in order to gain the trust of corrupt soldiers at Fort Tillman. Assigned to guard the USA's anti-drug interests in the area, disgruntled Sgt. Mike Gammon instead attempts to take over the drug business along the Mexican border, and Gammon is working for General Albert Becker .

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