Turner & Hooch (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A detective must adopt the dog of a dead man to help him find the murderer.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Reginald VelJohnson, Scott Paulin, J.C. Quinn
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Le gendarme et les gendarmettes / Never Play Clever Again (1982)
Comedy | Crime
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them — and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
Starring: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, Patrick Préjean
Director: Tony Aboyantz, Jean Girault
Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres / The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
Comedy | Crime | Sci-Fi
The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Starring: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Maurice Risch, Guy Grosso, Jean-Pierre Rambal
Director: Jean Girault
Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez / The Gendarme of St. Tropez (1964)
Comedy | Crime
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with persistent nude swimmers, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor. He gets drawn into it when he tries to cover for her when a friend 'lends' the car of her assumed father. It turns out that the real owners of the yacht aren't exactly what they pretend to be either…
Starring: Louis de Funès, Geneviève Grad, Michel Galabru, Christian Marin, Jean Lefebvre, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo
Director: Jean Girault
Java Heat (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Story centers on the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Indonesia, where a reckless American posing as a grad student is bent on vengeance but quickly finds that the world's problems can't be solved with violence alone. A mysterious American Marine/FBI agent Jake Travers (Kellan Lutz) teams with a Muslim cop Hashim (Ario Bayu) to hunt down a dangerous international jewel thief Malik (Mickey Rourke) who kidnaps a Sultan's daughter Sultana (Atiqah Hasiholan) in a plot to steal the royal treasury: exotic intrigue amid ancient palaces, mosques, temples, subterranean labyrinths and stone pyramids in the heart of Java.
Starring: Kellan Lutz, Verdi Solaiman, Mickey Rourke, Ario Bayu
Director: Conor Allyn
Under Suspicion (1991)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
In 1959 Brighton, disgraced cop turned private detective Tony Aaron falsifies adulteries for use as evidence in divorce cases. When a client is murdered, Tony's ex-partner, Frank, still on the Brighton force, finds that the most likely suspects are Angeline, the client's mistress who is set to inherit all his property, and Tony himself, parts of whose story don't seem to add up.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill, Alan Talbot
Director: Simon Moore
Broken City (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ex-cop finds himself in over his head when he agrees to help out the mayor of New York City in this tense political thriller from director Allen Hughes. Having had to sacrifice a promising career when he was involved in a controversial shooting, tough street cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is spared a prison stretch by the intervention of the city's popular Mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crowe). Starting afresh as a private investigator, Billy is soon hired by Hostetler to find out if his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is being unfaithful. But when her suspected lover is later found dead, Billy realises too late that the mayor's motives run deeper than expected, and that if he's to stay alive, he needs to take the fight to his opponents, risking all to reveal the truth.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kyle Chandler, Barry Pepper, Justin Chambers
Director: Allen Hughes
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Gangster Squad (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A chronicle of the Los Angeles Police Department's fight to keep East Coast Mafia out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s.
Starring: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Defendor (2009)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Bruined and beaten, arm in a sling, neck in a brace, Arthur Poppington sits in front of court-appointed psychologist Ellen Chum. After making her swear to secrecy, Poppington begins to tell the story of his secret life as "Defendor" – yes, that's an "OR" – spelling is not one of his super powers. By day, Poppington directs traffic around road construction sites, but at night he dons a pair of black tights, a black jersey with a crude "D" duct-taped to his chest, and trawls the streets as his alter ago. As Defendor, Poppington engages in what he believes is a super heroic fight against crime in an attempt to fulfull his unrealized dream of capturing his archrival, Captian Industry – a gun trafficking crime lord who Poppington mistankenly believes is responsible for the death of his mother. Defendor's problems with the law begin with his intervention in a trick gone bad. When coming to the aid of Katerina Debrofkowitz, an underage prostitute, Defendor tangles with her pimp, Chuck Dooney – a crooked undercover cop. By doing so, Defendor bumbles his way into a criminal underwold, and the stage is set for a showdown with Captain Industry.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Michael Kelly, Sandra Oh, Kat Dennings
Director: Peter Stebbings
Pawn (2013)
Crime | Thriller
An all-night diner. A cop walks in on a robbery in progress. But what happens next – and what happened just before – will change everything you think you know. The building is now surrounded. There are restless fingers on every trigger. And one very intense hostage situation is about to take some extremely shocking twists.
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Common, Marton Csokas, Sean Faris, Stephen Lang, Ray Liotta, Nikki Reed, Forest Whitaker
Director: David A. Armstrong
The Young Savages (1961)
Crime | Drama
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't exactly as they seem to be.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Shelley Winters, Larry Gates, Telly Savalas
Director: John Frankenheimer
Transsiberian (2008)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
U.S. couple, Roy and Jessie, decide to take the long way home from their recent sojourn in Asia on the legendary Trans-siberian Express train from Beijing to Moscow. On their way, they meet another couple from the West, Carlos and Abby, with whom they quickly form a familiar bond that often unites fellow travellers away from home. When Roy accidentally gets separated from the group at a stopover, Jessie begins to realize that their compatriots aren't exactly who or what they seem to be. The real danger begins to surface as a deceitful Russian detective and locals terrorize Jessie in this unforgettable journey.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: Brad Anderson
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Comedy | Crime
As Thomas Jefferson Johnson, Murphy hustles his way to the big time and wins an elected seat in the U.S. congress. But that's only the beginning – with the perks and power of his new position, Murphy cons for cash and doesn't have to break the law to bamboozle the big bucks.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Joe Don Baker, Victoria Rowell, Grant Shaud, Kevin McCarthy
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit / Xin zuijia paidang (1989)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Now retired "Aces" partners King Kong and Inspector Albert are framed for the heist of China’s national treasures, the Sword of Chin and 30 Terracotta warriors, on exhibition for the first time outside China. The mad mission to clear their names puts the "Aces" partners through the adventure of their lives – fighting terracotta warriors that come alive, being convicted and imprisoned in Peking, almost being fed to sharks, and being frozen alive in a giant freezer, are just some of the situations they have to escape from……
Starring: Ellen Chan, Leslie Cheung, Roy Cheung, Samuel Hui, Karl Maka
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Sick Nurses / Suay Laak Sai (2007)
Crime | Horror
The white walls of a hospital hide a den of evil activity in this Thai horror film. A group of sexy nurses and an esteemed doctor have conspired to harvest the organs of dead patients and sell them the black market. When one of the nurses threatens to reveal their criminal enterprise, her life is brought to a ghastly end. But the violence is far from over when her spirit returns to fulfill her dying promise of revenge.
Starring: Chon Wachananon, Wichan Jarujinda, Chidjan Rujiphun, Kanya Rattapetch, Dollaros Dachapratumwan, Ase Wang, Ampaiwan Techapoowapat, Ampairat Techapoowapat
Director: Piraphan Laoyont, Thodsapol Siriwiwat
Dragnet (1987)
Comedy | Crime
Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. the stealing of one bat, a 30 feet long snake and the mane of a lion from a zoo. All the latest BAIT magazines were also recently stolen, and some chemichals that when are mixed correctly develops a very deadly gas. All these thefts have one thing in common; visit cards with the word "PAGAN" left at the crime scenes. Solving these crimes, including why plenty of police vehicles have been stolen lately, involves the usual; to drink coffee at strip tease bars, rescue kidnapped virgins from drowning and lose the job.
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul, Jack O'Halloran, Elizabeth Ashley, Dabney Coleman, Kathleen Freeman, Bruce Gray
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
Grotesque / Gurotesuku (2009)
Crime | Horror | Thriller
A story of fear and torture so disturbing it's been banned in multiple countries. An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival. Horrifying, shocking, and sickening, Grotesque is an examination of the most twisted aspect of human nature, as well as a test of intestinal fortitude.
Starring: Tsugumi Nagasawa, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Shigeo Ôsako
Director: Kôji Shiraishi
Internal Affairs (1990)
Crime | Drama
Keen young Raymond Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady.
Starring: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Laurie Metcalf, Nancy Travis, Richard Bradford, William Baldwin
Director: Mike Figgis
Casque d'or / Casque d'Or / Golden Marie (1952)
Crime | Drama | Romance
Classic French underworld drama set in Paris at the turn of the century. When Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani) falls for Marie (Simone Signoret), he faces the wrath of her boyfriend, the petty crook Roland (William Sabatier). Gang boss Felix (Claude Dauphin) who secretly lusts after Marie, orders the two to fight it out for her hand, hoping to eliminate his love rival. When his boyhood friend is subsequently framed for the murder, Georges, not realising Felix's involvement, does the decent thing and turns himself in to the police. The tragedy is complete when Georges discovers Felix's role in his downfall, escapes from custody, and kills Felix.
Starring: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières, Odette Barencey
Director: Jacques Becker
The Skulls (2000)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called "The Skulls", in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the club's trapping of power and wealth, a series of disturbing incidents, such as his best friends suicide, leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization and the truth behind his friends supposed suicide. He starts realizing that his future and possibly his life is in danger.
Starring: Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Christopher McDonald, Steve Harris, William Petersen, Craig T. Nelson
Director: Rob Cohen
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