Tagged: police

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2010s / Drama / Thriller

Cop Car (2015)

Kevin Bacon (R.I.P.D., Crazy Stupid Love) stars as a corrupt sheriff named Kretzer whose car gets stolen by two bored ten-year-old runaways. the bolder Travis (Freedson-Jackson) and the more shy Harrison (Wellford, Carver), who come across...

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2010s / Action / Comedy

22 Jump Street (2014)

Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are back, moving to the Vietnamese Church across the street as their new base of operations for their undercover narcotics unit.  This time, they’re going to portray themselves as...

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2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

21 Jump Street (2012)

The thought of yet another classic TV show being remade as a modern-day spoof doesn’t exactly fill a savvy moviegoer with delight, as most have been misfires that missed the mark by making little...

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1980s / Action / Thriller

Action Jackson (1988)

Carl Weathers stars as Harvard-educated Detroit cop Jericho “Action” Jackson, who earned his reputation for crossing the line in roughhousing perps.  The police captain (Bill Duke) demotes Jackson from lieutenant to desk-jockey sergeant no...

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2010s / Drama

Fruitvale Station (2013)

Fruitvale Station is based on the true story of the shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2009. The event was captured by various cell phones from bystanders to...

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2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

The Heat (2013)

Bridesmaids director Paul Feig returns for another female-centric raunchy comedy and, for the most part, manages to strike gold yet again, at least in terms of generating requisite memorably funny moments.  If you want an...

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1990s / Action / Thriller

Speed (1994)

The simple, one-sentence plot: Keanu Reeves (Point Break, A Walk in the Clouds) plays LAPD SWAT officer Jack Traven, who is desperately trying to thwart a madman’s plans to explode a city bus with a bomb...

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2010s / Action / Drama / Thriller

End of Watch (2012)

Written and directed by David Ayer (Street Kings, SWAT), the filmmaker with a special interest in the workings of the Los Angeles PD, the city where he was raised, in End of Watch, he has directed his...

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2000s / Drama / Mystery

Mystic River (2003)

Clint Eastwood (Blood Work, Space Cowboys) directs the Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale, Payback) adaptation of the popular Dennis Lehane novel of the same name revolving around the build-up of mystery surrounding the assault and apparent...

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Action / Science Fiction / Thriller

Demolition Man (1993)

Demolition Man starts off in Los Angeles’s near future of 1996, where crime has run rampant.  It takes someone ruthless to catch ruthless criminals, and that man is super-cop John Spartan (Stallone, Rocky V), whose take-no-prisoners...