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Crime Dramas, Vol. VI
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Another playlist dedicated to Crime Dramas (both Film and TV shows) that I like


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Movie: Cliff Walkers ( 2021 )
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.
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Movie: 22 Bullets ( 2010 )
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
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TV Show: El robo del siglo ( 2020 )
In 1994, a team of thieves plans an ambitious heist to steal millions from Colombia's Bank of the Republic. Inspired by true events.
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Movie: Bullet ( 1996 )
Butch "Bullet" Stein, a Jewish junkie from the mean streets of Brooklyn, is paroled after eight years in prison. Butch rips off a runner for local drug dealer, Tank, and is soon right back into his old habit of snorting coke and shooting up heroin with his best friend Lester. Enraged by Butch's affront and already determined to get revenge on him for a past wrong, Tank sets about getting even with his old enemy by hiring a hulking brute, Gates, to beat Butch. When the confrontation occurs, however, Gates breaks his hand on the battle-hardened Butch. Besides Lester, the only people in Butch's corner are his two brothers, the mentally-unhinged Vietnam War veteran Louis and aspiring artist Ruby, neither of whom can be counted on to help him in the inevitable showdown.
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Movie: Point Blank ( 1968 )
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him.
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Movie: Dragon ( 2011 )
A papermaker gets involved with a murder case concerning two criminals leading to a determined detective suspecting him and the former's vicious father searching for him
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TV Show: The Real Hustle ( 2006 )
The show demonstrates confidence and magic tricks, distraction scams and proposition bets performed on members of the public by Conran and Wilson with "sexy swindler" Jessica-Jane Clement. From series 10, Jazz Lintott and Polly Parsons joined the hustlers.
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Movie: The Mighty Quinn ( 1989 )
When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
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Movie: The Day of the Jackal ( 1973 )
A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
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Movie: Our Kind of Traitor ( 2016 )
A couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.
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Movie: Dancer in the Dark ( 2000 )
An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
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Movie: The Double ( 2011 )
A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.
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Movie: Line of Descent ( 2019 )
Three brothers in a Delhi crime family fight over the future of their enterprise. Meanwhile, an undercover police officer attempts to end the family's legacy, and an arms dealer conspires with the brothers.
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Movie: 11:14 ( 2004 )
The events leading up to an 11:14 p.m. car crash, from five very different perspectives.
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Movie: The Forger ( 2015 )
A thief works with his father and son to forge a painting by Monet and steal the original. Together, they plan the heist of their lives.
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Movie: Victim of Desire ( 1995 )
An SEC agent investigating $70M in missing funds and a murdered businessman gets involved with the man's wife.
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Movie: Seeking Justice ( 2011 )
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. Then he discovers they want a 'favor' from him in return.
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Movie: Guns, Girls and Gambling ( 2013 )
5 Elvis impersonators stay long after the contest playing poker, when a valuable mask is stolen from the Indian casino. Killers, incl. a sexy, blonde assassin, hunt down the Elvises to get the mask.
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Movie: Low Winter Sun ( 2006 )
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
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TV Show: Low Winter Sun ( 2013 )
Low Winter Sun is a contemporary story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption in a world where the line between cops and criminals is blurred. The series begins with the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit detective. Seemingly the perfect crime, in reality the murder activates forces that will forever alter the detective's life, and pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.
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Movie: Infamous ( 2006 )
While researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
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Movie: Cop Car ( 2015 )
A small-town sheriff sets out to find the two kids who have taken his car on a joy ride.
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Movie: Pusher II ( 2004 )
Tony is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
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Movie: Dragon Eyes ( 2014 )
In St. Jude, drug dealers and corrupt cops have destroyed an urban neighborhood. But newcomer, Hong, has the fighting skills and moral vision to save this town from itself.
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Movie: Nothing But the Truth ( 2009 )
In Washington, D.C., a female reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source.
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Movie: Manhattan Night ( 2016 )
Based on Colin Harrison's acclaimed novel Manhattan Nocturne (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), MANHATTAN NIGHT tells the story of Porter Wren (Adrien Brody), a New York City tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy and anything that passes for the truth. At home he is a model family man, devoted to his loving wife (Jennifer Beals). But when a seductive stranger (Yvonne Strahovski) asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon (Campbell Scott), he can't resist. In this modern version of a classic film noir, we follow Porter as he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail - one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life. MANHATTAN NIGHT will be released by Lionsgate Premiere in theaters and On Demand May 20, 2016. Lionsgate Premiere, Grindstone Entertainment Group and 13 Films present in association with Sparkle Roll Media Corporation and Big Indie Pictures a production of Fable House, Untravelled Worlds and DeCubellis Films.
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Movie: Tenderness ( 2009 )
A policeman works to figure out whether a violent teen murdered his family.
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Movie: Cold War II ( 2016 )
Picking up some time after the events in the first movie, Sean Lau is now the Commissioner of Police after the successful rescue operation. However, things turn bad when his wife and daughter are kidnapped. Sean has to seek help from former rival and retired DCP, Waise Lee, to return to his job to help save Sean`s wife and child.
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Movie: Di Di Hollywood ( 2010 )
Dreams of fame take Diana from Madrid to Hollywood. She seems to be on the right path when a powerful agent notices her, but he only wants someone for a sham marriage with a secretly gay star.
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Movie: Twelve ( 2010 )
A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
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Movie: The Football Factory ( 2004 )
An insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol.
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Movie: Where the Truth Lies ( 2005 )
Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
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Movie: Winter of Frozen Dreams ( 2009 )
Barbara Hoffman is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling has to do is prove it.
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Movie: Dolan's Cadillac ( 2010 )
A young man attempts to seek to avenge his wife's death after she is murdered by a Las Vegas mobster.
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TV Show: Death in Holy Orders ( 2003 )
New Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgleish is asked to have a second look at the death of Ronald Treeves, a student at St. Anselm's seminary. He was killed when a sand dune collapsed and buried him alive and a coroner's inquest ruled that it was an accident but his father refuses to accept the verdict.Detective Adam Dalgliesh looks into the death of a young ordinand who died under mysterious circumstances.
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Movie: Macbeth ( 2006 )
A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" set in the ganglands of Melbourne.
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Movie: The Sicilian Girl ( 2009 )
The true story of 17-year-old Sicilian Rita Atria (Veronica D'Agostino) -- who broke the Sicilian Mafia's code of silence and testified against the "family business" after both her father and then her brother are both murdered -- is brought to vivid life in Marco Amenta's hard-hitting and wonderfully acted drama.
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Movie: Atlantic City ( 1981 )
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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Movie: Section 375 ( 2019 )
A celebrated Bollywood director Rohan Khurana stands accused by a female member of his crew, Anjali Dangle of having raped her at his residence.
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Movie: Red Herring ( 2015 )
A detective investigating his best friend uncovers an assassin hunting through Las Vegas's power elite.
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Movie: The Night Listener ( 2006 )
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
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Movie: Family Business ( 1989 )
An ex professor offers Adam $1,000,000 to "get" some plasma from a high tech company's lab. Adam asks his criminal grandpa for help. Can the 2 convince Adam's now honest dad to join?Let us see what happens.
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TV Show: London Spy ( 2015 )
A romance between an MI6 code genius and an ordinary man promises happiness. But tragedy strikes when the spy dies in suspicious circumstances, forcing his lover to pursue the truth behind his death.
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Movie: The Keeper ( 2006 )
When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.
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TV Show: The Murder Room ( 2005 )
Detective Adam Dalgliesh returns. What's the connection between the grisly exhibits at the Dupayne family museum and the murder of adopted son Neville?
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Movie: The Square ( 2008 )
A man's life begins to unravel when his mistress brings him a bag of cash.
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Movie: Jack Strong ( 2014 )
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
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Movie: 1st to Die ( 2003 )
A group of female friends in San Francisco investigate a serial killer targeting newlyweds.
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Movie: A Kind of Murder ( 2016 )
In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with a clever killer and an overambitious detective, while at the same time lusting after another woman.
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Movie: Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright ( 2010 )
Charlie swindled $10 billion from investors. He manages to slip away from FBI in LA but is spotted in Tijuana. FBI's not alone. Mexican and Russian gangsters want him, too.
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Movie: The Villain ( 2014 )
When his wife becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, Guru blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.
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Movie: Gang Land ( 1999 )
An interracial couple is attacked and the woman is gang-raped in a random attack. This prompts the woman to commit suicide and the man decides to seek revenge from the inside by joining the gang. However, once inside he learns of the reasons (poverty, social rejection) for their existence and starts developing a kinship until he is asked to kill someone to prove his l...Read all
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Movie: God's Pocket ( 2014 )
A blue collar worker tries to cover things up when his stepson is killed in a suspicious accident, but a local reporter senses that something's amiss.
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Movie: Mardaani ( 2014 )
A story of Shivani Shivaji Roy, Crime Branch, who sets out to confront the mastermind behind a child trafficking mafia.
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Movie: Ugly ( 2014 )
The case of a missing girl takes us through a journey of human greed and brushes upon the egos and repressed emotions of the characters.
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Movie: Running on Empty ( 1988 )
The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.
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Movie: Freedomland ( 2006 )
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
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Movie: Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas ( 2009 )
The true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas.
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Movie: Raid ( 2018 )
A fearless income tax officer raids the mansion of the most powerful man in Lucknow after someone mysteriously draws his attention towards the evidence.
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Movie: Who'll Stop the Rain ( 1978 )
Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.
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Movie: Beyond Suspicion ( 2010 )
A young penniless couple decide to scam a wealthy widower.
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Movie: On the Job ( 2013 )
Filipino crime thriller inspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.
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Movie: Violent Cop ( 1999 )
A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.
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Movie: Levity ( 2003 )
After two decades in prison for murder, a man is released on parole and returns to his hometown seeking redemption.
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Movie: Rain Fall ( 2009 )
A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
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Movie: Boca ( 1994 )
Enthusiastic American journalist goes to Brazil as the Carnival starts to investigate mass executions of street kids. She meets a savage crime boss called Boca who seemingly wants to help the children and falls under his brutal charm.
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Movie: I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III ( 2005 )
Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.
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Movie: The Rosary Murders ( 1987 )
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
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Movie: Rx ( 2005 )
What is meant to be a weekend party across the border soon becomes a heartbreaking journey that tests the boundaries of companionship, romantic love and personal ethics.
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Movie: Eyewitness ( 1981 )
A janitor who claims he's seen a murder becomes romantically involved with the glamorous TV reporter covering the story.
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TV Show: 1992 ( 2015 )
Set in early nineties Italy when there was a nationwide judicial investigation into corruption. This resulted in the break down of many political parties as well as the arrest and conviction of some high profile political figures. The story will follow six people whose lives are intertwined with the rapidly changing political landscape, exposing the far-reaching impact of the greed and corruption.
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Movie: Abstraction ( 2013 )
An intense action crime drama revolving around the heist of a half a million dollar painting.
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Movie: Boogie Boy ( 1998 )
A man who has just been released from prison vows to start a new life, but is put to the test when an old cellmate appears.
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Movie: The Face of an Angel ( 2015 )
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
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TV Show: Bulman ( 1985 )
Bulman was an ITV crime drama series which aired from 1985–1987.Detective Chief Inspector George Bulman has retired from the police and is now a private investigator, with Lucy McGinty as his assistant. They are frequently drawn into the world of the secret service through the machinations of security chief Dugdale or Bulman's one-time police boss Lambie.
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Movie: Yamakasi ( 2001 )
7 guys from Paris' suburbs like challenges like climbing tall buildings and doing parkour - especially with cops/flics chasing them. When a kid fan urgently needs a heart the Yamakasis try to find a way.
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Movie: Firestorm ( 2013 )
A storm is heading to the city, and with it comes another occurrence so destructive, it vows to bring down everything it touches. A crew of seasoned criminals led by the notorious Nam (Hu Jun), armed with high-powered weapons, pulls off another smooth and violent armored car heist in broad daylight in a crowded street. Whoever tries to get in their way, they will show no mercy. This puts the police force to shame and humiliation. A hardboiled senior police inspector Lui (Andy Lau), hot on the trails of Nam and his tight crew, determines to put an end to this madness that causes the lives of innocent people. But he soon comes face to face with the cruel reality that the usual police tactics are too futile to send these armed thieves behind bars. Extreme crime requires extreme justice, even if it means crossing his moral line. Tou (Lam Ka Tung), an ex-con desperate to leave his criminal past behind, volunteers to be Lui's snitch in exchange for a fresh start with his girlfriend Bing (Yao Chen). But little does he know what hellish situation he's getting himself into.
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TV Show: Rejseholdet ( 2000 )
The Unit, a mobile task force under command of Ingrid Dahl is dispatched across Denmark to help and support local police to solve their tough cases.
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Movie: Code 11-14 ( 2003 )
An FBI agent went to Australia with his family to capture a serial killer. When Australian Police captured the main suspect, he and his family went back to USA. Unfortunately the REAL serial killer also went back to USA in the same airplane with the FBI agent and his family.
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Movie: My Beloved Bodyguard ( 2016 )
A retired bodyguard who has settled into a corner of the world where China, Russia and North Korea meet as he suffers from early dementia finds a new friend in a young girl. When her life is threatened by her father's connection with a local crime lord, .the bodyguard must call upon his long forgotten skills to save her.
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Movie: Day Night Day Night ( 2007 )
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.
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Movie: A Sense of Freedom ( 1985 )
The life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.
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Movie: Bleeder ( 1999 )
Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get aquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo beats his pregnant wife, Louise, which is a VERY bad idea, as her brother, Louis, is a violent racist.
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Movie: Breakout ( 2013 )
An innocent camping trip takes a dark turn for a young brother and sister, when they witness a murder. The young siblings become the killers' next target as they are chased and hunted through the wilderness. Serving time over a protest gone terribly wrong, their father, Jack Damson (Fraser), devises a plan to break out of prison and rescue his kids from the pair of criminals, Tommy (Purcell) and Kenny (Suplee). A fight for survival ensues in the action-packed thriller where the hunters become the hunted.
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Movie: American Heart ( 1992 )
An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.
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Movie: Best. Partee. Ever. ( 2016 )
Mikey, a young, discreet, gay man from the affluent class, spends five years in a city jail while hearing his case for drug pushing. Inside prison, Mikey holds back to adapt to the culture and stratification among inmates. Eventually, Mikey becomes a 'Mayor' (ring leader) to a group of gay inmates called "Gang-da". Together, they thrive to survive the dangers of several gang riots, the mundane, and the decay of human dignity.
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Movie: Company ( 2002 )
A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. Together they eliminate all their enemies, becoming the most feared gangsters in Mumbai.
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Movie: Kadaram Kondan ( 2019 )
Vasu, a young medico, after rescuing one of his patients from a murder attempt finds out that his pregnant wife is abducted, and the kidnappers demand the patient he saved in exchange for her safety.
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Movie: Connected ( 2008 )
A man receives a distressing phone call from a woman who has been kidnapped.
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Movie: Alphabet City ( 1984 )
A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.
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Movie: Play Murder for Me ( 1990 )
Paul Slater, a down and out saxophone player, runs into his former lover at his nightclub in Buenos Aires. Tricia seduces Paul into helping her kill her wealthy underworld husband. Paul is now trapped between love and the law in a gripping noir ending.
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Movie: Letters from a Killer ( 1998 )
A man is falsely convicted of the murder of his wife. During his time in jail, he finds comfort from four women with whom he corresponds. After his second court appearance, he is finally freed from prison, only to be framed for two more murders which he did not commit. With the help of his former prison guard, he once again sets out to clear his name.
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Movie: Breaking News ( 2004 )
After a disastrous failure to stop a robber gang, the police attempt to redeem themselves through a series of publicity stunts and shootouts.
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Movie: Talaash ( 2012 )
Inspector Surjan Shekhawat, who is dealing with a depressing past, has to investigate a high profile murder case, deal with his crumbling marriage and use the help and solace of a prostitute by the name of Rosie.
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Movie: Prima che la notte ( 2018 )
The life and death of Giuseppe "Pippo" Fava, a sicilian journalist and intellectual who tried to fight the mafia through his newspaper "I Siciliani" during the 70's and the early 80's
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Movie: Money for Angels ( 2012 )
Businessmen Oliver Darcy and Brian Douglas have been quietly embezzling money from their employers for months. When Oliver's daughter is mysteriously kidnapped, the two men take desperate measures to protect their illegal fortune and get the girl back without the help of the police. What begins as a simple plan quickly explodes into a maelstrom of violence and betrayal when a call girl, a dirty cop and a gang of thugs learn of the crime and arrange their own ways of collecting the ransom money.
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Movie: Century of the Dragon ( 1999 )
Five years ago, Shing, an outstanding trainee at the police academy, was hand-picked to go under cover in the Hung Hing triad. There, he became close friends with their toughest leader Fei Lung. When territorial war breaks out between Fei Lung's buddy Leopard and a rival gang led by Tall Guy, Shing comes into contact with White Head, another undercover cop. Soon, Shing is caught between the need to protect White Head, and his loyalty toward Fei Lung.
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Movie: Ek Hasina Thi ( 2004 )
A woman falls for a charming and mysterious businessman. The whirlwind romance turns sour when she is framed for his underworld crimes. Now, finally out of prison she is ready for sweet revenge.
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Movie: City War ( 1988 )
Detectives Dick Lee (Chow Yun Fat) and Ken Chow (Ti Lung) have different ethics and ways of working but after a tense confrontation with a major Triad boss, they must put aside their differences and hunt him down before they are both killed.
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Movie: Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru ( 2016 )
A police officer retires after an accident during a case investigation. Years later, he is forced to relive the past as he narrates the story to his friend's son.