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Plot Summary:
Pugoy: Davao Hostage Crisis movie based on 1989 crisis starred Ian Veneracion. The story behind the rape joke of mayor duterte.
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Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Philippines
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Arizona Heat (1988)
Plot Summary:
A tough old school Arizona cop is teamed with a lesbian partner to catch a serial killer who preys on police.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy
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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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Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up (1992)
Plot Summary:
The bank president in a small California town isn't quite the upstanding citizen he appears to be--he's a corrupt killer, who has just kidnapped the wife and daughter of the local sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Konsul (1989)
Plot Summary:
For con men, the game of trickery is at least as important as any monetary reward they might seek. In this wry Polish film, a con-man (Piotr Fronczewski) has just been released from prison. A real artist of conmanship, he starts back at his old tricks slowly, but his deceptions grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min
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The Law Enforcer (1986)
Plot Summary:
A police officer is suspended for assaulting gang members who threatened a young woman and her boyfriend. Meanwhile, his fellow officers need help in catching a group of murderous thugs about to make a big time bust.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Wilding (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives are out to nail a gang of teenagers who have run wild through the city and brutally raped a woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lagalag (1994)
Plot Summary:
Filipino action star Eddie "Lagalag" Fernandez is convicted and jailed for his role in a homicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
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The Uppercrust (1981)
Plot Summary:
This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Ronde de nuit (1984)
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With the help of journalist Diane Castelain, Parisian police inspectors Leo Gorce and Gu Arenas are trying to solve the murder of a member of the French Parliament, but some dangerous powerful people try to make sure that doesn't happen.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Saudi Arabia, Aruba, Brazil
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Animal (2004)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on a rape case that happened to two sisters in Cebu, Visayas, Philippines in late 1990s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Season For Assassins (1975)
Plot Summary:
As a gang of youths terrorizes a city, the weary chief of police finds himself caught between the citizens who cry for blood and a catholic priest who believes the boys will respond to kindness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Crooked Mind (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kyle Carson is diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, also known as DID. He despises his community after doing a background search on everyone who he believes has committed a crime without punishment. When one of his multiple personalities, Jonah, comes forth; he trains Kyle to kill and not be seen. Detective Amon Barracks leads the charge in stopping these murder sprees, but Kyle is always one step ahead. Kyle has to battle against detective Barracks and keep his own demons from taking over.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Confidential Informant (2023)
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During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)
Plot Summary:
Like its title, this crazy Toei film from 1976 falls neatly into two parts. The first details the exploits of two bank robbers who specialize in "smash and grab" style heists. Evidently, Japanese banks of the period left huge piles of cash laying around on filing cabinets and end tables. The thieves dream of escaping Japan and going to Brazil. Charismatic lead Tsunehiko Watase gets involved with Miki Sugimoto, a strange girl with a severe mental problem. After a bank robbery goes wrong and his partner is killed, Watase is assaulted by his dead partner's thuggish brother who wants the loot.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Bruce and the Iron Finger (1979)
Plot Summary:
After the murder of two kung fu experts, Bruce, a Police Inspector from New Zealand, decides to get involved in the case despite only being on vacation in Hong Kong. At the scene of the most recent murder, the victim managed to tear off a Buddha pendant from the killer. The link between the two murders is the strange markings on the victims neck. Bruce retraces the victims final footsteps and the search leads him to tracking down experts in Iron Finger Kung Fu.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Police Serve the Citizens? (1973)
Plot Summary:
In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his action.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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A Day and a Half (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a desperate bid to reunite with his daughter, an armed man bursts into the medical center where his estranged wife works and kidnaps her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller
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Hired Gun (2009)
Plot Summary:
A hit man turns against his former boss after witnessing a nuclear weapon being smuggled into the US.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
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Hostile Force (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a would-be bank robber's attempt to steal $6 million goes awry, he takes a woman hostage without realizing that she is an ex-cop.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Stop It! (1980)
Plot Summary:
Filmen tar utgangspunkt i en faktisk hendelse i Oslo i 1975. To 16 år gamle gutter har stjålet en bil og blir oppdaget av politiet. Etter en dramatisk biljakt forsøker guttene å stikke av til fots. En politimann trekker imidlertid våpen fra 20 meters hold og skyter den ene av guttene i ryggen slik at han dør. Filmen handler om Reinert, kammeraten til han som ble skutt. Reinert er ferdig med ungdomsskolen og arbeidsløs som de fleste av vennene. Han går å slenger, røyker litt dop, er sammen med gjengen og er misfornøyd. Egentlig ønsker han seg en jobb, ikke en slik drittjobb som moren har. Reinert møter Siri, en jente med fast jobb og mer bestemte meninger enn det som er vanlig i gjengen. Drapet på kalle har gjort Reinert mer samfunnsbevisst, Siri er med på å utvikle holdningene hans. Noe som er positivt for den kommende rettsaken.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min
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Poliziotti (1995)
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When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Last Bullet (1973)
Plot Summary:
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min
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Tunnel of Bones (2011)
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Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the process of digging a tunnel to escape, they make a bizarre and frightening discovery just as they are about to break through to freedom. One escapee promises to report their findings when they are all free and once out, he pays his debt to "the tunnel of bones,"sharing their macabre story with a local journalist, and ultimately the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017)
Plot Summary:
A hardnosed cop goes after a gang of ruthless dacoits who have been terrorising residents along the highway for a decade.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, crime thriller, thrilling, action thriller
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Equal Standard (2020)
Plot Summary:
An NYPD Detective is shot by one of his own, benevolent brothers in uniform. Communities are ignited - to march for justice. Gangs put their differences aside - for a united fight, an equal opportunity. “That people not be judged by the color of their skin but for the content of their character.” The movement and unity impacts City society and leads to a Blue Wall intervention within the Police force. White cops lust for change and act on it - by flushing out racism. Not an easy fight. In the end, what was considered impossible, became possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Narx (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on a shocking true story. An undercover cop puts his life on the line to fight corruption in his department, while trying to take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. No one can be trusted as the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, independent film
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Rivals (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, neo noir, emotional, realistic
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The Final Option (1994)
Plot Summary:
A look at the SDU in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force - how members are selected, how they are trained, their lives, what they think, the relationships between SDU members and their friends and the pressures they face.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
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Hatton Garden: The Heist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following the lead up to one of the biggest robberies of the century, Hatton Garden The Heist watches the journey of Brian Reader, John Collins, Terry Perkins, Daniel Jones and the mysterious Basil throughout the audacious heist.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, crime drama
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Quick (1993)
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A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and Quick's untrustworthy boyfriend are on the trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, retro, independent film, psychotronic, surprise ending