Posts Tagged ‘police’

48 Hrs.

Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Murphy, Eddie | O'Toole, Annette | McRae, Frank | Remar, James | Kelly, David Patrick | Landham, Sonny | James, Brion | Sherman, Kerry | Banks, Jonathan | Keane, James | King, Tara | Blackburn, Greta | Rose, Margot | Crosby, Denise
Directors: Hill, Walter
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Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.

Beverly Hills Cop II

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Reinhold, Judge | Ashton, John | Prochnow, Jürgen | Cox, Ronny | Nielsen, Brigitte | Garfield, Allen | Stockwell, Dean | Reiser, Paul | Hill, Gilbert R. | Guilfoyle, Paul | Ridgely, Robert | O'Connor, Brian | Adair, Alice | Butler, Eugene
Directors: Scott, Tony
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A series of strange robberies brings Axel Foley back to Beverly Hills to help his two fellow cops solve the case. All the familiar faces of the first film are back…

District 13

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Actors: Raffaelli, Cyril | Belle, David | D'Amario, Tony | Naceri, Bibi | Verissimo, Dany | Chattot, François | Woirion, Nicolas | Olivier, Patrick | Guesmi, Samir | Gadner, Jérôme | Boucekhine, Tarik | Jean, Grégory | Zavatta, Warren | Dorol, Dominique | Berthillot, Ludovic
Directors: Morel, Pierre
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In the near future, the worst ghettos of Paris, France are literally walled off and among the worst is District B13. Controlled by the ruthless crime lord, Taha, a young righteous punk named Leïto is determined to bring him down. When the boss retaliates by kidnapping his sister, Lola, a rescue attempt by Leïto is destroyed by betrayal that gets him arrested and Lola kept in the clutches in Taha. Six months later, a crackerjack undercover cop named Damien is given a urgent mission: a neutron bomb has been stolen by Taha in District B13 which has an automatic timer function engaged and set to detonate in less than 24 hours. Now with time running out, Damien and Leïto must work together to find and stop the bomb, but there is far more to this crisis than any of the field players realize.

One, The

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: Li, Jet | Gugino, Carla | Lindo, Delroy | Statham, Jason | Morrison, James | Bruno, Dylan | Steinmetz, Richard | Rankin, Steve | Smallwood, Tucker | Harris, Harriet Sansom | Keats, David | Norris, Dean | Zimmerman, Ron | Morgan, Darin | Mark Borchardt
Directors: Wong, James
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This movie postulates what if there is more than one universe. And that all of these universes are held together by one single stream of energy and that energy is equally distributed to every living in each universe and if one of these beings die, that energy is reallocated equally to each other surviving member. And with each allocation, a person becomes stronger. Now one universe has master the ability of crossing into another universe, and a man named Shulaw who believes that if he can kill all of his counterparts, he will become invincible, but there are those who believe that it might have detrimental effects, so try and stop him. Unfortunately, he just has one more person to kill, Gabe Law, but the officers follow Shulaw but Shulaw has committed some crimes and Gabe is accused and is wanted. But Gabe discovers that he has changed and only wants to kill Shulaw not realizing what could happen.

Changing Lanes

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Jackson, Samuel L. | Staunton, Kim | Collette, Toni | Pollack, Sydney | Sloan, Tina | Jenkins, Richard | Walker, Akil | Hawkins, Cole | Getz, Ileen | Dundas, Jennifer | Malloy, Matt | Peet, Amanda | Taylor, Myra Lucretia | Altman, Bruce
Directors:  | Michell, Roger
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An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties’ part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity.

Tailor of Panama, The

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Rush, Geoffrey | Gleeson, Brendan | Curtis, Jamie Lee | McCormack, Catherine |
Directors: Boorman, John
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John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.

Bourne Supremacy, The

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Damon, Matt | Potente, Franka | Cox, Brian | Stiles, Julia | Urban, Karl | Mann, Gabriel | Allen, Joan | Csokas, Marton | Gallop, Tom | Bedford Lloyd, John | Sandler, Ethan | Monaghan, Michelle | Roden, Karel | Arana, Tomas | Akinshina, Oksana
Directors: Greengrass, Paul
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When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent—who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne (Damon) and Marie (Potente) have been living under assumed names—the pair collapse their lives and head out. Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

Death Ride aka Haunted Highway

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Actors: Gamble, Rand | Yoshikawa, Hinano | Putney, Laura | Roberts, Adrian | Roberts, Adrian N. | Emmett, Charles | Holmes, Dan | Goltz, Tiffany | Andre, Peter | Ward, Alison | Forry, Shawn | Mori, Ko | Ibrahim, Kenneth | Sakakibara, Rumi | Hartnell, John
Directors: Suzuki, Junichi
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An American photographer (Gamble) has an affair with a mysterious woman (Yoshikawa), which leads him into a confrontation with the occult.

When a Stranger Calls

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Actors: Belle, Camilla | Flanagan, Tommy | Cassidy, Katie | Thompson, Tessa | Geraghty, Brian | Gregg, Clark | Lint, Derek de | Grant, Kate Jennings | Denman, David | Young, Arthur | Carroll, Madeline | Eastin, Steve | Bobek, John | Surosky, Brad | Logue, Karina
Directors: West, Simon
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A young high school student babysits for a very rich family. She begins to receive strange phone calls threatening the children. When she finally realizes that it’s not a joke, she calls the police, only to find that the call is coming from inside the house

Lost City, The

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Actors: Sastre, Inés | Milian, Tomas | Bradford, Richard | Carbonell, Nestor | Murciano, Enrique | García-Lorido, Dominik | Hoffman, Dustin | Murray, Bill | Feijóo, Lorena | Bauer, Steven | Fernández, Juan | Garcia, Jsu | Marquez, William | Mechoso, Julio Oscar
Directors: Garcia, Andy
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In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950’s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro’s regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York.