Posts Tagged ‘crime-scene’

Marathon Man (1976)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Dustin | Olivier, Laurence | Scheider, Roy | Devane, William | Keller, Marthe | Weaver, Fritz | Bright, Richard | Lawrence, Marc | Joseph, Allen | Goya, Tito | Dova, Ben | Gilbert, Lou | Marin, Jacques | Woo, James Wing | Deslauriers, Nicole
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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Babe’s brother appears out of the blue. He does this from time to time because his family never knows where he is, working as a government spy. One of his charges is a nazi war criminal who he has just told is no longer welcome in the United States. The doctor has a fortune hidden in a safety deposit box and is convinced that Babe knows whether or not it is safe to go to pick it up and will stop at nothing to find out.

Bullitt (1968)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Vaughn, Robert | Bisset, Jacqueline | Gordon, Don | Duvall, Robert | Oakland, Simon | Fell, Norman | Brown, Georg Stanford | Tarr, Justin | Reindel, Carl | Orlandi, Felice | Tayback, Vic | Lipton, Robert | Peck, Ed | Renella, Pat
Directors: Yates, Peter
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Johnny Ross works for Chicago mobster Peter Ross, his brother. In April 1968 Johnny Ross escapes two attempts on his life and flees to San Francisco, where he is placed in protective custody by politician Walter Chalmers, who hopes to use Ross to further his own national aspirations. To protect Ross, Chalmers asks the SFPD to assign Detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt and his partners, Sergeants Don Delgetti and Carl Stanton, to guard him at a flophouse near an overhead freeway. It looks like a simple assignment, but at 1 AM the next day it all goes awry in a blast of a shotgun, leaving Stanton and Ross fighting for life at San Francisco General. Bullitt gets what information he can, but breathing down his neck is the angered Chalmers who vows to ruin Bullitt’s career should Ross die. Bullitt gets a break when the gunman appears at the hospital to finish off Ross, and Bullitt gets a good look at him; now Bullitt must smoke out the gunman and his backup man before Chalmers carries out his threat, leading to a high-speed pursuit, a fiery crash at a gas station, and a fingerprint check that leads to a stunning discovery about Ross, and about a couple staying at a swanky hotel in San Mateo.

Society (1989)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Warlock, Billy | Danese, Connie | Slack, Ben | Richards, Evan | Jennings, Patrice | Bartell, Tim | Lucia, Charles | Kozak, Heidi | Bremer, Brian | Meyerson, Ben | DeVasquez, Devin | Claire, Maria | Yuzna, Conan | Williams, Jason | Matheson, Pamela
Directors: Yuzna, Brian
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The teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) feels misfit with his parents and his sister Jenny Whitney (Patrice Jennings). When his sister’s boyfriend David Blanchard (Tim Bartell) bugs his family, he shows the disturbing tapes to Bill showing incest and a weird society. When Blanchard dies in a car accident, Bill decides to investigate his family and find a scary truth.

Hard-Boiled (1992)

Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Chow, Yun-Fat | Leung Chiu Wai, Tony | Mo, Teresa | Chan, Philip | Wong Chau-Sang, Anthony | Kwan, Hoi-Shan | Lam, Bowie | Kwok, Philip | Tung, Wei | Au-Yeung, Bobbie | Ng, Shui Ting | Lo, Meng | Lau, Kong
Directors: Woo, John
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A hard-boiled Hong Kong detective (Chow Yun-Fat), who lost his partner in a gunfight, teams up with an undercover cop (Tony Leung) to stop a ruthless crime mob from smuggling guns and killing innocent people.

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Theron, Charlize | Patric, Jason | Sarandon, Susan | Franco, James | Corbin, Barry | Brolin, Josh | Fisher, Frances | Chatham, Wes | McLaughlin, Jake | Brooks, Mehcad | Tucker, Jonathan | Duvall, Wayne | Wolf, Victor | Briscoe, Brent
Directors: Haggis, Paul
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose

Deja Vu (2006)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Patton, Paula | Kilmer, Val | Caviezel, James | Goldberg, Adam | Henson, Elden | Alexander, Erika | Greenwood, Bruce | Hutchman, Rich | Craven, Matt | Scott, Donna W. | Fanning, Elle | Howe, Brian | Castillo, Enrique | Phinney, Mark
Directors: Scott, Tony
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After an explosion on a ferry kills over 500 people including a large group of party-going sailors, an ATF agent investigates the crime. AN FBI agent also joins the investigation. Impressed with the ATF agent’s skills, the FBI agent invites him to join a new team that has a new program that uses satellite technology to look backwards in time for 4-1/2 days to try to capture the terrorist. Meanwhile a young woman who was burned washes up on shore. Meant to look like part of of the explosion, the body arrives at its location too soon, which leads the agents to believe her death is related to the explosion. As they use the new technology to study the woman, the ATF agent determines that this is not satellite imagery but somehow is using a time warp. From this point in the film, the movie moves from a crime film to a sci-fi time paradox film. Nonetheless, the action is non-stop and always captivating. The end of the film may be confusing to some people, but it is all laid out if one cares to look carefully. Contains some extreme violence that some may find disturbing, particularly during the explosion when many people are shown jumping off the boat in flames.

Tightrope (1984)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hedaya, Dan | St. John, Marco | Paul, Graham | Holliday, Bill | Wilmot, John | Houck Jr., Joy N. | Baker-Bergen, Stuart | Barber, Donald | Harvey, Robert | Gural, Ron | Martens, Layton | Boyle, Richard Charles | Sachar, Jonathan | Ferbos, Lionel
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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.

Grudge, The (2004)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Behr, Jason | Mapother, William | DuVall, Clea | Strickland, KaDee | Zabriskie, Grace | Pullman, Bill | Blasi, Rosa | Raimi, Ted | Ishibashi, Ryo | Maki, Yoko | Ozeki, Yuya | Fuji, Takako | Matsuyama, Takashi | Matsunaga, Hiroshi
Directors: Takashi Shimizu
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Karen Davis is a woman residing in Japan with her boyfriend, who is studying there. Temporarily assigned to be caretaker for a woman with severe sleeping disorder, Karen goes to the patient’s house. What she finds is something she would never expect. The house is plagued by the presence of murderous ghosts, the result of a curse. The curse is born from someone dying in a powerful rage. Now, Karen finds herself being tormented by that curse, as it eventually starts claiming it’s victims.

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Pegg, Simon | Freeman, Martin | Nighy, Bill | Popper, Robert | Cornish, Joe | Waitt, Chris | Mason, Eric | Whitelaw, Billie | Frost, Nick | Wight, Peter | Deakin, Julia | Walton, Tom Strode | Woollan, Troy | Lowings, Rory | Bailey, Bill
Directors: Wright, Edgar
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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn’t going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent “acidents”.

In Cold Blood (1967)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Blake, Robert | Wilson, Scott | Forsythe, John | Stewart, Paul | O'Loughlin, Gerald S. | Corey, Jeff | Gallaudet, John | Flavin, James | McGraw, Charles | Geer, Will | McLiam, John | Storey, Ruth | Currin, Brenda | Hough, Paul | Taylor, Vaughn
Directors: Brooks, Richard
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Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters’ capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society’s response might have been.