Posts Tagged ‘corruption’

RoboCop 2 (1990)

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Glover | Belinda Bauer | Mario Machado | Leeza Gibbons | John Ingle | Tom Noonan | Roger Aaron Brown | Gabriel Damon | Mark Rolston | Lila Finn | John Hateley | Gage Tarrant | Thomas Rosales Jr. | Brandon Smith | Wallace Merck
Directors: Irvin Kershner
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After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification closer and closer. But as this develops, a new narcotic known as “Nuke” invades the streets, leaded by God-delirious leader Kane. As this whole menace grows, it may even prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up in failed prototypes with suicidal issues… until Dr. Faxx, scientist straying away from OCP´s path uses Kane as the new subject for the Robocop 2 project, a living God.

Lock Up (1989)

Friday, August 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Donald Sutherland | John Amos | Sonny Landham | Tom Sizemore | Frank McRae | Darlanne Fluegel | William Allen Young | Larry Romano | Jordan Lund | John Lilla | Dean Duval | Jerry Strivelli | David Anthony Marshall | Kurek Ashley
Directors: John Flynn
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Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.

Random Hearts (1999)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Kristin Scott Thomas | Charles S. Dutton | Bonnie Hunt | Dennis Haysbert | Richard Jenkins | Paul Guilfoyle | Susanna Thompson | Peter Coyote | Dylan Baker | Lynne Thigpen | Susan Floyd | Bill Cobbs | Kate Mara
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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The wife of Police Sergeant Dutch Van Den Broek and the husband of politician Kay Chandler are killed in a plane crash. Now Dutch discovers some anomalies in what he told her before she left and discovers that she and Chandler’s husband were travelling together. Dutch then goes to Chandler and tells her that he suspects that they were having an affair. He tells her that he wants to know the truth; she tells him that she doesn’t but she later joins him and they grow close.

On the Waterfront (1954)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Karl Malden | Lee J. Cobb | Rod Steiger | Pat Henning | Leif Erickson | James Westerfield | Tony Galento | Tami Mauriello | John F. Hamilton | John Heldabrand | Rudy Bond | Don Blackman | Arthur Keegan | Abe Simon
Directors: Elia Kazan
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

Election (1999)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Reese Witherspoon | Chris Klein | Jessica Campbell | Phil Reeves | Molly Hagan | Delaney Driscoll | Mark Harelik | Colleen Camp | Frankie Ingrassia | Joel Parks | Matt Malloy | Holmes Osborne | Jeanine Jackson | Loren Nelson
Directors: Alexander Payne
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Tracy Flick is the most driven student at Carver High, who just happens to be having an affair with one of her teachers. Another teacher—Mr. McAllister—is having an affair with his wife’s best friend. Student Elections are under way, when Mr. McAllister persuades football jock Paul to run against Flick for his own pleasure. Flick, of course, is mortified that Paul is even trying to compete. Tammy, Paul’s lesbian sister who got dumped by her girlfriend to go with Paul, decides that running against her brother is the best revenge. Who will win the election this year?

Primal Fear (1996)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Laura Linney | Edward Norton | John Mahoney | Frances McDormand | Alfre Woodard | Terry O'Quinn | Andre Braugher | Steven Bauer | Joe Spano | Tony Plana | Stanley Anderson | Maura Tierney | Jon Seda | Reg Rogers
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
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Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.

Serpico (1973)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Al Pacino | John Randolph | Jack Kehoe | Biff McGuire | Barbara Eda-Young | Cornelia Sharpe | Tony Roberts | John Medici | Allan Rich | Norman Ornellas | Edward Grover | Albert Henderson | Hank Garrett | Damien Leake | Joseph Bova
Directors: Sidney Lumet
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Frank Serpico is a young, inexperienced cop who starts out on patrol. Later, he starts to work as an undercover cop who busts all sorts of criminals, but mostly drug dealers and pushers. Since Serpico is a young man living in the 70’s, he lives as one. His image, based on how others look on him, shows him as just a ‘hippie’ and the criminals he busts have no idea he is really an undercover officer. Everything is working out well, except the money situation. Serpico refuses to accept money, as the other officers do. He feels this isn’t right, and wants to expose the situation. Who he thought were his friends now turn into his enemies when Serpico takes the stand on a grand jury investigation. He continues to work undercover, and his life is placed into jeopardy at the hands of his colleagues.

Payback: Straight Up - The Director’s Cut (2006)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hugh Bonneville | Stephen Cinabro | James Coburn | Jack Conley | Richard Cotovsky | William Devane | Bill Duke | Mel Gibson | John Glover | Gregg Henry | Gene Kelly | David Paymer | Roderick Peeples | Christian Stolte | Sterling Wolfe
Directors: Brian Helgeland
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Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.

Batman (1989)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Adam West | Burt Ward | Lee Meriwether | Cesar Romero | Burgess Meredith | Frank Gorshin | Alan Napier | Neil Hamilton | Stafford Repp | Madge Blake | Reginald Denny | Milton Frome | Gil Perkins | Dick Crockett | George Sawaya
Directors: Leslie H. Martinson
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In Gotham City, a dark knight known as Batman helps to defeat evil and keep the city’s citizens safe. When Jack Napier is transformed into the evil, Joker, he promises to take over Gotham City it is up to Batman to stop him in his tracks before it is too late.

Air America (1990)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Gibson | Robert Downey Jr. | Nancy Travis | Ken Jenkins | David Marshall Grant | Lane Smith | Art LaFleur | Ned Eisenberg | Marshall Bell | David Bowe | Burt Kwouk | Tim Thomerson | Harvey Jason | Sinjai Plengpanit | Natta Nantatanti
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
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Billy is a wacko pilot who loses his last straight job as a helicopter traffic reporter by getting into a screaming match with a driver. He takes a job working for what amounts to a CIA airline in Asia. Billy puts it as, “I’m used to being the weirdest person in the room. Here I don’t even make the top ten.” There is an insurgency shooting at them, government soldiers running drugs, a pilot who is supplying arms to the whole region, and those are the straightforward sub plots.