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Blood Diamond(2006)

2h 23min | Drama, Thriller, Action
3.8/5 (with 3,348 votes)

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Arnold Vosloo, Michael Sheen, Ato Essandoh, ...
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La Femme Nikita(1990)

1h 57min | Action, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 830 votes)

A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.

Directed by Luc Besson - With Anne Parillaud, Tchéky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Leroy, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno, ...

S.W.A.T.(2003)

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| 1h 57min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.1/5 (with 1,092 votes)

Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.

Directed by Clark Johnson - With Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Brian Van Holt, Josh Charles, ...
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Taxi 2(2000)

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| 1h 22min | Action, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 750 votes)

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

Directed by Gérard Krawczyk - With Samy Naceri, Marion Cotillard, Emma Wiklund, Frédéric Diefenthal, Bernard Farcy, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, ...

Taking Lives(2004)

1h 43min | Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 678 votes)

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

Directed by D.J. Caruso - With Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Olivier Martinez, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Tchéky Karyo, ...

Mulholland Falls(1996)

16
| 1h 47min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
2.9/5 (with 111 votes)

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

Directed by Lee Tamahori - With Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Jennifer Connelly, ...

ACAB : All Cops Are Bastards(2012)

1h 52min | Action, Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 373 votes)

A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.

Directed by Stefano Sollima - With Pierfrancesco Favino, Filippo Nigro, Marco Giallini, Andrea Sartoretti, Livio Beshir, Andrea Sartoretti, ...

Dark Blue(2002)

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| 1h 58min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
3.1/5 (with 125 votes)

Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.

Directed by Ron Shelton - With Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele, Brendan Gleeson, Ving Rhames, Dash Mihok, ...

A Force of One(1979)

1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 42 votes)

Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.

Directed by Paul Aaron - With Jennifer O'Neill, Chuck Norris, Clu Gulager, Ron O'Neal, Bill Wallace, Aaron Norris, ...

SPEC: Close~Reincarnation(2013)

1h 31min | Comedy, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".

Street Asylum(1990)

1h 34min | Action, Science Fiction
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

In the bleak near future Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone with cops pitted against assorted law-breaking lowlifes. Sergeant Arliss Ryder (well played with customary wired intensity by the always great Wings Hauser) has an electronic device put into his back that turns him into an out-of-control psychotic killer and put on the Strike S.Q.U.A.D. (an acronym for Scum Quelling Assault Urban Devision), which is a unit of crazed cops assigned by Captain Bill Quinton (a typically gruff Alex Cord) to rid the City of Angels of criminals by using any means necessary. The only problem is that Arliss discovers what's going down and decides to put a stop to all this madness.

Directed by Gregory Dark - With Wings Hauser

SPEC: Close~Incarnation(2013)

1h 34min | Crime, Mystery, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".

Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi
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Auton(1997)

57min | Action, Science Fiction, Horror
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

In a top-secret UNIT warehouse Dr Sally Arnold is studying a Nestene energy unit with little success. Until she subjects it to cosmic signals that activate it and it awakens several dormant Autons stored in the facility.

A Small Town Called Descent(2010)

1h 46min | Drama, Crime

Somewhere in a remote part of South Africa a heinous crime is committed. Against the backdrop of xenophobic riots that have swept across the country, two Zimbabwean brothers along with a local girl are brutally attacked. The older brother is burnt alive whilst his younger sibling and the girl are sodomised, raped and left for dead. Three investigators from the elite crime fighting unit known as the Scorpions are deployed to a small town called Descent.

Directed by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka