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Plot Summary:
Cris and Jason are two policemen with two opposite personalities and philosophies-Cris is the epitome of the rare, near-extinct breed of honest cops while Jason is the basurero, the legman/front man who does the dirty work of his district's high officials.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Iskalawag: Ang Batas Ay Batas (1997)
Plot Summary:
An Filipino action police film directed by Francis Posadas.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
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Delta Heat (1992)
Plot Summary:
An L.A. cop investigates the death of his partner in the swamps of Louisiana. Enlisting the help of an ex-cop who lost his hand to an alligator many years before.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, independent film
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Vinashak (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jailor Lankeshwar houses some of his hit-men as prisoners and uses them to commit criminal activities only to return and be safe in his jail. This gets notice by ACP Amar Agnihotri; who with his recommendation Arjun Singh a police inspector is made to act as a prisoner in Lankeshwar's jail. Arjun's duty is to monitor if at all there are any criminal activities going on in the jail; soon Arjun will find himself trapped as no one are who they claim they are.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Rowdy Inspector (1992)
Plot Summary:
Rowdy Inspector.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Thunder II (1987)
Plot Summary:
Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and gets him convicted as dealer. Thunder manages to break out of the brutal prison camp and takes bloody revenge. However he cannot sufficiently protect his pregnant wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Sworn Brothers (1987)
Plot Summary:
Superstar Andy Lau and Cheung Kwok Keung are heroic bloodshed brothers in the riveting triad saga Sworn Brothers! Lau (Andy Lau) is a fast-rising enforcer with the triads, but beneath his "bad" exterior is the sworn brother of Cheung (Cheung Kwok Keung), a Royal Hong Kong Police officer just returned from Scotland Yard. The two men are on opposite sides of the law, but both share a bond that cannot be tarnished, either by years or differing ideologies. Can the brotherhood of these two righteous men set things right in the underworld? Co-starring Tung Piu (Jackie Chan's Police Story films) in a compelling role as a corrupt cop, and loaded with many exciting actions sequences, Sworn Brothers is a standout triad action-drama in a genre already loaded with many similar films. With potent melodrama, and the type of heightened emotions that typify many popular eighties Hong Kong films, Sworn Brothers hits the action-drama bulls-eye in entertaining and bloody style!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: heroic, poliziottesco
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Highway Racer (1977)
Plot Summary:
Maurizio Merli stars as a hot-shot police driver who has more guts than brains, often landing him in hot water with his middle-aged mentor, who was once a legendary police interceptor responsible for numerous large scale arrests.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, perverse
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Alone in the Neon Jungle (1988)
Plot Summary:
A by the book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told to get it cleaned up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Counselor at Crime (1973)
Plot Summary:
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Jesus Trip (1971)
Plot Summary:
When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco (Robert Porter) and his motorcycle gang hides out in a desert convent. A highway patrolman (Billy 'Green' Bush) hunts down the gang after they kidnap a nun, Sister Anna (Tippy Walker) and flee the convent. Soon Waco and the young nun fall in love and she is forced to decide whether or not to leave the church for him. (alfiehitchie).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Bukas Bibitayin Si Itay (1995)
Plot Summary:
Elmo is an ex-convict who swears on his mother’s remains to live uprightly. After his life in prison, Elmo makes sure to avoid any conflict despite the mistreatment he receives from people. His wife Cathy seems discontent with the meager money her husband makes. Until one time, Cathy finds fancy to Arthur, a rich arrogant brother by their town’s mayor. One day, Elmo catches Arthur abusing his Cathy in their house. He beats up Arthur but the people on the neighborhood stops Elmo from killing him. Arthur escapes from Elmo. However Arthur is murdered by his battered wife Sylvia. Because of Arthur’s brutal death, people wrongly accused Elmo as the killer. Elmo then is sent back to the prison and was sentenced to death. Will Elmo learn to defend himself and fight for justice?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Birador (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mike Santana is technically as person for he uses his position as a policeman to savagely murder people; he also manhandles his wife Gina. His partner in service is Frankie, a young loyal police who sticks with him through thick and thin. But in end he betrays him for good. Because of that he pours out all of his frustrations to his wife, and as he continues to be rude, his wife Gina finally leaves him for her family. His teenage gets gang-raped by men. As he gets to live all alone, with all the people blaming him for their shortcomings; he starts to realize his mistakes which will transform from being soulless to a sensible human being. He would also meet Michelle who teaches him not to regret the act of forgiveness. Suddenly, his crooked ways backfire on him when he gets accused of killing a pro-laborer advocate. As he tries to come clean and liquidate the real criminals, another threat would come to take his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
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Dhaal: The Battle of Law Against Law (1997)
Plot Summary:
Crime drama starring Vinod Khanna, Sunil Shetty and Gautami.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
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Silent Action (1975)
Plot Summary:
A small yet strange series of deaths of people working for the Ministry of Defense and the military hits Italy. Since all of the deaths seem to be accidental or suicides, no alarm bells start to ring anywhere. That's a problem, because the deaths are in fact murders and we the viewers the only witnesses. The Roman cop Solmi (Luc Merenda) is as unsuspecting as anyone else, until he is starting to investigate the death of the private detective Chiarotti.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Weapons of Death (1977)
Plot Summary:
Napoli spara! (internationally released as Weapons of Death and Naples shoots) is a "poliziottesco" film directed by Mario Caiano in 1977. It is an unofficial sequel of Napoli violenta, of which reprises the character of Gennarino (still played by Massimo Deda).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, hood, perverse
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Theft Under the Sun (1997)
Plot Summary:
During an operation with a master criminal, an undercover cop fails his mission because he was shot by an uniform officer. His superior suspects he has become a bad seed and refuses to allow him to rejoin the force. In order to prove his innocence, the cop decides to follow the thief to the Sino-Russian border on an arms struggle deal, but on the way they are chased by Mainland police. During the escape the cop and the criminal become friends. When they return to the Hong Kong border, the police awaits on the other side and.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Cop Killers (1977)
Plot Summary:
Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, poliziottesco, tripping, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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The Girls from Thunder Strip (1970)
Plot Summary:
A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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American Rampage (1989)
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
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Break of Dawn (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two ex-legionnaires in a mission of political assasination in Romania. A candid portrayal of the human side of assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating
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Pratibandh (1990)
Plot Summary:
Film starring Chiranjeevi, Juhi Chawla and Rami Reddy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Hukumat (1987)
Plot Summary:
The town of Shantinagar is terrorized by D.B.D.N who likes to kill people for his will. A daredevil cop enters the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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Crimebusters (1976)
Plot Summary:
Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Lucifer (2019)
Plot Summary:
In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ensues, the thin line that separates good and bad becomes irrecoverably blurred and out of this seemingly endless mayhem, emerge forces that are hitherto unheard of.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, political, surprise ending
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Palermo-Milano Solo Andata (1995)
Plot Summary:
Turi Leofonte (Giannini) is a former mafioso who accepts to be a witness at a process involving very important people in the organization. For the Mafia, Leofonte is dangerous, that's why he has to be killed. A police group led by Nino Di Venanzio(Bova) accepts to protect him and to escort him till Milan where the process has to take place.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Last Man Standing (1995)
Plot Summary:
A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent detective Kurt Bellmore and going by the book just isn't going to be enough.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
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Heaven's Heroes (1980)
Plot Summary:
The story of the life and witness of a Christian Police Officer called Dennis Hill asks the question, why did he have to die that night? How could such a tragedy be part of God’s plan? Denny Hill, himself asks, “Where will you spend eternity?”.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Colt 38 Special Squad (1976)
Plot Summary:
When his wife is kidnapped by a local crime lord, a determined police captain forms his own squad of rogue cops, each of whom wields a .38 Colt revolver. The mission, of course, is to rescue the captain's wife -- but the conflict soon explodes into a citywide spree of violent crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult film
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The 2nd (2020)
Plot Summary:
Secret-service agent Vic Davis is on his way to pick up his estranged son, Sean, from his college campus when he finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes terrorist operation. His son's friend Erin Walton, the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Walton is the target, and this armed faction will stop at nothing to kidnap her and use her as leverage for a pending landmark legal case.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, realistic, exciting, captivating, entertaining, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Pistol Whipped (2008)
Plot Summary:
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious gangsters, he make s decision that will change his life - forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast, detective