Tag Archives: police

Panic Room

IMDB Rating: 7.00
28292 votes

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After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a "panic room" which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room's hotline to the police hasn't been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn't contain any sugar...
Actors
Meg AltmanJodie Foster
Sarah AltmanKristen Stewart
BurnhamForest Whitaker
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (23)

John Q

IMDB Rating: 6.40
15343 votes

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John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.
Actors
John Quincy ArchibaldDenzel Washington
Beautiful WomanGabriela Oltean
Lt. Frank GrimesRobert Duvall
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (4)

One Hour Photo

IMDB Rating: 7.00
25987 votes

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Seymour 'SY' Parrish has been doing photo development for 20 years. He has a vast knowledge of modern photography and develops photos at a local department store for a living. But SY lives a sad and lonely life and begins spying on the Yorkin family, his biggest customers who seem to have everything in the world. SY begins to feel that he wants to be in the Yorkin's life, but when he discovers that the Yorkins are not as perfect as they seem, he becomes a man on a mission to expose the imperfections of the Yorkin family that could tear them apart.
Actors
Sy ParrishRobin Williams
Nina YorkinConnie Nielsen
Will YorkinMichael Vartan
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (9)

Collateral Damage

IMDB Rating: 5.10
13294 votes

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Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio "The Wolf" Perrini. Frustrated with the official investigation and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice, Brewer takes matters into his own hands and tracks his quarry ultimately to Colombia.
Actors
Gordy BrewerArnold Schwarzenegger
Selena PerriniFrancesca Neri
Peter BrandtElias Koteas
Also posted in 2002, Action, Thriller | Comments (22)

City of God

IMDB Rating: 8.80
37754 votes

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Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that—in the early 80's—became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pé soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he's been given an artist's point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pé is not the real protagonist of the film—only the narrator—he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pé's perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence.
Actors
Buscapé - RocketAlexandre Rodrigues
Zé Pequeno - Li'l ZéLeandro Firmino
Bené - BennyPhellipe Haagensen
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Showtime

IMDB Rating: 5.30
12122 votes

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LAPD Detective Sergeant Mitch Preston cares only about doing his job and nailing crooks. LAPD Patrol Officer Trey Sellars joined the force as a day job until his acting career took off. During an undercover drug buy Mitch was working that Trey botched by calling in for backup and drawing media attention, Mitch's partner is shot with a very exotic 12-gauge automatic weapon; Mitch then shoots the video camera out of the hands of a reporter filming the action when the cameraman refused to shut it down. Faced with a $10 million lawsuit, the department agrees to let producer Chase Renzi film Mitch's investigation for a new reality TV show, and constantly tries to make everything more "viewer friendly" by changing everything about Mitch's life to fit the stereotypical view of police officers—and partners him with Trey.
Actors
Lazy BoyMos Def
Det. Mitch PrestonRobert De Niro
TeacherRachael Harris
Also posted in 2002, Action, Comedy | Comments (5)

The Dancer Upstairs

IMDB Rating: 6.90
2439 votes

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The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda—his daughter's soulfully beautiful ballet teacher—a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm's eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer's truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary's cause and the detective's peace.
Actors
John Malkovich
Det. Lt. Agustín RejasJavier Bardem
Det. Sgt. SucreJuan Diego Botto
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Phone Booth

IMDB Rating: 7.20
35486 votes

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A slick New York publicist (Farrell) who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Actors
Stu ShepardColin Farrell
The CallerKiefer Sutherland
Captain RameyForest Whitaker
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (6)

The Transporter

IMDB Rating: 6.30
20472 votes

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Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin (Jason Statham) lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Frank's newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he's done in the past. He has been hired by an American known only as "Wall Street" (see Rule Two) to make a delivery, but when Frank stops along route, he notices his "package" is moving. Violating his own personal rules, Frank looks inside the bag, finding its contents to be a beautiful, gagged woman.
Actors
Frank MartinJason Statham
LaiQi Shu
Darren 'Wall Street' BettencourtMatt Schulze
Also posted in 2002, Action, Crime, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (5)
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