Movies by keyword police-detective
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Batman Begins
Action / Adventure / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller , produced in 2005, USA , added: 12 Jul 2005
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Bruce Wayne's parents were killed, a young boy received the trauma which led him into obsession to revenge. He travels Asia, where he is trained by a ninja fighter Ra's al Ghul. When Bruce returns home, he finds his native Gotham-city overran with crime and the Wayne Enterprises, his parents' corporation, slipped from his control. The hero is determined to bring peace and safety back to the city. Wayne and his allies develop a secret identity as Batman, a masked fighter for justice. But to defeat the mafia villains will not be so easy.
Se7en
Crime / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 1995, USA , added: 06 Sep 2006
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This thriller portrays the exploits of a deranged serial-killer. His twisted agenda involves choosing seven victims who represent egregious examples of transgressions of each of the Seven Deadly Sins. He then views himself as akin to the Sword of God, handing out horrific punishment to these sinners. Two cops, an experienced veteran of the streets who is about to retire and the ambitious young homocide detective hired to replace him, team up to capture the perpetrator of these gruesome killings. Unfortunately, they too become ensnared in his diabolical plan....
The French Connection
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 1971, USA , added: 11 Sep 2006
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William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.
Inside Man
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2006, USA , added: 25 Oct 2006
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A Denzel Washington's tough cop struggles against a perfectionist bank robber Dalton (Clive Owen). Four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street Branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a well-planned siege, and the people inside become unwitting pawns in an airtight robbery. The bank president (Christopher Plummer) is having something to protect so he has requested the services of high-profile negotiator Madeline White (Foster) who turns the situation to be even more unstable.
The Da Vinci Code
Drama / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2006, USA , added: 04 Dec 2006
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An outstanding symbologist Robert Langdon is brought in to decrypt the strange cipher found near the dead body: Louvre curator is killed inside the museum leaving numerous symbols and clues to be solved. Police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, a granddaughter of the curator murdered helps Langdon in his inquiries and he unveils some stunning secrets leading to an ancient society which keeps its mysteries for much more the one thousand years. The pair sets off on a dangerous quest through France, London and Scotland, collects clues in attempts to crack the code and reveal its shaking secrets.Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou starring in this famous screen version of Dan Brown's bestseller.
Gattaca
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1997, USA , added: 25 Feb 2005
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Vincent is one of the last "natural" babies born into a sterile, genetically-enhanced world, where life expectancy and disease likelihood are ascertained at birth. Myopic and due to die at 30, he has no chance of a career in a society that now discriminates against your genes, instead of your gender, race or religion. Going underground, he assumes the identity of Jerome, crippled in an accident, and achieves prominence in the Gattaca Corporation, where he is selected for his lifelong desire: a manned mission to Saturn. Constantly passing gene tests by diligently using samples of Jerome's hair, skin, blood and urine, his now-perfect world is thrown into increasing desperation, his dream within reach, when the mission director is killed - and he carelessly loses an eyelash at the scene! Certain that they know the murderer's ID, but unable to track down the former Vincent, the police start to close in, with extra searches, and new gene tests. With the once-in-a-lifetime launch only days away, Vincent must avoid arousing suspicion, while passing the tests, evading the police, and not knowing whom he can trust...
Rear Window
Mystery / Thriller , produced in 1954, USA , added: 17 Aug 2007
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In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his "rear window" and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is "Miss Lonelyhearts," so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. ...And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife's sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What's in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What's he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?
The Zodiac
Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2005, USA , added: 03 Oct 2007
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The gripping thriller discloses to viewers the truthful story about one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes of the last century. Ace police detectives and reporters struggled to discover the identity of a sophisticated remorseless Zodiac killer who walked around San Francisco unhindered, keeping its citizens in a constant state of abject terror. Moreover, the elusive criminal dared scoff at law enforcement officers by leaving perplexing ciphers at the crime scenes and sent a barrage of threatening messages to several newspapers.
Saw
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2004, USA , added: 25 Mar 2005
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In this pulse-pounding thriller, photographer Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) find themselves in a deadly predicament when they wake up in a large industrial bathroom, chained by their ankles to rusty pipes at opposite corners. Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood with a gun in his hand. Neither man knows how they got there and how to get out of the dank chamber alive. Recalling a recent murder investigation by Detectives David Tapp (Danny Glover) and Steve Sing (Ken Leung), Dr. Gordon realizes that their captor is a serial killer known as "Jigsaw" (Tobin Bell) due to his bizarre calling card. The torturer leaves his victims impaled on the horns of a dilemma: to die or to kill another person. This time, the doctor must kill Adam within 8 hours. Else the psychopathic genius will kill both him and Adam; Lawrence's wife Alison (Monica Potter) and his daughter Diana (Makenzie Vega) will also be killed...
Mr. Brooks
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2007, USA , added: 26 Dec 2007
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Mr. Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) — a respectable family man, a prosperous businessman, a generous philanthropist, one of so-called pillars of society — wins Man of the Year awards. The old saying goes that still waters run deep. Earl has a secret life full of terrific things. He is a brilliant and diabolical serial killer who manages to conceal his double life from his family and avoid being caught by police thanks to the efforts of his cunning alter ego Marshall (William Hurt). He is too wide awake to be caught napping. But one day Mr. Brooks ends up embroiled in the sinister agenda of an opportunistic, voyeuristic photographer, Mr. Smith (Dane Cook), who has accidentally witnessed the sadistic crime and now wants to adopt Earl's methods so as to become a killer himself. Meanwhile, hotshot police detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore) is on Earl's trail...
Dog Day Afternoon
Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 1975, USA , added: 11 Jul 2008
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Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there's actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city's entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees' safety.
Dark City
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1998, Australia, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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John's life has become a nightmare. He is hunted by the police for a series of murders he knows nothing about, a woman who claims to be his wife is after him, and so is a mysterious "doctor". But his worst trouble is the strangers, a series of vastly powerful beings who seem to manipulate just about everything in the city, and want him because of the extraordinary powers he manifested. John decides to find out what is happening in his city; why is it always night? And why can nobody tell him a way to leave the city?
I, Robot
Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2004, USA , added: 05 Nov 2004
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It's the year 2035, and the community now has the help of robots. These robots have three laws integrated into their system. One, they cannot harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, they must do whatever they're told by a human being as long as such orders don't conflict with law one. Three, they have to defend themselves as long as such defense doesn't conflict with laws one or two. One day, the writer of the three laws, Alfred Lanning, apparently jumps out of the tenth-floor window of U.S. Robotics. The majority of the Chicago Police Department believe that he committed suicide, but Detective Del Spooner (Smith), who hates robots, thinks he was murdered, and the number one suspect is a Nestor Class-5 robot who calls himself Sonny. However, if it was Sonny, then that means he would've had to have broken the three laws. With the help of Dr. Susan Calvin, Spooner must now discover the truth before it's too late.
In the Valley of Elah
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2007, USA , added: 15 Sep 2008
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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
Basic Instinct
Drama / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 1992, France, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Detective Nick Curren (Michael Douglas), conducting the criminal investigation of a rock star murder, is to interrogate the suspect - Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), the woman writer who is a famous authoress of her shocking novels. She is blonde, bisexual, seductive, suspective and obviously dangerous - as well as invulnerable to all attempts to accuse her of the murder. But one of her novels contains the description of the same murder. Besides, Tramell was a lover of the killed guy, and what is more, his breathless body was found on the bed which was evidently a place of a hot sexual battle. Curren finds himself slowly involved into the web of Catherine's intrigue; he can only guess at her guilt. Is he doomed to be the hero of her next novel?
The soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith completes the striking thriller.
Body Heat
Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 1981, USA , added: 27 Nov 2005
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Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?
V for Vendetta
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2005, Germany, UK, USA , added: 29 Sep 2006
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In this obscure and Gothic tale, adapted from David Lloyd's graphic novel, one attractive girl, Evey gets involved accidentally in a terrorist attack, perpetrated by a masked and megalomaniac character, V. V is following the same steps of Guy Fawkes, a sort of terrorist of the XVII century, who wanted to blow up the English Parlament in London. However, in the present time, the Orwellian London lives under the fascist government of chancellor Adam, and V will fight against his regime, using the power of powder, blowing up important buildings. Evey will be chased by the secret police, thinking that she's the accomplice of V, who will accomplish Fawkes' mission of destroying the Parlament on the 5th of November, in this mixture of The Phantom of the Opera, George Orwell's 1984 and Batman.
Four Brothers
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2005, USA , added: 05 Dec 2007
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Four adopted brothers — Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), Angel (Tyrese Gibson), Jeremiah (André Benjamin), and Jack (Garrett Hedlund) — reunite at the funeral of their foster mother, Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan), who was murdered during a grocery store robbery. They decide to take the matter of her death into their own hands in order to track down the killer and exact revenge on him. Ignoring the police orders, they start combing the city of Detroit. As they dig deeper and deeper into the case, all evidence seems to point to local crime boss Victor Sweet (Chiwetel Ejiofor)...
In the Electric Mist
Drama , produced in 2008, USA , added: 24 Feb 2009
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New Iberia Lt. Dave Robicheaux is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni-back in his home parish as co- producer of Hollywood director Michael Goldman's Civil War film-when sizzled/psychic movie-star Elrod Sykes, pulled over for drunk driving, starts babbling about a corpse he found in the Atchafalaya Swamp-the corpse of a black man Dave had seen murdered 35 years before.
Collateral
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2004, USA , added: 04 Sep 2006
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A ruthless contract killer Tom Cruise is soon to dispose off five people. He recruits cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to drive him through the darkness of nightly Los Angeles, to help him to execute these five in different locations during a ten-hour stretch. Max is to become the unwilling collateral of Tom Cruise's severe and sociopath assassin. Both of them hardly crave for survival as they became dependent on each other when L.A. police depts. try to intercept them on their way from one given destination to another. Cruise is leaving his sweet image for this breathtaking and straight-out movie, Jada Pinkett-Smith breaks the boundaries of the minor role, and L.A. city itself turns into a major character.
Flightplan
Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2005, USA , added: 12 Dec 2006
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In Berlin, the aircraft propulsion engineer Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is grieving the loss of her beloved husband, who felt from the roof of their building. She quits her job and decides to travel with her traumatized six years old daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) to bury the body in Long Island. While in the flight to New York, Kyle falls asleep, and when she wakes up, her daughter is missing. She requests a search in the plane to the captain, but nobody has seen her daughter, whose name is not in the flight manifest, disbelieving Kyle. She tries to convince the air marshal Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) that she is not delusional.
American Psycho
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller , produced in 2000, Canada, USA , added: 15 Aug 2007
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Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
The Grudge
Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2004, Germany, Japan, USA , added: 26 Feb 2008
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Karen Davis, an exchange student working in Tokyo, covers for a disappeared nurse and check up Emma, an American immigrant, in her home. She finds her sleeping the whole day. The reason is a mysterious curse, the Grunge, haunting the house and spreading like a virus. Karen must tear up the terrific circle of deaths not to become the victim of the Grunge herself.
The Grudge
Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2004, Germany, Japan, USA , added: 26 Feb 2008
Description:
Karen Davis, an exchange student working in Tokyo, covers for a disappeared nurse and check up Emma, an American immigrant, in her home. She finds her sleeping the whole day. The reason is a mysterious curse, the Grunge, haunting the house and spreading like a virus. Karen must tear up the terrific circle of deaths not to become the victim of the Grunge herself.
Untraceable
Crime / Thriller , produced in 2008, USA , added: 17 Apr 2008
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A secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murders LIVE on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies.
The Sting
Comedy / Crime , produced in 1973, USA , added: 06 May 2009
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don't know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it an attack on him and orders all the people involved terminated. Hooker is shaken down by a crooked cop, Snyder, who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him, he then tries to warn Luther but is too late. He then goes to see Henry Gondorf, a friend of Luther's and a one time great con-man, who has had a bit of bad luck. After hearing what happened to Luther and seeing how hungry Hooker is for payback, he assembles a gang and decides to con Lonigan. While everything seems to be going ok, there is just the problem of the hit on Hooker and Snyder, whom Hooker paid off with counterfeit money.
Bullitt
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 1968, USA , added: 04 Jun 2009
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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.
Vertigo
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller , produced in 1958, USA , added: 10 Jun 2009
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John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.
State of Play
Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2009, USA , added: 07 May 2009
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This is a movie version of the original TV serial. The action takes place in Washington D.C. Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck), a US congressman accidentally dies near a subway station. At the same time a woman gets shot. These seemingly unrelated events are just the upper part of a huge iceberg of political intrigues that two Washington Globe journalists are going to discover. One of them, Cal McCaffrey (Russell Crowe), sticks to old-school methods: he digs for the info through the police and other personal connections. The other one, Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), is an active Internet user. While working on the story together, they both realize that they got involved into a dangerous and complicated play.
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