Posts Tagged ‘corruption’

Serpico (1973)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Randolph, John | Kehoe, Jack | McGuire, Biff | Eda-Young, Barbara | Sharpe, Cornelia | Roberts, Tony | Medici, John | Rich, Allan | Ornellas, Norman | Grover, Edward | Henderson, Albert | Garrett, Hank | Leake, Damien | Bova, Joseph
Directors: Lumet, Sidney
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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.

Traffic (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Del Toro, Benicio | Vargas, Jacob | Chavez, Andrew | Saucedo, Michael | Milian, Tomas | Yenque, Jose | Rivera, Emilio | O'Neill, Michael | Douglas, Michael | Jones, Russell G. | Hetherington, Lorene | Collins, Eric | Holden, Beau | Stader, Peter | Lew, James
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
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A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

RoboCop 2 (1990)

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Glover, John | Bauer, Belinda | Machado, Mario | Gibbons, Leeza | Ingle, John | Noonan, Tom | Brown, Roger Aaron | Damon, Gabriel | Rolston, Mark | Finn, Lila | Hateley, John | Tarrant, Gage | Rosales Jr., Thomas | Smith, Brandon | Merck, Wallace
Directors: Kershner, Irvin
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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.

RoboCop (1987)

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Weller, Peter | Allen, Nancy | Dan O'Herlihy | Cox, Ronny | Smith, Kurtwood | Ferrer, Miguel | Robert DoQui | Wise, Ray | Perry, Felton | McCrane, Paul | Goins, Jesse D. | Zamora, Del | Jung, Calvin | Lieberman, Rick | de Broux, Lee
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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In a near future, the Motor City known as Detroit slowly becomes the spawn-ground for Crime as a gang of Cop Killers goes on the rise. Private organism, Omni Consomer Products (OCP) eventually seizes control of local law enforcement to ensure a secure an Urban pacification program. Just assigned to the Metro West Precint, Officer Alex Murphy is massacred to death by this gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes the chance when the ED-209 law enforcement Droid shows lack of perfection by killing a fellow executive to create the Perfect Cop. The near death Murphy is used as the subject. With his memories erased, he is resurrected as Robocop, the future of law enforcement. As he sweeps away with crime, case by case, he eventually becomes involved with the Cop Killing Gang, and Anne Lewis herself. All of this, triggering his dormant memories of his past life as he searches for who he really is, and uncover a conspiracy going deep in OCP with the Senior Vice President himself.

Lock Up (1989)

Friday, August 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Sutherland, Donald | Amos, John | Landham, Sonny | Sizemore, Tom | McRae, Frank | Fluegel, Darlanne | Young, William Allen | Romano, Larry | Lund, Jordan | Lilla, John | Duval, Dean | Strivelli, Jerry | Marshall, David Anthony | Ashley, Kurek
Directors: Flynn, John
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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: Ford, Harrison | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Dutton, Charles S. | Hunt, Bonnie | Haysbert, Dennis | Jenkins, Richard | Guilfoyle, Paul | Thompson, Susanna | Coyote, Peter | Baker, Dylan | Thigpen, Lynne | Floyd, Susan | Cobbs, Bill | Mara, Kate
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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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: Brando, Marlon | Malden, Karl | Cobb, Lee J. | Steiger, Rod | Henning, Pat | Erickson, Leif | Westerfield, James | Galento, Tony | Mauriello, Tami | Hamilton, John F. | Heldabrand, John | Bond, Rudy | Blackman, Don | Keegan, Arthur | Simon, Abe
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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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: Broderick, Matthew | Witherspoon, Reese | Klein, Chris | Campbell, Jessica | Reeves, Phil | Hagan, Molly | Driscoll, Delaney | Harelik, Mark | Camp, Colleen | Ingrassia, Frankie | Parks, Joel | Malloy, Matt | Osborne, Holmes | Jackson, Jeanine | Nelson, Loren
Directors: Payne, Alexander
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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: Gere, Richard | Linney, Laura | Norton, Edward | Mahoney, John | McDormand, Frances | Woodard, Alfre | O'Quinn, Terry | Braugher, Andre | Bauer, Steven | Spano, Joe | Plana, Tony | Anderson, Stanley | Tierney, Maura | Seda, Jon | Rogers, Reg
Directors: Hoblit, Gregory
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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.

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

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