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


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Movie: Stillwater ( 2021 )
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
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TV Show: City on a Hill ( 2019 )
In the early 1990s, Boston was rife with violent criminals emboldened by local law enforcement agencies in which corruption and racism was the norm - and then it all changed in what was called the "Boston Miracle". In this fictional account, Assistant District Attorney Decourcy Ward comes from Brooklyn and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran, Jackie Rohr. Together, they take on a family of armored car robbers in a case that grows to involve, and ultimately subvert, the entire criminal justice system of Boston.
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Movie: The Hessen Conspiracy ( 2009 )
In 1945 a group of victorious American officers discover a stash of German jewels and try to fence them in New York.
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Movie: Gangster Land ( 2017 )
A very high level and brief history of how "Machine Gun Jack McGurn" rose from amateur boxer to second in command of Al Capone's criminal empire.
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Movie: Valley of Bones ( 2017 )
A disgraced paleontologist struggling to raise her son is tipped off to a groundbreaking dig site in the Badlands by a recovering meth addict, but his tie to the cartel threatens to bury them both under the weight of their criminal pasts.
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Movie: Devious Beings ( 2002 )
Longstanding friendships are severely tested when three buddies who grew up together botch a drug deal and get played.
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Movie: The Negotiator ( 1998 )
In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.
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TV Show: JAG ( 1995 )
Lieutenant Commander "Harm" Rabb, Jr., a brave, outstanding Navy Lawyer and officer in the Judge Advocate General (J.A.G.) Corps, investigates and prosecutes all crimes, accidents, acts of terrorism and espionage related to the Navy and Marine Corps.
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TV Show: Leavenworth ( 2019 )
Leavenworth is centered on Clint Lorance, who's serving a 19-year sentence for murder at The United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth. While deployed in Afghanistan in July 2012, the former lieutenant ordered fire on three local men riding a motorcycle, killing two of them and outraging his platoon. In a first-hand account of a soldier navigating the U.S. Army's legal system, Lorance seeks to overturn his conviction, provoking emotional debate between supporters and detractors that rises to the national stage. As determinations on Lorance's fate unfold, questions probe not only the merits of his conviction, but analyze the system at large and ultimately test the balance of guilt and innocence in the inscrutable circumstances of today's wars.
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TV Show: Law & Order: LA ( 2010 )
In the City of Los Angeles, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.
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Movie: A Time to Kill ( 1996 )
In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan.
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Movie: The Client ( 1994 )
A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.
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Movie: The Gingerbread Man ( 1998 )
A lawyer uses his power to help his lover put her father behind bars, but when he escapes, they are all in danger.
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TV Show: Bull ( 2016 )
Bull stars Michael Weatherly as Dr. Jason Bull in a drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, the founder of one of the most prolific trial consulting firms of all time. Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick. Bull employs an enviable team of experts at Trial Analysis Corporation to shape successful narratives down to the very last detail. They include his quick-witted former brother-in-law, Benny Colón, a lawyer who acts as defense attorney in the company's mock trials; Marissa Morgan, a cutting-edge neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security; former NYPD detective Danny James, the firm's tough but relatable investigator; haughty millennial hacker Cable McCrory, who is responsible for gathering cyber intelligence; and Chunk Palmer, a fashion-conscious stylist and former All-American lineman who fine tunes clients' appearances for trial. In high-stakes trials, Bull's combination of remarkable insight into human nature, three Ph.D.'s and a top-notch staff creates winning strategies that tip the scales of justice in his clients' favor.
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TV Show: Life ( 2007 )
A detective gets a second chance after serving twelve years in prison for a crime he did not commit. 
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TV Show: Murdoch Mysteries ( 2008 )
Set in Toronto at the dawn of the 20th century, Murdoch Mysteries is a one-hour drama series that explores the intriguing world of William Murdoch, a methodical and dashing detective who pioneers innovative forensic techniques to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders. Murdoch's colleagues include the love of his life, coroner and psychiatrist Dr. Julia Ogden, a staunch ally who shares the detective's fascination for science; Constable George Crabtree, Murdoch's eager but sometimes naïve right-hand man; Inspector Brackenreid, Murdoch's skeptical yet reluctantly supportive boss; and coroner Dr. Emily Grace, Dr. Ogden's protégé.
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Movie: Best Laid Plans ( 1999 )
A botched robbery leads two crooks and an unwitting buddy into a web of passion, crime and murder in this twist-laden film noir.
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Movie: Twilight ( 1998 )
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
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Movie: Q & A ( 1990 )
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him in this gritty crime film.
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Movie: The Morning After ( 1986 )
A washed up, alcoholic actress who is prone to blackouts wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she kill him and, if not, is she in danger?
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Movie: Marshall ( 2017 )
The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
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Movie: Devil's Knot ( 2014 )
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a Satanic ritual.
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Movie: Conviction ( 2010 )
A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.
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Movie: The Informant! ( 2009 )
The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.
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Movie: True Believer ( 1989 )
A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.
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Movie: Suspect ( 1987 )
A legal team defending a homeless, mute man of murder, find a web of corruption that may have dangerous implications.
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Movie: A Soldier's Story ( 1984 )
An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
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Movie: ...and justice for all. ( 1979 )
A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.
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TV Show: Bones ( 2005 )
F.B.I. Agent Seeley Booth is teamed up with forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan to solve some of the most baffling and bizarre crimes ever. Booth depends on clues from the living, witnesses and suspects, while Brennan gathers evidence from the dead, relying on her uncanny ability to read clues left behind in the bones of the victims.
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Movie: The Drug King ( 2018 )
Set in Busan, South Korea during the 1970s, Lee Doo-sam builds an empire as a drug smuggler in the Busan underworld, while public prosecutor Kim In-goo attempts to take down Lee Doo-sam.
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TV Show: Fat Tony & Co. ( 2014 )
Set from 1990-2012, this series charts the rise and fall of Tony Mokbel, from pizza shop owner, to Australia's most successful drug baron, to his eventual arrest in Athens.
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Movie: Faking A Murderer ( 2021 )
In search of their next hit series, two filmmakers embark on an investigation to find a man they believe to be a serial killer. Are they in over their heads? Yes.
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TV Show: Garrow's Law ( 2009 )
Legal drama inspired by the life of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow.
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TV Show: Psych ( 2006 )
Psych is a quick-witted comedy starring James Roday as young police consultant Shawn Spencer, who solves crimes with powers of observation so acute that Santa Barbara PD detectives think he's psychic. Psych also stars Dule Hill as Shawn's best friend and reluctant sidekick, Gus, and Corbin Bernsen as Shawn's disapproving father, Henry, who ironically was the one who honed his son's "observation" skills as a child.
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Movie: Psych 2: Lassie Come Home ( 2020 )
Lassiter is shot, and then begins to see impossible happenings around his recovery clinic. Shawn and Gus return to the Chief's side in Santa Barbara and are forced to navigate the personal, the professional, and possibly the supernatural. Separated from their new lives in San Francisco, our heroes find themselves unwelcome in their old stomping grounds as they secretly untangle a twisted case without the benefit of the police, their loved ones, or the quality sourdough bakeries of the Bay Area. What they uncover will change the course of their relationships forever.
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Movie: Psych: The Movie ( 2017 )
The old gang comes together during the holidays after a mystery assailant targets one of their own.
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TV Show: Imposters ( 2017 )
Imposters is a dark comedy that follows Maddie, a master-of-disguise con-artist who gets men and women to fall in love with her, marries them and then disappears with their money and just enough dirty inside information to guarantee they will never go to the police. But things get complicated when she falls in love with her latest mark, and three of her last victims join together to track her down.
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TV Show: Damnation ( 2017 )
Damnation is an epic saga of the secret history of the 1930s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans and prophets. The pilot centers on Seth Davenport, who is masquerading as a small-town Iowa preacher in the hope of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo. Focused on his mission, he is unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker named Creeley Turner to stop the uprising by any means necessary. But unbeknownst to those around them, these two men already share a secret bloody past.
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Movie: Chained Heat II ( 1993 )
An innocent woman is sent to a Czech prison, where the sadistic warden and guards rape and perform bizarre sex acts on the prisoners.
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Movie: Ultimate Desires ( 1991 )
Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night when a prostitute named Vicki gets thrown out of a limo at Samantha's feet. Vicki slips a brooch into Sam's hand before disappering, then turns up the next day, dead. Sam soon finds herself the target of an international conspiracy who will stop at nothing to get back the brooch and silence Sam for good. To get to the bottom of the mystery (as well as to save her own skin), Sam makes the natural decision to disguise herself as a prostitute, but will it be enough?
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Movie: Beast ( 2018 )
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
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Movie: Kings ( 2018 )
The life of a foster family in South Central Los Angeles, a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial.
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Movie: The Gunman ( 2015 )
A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.
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Movie: The Take ( 2016 )
A young pickpocket and an unruly CIA agent team up on an anti-terrorist mission in France.
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Movie: Imperium ( 2016 )
A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist.
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Movie: A Prayer Before Dawn ( 2018 )
The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand's most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.
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Movie: Higher Learning ( 1995 )
People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.
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TV Show: Rojst ( 2018 )
The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. A small double murder shakes the town. "Kurier", the local newspaper, hands over this matter to an experienced journalist, Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they begin their own investigation.
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Movie: Terminal ( 2018 )
A film noir taking place in a train terminal at night. Add 2 male assassins, female assassin, waitress, teacher, janitor and crime boss. Add revenge. Who says mystery is a lost art?
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Movie: X: Night of Vengeance ( 2011 )
A veteran call girl and a runaway prostitute witness a murder and must evade the killer as he chases them through Sydney.
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Movie: A Wife's Suspicion ( 2016 )
A forensic investigator begins to suspect her new husband is the serial killer the police department has been hunting. This puts her and her ex-boyfriend -- a detective on the case -- in danger.
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Movie: Reasonable Doubt ( 2014 )
A District Attorney has his life turned upside down when he's involved in a hit and run and another man is arrested for his crime and charged with murder.
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Movie: Out of Death ( 2021 )
A corrupt Sheriff's department in a rural mountain town comes undone when an unintended witness throws a wrench into their shady operation.
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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: Acts of Violence ( 2018 )
At a bachelorette party in a nightclub, the bride tells 2 guys offering blow to go away. They abduct her. The groom's 2 big brothers looked after their kid brother as kids and do so now again as veterans, "looking" for her and the 2 guys.
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Movie: Backtrace ( 2018 )
The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.
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Movie: Broken City ( 2013 )
In a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure: Mayor Nicholas Hostetler.
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Movie: Reprisal ( 2018 )
A bank manager haunted by a violent heist that took the life of a coworker teams up with his ex-cop neighbor to bring down the assailant, initiating an explosive counterattack that brings all three men to the breaking point.
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Movie: The Immortals ( 1995 )
A seedy night-club owner recruits eight violent gangsters for an elaborate heist. But when they all begin to compare notes, they find they're pawns in a dangerous game of double-cross.
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TV Show: Dark Angel ( 2016 )
The two-part drama, Dark Angel, from Line of Duty makers World Productions, is based on the extraordinary true story of the Victorian poisoner Mary Ann Cotton.Travelling around the North-east, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.
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Movie: This Is England ( 2007 )
A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.
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TV Show: The Great Train Robbery ( 2013 )
On August 8, 1963, Britain awakens to the news of the biggest robbery in the nation's history. Who could have executed such an audacious raid? This thrilling drama from the acclaimed writer of Broadchurch is both a classic heist story and a fascinating real-life mystery.Two part mini-series tells the story, firstly from the point of view of the robbers and then from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.
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Movie: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 ( 2009 )
When another child goes missing, washed-up solicitor John Piggott unwittingly provides a catalyst for Detective Chief Superindent Maurice Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
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Movie: Far North ( 2008 )
A soldier's unexpected arrival affects two women's simple existence.
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Movie: Married Life ( 2008 )
A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife's death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.
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Movie: Shangri-La Suite ( 2016 )
Two young, damaged lovers head to Los Angeles to kill the King of Rock n Roll in the summer of 1974.
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Movie: Cleaner ( 2008 )
A former cop who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job.
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Movie: Saving Mr. Wu ( 2015 )
Mr. Wu (Andy Lau) is kidnapped in Beijing by Zhang Hua (Wang Qianyuan) and three accomplices, all disguised as cops and demanding a ransom of 3 million RMB. In the ensuing 20 hours, the Chinese detectives led by Chief Xing (Liu Ye) quickly form a task force and sweep the city. Time is of the essence as Mr. Wu is ordered to be killed at 9 PM regardless of whether the money is collected or not. The police eventually apprehend Hua alone. As the deadline approaches, the detectives and captors collide.
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Movie: Special ID ( 2013 )
A cop goes undercover in a ruthless underworld organization to stop a gang leader, only to put himself in great danger after being exposed by his former protégé and best friend.
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Movie: Auto Focus ( 2002 )
The life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry Carpenter.
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Movie: Bad Country ( 2014 )
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring. So when the syndicate orders Carter's death and Weiland's ID'd as a snitch, the two team up to take down the mob and the crime boss who ordered
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Movie: Vice Squad ( 1982 )
A Los Angeles businesswoman, known only by her street name of Princess, turns to prostitution to support herself and her young daughter when she's forced by Detective Tom Walsh and his vice squad to help them arrest a brutal pimp named Ramrod for the murder of a prostitute named Ginger. But when Ramrod learns that he was set up, he escapes from police custody and begins a long night of tracking down Princess while Walsh and his vice squad are always one step behind him.
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Movie: Fifty Dead Men Walking ( 2009 )
Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus.
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TV Show: Collateral ( 2018 )
Drama exploring the spiraling repercussions surrounding the fatal shooting of a pizza delivery man. Set over the course of four days, the story centers on Detective Inspector Kip Glaspie, who refuses to accept that the murder is a random act of senseless violence and becomes determined to discover if there is a darker truth. Politician David Mars instantly is embroiled in the drama through his turbulent relationship with his troubled and unpredictable ex, Karen. All the while, Jane Oliver, a compassionate vicar, struggles to conceal her affair with the only witness to the crime.
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Movie: Stolen ( 2009 )
A detective deals with the loss of his own son while trying to uncover the identity of a boy whose mummified remains are found in a box buried for fifty years.
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Movie: Night of the Juggler ( 1980 )
A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held by a twisted psycho after mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
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Movie: Harrigan ( 2013 )
Amongst the desperation and fear growing in a crime-ridden estate in northern England, one man becomes involved in. saving what little decency and community life exists. It's the winter of 1974: power cuts and coal strikes cripple the country, which is reduced to a three-day working week alongside police 'centralisation'. Everything, it seems, is falling apart -- along with the community's only hope and protector, the nearly retired Detective Sergeant Barry Harrigan.
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TV Show: Mocro Maffia ( 2018 )
Mocro Maffia is a fictional crime series about the three best friends; Romano, Potlood & De Paus. Together they managed to switch from small crime to the bigger jobs. In no time they manage to control the entire cocaine business in Amsterdam. But jealousy drives their close friendship apart and makes them stand against each other.
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Movie: After Alice ( 2000 )
A washed-up detective discovers his own psychic ability when assigned to investigate a serial murder case. The killer has a deranged obsession with the novel "Alice in Wonderland." As the psychopath's bloody reign of terror continues, the cop spirals deeper and deeper into the case where the horrors of the past and present come together.
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TV Show: Life on Mars ( 2008 )
From the studio that brought you Lost, comes the groundbreaking series that captured the imaginations of fans from coast to coast. With an irresistible soundtrack and one of the most celebrated casts on television, including Harvey Keitel, Michael Imperioli, Gretchen Mol and Jason O Mara, Life on Mars is a smart, suspenseful drama with a finish that will blow you away. Its one of those endings I believe will make you watch the series again, says Executive Producer Josh Appelbaum. There s a fine line between delusion and reality. NYPD detective Sam Tyler finds himself walking both sides of that line when he is suddenly hurtled back in time to 1973 after being struck by a car in 2008.Journey back to the 70s and uncover the secrets of Life on Mars. It s a strange and exhilarating ride raves the New York Times. Plus, with unique and exciting bonus features including an insiders view of where the shows concept began, a six million dollar moment in which 1970s legend Lee Majors steps back into the past with the cast and crew, and much more.
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TV Show: KLEM ( 2017 )
What if you find out that your youngest daughter's girlfriend is the daughter of a very dangerous criminal? What if you pick up your daughter at his house and to be shotten at while accidentally saving his life by that? What if he considers you to be his best friend? And if you have a great job at the tax authorities, you'd better not be found close to a criminal. If that's the case, you're KLEM (stuck).
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TV Show: My Life Is Murder ( 2019 )
Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature, allows her to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling of crimes.
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Movie: Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1987 )
The bounty hunter Nick is offered $250,000 by CIA to get the terrorist behind the bombing of an LA movie theater. Nick quit CIA - he couldn't trust them. Can they be trusted now and can he stop the terrorists before...?
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Movie: Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife ( 1987 )
Fashion designer Marian falls in love and marries attorney Edward. Her idyllic romance and marriage are shattered when she learns that Edward is the son of a powerful and feared mafia family. Edward's family begins to impose its illegal and dangerous activities upon Marian and her friends. When her best friend is murdered after confronting Edward's family, she wants out and begins to fight against the family's ominous power and reach.
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Movie: A Prayer for the Dying ( 1987 )
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
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Movie: Raging Fire ( 2021 )
Cheung Sung-bong is an officer of the Regional Crime Unit who worked in the front line for many years. His protege, Yau Kong-ngo, respects and looks up to him. However, fate conspires to pit them against each other.
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Movie: Killerman ( 2019 )
Two NYC money launderers make a quick drug deal. Things go wrong, as dirty cops are involved. One of the friends gets amnesia during their escape with the drugs and money.
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Movie: Electric Slide ( 2015 )
A chronicle of the life of furniture salesman turned bank robber Eddie Dodson.
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TV Show: Millennium ( 1996 )
Retired serial-profiler Frank Black has moved his family to Seattle to escape the violence and horror he dealt with while working for the FBI in Washington, D.C. Although his uncanny and often unsettling ability to see into the twisted minds of serial killers has caused him much inner torment, Black knows his "gift" can still be used to help protect and save others. For that reason he has joined the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
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Movie: Mona Lisa ( 1986 )
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
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Movie: An Innocent Man ( 1989 )
A man is framed by two corrupt cops for drugs. After he gets out of prison, he comes after them.
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Movie: Pros and Ex-Cons ( 2005 )
After completing their job, two ex-cons, are quickly informed that they have assassinated the wrong individual. With the stakes high they must quickly correct their mistake before covers are blown and innocent lives are lost.
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Movie: Scramble ( 2017 )
A man races against time to pay off a debtor who forces his girlfriend into prostitution. Two murderers show up and start killing the town's prostitutes. He meets a wealthy thug who he makes a deal with to get the money, but he might have just run out of time.
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Movie: Truth or Consequences, N.M. ( 1997 )
Each going into the situation with a different motive, criminal associates Raymond Lembecke, Curtis Freley - the volatile one who can easily turn to violence if things aren't going his way - and Marcus Weans, and Raymond's girlfriend Addy Monroe are planning on stealing a large stash of drugs from dealer Eddie Grillo, and going to Las Vegas to sell them to drug kingpin Tony Vago. Raymond's motivation is payback as he served two years in prison without talking in taking the fall for Eddie, who showed his "appreciation" in return by giving Raymond a low level, menial job upon his release. While they are able to steal the drugs, the plan doesn't go off without a hitch, they knowing that the authorities, most likely including the DEA, subsequently after them. Although they need to work out details as they go along, they add a coda to the plan, namely to cross the border into Mexico to live after all is said and done. One of those details is feeling like they need to kidnap a couple they encounter, straight-laced Gordon Jacobson and Donna Moreland, who they hold hostage instead of Curtis' preferred alternative of killing them. However, not all is as it appears on the surface with this now collective of six, those unknowns which factor into what happens with them. As they proceed, they also come to the realization that they face obstacles of Eddie's bosses, who are much more forthright in getting what they want without an "or else".
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Movie: 24: Redemption ( 2008 )
Former Federal Agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
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Movie: Sinatra Club ( 2011 )
It's 1972 and the Mafia crime families are at war, but that isn't enough to stop a young, unknown John Gotti, who has big ideas and even bigger ambitions. In order to put an end to a two decades' conflict, Gotti pulls together an unlikely crew made up of one member from each crime family to pull off a silver...
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TV Show: Boomtown ( 2002 )
Each episode of this series, set in present day Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.
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Movie: Wisegal ( 2008 )
A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a Captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
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TV Show: The Last Don ( 1997 )
Sprawling Mario Puzo novel about an Italian family of gangsters draws the inevitable comparison to "The Godfather", but does find its own direction. Headed by Don Domenico Clericuzio (Aiello), the family executes a rival gang on the night of the Don's daughter's wedding, including her new husband, the son of his rival. Unfortunately the daughter (Alley) gets pregnant and the repercussions of the night drift into the future. Spanning 1964-1985, the series jumps forward with the growing up of the grandson (Cochrane) who has grown ruthless and scheming. A co-rival in the family is a nephew (Gedrick) who has been raise to take his father's (Mantegna) place in the family as a hitman and has established his place by assassinating a man who killed a Senator's daughter. However, he is proven to not be ruthless enough and moves into the family's casino business in Vegas. When the nephew falls in...
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Movie: 10 Cent Pistol ( 2015 )
A story about two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.