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Tightrope

IMDB Rating: 6.20
3464 votes

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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop.
Actors
Capt. Wes BlockClint Eastwood
Det. MolinariDan Hedaya
Leander RolfeMarco St. John
Also posted in 1984, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

King of New York

IMDB Rating: 6.80
5742 votes

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Drug lord Frank White (Chrstiopher Walken) is released from Sing-Sing prison after serving a number of years for drug trafficking. He is reunited with his former gang, led by the murderous Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne), as well as his personal female bodyguards Raye (Theresa Randle) and Melanie (Carrie Ngyen), and his lover/legal annalist Jennifer (Janet Julien). After seeing his old neighborhood more dilapidated and depressing than ever, Frank decides to do good by eliminating his competitors whom filled the void left by his incarceration, then steal their money and drugs to finance a new South Bronx hospital for the needy. But Frank's past won't let go of him when a group of overzealous cops, led by corrupt detective Roy Bishop (Victor Argo), frustrated at the lack of clues to nail Frank on for the current street killings, decide to take matters into their own hands.
Actors
Frank WhiteChristopher Walken
Dennis GilleyDavid Caruso
Jimmy JumpLaurence Fishburne
Also posted in 1990, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Beverly Hills Cop

IMDB Rating: 7.20
28873 votes

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Detroit cop Axel Foley is delighted when he receives a surprise visit from his best friend Mikey Tandino, who lives in California. Not long after Mikey arrives in Detroit, Mikey is killed, right in front of Axel, by a man named Zack. Axel follows Zack to Beverly Hills, California, where Beverly Hills police department Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Detective Billy Rosewood and Rosewood's partner, Sergeant John Taggart, to keep an eye on Axel. Axel visits his friend Jenny Summers, who works in an art gallery. With Jenny's help, Axel discovers that Zack works for Jenny's boss, Victor Maitland, the man who owns the art gallery. Maitland is a drug kingpin who is using the gallery as a front, and Maitland had Zack kill Mikey after Maitland accused Mikey of stealing some of Maitland's bonds. With the help of Jenny, Billy, and Taggart, Axel does what he can to make sure Maitland and Zack won't kill any more people.
Actors
Det. Axel FoleyEddie Murphy
Det. William 'Billy' RosewoodJudge Reinhold
Det. Sgt. John TaggartJohn Ashton
Also posted in 1984, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Blow

IMDB Rating: 7.30
40288 votes

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A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
Actors
George JungJohnny Depp
Mirtha JungPenélope Cruz
Barbara BuckleyFranka Potente
Also posted in 2001, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Ocean’s Eleven

IMDB Rating: 7.50
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A gangster by the name of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) rounds up a gang of associates to stage heists of three major Las Vegas casino's (Bellagio, The Mirage, and the MGM Grand) simultaneously during a popular boxing event.
Actors
Danny OceanGeorge Clooney
Board Member #1Cecelia Ann Birt
Board Member #2Paul L. Nolan
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Reindeer Games

IMDB Rating: 5.30
10394 votes

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After being imprisoned for six years on a grand theft auto charge, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) and his cellmate Nick (James Frain) are finally going to be paroled. After hearing endless stories during his incarceration of Nick's romantic correspondence to a woman named Ashley he has never met (Charlize Theron), Rudy is looking forward to returning to his family and having a fresh cup of hot chocolate. When Nick is killed during a prison riot, Rudy decides to assume Nick's identity upon release from prison and meet up with the unknown woman. Burdened with a base knowledge of Nick's Indian casino employment past, Rudy finds himself in too deep with Ashley's brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise) and is violently forced to cooperate with a casino robbery that Gabriel and his gang have been planning with Nick in mind.
Actors
Rudy DuncanBen Affleck
Gabriel MercerGary Sinise
Ashley MercerCharlize Theron
Also posted in 2000, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (5)

Gone in Sixty Seconds

IMDB Rating: 5.80
39399 votes

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Car theft in Long Beach went down 47% when Randall "Memphis" Raines walked away from the life. He gets dragged back into it by assuming the job his brother Kip screwed up for stolen-car broker Raymond Calitri: steal 50 exotic cars and have them on a container ship by 8 AM Friday morning, and he got this news on a Monday. With Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip, and the police GRAB unit breathing down his neck, Memphis reassembles his old crew and attempts to pull off the logistically impossible.
Actors
Frances Fisher
Randall 'Memphis' RainesNicolas Cage
Kip RainesGiovanni Ribisi
Also posted in 2000, Action, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

Double Jeopardy

IMDB Rating: 5.90
19301 votes

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When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the "murder".
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Travis LehmanTommy Lee Jones
Elizabeth 'Libby' ParsonsAshley Judd
Matty Parsons, Age 4Benjamin Weir
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (6)

Con Air

IMDB Rating: 6.30
30957 votes

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Cameron Poe is an Army Ranger who was going to go home to his pregnant wife when he got into a fight with three men. He would kill one of them and the other two ran away with the knife they had and because of that he would be convicted of manslaughter. After eight years he would be paroled. He would be part of a group that's being transferred to another prison and flown in a special plane. While in flight a fight breaks out and two of the most dangerous criminals, Diamond Dog and Cyrus the Virus Grissom, would break out from their restraints and take over the plane. When the plane makes it's first stop Poe and friend who's a diabetic and who wasn't given his shot, and all the syringes were destroyed, try to get off but Grissom wouldn't let them. He then tries to alert the authorities but got away. Now the government is considering shooting the plane down but U.S. Marshall Vince Larkin thinks that it's a little hasty and believes that Poe is an ally. When Grissom leads them on a wild goose chase, Poe alerts them to where they are going.
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Cameron PoeNicolas Cage
U.S. Marshal Vince LarkinJohn Cusack
Tricia PoeMonica Potter
Also posted in 1997, Action, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Another 48 Hrs.

IMDB Rating: 5.10
5222 votes

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For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the "Ice Man". At the Hunter's Point Raceway, Jack confronts Tyrone Burroughs and Arthur Brock. Jack kills Brock in self defense, but Burroughs escapes, and Jack is in danger of going to prison because Brock's gun can't be found. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day. Jack tries to convince Reggie to help him clear his name and find the Ice Man, but Reggie says he won't help unless Jack gives Reggie the $500,000 that Jack has been holding on to for Reggie. Jack refuses to give Reggie the money unless Reggie helps him. After the bus that is transporting Reggie away from the prison is forced to crash by two bikers and Jack gets shot by the same two bikers, Jack forces Reggie to help him by having the hospital release Reggie into his custody. Reggie recognized one of the bikers as Richard "Cherry" Ganz, the brother of Albert Ganz, the escaped convict Jack killed years ago. Jack got shot because Cherry wants revenge for Albert's death, and Cherry and his partner Willie Hickok are the hitmen who have been hired to kill Reggie. Burroughs, who works for the Ice Man, was trying to hire Brock as insurance, just in case Cherry and Hickok fail. Blake Wilson, the head of the Internal Affairs division, obviously doesn't like Jack, because Wilson will stop at nothing to prosecute Jack for manslaughter in Brock's death, and it turns out that the Ice Man put a price on Reggie's head because Reggie knows who the Ice Man is someone Jack never expected it to be.
Actors
Reggie HammondEddie Murphy
Jack CatesNick Nolte
Ben KehoeBrion James
Also posted in 1990, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)
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