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


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Movie: The Many Saints of Newark ( 2021 )
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss we'll later come to know: Tony Soprano.
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Movie: Beast of Burden ( 2018 )
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
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Movie: You Were Never Really Here ( 2017 )
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
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Movie: The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery ( 2000 )
A street kid interrupts Nero Wolfe's dinner with his eyewitness account of a kidnapping. The next day, the boy is dead and his mother comes to the detective with her son's meager savings and dying wish to hire Wolfe to solve his murder.
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Movie: 90 Feet from Home ( 2019 )
A troubled former Major League Baseball player returns home to confront his abusive stepfather.
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TV Show: Icon ( 2005 )
During the 1999 Russian Russian presidential elections, the two leading candidates are Igor Komarov, a former Colonel of the KGB, and Nikolai Nikolayev, a retired General of the Russian Ground Forces. When a car bomb explodes outside one of Komarov's pharmaceutical companies, and a virus is stolen from inside, an investigation by the Federal Security Service (Russia) ensues headed by FSB agents Sonia Astrova and Andrei Kasanov. Their investigation is obstructed by the Director of FSB, Anatoly Grishin.
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TV Show: Fatma ( 2021 )
Reeling from tragedy, a nondescript house cleaner embarks on a murderous streak as she searches for her missing husband and reckons with old wounds.
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TV Show: The Blacklist ( 2013 )
The Blacklist is a crime drama involving a former government agent who turned into a high-profile criminal turning himself in to the FBI offering to help catch criminals.
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TV Show: Monk ( 2002 )
An ex-cop suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder solves crimes with various (and usually exasperated) sidekicks. The 'defective detective' may have an abundance of phobias (heights, crowds, and even milk), but also razor-sharp deductive skills, which he uses to help the San Francisco police with especially baffling cases.
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TV Show: Sisyphus ( 2020 )
Sisyphus is known in Greek mythology as the king who was condemned to repeatedly roll a boulder up a hill only for it to roll down again. This story follows a father who is stuck in a time loop as he desperately tries to find his daughter's killer.
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TV Show: BlackSpace ( 2020 )
An ordinary morning at a small-town High School turns into a nightmare when anonymous figures in masks have committed a massacre leaving four dead students. Chaos is at its peak. The school is surrounded by police cars. Ambulances and police forces are rushed to the scene, as well as terrified parents and journalists. Rami Davidi (37), a police detective from the special investigations, is one of the first to arrive at the crime scene. After all, this is his high school, the one he attended as a teenager. Along with everyone else he expects to catch the killers still hiding inside the building. But to their surprise, the rescue unit finds only terrified students inside, wounded and reeling with shock, along with four corpses.
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TV Show: Hostages ( 2013 )
Yael is a surgeon at hospital, scheduled to surgery the Prime Minister of Israel. things start to be complicated when the hijackers take over the house, and require her to kill the Prime Minister and threatening to eliminate her family if she did not comply with their demands. Is she going to do the right thing?
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Movie: The Border ( 1982 )
A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
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Movie: Freeze Frame ( 2004 )
After being accused of a triple-murder, a man films his every moment of his to provide an alibi. Things takes a worst turn when a detective suspects him and the tapes goes missing which can prove his innocence.
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Movie: Eye See You ( 2002 )
A lead detective being stalked by a serial killer is asked to check into a clinic treating law enforcement officials who can't face their jobs.
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Movie: Madigan ( 1968 )
In New York City's Spanish Harlem, detectives Madigan and Bonaro are given 72 hours by their superior to capture a hoodlum wanted for homicide in Brooklyn.
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Movie: Murder Dot Com ( 2018 )
In Miami, the successful lawyer Stacy and her colleague and friend Lauren are enjoying a party promoted by the company where they work when Stacy receives a call from her hometown Venice telling that her sister Kate was murdered. Stacy heads to Venice and meets her former high school mate Bobby in charge of the investigation of the case but without any lead. Stacy meets Kate's employer Roger trying to get some information about her sister since they were distant and without contact for a long time. While in Kate's house, she finds an external HD hidden in her Teddy Bear and she discovers that Kate was a user of a site that promoted encounters for kinky sex; together she finds the address book of her sister with a couple of names. Stacy joins the site and schedules to meet with the guys listed in the address book sure that one of them might be the killer of her sister.
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Movie: Down and Dangerous ( 2013 )
Always one step ahead of the Feds, Paul Boxer is the most inventive and principled smuggler in the trade, never needed to carry guns. But someone is killing off his co-workers, Paul is forced setting his principles to a test.
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Movie: American Bred ( 2016 )
In present day Detroit, where the influence of organized crime has diminished; one of the lasting crime syndicates begins to unravel when lies, mystery and betrayal devour the trust, which holds them together.
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Movie: Tiger House ( 2015 )
Kelly sneaks into her boyfriend's house but tonight, she's not the only unwelcome visitor. As the situation spirals out of control, the suburban house becomes a terrifying arena for violence.
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Movie: Sugarhouse ( 2007 )
Determined to kill his wife's lover, a middle-class accountant attempts to purchase a .38 from an inner-city crackhead, unaware the gun actually belongs to a psychotic drug lord who'd kill to get his weapon back.
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Movie: House of the Rising Sun ( 2011 )
Ray, an ex-con, is starting a new life looking to stay out of trouble. One evening, on Ray's watch, the nightclub he works for is robbed and the owner's son is shot dead. As his criminal past is exposed Ray hunts for the person responsible for this crime in an effort to clear his own name. Ray must get to the bottom of this as both the mob and cops start to close in o...Read all
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Movie: Blood Ties ( 2013 )
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
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Movie: The Crimson Rivers ( 2000 )
A murder detective must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college.
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Movie: The Emperor of Paris ( 2018 )
Under the reign of Napoleon, François Vidocq, the only man who escaped from the greatest penal colony of the country, is a legend of the low-Parisian fund. Left for dead after his last spectacular escape, the ex-penal colony prisoner tries to make him forget under the traits of a single trader.
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Movie: Trance ( 2013 )
An art auctioneer becomes mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.
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Movie: The Dancer Upstairs ( 2003 )
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
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Movie: The Watcher ( 2000 )
David is a serial killer of young women. Joel was in charge of catching him in LA. He moved to Chicago a broken man. So did David and sends him photos of his next victims 24 hours before the murders.
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Movie: Patriots Day ( 2017 )
The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.
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TV Show: Lucan ( 2013 )
Two-part drama recounting the events of a crime that shocked the nation and led to a fascinating mystery that has never been solved. In 1974, with escalating gambling debts and his marriage collapsing, Lord Lucan resorts to desperate measures to win custody of his children, with deadly consequences.
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Movie: Lowriders ( 2017 )
A young street artist in East Los Angeles is caught between his father's obsession with lowrider car culture, his ex-felon brother and his need for self-expression.
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TV Show: The Blacklist: Redemption ( 2017 )
In this thrilling new spinoff, the world's most elusive criminals from Red's infamous list come together to form an elite mercenary team as they try to regain their self-worth after a lifetime of inflicting damage on the world. Seeking redemption for their past transgressions, this new group solves problems governments don't dare touch. Blacklist undercover operative Tom Keen joins the team's brilliant and cunning chief, Susan "Scottie" Hargrave, as well as lethal assassin and Tom's nemesis Matias Solomon, as they aim to be a force for good and right dangerous wrongs. Along with highly skilled members Nez Rowan and hacker Dumont, they will undertake seemingly impossible missions - all in the hopes of repairing their damaged souls.
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Movie: Steel Toes ( 2007 )
Rage and intolerance collide with compassion Academy-Award nominated David Strathairn portrays Danny Dunkleman, a Jewish liberal humanist, and the court-appointed lawyer representing Mike Downey, a Neo-Nazi Skinhead on trial for the racially motivated murder of an East Indian immigrant. Steel Toes takes us into the intense and fiery relationship that develops between these two men as they explore their emotional and intellectual differences. Steel Toes is a provocative exploration of the inescapable and insidious presence of racial and religious intolerance in our society.
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Movie: Rockaway ( 2007 )
Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and prostitution that have moved into their neighborhood and caused the destruction of his family. Replacing mourning with revenge...
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Movie: Reclaim ( 2014 )
A desperate American couple discovers all is not what it seems when they uncover a high-stakes underground scam while traveling abroad. To expose the truth and get back to the U.S., they must risk their lives to save their daughter.
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Movie: Scam ( 1993 )
A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?
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Movie: Bottle Rocket ( 1996 )
Three friends plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.
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TV Show: Grace ( 2021 )
Grace centers on Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job.
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TV Show: Huss ( 2021 )
Katarina Huss has just graduated from Sweden's police academy, and now needs to learn faster than ever as she starts work on the streets of Gothenburg. Solving crimes is just the beginning, as Katarina must get to know her colleagues and the local community, while also winning the support of her mother Irene for her choice of career.
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Movie: The Bling Ring ( 2013 )
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
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Movie: Infamous ( 2020 )
Two young lovers rob their way across the southland, posting their exploits to social media and gaining fame and followers as a result.
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Movie: Ain't Them Bodies Saints ( 2013 )
The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.
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Movie: Triple 9 ( 2016 )
A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
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Movie: The Wannabe ( 2015 )
Obsessed with mob culture, and desperate to fit in, Thomas sets out to fix the 1992 trial of John Gotti. He believes if the plan is executed, it will put him at the center of all that he idolizes. The plot is foiled, setting off events worthy of mob lore. The Wannabe intertwines real people and true events, past and present, with fantasy.
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Movie: City by the Sea ( 2002 )
Vincent Lamarca, whose father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child, grew up to become a police officer, only to see his own son become a murder suspect.
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Movie: Stander ( 2003 )
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
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Movie: Spartan ( 2004 )
The investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official.
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TV Show: The Take ( 2009 )
The Take is a four episode British drama TV series on Sky 1 based upon the Martina Cole novel. Shooting for the show took place in Dublin. The show premiered on 17 June 2009 and stars Tom Hardy, Brian Cox, Hayley Angel Holt, Shaun Evans, Kierston Wareing, and Charlotte Riley.The show received critical acclaim, mainly for Tom Hardy's portrayal of criminal sociopath Freddie Jackson.
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Movie: Luckytown ( 2000 )
Kirsten Dunst plays a young woman (Lidda), who is searching for her father (James Caan). She finds herself at odds with her boyfriend who wants nothing but a carefree lifestyle.
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Movie: The Red Maple Leaf ( 2017 )
A detective, who is deeply grieving over the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, becomes determined to find the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. Ambassador, no matter what the cost.
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Movie: The Killer Elite ( 1975 )
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A., and while he's on a case for them, one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to become mobile again. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
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Movie: The Outsider ( 2014 )
The plot revolves around British military contractor Lex Walker, who is told his daughter has died. When he arrives in Los Angeles and discovers the body is not hers, he begins an investigation.
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Movie: The Hit ( 1984 )
Ten years later, after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
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Movie: All Things to All Men ( 2013 )
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.
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Movie: Played ( 2006 )
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with its despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight-year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
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Movie: Lies We Tell ( 2018 )
A trusted driver must deal with his dead boss' Muslim mistress, whose dark past pulls him into a life-and-death showdown with her notorious gangster cousin/ex-husband.
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Movie: Savage Streets ( 1984 )
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.
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Movie: Lady Bloodfight ( 2017 )
Upon arriving in Hong Kong, an American woman is beaten up and mugged by thugs. She's taken in by a martial arts master who trains her for a formidable fight competition known as the Kumite.
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Movie: The Assignment ( 2017 )
After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible.
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Movie: Miss Bala ( 2019 )
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Based on the Spanish-language film.
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Movie: The Job ( 2003 )
CJ is a sexy, cold-blooded assassin who wants to quit the business. She agrees to carry out one last hit, but for the first time in her career as an assassin, she is unable to finish the job.
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Movie: Angel Warriors ( 2013 )
Five girls from the city go on a rural getaway surrounded by lush jungles and beautiful beaches. But there's trouble in paradise when an excursion into the forest leads the five girls into a dangerous encounter with local criminals, who are endangering the surrounding ancient cultural relics. However, these aren't docile city girls who cower to danger; these vicious vixens decide to take action.
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Movie: Texas Killing Fields ( 2011 )
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
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Movie: Shanghai Grand ( 1996 )
Love for the same woman threatens the friendship of two 1930s Shanghai gangsters.
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Movie: Dragon in Jail ( 1990 )
Henry, a juvenile delinquent, trying to escape life in the ghetto. After releasing from jail, he is bullied by a local tyrant, Charlie. His rich jail mate Wayne, who has become a famous lawyer, decides to help him out.
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Movie: Lee Rock ( 1991 )
The first part of the Lee Rock trilogy which chronicles the rise and fall of the corrupt police force that Lee Rock becomes a part of. Rock enters Hong Kong as an immigrant from the mainland. Despising poverty, Rock becomes a police officer. Being a clean officer made him little money so he decides to be like the other officers and become a crooked but fair officer. He's about to marry the woman of his dreams when tragedy strikes. But not even that can keep Lee Rock from rising to the top.
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Movie: Lee Rock II ( 1991 )
The second part of the trilogy chronicling the rise and fall of Hong Kong's top corrupt official. During this time period, Lee Rock enjoys his sucess and has found a new love. But jealousy within the ranks and a new departmrnt designed to clean up the corruption within the system is threating the comfort that Lee Rock enjoys.
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Movie: Lee Rock III ( 1992 )
The final part to the Lee Rock trilogy. Lee Rock's rise to power with the corruption of the Hong Kong Police is about to crumble beneath him. With the discovery of him being a father of a uncorruptable cop and his dying first love, can Lee Rock manage to keep from being swallowed by the new Police Officials, save his former flame and become a father to his long forgotten son?
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Movie: Sleuth ( 2007 )
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
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Movie: Grand Canyon ( 1992 )
The fates of several people are randomly intertwining. Their sympathy of each other faces multiple differences in their lifestyles.
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Movie: The Friends of Eddie Coyle ( 1973 )
After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.
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Movie: Den of Thieves ( 2018 )
An elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
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Movie: The Vanishing ( 2019 )
Based on the Flannan Isle mystery. A small relief boat approaches a tiny, isolated island where a lighthouse is located. They're to replenish the stocks and replace the crew of 3. After they dock no one greets them. The winch is broken. The lamps are clean and refilled; the table's laid for dinner. There's an upturned chair, 2 sets of yellow oilskins are missing - the 3 men have vanished.
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Movie: Law Abiding Citizen ( 2009 )
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
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Movie: Thumper ( 2017 )
Teens in a low income neighborhood are lured into working for a violent and dangerous drug dealer. When a new girl harboring a dark secret arrives in town, their relationship jeopardizes everything.
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TV Show: Lights Out ( 2011 )
Patrick 'Lights' Leary is an aging former heavyweight boxing champion who struggles to find his identity and support his wife and three daughters after retiring from the ring. The financial downturn coupled with a series of failed investments leave him at a perilous crossroads - battling the urge to return to boxing or reluctantly accepting a job as a brutal and intimidating debt collector.
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Movie: Edison ( 2005 )
Josh Pollack, a naive and ambitious reporter, is convinced the F.R.A.T., an elite force within the Edison Police Department, is corrupted. Working on a homicide case, he begins to unearth evidence which suggests that the entire justice system is willingly turning a blind eye to the abuses of the this force. When his life and that of his girlfriend are threatened from his research, he join forces with his editor, a once-famous reporter, and a renown private detective to bring down the F.R.A.T. and every one behind it.
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Movie: Stolen ( 2012 )
A former thief frantically searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi.
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Movie: Good People ( 2015 )
Discovering a stash of cash in their dead tenant's apartment, a couple in debt take the money and find themselves the target of a deadly adversary - the thief who stole it.
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Movie: Bobby Z ( 2007 )
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
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Movie: Double Identity ( 2009 )
In Sofia, Bulgaria in 1992, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant and becomes a victim of mistaken identity, as seen in the Alfred Hitchcock classic North by Northwest.
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Movie: Survivor ( 2015 )
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York City, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.
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Movie: 211 ( 2018 )
While on a routine patrol, an aging cop, his partner and their ride-along, get caught in a standoff with a band of former mercenaries robbing a bank.
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Movie: Skin Trade ( 2015 )
After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests, NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network.
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Movie: Prisoners ( 2013 )
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.
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Movie: Ca$h ( 2010 )
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
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Movie: Killing for Love ( 2016 )
The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, and the murder conviction of their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend Jens Soering sent shock waves through the rural community of Bedford County. Elizabeth and Jens had met in a university program for high achieving students. She was...
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Movie: I Want You ( 1998 )
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
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Movie: The Chamber ( 1996 )
A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.
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TV Show: This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist ( 2021 )
30 years ago, two thieves brazenly stole millions of dollars worth of art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Where the art is now remains a mystery. Today, investigators reviewing the cold case attempt to recover the missing works, unmask the perpetrators and solve the biggest art heist in history.
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TV Show: Criminal: Germany ( 2019 )
In the interview room, detectives go head-to-head with suspects and try to get to the truth--even if it means breaking the rules and risking it all.
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TV Show: Criminal: Spain ( 2019 )
Psychological games abound between detectives and suspects in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost.
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TV Show: Criminal: France ( 2019 )
Secrets emerge and entire cases unravel inside a police interview room in Paris, where suspects and investigators face off in an intricate dance.
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TV Show: Love/Hate ( 2010 )
He skipped Dublin when a gun was found in his house and he's been living for the past year in Spain but Darren Tracey decides to risk it and come back to Dublin. He's homesick and a party for his brother's release from prison is the perfect excuse. It's only for the weekend but sometimes life is full of surprises - especially if you and your friends are in gangland. When one of the gang is killed, suspicion runs rife and thoughts turn to revenge.
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TV Show: Quarry ( 2016 )
Quarry is the story of Mac Conway, a Marine who returns home to Memphis from Vietnam in 1972 and finds himself shunned by those he loves and demonized by the public. As he struggles to cope with his experiences at war, Conway is drawn into a network of killing and corruption that spans the length of the Mississippi River.
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TV Show: Spotless ( 2015 )
He's a professional at cleaning up the crimes of others. His own life is getting dirtier by the minute.
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Movie: Breaking and Entering ( 2006 )
A landscape architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.
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Movie: Albino Alligator ( 1997 )
While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at a New Orleans bar--only they're not the people the police are searching for.
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Movie: The Glass Shield ( 1995 )
Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct.
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Movie: Dirty Pretty Things ( 2002 )
An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.