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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: 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: Witness Protection ( 1999 )
In Boston, when the mobster Bobby "Bats" Batton is attacked by a killer at home and escapes, he finds that he has fallen in disgrace with his boss since someone has falsely betrayed him telling that he has embezzled money from his funds. Without any alternative, Bobby seeks out FBI chief Sharp to get protection to his family and him. Bobby accepts to snitch his boss; in return, his wife Cindy Batton, his teenage son Sean Batton, his little daughter Suzie Batton and him will receive new identities and be relocated to Seattle. Along the next days, they move to a safe house to be trained in their new lives by Agent Steven Beck that shows that they are completely broken and without professional qualification. Meanwhile the family lives the drama to adapt to their new lives. Will they succeed?
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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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Movie: White Sands ( 1992 )
A small southwestern town Sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and five hundred thousand dollars. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an F.B.I. investigation.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Trust ( 2011 )
A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator.
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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: Trespass Against Us ( 2016 )
A man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw family.
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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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Movie: The White Storm ( 2013 )
A devastating dilemma changes the fate of three cops when an undercover operation against a notorious Thai drug lord goes horribly wrong.
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Movie: The Weight of Water ( 2001 )
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
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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: The Ruthless ( 2019 )
A rebellious teenager grows up to become one of Milan's most ambitious criminals during the golden years of the 'ndrangheta' Mafia in the 1980s.
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Movie: The Purity of Vengeance ( 2018 )
A series of mysterious disappearances in 2006 are eerily connected to the same institution.
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Movie: The Pledge ( 2001 )
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
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Movie: The Outrage ( 2010 )
The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate.
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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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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: The Killing Gene ( 2008 )
A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes.
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Movie: The Killing Field ( 2014 )
A task force is sent to a small country town to investigate a shocking crime.
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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: 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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Movie: The Hollow Point ( 2016 )
A new sheriff of a small town along the U.S. & Mexico border investigates a drug cartel deal that went horribly wrong.
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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: 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 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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Movie: The Flock ( 2007 )
This film is about a hyper-vigilant employee of the department of public safety who, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl who he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating.
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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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Movie: The Counterfeiters ( 2007 )
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.
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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: 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 Chaser ( 2008 )
A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing.
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Movie: The Bygone ( 2021 )
When a young rancher crosses paths with a Lakota girl from a nearby reservation, her mysterious disappearance sparks a search that uncovers a harrowing past and hints at a dire future.
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Movie: The Big Heist ( 2001 )
Jimmy Burke is a small time hood, who has one final chance to make the biggest score of his life.
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Movie: The Antwerp Dolls ( 2015 )
Ruthless businessman Tommy Callaghan orders two of his most trusted couriers to collect a locked case - the contents of which he hopes will forge a powerful alliance with a mysterious new mafia force from Belgium. The consignment however is intercepted by Callaghan's disgruntled former protégées, seeking revenge on their corrupt ex boss. When Callaghan's men change their game plan in response, a destructive vortex of violence and double dealing ensues, leaving Callaghan in a deadly race against time - forced to use any means necessary to save his crumbling empire.
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Movie: The Advocate ( 1994 )
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.
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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: Telefon ( 1977 )
A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
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Movie: Switchback ( 1997 )
An FBI agent tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.
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Movie: Swerve ( 2012 )
Colin happens upon a road accident where he finds a dead man, a beautiful woman, and a suitcase full of money. After trying to do the right thing he soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous scheme.
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Movie: Suspect Zero ( 2004 )
A mysterious serial killer is hunting other serial killers, and one F.B.I. Agent suspects there may be more to the vigilante than they imagine.
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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: Suburra ( 2015 )
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
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Movie: Stormy Monday ( 1988 )
In once thriving but now decaying Newcastle upon Tyne, Finney, initially advised not to, has owned and operated a jazz club for ten years, against the odds making it a success and in the process him wealthy. Earnest Irishman Brendan, needing work, responds to the ad placed for a cleaning job at the club, and going against his initial impression, Finney, in what he learns is their shared knowledge and love of jazz, hires Brendan, not only as a cleaner, but to run odd errands, one of the first in the latter category being for Brendan to pick up The Krakow Jazz Ensemble from the airport and get them settled in their hotel, they who will be performing at the club. This job hire occurs concurrently with American Week in the city, a high profile event organized jointly by Cosmo, a Texas businessman, in town looking for investment opportunities, such influx of capital much needed for the city's revitalization. In combination with a new relationship with an American waitress named Kate, who in reality is more than just a waitress unknown to him, Brendan will find that he has walked into a dangerous situation when he gets wind of a potentially deadly incident, with Cosmo's want to invest more than just to make money.
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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: Stockholm ( 2019 )
A semi-fictional account, including most of the names of the players being changed, of the event that resulted in the creation of the term Stockholm Syndrome to describe people who feel empathy and sometimes more for their captor(s) is presented. In 1973, a lone armed man, thought to be American, storms the downtown Stockholm branch of Kreditbanken. Ultimately the authorities, led by Chief of Police Mattsson learn of his at-gunpoint demand: $1 million US, the release of convicted bank robber and murderer Gunnar Sorensson, and a Mustang Boss 302 like the one Steve McQueen drove in Bullitt (1968) as a getaway vehicle for the two of them. By the time Mattsson gets Sorensson to the bank - unknown to the gunman, who is thought to be well known robber Kaj Hansson, Sorenson having made a plea deal with Mattsson for his cooperation against the gunman - there are three hostages at the bank, all the others that were in the bank at the time let go. Arguably the most lucid of the three is bank clerk Bianca Lind, a wife and mother of two preschool aged children. Ultimately she is able to figure out that the gunman is not Hansson as Mattsson suspects, but rather Lars Nystrom, what she knowing of his past crimes chief being his humane treatment of people he held at gunpoint. Beyond what Sorensson decides to do with his ultimate goal not to go back to prison, what happens largely depends on Lind, who begins to trust Nystrom more than either Mattsson or Prime Minister Olof Palme whose actions and decisions she believes from what she can see are more of a potential physical detriment to her and her fellow two hostages than that of Nystrom.
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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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Movie: Starred Up ( 2014 )
Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On first day he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?
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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: 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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Movie: Siberia ( 2018 )
When an American diamond trader's Russian partner goes missing, he journeys to Siberia in search of him, but instead begins a love affair.
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Movie: Shoot to Kill ( 1988 )
An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.
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Movie: Shooters ( 2002 )
Gilly, fresh out of prison, and J, a hustler with a major drug problem, just can't shake their criminal ways.
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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: 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: 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: Run with the Hunted ( 2020 )
Oscar, a young boy, defends his best friend, Loux, and kills her abusive father in the process, forcing him to run away from his rural hometown. His innocence slips away as he is introduced to love, crime and corruption. 15 years later, he has all but forgotten his past and become the leader of a band of lost children. When Loux moves to the same city in search of a better life, she finds a job with a curmudgeonly private investigator. Stumbling upon Oscar's antiquated missing child report, Loux takes it upon herself to find the boy who saved her life.
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Movie: Rogue Trader ( 1999 )
The story of Nick Leeson (Ewan McGregor), an ambitious investment broker who singlehandedly bankrupted one of the oldest and most important banks in Britain.
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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: Reform School Girls ( 1986 )
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
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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: Red Corner ( 1997 )
An American attorney on business in China is wrongfully arrested and put on trial for murder, with a female defense lawyer from the country the only key to proving his innocence.
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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: 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: Q&A ( 1990 )
Dirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course.
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Movie: Pups ( 2000 )
Two teens impulsively decide to rob a bank, a la Bonnie and Clyde. Quickly they find themselves in over their heads as they are forced to take a bank full of hostages and the FBI are at the door. Hostages include a heroin addicted Gulf War vet, the pesky bank manager, a gruff old man, a calm bank employee, and a helpful young woman. The head FBI man must sort through the psychology of all the participants to try to keep the events from escalating. Underlying in all of this is the pure adolescence of the two who initiate the trouble.
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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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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: 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: Prison on Fire ( 1987 )
Inside a Chinese prison two inmates form a friendship and face the difficulty of life on the inside.
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Movie: Poker Night ( 2014 )
When a new detective is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, he must use the knowledge he learned from some of the best detectives at Poker Night, then match wits against his captor.
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Movie: Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake ( 1988 )
A tennis player is accused to having killed his wife, a rich heiress. The facts are against him as he was seen in the arms of his former girlfriend in the night before the murder. This is a case for Perry Mason.
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Movie: Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace ( 1988 )
Air Force Lt. Col. Kevin Parks was arrested and convicted for a murder of a woman and is trying to appeal for the second time when one of the first appeal lawyers, Perry, finds a new witness for the defence. The witness is threatened and then murdered to stop him giving his evidence and Perry, Della and Paul started to investigate. The main victim was very popular with the Airmen and was employed by a real estate company that was conducting a deal with the Base over a plot of land and this causes the amount of suspects and motives to rise. Paul tries to find the witness's killer and he and Capt. O'Malley are a threat to it's future...
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Movie: Peace Hotel ( 1995 )
Set circa 1930, "The King of Killers", a one-man killing machine who, after his wife's murder, has decided to set up the "Peace Hotel", a sanctuary where anyone can stay and be protected from those who want to harm them. Although he has pledged never to kick anyone out of the Peace Hotel, he is put to the test when a penniless female swindler, who is wanted by a vicious gang for murdering their boss, shows up. Now he has to decide whether to risk an all-out war with the gang, or whether to ask her to leave the hotel.
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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: Operation Eichmann ( 1961 )
With the defeat of Germany that ends World War II in Europe, the Allies discover the true horror of more than six million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis - and the fact that one of the architects of this unimaginable crime has escaped. Adolf Eichmann flees to Barcelona and Argentina and the Israeli agents are determined to bring him to justice.
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Movie: Once Upon a Time in Shanghai ( 2014 )
A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive.
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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: 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: Men of Respect ( 1991 )
A hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.
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Movie: Memories of Murder ( 2003 )
In a small Korean province in 1986, three detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.
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Movie: Mean Guns ( 1997 )
100 people, who have betrayed The Syndicate, are gathered in a prison opening the next day. They are given weapons and 6 hours to kill each other. The 3 remaining share $10,000,000.
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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: 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: Manipulated ( 2021 )
Manipulated is a taut drama/mystery/whodunnit with an ensemble cast. District Attorney Diane Conrad is under extreme pressure to resolve a case that has politicians and the local community on edge. The clock is ticking and the stakes and emotions are running high. Can anyone trust what they see or hear? Why is Detective Scott Keating taking the biggest gamble of his career? With evidence in short supply, and the personal and professional lives of all concerned unraveling, can you believe anything anyone says? Game on.
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Movie: Maigret Sets a Trap ( 2016 )
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret hunts for a serial killer.
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Movie: Maigret's Dead Man ( 2016 )
Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld.
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Movie: Maigret: Night at the Crossroads ( 2017 )
Maigret: Night at the Crossroads tells a complex tale of murder, deceit and greed set in an isolated country community.
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Movie: Maigret in Montmartre ( 2017 )
Maigret investigates the random murders of a Countess and a showgirl and discovers a dark secret that links their past lives at the Grand Hotel in Nice.
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Movie: Longford ( 2006 )
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
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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: L.A. Bounty ( 1989 )
A tough female ex-cop-turned-bounty hunter goes after the gang of a crazed killer who murdered her partner.
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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: 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: In the Blink of an Eye ( 1996 )
Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder.