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Crime Dramas, Part IV
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Another playlist dedicated to Crime Dramas (both Film and TV shows) that I like


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Movie: Nobody ( 2021 )
A docile family man slowly reveals his true character after his house gets burgled by two petty thieves, which, coincidentally, leads him into a bloody war with a Russian crime boss.
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TV Show: Prodigal Son ( 2019 )
Prodigal Son centers on Malcolm Bright who has a gift. He knows how killers think, how their minds work. Why? Back in the ‘90s, his father was one of the worst–a notorious serial killer called "The Surgeon." That's why Bright is the best criminal psychologist around; murder is the family business. Bright uses his twisted genius to help the NYPD solve crimes and stop killers, all while dealing with a manipulative mother, annoyingly normal sister, a homicidal father still looking to bond with his prodigal son, and his own constantly evolving neuroses.
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Movie: Knives Out ( 2019 )
A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
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TV Show: Blindspot ( 2015 )
A beautiful woman, with no memories of her past, is found naked in Times Square with her body fully covered in intricate tattoos. Her discovery sets off a vast and complex mystery that immediately ignites the attention of the FBI, which begins to follow the road map on her body into a larger conspiracy of crime, while bringing her closer to discovering the truth about her identity.
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TV Show: The Sinner ( 2017 )
A blend of thrilling murder investigation and raw character drama, anthology series The Sinner follows the investigation of a chilling new homicide each season. Detective Harry Ambrose employs unusual tactics and a deep capacity for empathy to solve his cases … with a boundless dedication driven by his own dark past. Departing from the traditional "whodunnit," the series delves into the "why" -- exploring the buried traumas, psychological factors and philosophical reasons that might compel a seemingly "normal" person to commit unspeakable acts.
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Movie: The Little Things ( 2021 )
Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
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TV Show: American Crime Story ( 2016 )
This anthology series dramatizes historic criminal cases in the U.S.
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Movie: The Dry ( 2021 )
Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to his home town after an absence of over twenty years to attend the funeral of his childhood friend, Luke, who allegedly killed his wife and child before taking his own life - a victim of the madness that has ravaged this community after more than a decade of drought. When Falk reluctantly agrees to stay and investigate the crime, he opens up an old wound - the death of 17- year-old Ellie Deacon. Falk begins to suspect these two crimes, separated by decades, are connected. As he struggles to prove not only Luke's innocence but also his own, Falk finds himself pitted against the prejudice towards him and and pent-up rage of a terrified community.
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Movie: Let Him Go ( 2020 )
A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson.
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Movie: Vanquish ( 2021 )
A mother, Victoria (Rose), is trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon (Freeman) forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts, and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters - or she may never see her child again.
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TV Show: Mr. Mercedes ( 2017 )
A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King.
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TV Show: Lucan ( 2013 )
Two-part drama recounting the events of a crime that shocked the nation and led to a fascinating mystery that has never been solved. In 1974, with escalating gambling debts and his marriage collapsing, Lord Lucan resorts to desperate measures to win custody of his children, with deadly consequences.
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TV Show: Jack Irish ( 2012 )
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don't want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
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Movie: Widows ( 2018 )
Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
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Movie: The Girl in the Spider's Web ( 2018 )
Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.
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TV Show: Tin Star ( 2017 )
A contemporary take on the Western genre, Tin Star tells the story of Jim Worth, an ex-Metropolitan Police detective who starts a new life in Canada's Rocky Mountains.Set in a remote Canadian mountain town, where the opening of a new oil refinery fronted by the mysterious Mrs. Bradshaw introduces the small town to a world of drug-dealers, prostitution and organized crime. Police chief Jim Worth is thirsty for revenge after the murder of a member of his family.
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Movie: Miss Bala ( 2019 )
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Based on the Spanish-language film.
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TV Show: The Serpent ( 2021 )
Con man, escape artist, thief, master of disguise and psychopath, Charles Sobhraj was the chief suspect in the sensational unsolved murders of up to 20 young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal through 1975 and 1976. Having slipped repeatedly from the grasp of authorities worldwide, by 1976 Sobhraj was Interpol's most wanted man and had arrest warrants on three different continents.When Herman Knippenberg, a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok, unwittingly walks into Sobhraj's intricate web of crime, he sets off an extraordinary chain of events that will see these two diametrically opposed men engaged in a chase across the porous borders of the Asian Hippie Trail in its twilight years.The Serpent is based on the phenomenal true story of how one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century was caught and brought to trial.
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TV Show: Young Wallander ( 2020 )
In a bold and original new story set in contemporary Sweden, Young Wallander sees Henning Mankell's iconic detective Kurt Wallander investigate his gripping first case. The story focuses on the formative experiences – professional and personal - faced by Kurt as a recently graduated police officer in his early twenties.
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Movie: Baby Driver ( 2017 )
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
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Movie: Papillon ( 2018 )
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
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TV Show: Undercover ( 2019 )
One of the largest ecstasy producers in the world, Ferry Bouman, lives a charmed life in his villa on the Dutch-Belgian border. But things start to change when two undercover agents move into his territory, attempt to infiltrate Bouman's life and shut down his network.
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Movie: King of Thieves ( 2018 )
A true crime movie about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah, quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. Based on infamous true events.
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Movie: Wind River ( 2017 )
A veteran hunter helps an FBI agent investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.
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Movie: Polar ( 2019 )
A retiring assassin suddenly finds himself on the receiving end of a hit, contracted by none other than his own employer seeking to cash in on the pensions of aging employees.
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Movie: Safe House ( 2012 )
A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.
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TV Show: Foyle's War ( 2002 )
Post-WWII drama. Foyle, now working for British Intelligence, is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when a London university professor is found murdered.
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Movie: Bound by Honor ( 1993 )
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.
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TV Show: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ( 2012 )
Our glamorous lady detective, The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, swans into early 1929 Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.
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Movie: Happily ( 2021 )
A dark romantic comedy. Tom and Janet have been happily married for years. But a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, a lot of questions, and a tense couples' trip with friends who may not actually be friends at all.
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TV Show: In Plain Sight ( 2008 )
In Plain Sight follows the story of a Federal Marshall with the Witness Protection program who must hide her high-risk, high-impact job from her family. To those that know her, Mary Shannon is a glorified meter maid, but her real job is much more dangerous. She must oversee federal witnesses who have been relocated through the Witness Protection program and make sure that they stay safe.
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Movie: Irréversible ( 2002 )
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.
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Movie: All the Money in the World ( 2017 )
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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TV Show: Big Dogs ( 2020 )
In a violent, anarchic alternate reality of New York City besieged by financial collapse, and a surging crime wave, an underworld economy of "speaks" -- illegal, debaucherous after-hours clubs linked by a web of taxicabs -- is thriving.For extra cash, fashion photographer Renny has been moving party drugs through the taxi network for his boss, Reza, the local front man for an international crime syndicate looking to take over the city. When Renny is forced by Reza to step up his game as a dealer to a dangerous degree, he soon finds himself in the cross-hairs of both Reza and Detective Sixto Santiago, whose experimental NYPD unit is using undercover taxis to crack down on the chaotic drug trade. After Santiago's commander Captain McKeutchen partners him with the mysterious and brutal new arrival Everett More, the two become entangled in a web of numerous government agencies and crime organizations circling a beleaguered New York, exposing a fight for control of both the city and the country at large.
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Movie: Gringo ( 2018 )
An exhilarating mix of dark comedy, white-knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides into Mexico, where mild-mannered businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues back home, local drug lords and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation in ways that raise the question: Is he out of his depth - or two steps ahead?
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TV Show: Top of the Lake ( 2013 )
A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases in Jane Campion's mystery drama.
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Movie: Safe ( 2012 )
Mei, a young girl whose memory holds a priceless numerical code, finds herself pursued by the Triads, the Russian mob, and corrupt NYC cops. Coming to her aid is an ex-cage fighter whose life was destroyed by the gangsters on Mei's trail.
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TV Show: Informer 3838 ( 2020 )
Informer 3838 will tell the story of how Nicola Gobbo had the ultimate trust of Melbourne's underworld and was gangland's go-to defence lawyer, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel, the Morans, the Carlton Crew and Roberta Williams. While Nicola knew the underworld's dirty secrets, they had no idea of hers. This explosive drama is the untold story of how one woman's secret double life helped to fight the Melbourne gangland wars and trigger a Royal Commission. Throughout the gangland wars Nicola Gobbo was the ultimate double agent. Against all the rules, she was betraying her clients to the police while defending them in court.
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Movie: Blitz ( 2011 )
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
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TV Show: Femme Fatales ( 2011 )
Inspired by and styled in the tradition of pulp stories, film noir and graphic novels, this provocative hit series tells the stories of dangerous women who find extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival instincts and bringing out their inner guile.
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TV Show: Ripper Street ( 2012 )
The Whitechapel police fight to bring law to the lawless in the wake of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror.
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TV Show: Living with a Serial Killer ( 2021 )
In a series of three powerful 90 minute episodes, Living with a Serial Killer asks: what is it like to discover that the person you shared your life with is really a vicious murderer?
 
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Movie: Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears ( 2020 )
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, Phryne Fisher begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, ancient curses and the truth behind the suspicious disappearance of Shirin's forgotten tribe.
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Movie: Funny Games ( 2008 )
In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.
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Movie: The Bank Job ( 2008 )
Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal.
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Movie: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair ( 2011 )
The Bride must kill her ex-boss and lover Bill who betrayed her at her wedding ceremony, shot her in the head and took away her unborn daughter. But first, she must make the other four members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad suffer.
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TV Show: Fear City: New York vs The Mafia ( 2020 )
Five Mafia families ruled New York with a bloody fist in the 1970s and '80s, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them down.
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Movie: Solace ( 2015 )
Psychic John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins) works with the F.B.I. in order to hunt down a serial killer.
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Movie: The Vanishing ( 2019 )
Based on the Flannan Isle mystery. A small relief boat approaches a tiny, isolated island where a lighthouse is located. They're to replenish the stocks and replace the crew of 3. After they dock no one greets them. The winch is broken. The lamps are clean and refilled; the table's laid for dinner. There's an upturned chair, 2 sets of yellow oilskins are missing - the 3 men have vanished.
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Movie: Destroyer ( 2018 )
A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
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Movie: Animal Kingdom ( 2010 )
A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
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TV Show: Underbelly ( 2008 )
Underbelly is part review, part exposé, and part skit comedy. We delve into the seedy underbelly of gaming, movies, comics, and the internets and attack its vulnerable underbelly for massive damage.
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Movie: The Last Days of American Crime ( 2020 )
In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts.
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Movie: Thick as Thieves ( 2009 )
A veteran thief recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mob.
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Movie: Killer Joe ( 2012 )
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.
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Movie: A Most Violent Year ( 2014 )
In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.
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Movie: The Name of the Rose ( 1986 )
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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Movie: Rise of the Footsoldier ( 2007 )
The life of career criminal Carlton Leach.
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Movie: Elite Squad ( 2007 )
1997, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his occupation while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope comes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Movie: Madame Claude ( 2021 )
Paris, in the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
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Movie: Villain ( 2020 )
Eddie Franks is a former criminal who attempts to help his family by reconnecting with his daughter and clearing his brother's debt. Despite his efforts, he is drawn back into a criminal way of life, with devastating consequences.
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Movie: Marauders ( 2016 )
When a bank is hit by a brutal heist, all evidence points to the owner and his high-powered clients. But as a group of FBI agents dig deeper into the case - and the deadly heists continue - it becomes clear that a larger conspiracy is at play.
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Movie: The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 ( 1992 )
The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family.
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Movie: Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 )
A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.
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Movie: Harry Brown ( 2009 )
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
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Movie: Brick ( 2006 )
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
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Movie: Jack Irish: Black Tide ( 2012 )
Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading photo on the pubs football wall of fame. So when Des Connors, the last link to his dad, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is more than happy to lend a hand. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing f...Read all
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Movie: Sabotage ( 2014 )
Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house.
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Movie: Free Fire ( 2017 )
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
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Movie: Headhunters ( 2011 )
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
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Movie: A Most Wanted Man ( 2014 )
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
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Movie: Pride and Glory ( 2008 )
A family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
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Movie: Lady Vengeance ( 2005 )
After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.
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Movie: Naked Weapon ( 2002 )
40 13 y.o. girls are kidnapped and the next 6 years forcefully trained to be sexy assassins. The survivors go on to be top int'l assassins known as China dolls. A CIA agent's on track of them.
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Movie: Only God Forgives ( 2013 )
Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death.
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Movie: London Boulevard ( 2010 )
An ex-con with a reputation tries to go straight by working as a handy man for a reclusive actress but this is unfortunately not the wish of London's underground crime lord.
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Movie: Jack Irish: Dead Point ( 2014 )
When a high profile judge commissions Jack Irish to locate a mysterious red book, Jack is thrown into a world of sexy club owners, drug dealers and unhinged killers.
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Movie: The Hunter's Prayer ( 2017 )
An assassin helps a young woman avenge the death of her family.
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Movie: Flawless ( 2007 )
In 1960s London, an elderly caretaker convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.
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Movie: Under Suspicion ( 2000 )
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. This will only take ten minutes, they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer...
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Movie: The Contract ( 2006 )
A father and his son attempt to bring in an assassin to the authorities, but his dangerous associates have other plans.
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Movie: Premium Rush ( 2012 )
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
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Movie: River's Edge ( 1987 )
A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.
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TV Show: The Making of The Mob ( 2015 )
The Making of The Mob is a special event miniseries chronicling the historical roots of the original Five Families that led to the formation of the modern American Mafia.
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Movie: Buffalo '66 ( 1998 )
After being released from prison, Billy is set to visit his parents with his wife, whom he does not actually have. This provokes Billy to act out, as he kidnaps a girl and forces her to act as his wife for the visit.
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Movie: Original Gangster ( 2020 )
The stoic chronicles of Castor, orphaned as a child, forced to survive in the wild and his colorful journey through the criminal underworld of London.
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Movie: Closed Circuit ( 2013 )
A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.
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Movie: The Killer ( 1989 )
A Hong Kong hitman accidentally blinds an innocent woman during a hit. He is determined to get her surgery to help her regain her sight but he needs to complete one more hit first. He completes the job but then is ambushed as he tries to escape: someone wants him dead. Meanwhile a resourceful, unorthodox police detective is hot on his trail.
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Movie: Deadfall ( 2012 )
A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.
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Movie: Deception ( 2008 )
Cat and mouse. Jonathan McQuarry is an auditor in Manhattan, moving from office to office checking their books. While working late, a smooth and well-dressed man named Wyatt Bose chats Jonathan up, offers him a joint, and soon they're pals. When their cell phones are accidentally swapped, Jonathan answers Wyatt's phone to a series of women asking if he's free tonight. Jonathan discovers it's a sex club: busy powerful people meet each other anonymously in hotels. Jonathan falls for one of the club members, whom he knows only as "S," whom he's also seen on a subway. When she goes missing, patterns emerge and Jonathan faces demands involving violence and lots of money.
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Movie: Son of a Gun ( 2014 )
JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch's gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another.
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Movie: House of the Rising Sun ( 2011 )
Ray, an ex-con, is starting a new life looking to stay out of trouble. One evening, on Ray's watch, the nightclub he works for is robbed and the owner's son is shot dead. As his criminal past is exposed Ray hunts for the person responsible for this crime in an effort to clear his own name. Ray must get to the bottom of this as both the mob and cops start to close in o...Read all
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Movie: The Snowtown Murders ( 2011 )
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
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Movie: Wolf Warrior ( 2015 )
A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord.
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Movie: The Lookout ( 2007 )
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
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Movie: Femme Fatale ( 2002 )
A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
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Movie: The Corruptor ( 1999 )
With the aid from a New York City policeman, a top immigrant cop tries to stop drug-trafficking and corruption by immigrant Chinese Triads, but things get complicated when the Triads try to bribe the policeman.
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Movie: The Art of the Steal ( 2014 )
Crunch Calhoun, a semi-reformed art thief, agrees to get his old gang back together to pull off one last heist.
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Movie: Hard Eight ( 1997 )
Professional gambler Sydney teaches John the tricks of the trade. John does well until he falls for cocktail waitress Clementine.
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Movie: Killshot ( 2008 )
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer. The ensuing struggle will test Carmen to the limit.