Tag Archives: murder

China Strike Force

IMDB Rating: 5.10
737 votes

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A young Chinese Security Officer, Darren, is called for Team 808, which fights against the smuggling of drugs and corruption. Noriko, a Japanese Interpol officer, collaborates with Darren for the destruction of a large international drug cartel. At the same time, a senior government officer's daughter is suspected of corruption.
Actors
Darren TongAaron Kwok
CoolioCoolio
Alex CheungLee-Hom Wang
Also posted in 2000, Action | Comments (0)

Summer of Sam

IMDB Rating: 6.50
14231 votes

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Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
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VinnyJohn Leguizamo
RichieAdrien Brody
DionnaMira Sorvino
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Street Kings

IMDB Rating: 7.30
8569 votes

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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.
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Detective Tom LudlowKeanu Reeves
Captain Jack WanderForest Whitaker
CoatesCommon
Also posted in 2008, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

It

IMDB Rating: 6.70
14174 votes

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Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as "It". The only victims of "It" are children. Through the form of a clown named Pennywise, "It" wakes up every 30 years and feeds. The adults of Derry act like "It" doesn't happen. Ironically they know about "It", but the events are too horrible to talk about. Seven outcasts, know as The Lucky Seven, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Eddie, Richie, Mike, and Stan are able to defeat "It" as children and make a pact to return and do battle again should the terror return. Now 30 years later, Mike Hanlon who stayed behind, is puzzled by a bizarre occurance of child murders. When he discovers that "It" has come back, he reunites what's left of The Lucky Seven, now in their middle ages to do battle once again, and "It" is ready. The Lucky Seven must now defeat "It" and cure Derry of "The Derry Disease".
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Richard 'Richie/Trashmouth' TozierHarry Anderson
Eddie KaspbrakDennis Christopher
Stanley 'Stan' UrisRichard Masur
Also posted in 1990, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Sexy Beast

IMDB Rating: 7.00
13261 votes

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Spain. Gal has retired from the gangster life, and is sunning himself placidly beside the pool at his villa when a boulder comes crashing by, barely missing him. Soon, he and his pal Aitch, together with their wives Deedee and Jackie, are being threatened by a human boulder, Don Logan. Logan wants Gal for a high stakes vault break-in in London (masterminded by the cool and suave Teddy Bass), and he will not take no for an answer. Nevertheless, that's exactly the answer Gal keeps giving him, even as Don gets more and more threatening. Meanwhile, Gal is plagued by dreams of a menacing, hairy beast. Just how far will Don (and Gal) go in this battle of wills? And what of Enrique, the pool boy?
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Gary 'Gal' DoveRay Winstone
Don LoganBen Kingsley
Teddy BassIan McShane
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Under Fire

IMDB Rating: 7.00
1679 votes

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Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who's believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army.
Actors
Russell PriceNick Nolte
OatesEd Harris
Alex GrazierGene Hackman
Also posted in 1983, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

The Howling

IMDB Rating: 6.50
4998 votes

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There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at a Pussycat Theater, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn't want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in the woods and that's where she decides to vacation with boyfriend Chris. Big mistake, because Eddie was an outcast of a pack of Werewolves who is trying to keep a low profile and doesn't want any interviews. Can Karen and Chris escape the village of the wolf?
Actors
Karen WhiteDee Wallace
Dr. George WaggnerPatrick Macnee
ChrisDennis Dugan
Also posted in 1981, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Machinist

IMDB Rating: 7.80
32951 votes

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"The Machinist" is a film about a man who hasn't slept in a year, and he starts thinking that he's losing his mind, when he starts seeing hallucinations, and his perception of reality becomes twisted. He's haunted by a co-worker that no one else can see, and keeps finding post-it notes with secret messages on his fridge...
Actors
Trevor ReznikChristian Bale
StevieJennifer Jason Leigh
MarieAitana Sánchez-Gijón
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Puppet Masters

IMDB Rating: 5.60
2422 votes

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When a flying saucer reportedly lands in rural Iowa, The Old Man (who runs a secret branch of the CIA), decides to investigate. He goes in person, accompanied by agents Sam and Jarvis, as well as Dr Mary Sefton, a NASA specialist in alien biology. They find that aliens have indeed landed and are planning to use their mind-control powers to take over our planet.
Actors
Andrew NivensDonald Sutherland
Sam NivensEric Thal
Mary SeftonJulie Warner
Also posted in 1994, Horror, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

The Tingler

IMDB Rating: 6.60
1089 votes

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The coroner and scientist Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) is researching the shivering effect of fear with his assistant David Morris (Darryl Hickman). Dr. Warren is introduced to Ollie Higgins (Philip Coolidge), the relative of a criminal sentenced to the electric chair, while making the autopsy of the corpse, and he makes a comment about the tingler-effect to him. Ollie asks for a lift to Dr. Warner, and introduces his deaf-mute wife Martha Higgins (Judith Evelyn), who manages a theater of their own. Dr. Warner returns home, where he lives with his unfaithful and evil wife Isabel Stevens Chapin (Patricia Cutts) and her sweet sister Lucy Stevens (Pamela Lincoln). Dr. Warner, upset with the situation with his wife, threatens and uses her as a subject of his experiment. When Martha dies of fear, Dr. Warner makes her autopsy and finds a creature that lives inside every human being, feeds with fear and is controlled by the scream. Once Martha was not able to scream, the tingler was not rendered harmless and became enormous. When the living being escapes, Dr. Warner and Ollie chase it in a crowded movie theater.
Actors
Dr. Warren ChapinVincent Price
Mrs. Martha Ryerson HigginsJudith Evelyn
David MorrisDarryl Hickman
Also posted in 1959, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)