Posts Tagged ‘undercover’

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.

Desert Saints (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Rush Hour (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rolston, Mark | Peña, Elizabeth | Leung, Ken | Chan, Jackie | Wilkinson, Tom | Ma, Tzi | Littman, Robert | Chow, Michael | Hsu, Julia | Tucker, Chris | Penn, Chris | Lennox, Kai | Sullivan, Larry | Lin, Yang | Fan, Roger | Cheung, George | Lin, Lucy
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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Realizing that the FBI and their by the book tactics may be unsuccessful, the Chinese consul recruits the aid of a loyal Hong Kong inspector to help rescue his kidnapped daughter. Outlawed by the FBI, the inspector must form an unlikely partnership with a cocky, street smart LAPD officer who prefers doing things his own way.

¡Three Amigos! (1986)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Chase, Chevy | Martin, Steve | Short, Martin | Martinez, Patrice | Gordon, Philip | Wren, Michael | Asparagus, Fred | Hartline, Gene | Kaplan, William B. | Lamour, Sophia | Morales, Santos | Mantegna, Joe | Lovitz, Jon | Hartman, Phil | Insana, Tino
Directors: Landis, John
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When silent film stars Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander get fired, they take a job offer from Mexico: Doing a show with El Guapo, supposedly the most famous actor there. Traveling there in hope of getting good money, they arrive only to learn soon that El Guapo is not an actor, but a cruel gang leader suppressing people. He abducts the mayor’s beautiful daughter Carmen (to be his wife) in revenge for the people’s cry for help. Now, all hopes of the village folks rest on the weak shoulders of three minor-talented actors, who can’t just walk off the set this time.

Beyond the Law aka Fixing The Shadow (1992)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sheen, Charlie | Fiorentino, Linda | Madsen, Michael | Vance, Courtney B. | Rippy, Leon | Burkley, Dennis | Riddell, Lyndsay | Thunder, Rino | Torn, Rip | Lee, James Oscar | Adams, Ed | Chamberlain, Hollie | Madsen, Richard | Parks, Ted
Directors: Ferguson, Larry
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Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang’s leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far ‘beyond the law’ will Saxon go?

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chan, Jackie | Tucker, Chris | Lone, John | Zhang, Ziyi | Sanchez, Roselyn | Yulin, Harris | King, Alan | Tsang, Kenneth | Lo Cicero, Lisa | Melancon, Meiling | Q, Maggie | Chan, Patricia | Coloma, Gelbert | Lin, Lucy | Lu, Cindy
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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It’s vacation time for Det. James Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot by L.A. crime boss Steven Reign and Triad Ricky Tan, an ex-cop who played a mysterious part in the death of Det. Lee’s father. Throw in a power struggle between Tan and the gorgeous but dangerous Hu Li and the boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella. Then again, it may turn up more excitement than Carter was looking for during his vacation.

Warriors, The (1979)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Beck, Michael | Remar, James | Wright, Dorsey | Tyler, Brian | Harris, David | McKitterick, Tom | Sánchez, Marcelino | Michos, Terry | Van Valkenburgh, Deborah | Hill, Roger | Kelly, David Patrick | Thigpen, Lynne | Ortiz, Ginny | Ruehl, Mercedes | Snyder, John
Directors: Hill, Walter
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Cyrus, the messianic leader of the largest gang in New York, declares a truce and calls a summit with all the major gangs in attendance. During the meeting, he expresses his wish to unify all the gangs into one large super-gang. During the summit, Cyrus is assasinated and the murder is pinned on a member of a gang known as the Warriors. Now, all the other gangs are hunting the Warriors down before they can prove their innocence. “CAN YOU DIG IT?”

Cruising (1980)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Pacino, Al | Sorvino, Paul | Allen, Karen | Cox, Richard | Scardino, Don | Spinell, Joe | Acovone, Jay | Jurgensen, Randy | Heyman, Barton | Davis, Gene | Santana, Arnaldo | Atlas, Larry | Miller, Allan | Grosso, Sonny | O'Neill, Ed
Directors: Friedkin, William
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Cruising is the fictional account of a series of gruesome killings in modern day New York City. Steve Burns, a “beat” officer still wet behind the ears, is recruited by Captain Edelson of the NYPD Homicide Unit to go undercover in search of the perpetrator. The victims in these killings are all homosexual men known to frequent “Leather,” S&M (Sadism and Masochism), and B&D (Bondage and Dominance) clubs so Burns, in “deep cover,” must mascarade as gay in order to attract the killer. He fits the victims’ profiles: dark hair, dark complexion, dark eyes. Cruising tells the story of his adventures and misadventures in this small subculture of gay society as he searches for the killer.

Stone Cold (1991)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bosworth, Brian | Henriksen, Lance | Forsythe, William | Diamant, Illana | Holzbog, Arabella | McMurray, Sam | Gant, Richard | Tocha, Paulo | Tress, David | James, Evan | Pierce, Tony | Million, Billy | Winley, Robert | Cummins, Gregory Scott
Directors: Baxley, Craig R.
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Joe Huff is a cop who is angry at the system for handling criminals with kid gloves. Joe is on suspension, but the FBI gives him an opportunity to go undercover in Mississippi and infiltrate “The Brotherhood,” a white supremacist biker gang that runs drugs. In the Brotherhood, each member legally changes his name to his Brotherhood nickname. The Brotherhood is led by a violent psychopath named Chains Cooper. Joe — rechristened “John Stone” — accepts the job, even though he’s not happy about it. His FBI contact, Lance, doesn’t really look at home in biker bars. And the members of the Brotherhood, especially Chains, have their doubts about Joe, who wants a piece of their action. Joe has to kill a man as his initiation. With the FBI’s help, he carefully fakes a murder and is accepted by everyone except for Chains’s right hand man Ice, who still thinks Joe’s an undercover cop. Joe befriends Chains’s girlfriend Nancy, and when Joe learns that Nancy is not happy being with Chains, Joe offers to help her escape. Ice finds Joe meeting with Lance, and tries to warn Chains, but Ice is killed in a fiery motorcycle crash before he can get to Chains. Nancy is later killed by Chains, and the man Joe is supposed to have murdered turns up alive, blowing Joe’s cover. Chains and his gang later take the Mississippi supreme court hostage in an effort to stop one of their men, Trouble Owens, from being sentenced to be executed for killing a priest, and it’s up to Joe to end the situation.

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.