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Crime Dramas, Vol. VII
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Another playlist dedicated to Crime Dramas (both Film and TV shows) that I like


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Movie: The Girl Is in Trouble ( 2015 )
A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
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Movie: Kill the Messenger ( 2014 )
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contras/freedom fighters in Nicaragua.
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Movie: Dead Bang ( 1989 )
A cop is gunned down on Xmas eve. Jerry Beck, the homicide cop given the job of hunting the killer, investigates some leads which bring him into contact with a group of white supremacy extremists. In addition to the racists, Beck also has to contend with an unhelpful FBI agent.
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Movie: Cold in July ( 2014 )
When a protective father meets a murderous ex-con, both need to deviate from the path they are on as they soon find themselves entangled in a downwards spiral of lies and violence while having to confront their own inner psyche.
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Movie: Love Crime ( 2011 )
Ruthless executive Christine brings on young Isabelle as her assistant taking delight in toying with her innocence. But when Christine starts passing on her protege's ideas as her own, things take a dark turn.
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Movie: Bullet Head ( 2017 )
Three career criminals find themselves trapped in a warehouse with the law closing in and an even worse threat waiting inside - a nigh unstoppable killer dog.
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Movie: The Crash ( 2017 )
In the not-so-distant future, a team of white-collar criminals are enlisted by the Federal government to thwart a cyber-attack that threatens to bankrupt the United States of America.
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TV Show: Devious Maids ( 2013 )
Devious Maids is set in a world where murder and mayhem collide in the mansions of Beverly Hills' wealthiest and most powerful families. Class warfare has never been as fun and dirty as it is in the tiny enclave where the staff is as clever, witty and downright devilish as their employers. The series centers on a close-knit group of maids, Marisol, Rosie, Carmen Valentina and Zoila, who are bonded together by their jobs, life struggles and the melodramatic universe that engulfs their employers.
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Movie: Colt 45 ( 2014 )
The young police man Vincent is the best in his class, and denies to be recruited to the special forces. But when the corrupt Milo manages to get a grip on him, his life is turned into a living nightmare.
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Movie: White Boy Rick ( 2018 )
The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
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TV Show: Marcella ( 2016 )
Set in contemporary London with a British Metropolitan Police Officer at its heart, Marcella is Scandinavian noir on the streets of Britain. Told with Rosenfeldt's unflinchingly clear Nordic style, full of hooks and action, The series will lead the audience through a narrative maze until the final moments of the drama. Marcella will also delve into the psychology of a single female detective working solo on a serial murder case with many potential suspects and victims.Returning to the Met's Murder Squad after a 12-year career break, Marcella Backland is a detective in her late 30's who gave up her fast-tracked role to marry and devote her life to starting a family. With the abrupt end to her marriage to the love of her life Jason and isolated from her daughter at boarding school, Marcella returns to work whilst attempting to make sense of what's happened in her life.
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Movie: Runaway Jury ( 2003 )
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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Movie: Awake ( 2019 )
A man wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and learns that he's wanted by the police for committing a series of murders.
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Movie: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead ( 2004 )
A former gangster reenters the criminal underworld after his brother suspiciously commits suicide.
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Movie: Transsiberian ( 2008 )
A Transsiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
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Movie: Blood Work ( 2002 )
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
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Movie: Awake ( 2007 )
A wealthy young man undergoing heart transplant surgery discovers that the surgical team intend to murder him.
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Movie: Blood Brother ( 2018 )
The lives of two best friends take different paths when Jake goes to prison to protect his friends, and Chris turns things around to become a police officer. Released after 15 years, Jake seeks revenge against his friends.
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Movie: Johnny Skidmarks ( 1998 )
Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One such assignment turns the wrong way and blackmailers die one by one. Is Johnny the next on the list?
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Movie: Limbo ( 2021 )
Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women.
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Movie: The Loan Shark ( 2011 )
Ah Mun and Ah Long (siblings) hate loan sharks because it causes the death of their father. They both get associated with the loan shark activities without making known to each other in a way to help bring justice to their father.
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Movie: Vehicle 19 ( 2013 )
In Johannesburg, an American parole breaker unknowingly picks up a rental car that will tie him to a web of corrupt local police.
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TV Show: Rellik ( 2017 )
A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer.
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Movie: Imaginary Crimes ( 1994 )
A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own, and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana.
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Movie: Chained ( 2013 )
A young man held prisoner by a cab-driving serial killer must make a life or death choice between following in his captor's footsteps or breaking free.
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Movie: Righteous Kill ( 2008 )
Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.
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TV Show: A Touch of Cloth ( 2012 )
John Hannah stars as maverick, booze-addled DCI Jack Cloth in Charlie Brooker's original comedy that tickles and twists crime drama cliches.
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TV Show: Power Book III: Raising Kanan ( 2021 )
Power Book III: Raising Kanan is a prequel story that takes viewers back to the '90s and the early years of iconic Power character Kanan Stark.
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TV Show: Giri/Haji ( 2019 )
A Tokyo detective travels to London to look for his long lost younger brother, now involved with the Yakuza and wanted for the murder of a Japanese businessman. With the help of a young Japanese-British hustler who helps the detective navigate London, the mystery continues to unravel. His family's honour, and the fragile peace between the warring gangs back in Tokyo, is at stake.
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TV Show: The Serpent ( 2021 )
Con man, escape artist, thief, master of disguise and psychopath, Charles Sobhraj was the chief suspect in the sensational unsolved murders of up to 20 young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal through 1975 and 1976. Having slipped repeatedly from the grasp of authorities worldwide, by 1976 Sobhraj was Interpol's most wanted man and had arrest warrants on three different continents.When Herman Knippenberg, a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok, unwittingly walks into Sobhraj's intricate web of crime, he sets off an extraordinary chain of events that will see these two diametrically opposed men engaged in a chase across the porous borders of the Asian Hippie Trail in its twilight years.The Serpent is based on the phenomenal true story of how one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century was caught and brought to trial.
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Movie: In Secret ( 2014 )
Thérèse grows up with her aunt and cousin. Around 1860 the aunt decides they move to Paris and that her son and Thérèse get married. The joy- and loveless life changes when her husband brings a friend home. The affair turns ugly for all.
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Movie: Terribly Happy ( 2008 )
A thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.
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Movie: Once Upon a Time in London ( 2019 )
Dramatising the violent reign of two of London's most notorious gangsters, Billy Hill (Leo Gregory) and Jack 'Spot' Comer (Terry Stone), Once Upon a Time in London charts the legendary rise and fall of a nationwide criminal empire that lasted until the mid-fifties and which paved the way for the notorious Kray Twins and The Richardsons.
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Movie: Chasing Gold ( 2016 )
A retiring police commander struggles to save his daughter from addiction while investigating the murder of his best friend and subsequent theft of his gold.
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Movie: Loophole ( 1986 )
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
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Movie: Junkie ( 2018 )
A rock bottom junkie trades a needle for a gun and sparks an explosive conflict with the local cartel, when you've lost the will to live, you ain't afraid to die. - inspired by true events (AKA: Miles to go).
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Movie: Mafia Inc ( 2020 )
The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince, reckless and rash, seeks to earn his stripes by impressing the godfather. Without the Paternò knowing, he stages a big operation and is promoted. Fuming with jealousy, Giaco discovers that Vince committed a monstrous act during his stroke. The Gamache disown Vince and war begins.
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Movie: Women of Mafia ( 2018 )
A former police officer goes under cover in the mafia.
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Movie: Women of Mafia 2 ( 2019 )
After taking control of the capital, Nanny's gang prepares for the biggest smuggling action in the history of Poland.
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TV Show: Blood ( 2018 )
Blood follows Cat Hogan, an isolated woman on the run from her past, a past she is forced to confront when the sudden ‘accidental' death of her mother, Mary, draws her back to the family she has spent the last ten years trying to avoid. Her suspicions start to mount against her father, when she begins to notice discrepancies in his stories.
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Movie: Cardboard Gangsters ( 2017 )
A group of young Cardboard Gangsters attempt to gain control of the drug trade in Darndale, chasing the glorified lifestyle of money, power and sex.
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Movie: The Escapist ( 2008 )
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict fourteen years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with unique skills required for their daring plan and united by desire to escape their hell hole of an existence. Much of the action takes place within the tunnels, sewers and underground rivers of subterranean London.
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Movie: A Good Woman Is Hard to Find ( 2020 )
A recently widowed young mother will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband's murder.
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TV Show: Red Rock ( 2015 )
Starting on the day a long, dormant feud between two local families is brutally reignited, this continuing drama is based around a busy Dublin Garda station. On one side, the Hennessys, a local dynasty, whose name is above half the businesses in town. On the other side, the Kielys, who have turned petty crime into a cottage industry. Charting the life and dramas of a community about to be enveloped by a feud, through the eyes of those who police it, each episode will be a mix of 'crime of the week' stories and on-going serial arcs, following principle characters in both their professional and personal lives. A powerful and moving drama, Red Rock is a contemporary western, set in the shadow of Ireland's 'gold rush'.
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Movie: Revenge Ride ( 2020 )
Maggie (Serinda Swan) is a tough and ruthless member of the all-female Dark Moon motorcycle gang led by the merciless Trigga (Pollyanna McIntosh). After Maggie's cousin (Vanessa Dubasso) is attacked and drugged at a party, the gang rides out to take revenge into their own hands. The attackers, led by Keegan (Jake Lockett), don't see the fury coming and a war breaks out with Maggie and Brian (Diego Boneta) caught in the middle as both sides race towards a violent showdown to end it once and for all.
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Movie: This Thing of Ours ( 2002 )
Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
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Movie: Monsignor ( 1982 )
An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II.
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Movie: Wheelman ( 2017 )
A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.
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Movie: Closure ( 2007 )
After surviving a gang rape and mugging, a middle aged businesswoman and her 23 year old boyfriend plot to murder their attackers, but find themselves conflicted about carrying out their plans.
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TV Show: Blue Moon ( 2016 )
Young soldier in his early thirties, Justine Laurier did not doubt that his arrival at the head of Blue Moon, a private para-miliary society thwarts the plans of a group of unscrupulous individuals who are hiding behind the screen offered the "national security" and "state secrets" to enrich themselves with impunity in illegal activities where cash flows freely.
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Movie: Cold Deck ( 2020 )
When a poker player hits rock bottom, he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist.
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Movie: Chicago Overcoat ( 2009 )
The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
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Movie: She's Just a Shadow ( 2019 )
A beautiful Japanese madam and her ladies. A deranged, drug-addled Tokyo gangster and his crew. A sadistic serial killer on the loose. The intersection of these stories, and the interior world of the characters, plays out against a dreamlike backdrop of ultraviolence and orgiastic sex, as everyone tries futilely to rewrite their futures and cheat death. A modern, dreamlike take on the gangster genre, She's Just a Shadow is the action-packed story of a matriarchal crime family engaged in a vicious gang war. A deranged killer is leaving his victims on railroad tracks all over Tokyo, and the only thing more dangerous than him is the vicious love triangle within the family itself.
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TV Show: Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries ( 2019 )
Set in 1964, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine must prove herself brilliant enough to become a world class private detective in her own right.
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TV Show: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ( 2012 )
Our glamorous lady detective, The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, swans into early 1929 Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.
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TV Show: Get Shorty ( 2017 )
Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 1990 New York Times bestselling novel, Get Shorty is the story of Miles Daly, who works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film.
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TV Show: The Pale Horse ( 2020 )
When a mysterious list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of those named, Mark Easterbrook, begins an investigation into how and why his name came to be there. He is drawn to The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumoured witches in the tiny village of Much Deeping. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using the dark arts alone, but as the bodies mount up Mark is certain there has to be a rational explanation. And who could possibly want him dead?
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Movie: Short Sharp Shock ( 1998 )
Three friends get caught in a life of major crime.
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Movie: Outlaws ( 2018 )
1% is set within the primal underworld of outlaw motorcycle club gangs. It follows the heir to the throne of a motorcycle club who has to betray his president to save his brother's life.
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TV Show: Banished ( 2015 )
At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.
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Movie: Victoria ( 2015 )
A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
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Movie: A Vigilante ( 2019 )
After escaping her violent husband, Sadie makes it her life's mission to help free others in danger. After months of rigorous training in survival skills, boxing, and lethal martial arts, she is back with a vengeance.
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Movie: Deadfall ( 1993 )
When Joe loses his dad in a sting, he contacts his dad's twin, Lou, who has a major sting planned. Lou's helper feels threatened by Joe. Who's conning who?
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Movie: Better Luck Tomorrow ( 2003 )
A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities.
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Movie: Fort Apache the Bronx ( 1981 )
In New York, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.
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TV Show: How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) ( 2019 )
To win back his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling drugs online out of his bedroom -- and becomes one of Europe's biggest dealers.
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Movie: A Dark Foe ( 2021 )
A guilt-ridden FBI agent, stranded in the painful memory of the abduction of his sister, suffers from a rare condition known as Nyctophobia, an irrational fear of the dark, and will have to face-off with the cunning serial killer who took her away.
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Movie: Bartkowiak ( 2021 )
After his brother dies in a car crash, a disgraced MMA fighter takes over the family nightclub and soon learns his sibling's death wasn't an accident.
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Movie: Monument Ave. ( 1998 )
A small-time hoodlum is divided between his conscience and loyalty to his boss when his cousin is murdered.
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Movie: Wiseguy ( 1996 )
Vinnie Terranova is back, foiling a staged kidnaping of computer mogul Paul Callendar's son in order to probe possible inside information brokering. Meanwhile, McPike is having a hard time working with his young boss, who feels Terranova and McPike are dinosaurs not worth supporting.
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TV Show: Show Me a Hero ( 2015 )
In an America generations removed from the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor (Oscar Isaac) of a mid-sized city is faced with a federal court order to build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.
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TV Show: Waco ( 2018 )
Waco will explore the true life details leading up to and chronicling the siege between the FBI, the ATF and the religious sect, told from several perspectives of those involved.
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TV Show: Cardinal ( 2017 )
Adapted from author Giles Blunt's award-winning "John Cardinal Mysteries" series, Cardinal is a six-episode dramatic thriller that follows Detective John Cardinal on a chilling hunt for a brutal killer in a small Northern Ontario town.Demoted for a hunch about a case that he wouldn't let go, Cardinal is brought back to the Homicide Unit when the body of missing 13-year-old Katie Pine is discovered, proving his instincts correct. Back on the case, his search for her murderer soon becomes an all-consuming race to stay ahead of a serial killer.Meanwhile, Cardinal must manage his own precarious family issues and secrets, and keep a watchful eye on his new partner, Detective Lise Delorme, who he believes may have her own secret agenda.
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TV Show: Butterfly Collectors ( 1999 )
Psychological thriller serial. Detective Inspector John McKeown becomes involved in the life of one of the chief suspects in a murder case, a 17 year old called Dex, who is bringing up his siblings alone.
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Movie: Homeboy ( 1988 )
A simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planning a big score.
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Movie: Out of Time ( 2003 )
A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion.
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Movie: Bonded by Blood ( 2010 )
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
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TV Show: She ( 2020 )
Bhumika Pardesi, a middle-class, junior police constable, is suddenly faced with uncomfortable circumstances when she is asked to hit the streets of Mumbai as an undercover prostitute to bust a drug cartel. She uncovers parts of herself so far untapped and, along the way, learns to play a system which had almost tossed her aside as worthless.
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Movie: The Pelican Brief ( 1993 )
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.
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Movie: 3096 Days ( 2013 )
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the factual case of Natascha Kampusch.
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Movie: Godless Youth ( 2017 )
German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.
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Movie: Confidence ( 2003 )
Jake Vig leads a small Los Angeles based team of grifters, each member who has his specific role in each con: Jake is the main man, Miles the adversary, Big Al the scared innocent bystander, and Gordo the dead shooting victim. He also has in his pockets crooked LAPD detectives Lloyd Whitworth and Omar Manzano who basically play themselves as needed. Beyond getting the money, the basic goal of each con is to ensure the mark is so scared by what has happened - usually being an accomplice in a "murder" - that he won't come back looking for the money. Jake learns the hard way that their latest mark, Louis Dolby, who they fleeced for $150,000, was carrying money for a criminal named King, who takes a no prisoners approach in getting even, he who knows who stole his money. Instead of returning the $150,000 to King, money which he no longer has anyway, Jake convinces King to parlay that money and a bit more into a bigger con against a mark of King's choice, that person being banker Morgan Price, a second generation mobster. The total take for this con is to be $5 million. Beyond co-opting a couple of inside people for this con, King wants one of his own men inserted - Lupus - and Jake also enlists the work of a female pickpocket he recently ran across named Lily, to who he is attracted. During the process, a small wrinkle occurs when they learn that Special Agent Gunther Butan with the US Customs Agency, an old adversary of Jake's, is currently after him, which means they either have to call off the international mission or watch more carefully their movements, with Jake not to be the one to carry any money across the border. But with a group of con artists working for the first time with new players, a question becomes are there any inside cons at play, especially in this case where Jake has more of a personal stake than usual.
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Movie: The Trust ( 2016 )
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.
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Movie: Phoenix ( 1998 )
A cop (Liotta) with a gambling addiction plots a theft from the bookies who are putting pressure on him to pay off or else.
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Movie: Fallen Angels ( 2008 )
Murder and trouble hits Veum when he meets up with classmates in the rock-band Camp, when he resumes contact with a former flame Rebecca, now wife of his buddy. A Varg Veum mystery by best-selling crime novel by Gunnar Staalesen. Staalesen.
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Movie: Elite Squad: The Enemy Within ( 2010 )
After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.
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Movie: Carandiru ( 2003 )
Brazilian MD Drauzio Varella starts AIDS prevention in Brazil's largest prison, Carandiru, in São Paulo, where the population is nearly double its 4,000 maximum. Doc learns from experience and mainly stories the tragic stories of hideous crimes which landed scum there and passionate dramas adding otherwise decent people. Just when he believes to leave the prisoners happy with a soccer tournament, a silly clothing line argument kick-starts a politically opportune revolt repression.
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Movie: Criminal Activities ( 2015 )
Four young men make a risky investment together that puts them in trouble with the mob.
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Movie: The Five Rules of Success ( 2021 )
An enterprising ex-convict overcomes tragedy by designing a modern-day guide to success for a society that failed him.
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Movie: Antigone ( 2020 )
In helping her brother escape from prison, Antigone confronts the authorities: the police, the judicial and penal systems, and the father of her friend Haemon. A straight-A student and model citizen until now, she sees the vice-grip tighten around her. But she rejects the law of men for her own sense of justice, dictated by love and loyalty.
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Movie: The Plagues of Breslau ( 2018 )
Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills a different person. Police officer Helena Rus decides to find the killer by researching about 18th century history of the city.
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Movie: American Pastoral ( 2016 )
An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.
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Movie: Flinch ( 2021 )
A young Hitman who lives with his mother develops feelings for the witness of a murder he commits.
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Movie: People I Know ( 2002 )
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
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Movie: The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil ( 2019 )
A crime boss teams up with a cop to track down a serial killer.
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TV Show: Hit & Miss ( 2012 )
Mia's a contract killer with a big secret - she used to be a man. As the series starts her ex-girlfriend reveals that she's dying and that they had a child. The show follows Mia's trials as she tries to separate her killer instincts with her parental ones.
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TV Show: 1993 ( 2017 )
After the storm of Tangentopoli, Italy is plagued by the year of the massacres. 1993 is the sequel of 1992, the television series conceived by Stefano Accorsi, which achieved considerable success, with its impeccable portrait of Italian history.Eight are the episodes, six the main characters. The vicissitudes of each of them mingle with the tormented Italian history of that year, the incandescent ashes of the Tangentopoli scandal, the rampant corruption of a politically over-exposed politics and the condemnation of an inexhaustible mafia.The protagonists, each in their own way and with their own aims, try to assert themselves: who through power, who through the annihilation of it, is counting on the vortex of terror and discomfort that has assailed Italy of those years.
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Movie: The Underneath ( 1995 )
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife and her dangerous hoodlum boyfriend.
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Movie: On the Arm ( 2020 )
Louis Sareno, a young man born into the Mob, searches for a way out of the only life he's ever known.
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Movie: St George's Day ( 2012 )
Follows two infamous London gangsters, Mickey Mannock and Ray Collishaw. Both men are top of the food chain when their world is turned upside down as they lose a shipment of the Russian Mafia's cocaine.