Posts Tagged ‘corrupt-cop’

Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Fonda, Bridget | Karyo, Tchéky | Young, Ric | Ryan, Max | Kwouk, Burt | Laurence, Ashley | Raffaelli, Cyril | Azoulay, Didier | Forgeham, John | Barrett, Paul | Prince, Colin | Glo, Vincent | Wong, Vincent | Kentaro
Directors: Nahon, Chris
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Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard’s hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon?

Training Day (2001)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Hawke, Ethan | Glenn, Scott | Berenger, Tom | Yulin, Harris | Barry, Raymond J. | Curtis, Cliff | Dr. Dre | Dogg, Snoop | Gray, Macy | Ayanna, Charlotte | Mendes, Eva | Chinlund, Nick | Gomez, Jaime | Cruz, Raymond
Directors: Fuqua, Antoine
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In 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 corrupt. ‘Training Day’ follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. 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.

Walking Tall (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rock, The | Knoxville, Johnny | McDonough, Neal | Wilson, Kristen | Scott, Ashley | Thomas, Khleo | Beasley, John | Tarbuck, Barbara | Bowen, Michael | Durand, Kevin | Tarbet, Andrew | Gallagher, Patrick | Stewart, John | Breker, Eric | Robbins, Ryan
Directors: Bray, Kevin
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When a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces returns to his small hometown in rural Washington State hoping to realise a childhood dream of working in the local lumber mill, he discovers that much has changed, as the normally tranquil town is now besieged by drugs, outbreaks of violence and a general feeling of malaise and terror, with many pointing a finger at the influence of a crooked casino where his ex-girlfriend now works as a dancer. Seeking to wreak vengeance, with a four-foot-long 4-by-4 in his hand, and righteousness in his heart, the highly-trained soldier, now the county’s sheriff, and his deputy, realizes it’s time to bust some heads with a very hard piece of wood.

Usual Suspects, The (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Baldwin, Stephen | Byrne, Gabriel | Del Toro, Benicio | Pollak, Kevin | Spacey, Kevin | Palminteri, Chazz | Postlethwaite, Pete | Esposito, Giancarlo | Hedaya, Dan | Amis, Suzy | Bartel, Paul | Bressler, Carl | Simon, Phillip | Shearer, Jack | Estabrook, Christine
Directors: Singer, Bryan
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After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won’t leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent “Keyser Soze” is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot.

Batman Begins (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Neeson, Liam | Holmes, Katie | Oldman, Gary | Murphy, Cillian | Wilkinson, Tom | Hauer, Rutger | Watanabe, Ken | Boone Junior, Mark | Roache, Linus | Freeman, Morgan | Holden, Larry | Murphy, Gerard | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Walker, Paul | Gibson, Tyrese | Mendes, Eva | Hauser, Cole | Ludacris | Barry, Thom | Remar, James | Aoki, Devon | Nolasco, Amaury | Ealy, Michael | Auyeung, Jin | Finlay, Edward | Boone Junior, Mark | Gallini, Matt | Sanchez, Roberto 'Sanz'
Directors: Singleton, John
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Former cop Brian O’Conner who teams up with his ex-con pal Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of ‘dirty’ money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone, while actually working with undercover agent Monica Clemente to bring Verone down.

Saw II (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
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When detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is called to a crime scene of a victim of Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), he finds a lead to the place where he is hidden. Once there, he realizes that Jigsaw trapped his son Daniel Matthews (Erik Knudsen) with three women and four men in a shelter, and they are inhaling a lethal nerve gas. If they do not use an antidote within two hours, they will die. Eric follows with increasing desperation the death of each member of the group in monitors, while trying to convince Jigsaw to release his son.

Thursday (1998)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jane, Thomas | Eckhart, Aaron | Porizkova, Paulina | LeGros, James | Marshall, Paula | Jeter, Michael | Plummer, Glenn | Rourke, Mickey | Hari, Luck | Willerford, Bari K. | Wong, Richard | Howard, Shawn Michael | Dourdan, Gary | Hooks, Brian | Sanders, Jeff
Directors: Woods, Skip
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A former L.A. drug dealer (Thomas Jane) has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts (Aaron Eckhart) who comes carrying heroin. Discovering the dope, the architect flushes it down the drain. This sets up a series of tough customers seeking the dope including a rasta hitman (Glenn Plummer), an ex-lover (Paulina Porizkova) who ties up and rapes James, a criminal (James LeGros) with a penchant for torture, and a rogue cop (Mickey Rourke). Michael Jeter also appears as a psychologist from an adoption agency where the couple is seeking to adopt a child.

Thick as Thieves (1998)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Baldwin, Alec | Braugher, Andre | White, Michael Jai | De Mornay, Rebecca | Byrd, David | Greenwood, Bruce | Edson, Richard | Miano, Robert | Alexander, Khandi | Anderson, Erich | Ballard, Reginald | English, Bradford | Garofalo, Janeane | Harris, Ricky | Polone, Gavin
Directors: Sanders, Scott
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Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first (Alec Baldwin), a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other (Michael Jai White) is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss (David Byrd) and a female police officer (Rebecca De Mornay) try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.

Last Action Hero (1993)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Curtis, Jamie Lee | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Abraham, F. Murray | O'Brien, Austin | Carney, Art | Dance, Charles | McRae, Frank | Noonan, Tom | Prosky, Robert | Quinn, Anthony | Ruehl, Mercedes | McKellen, Ian | Tanaka, Professor Toru | Plowright, Joan | Kelly, Jason | Emmerich, Noah
Directors: McTiernan, John
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Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater’s world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater’s enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny’s world, where he realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.