Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Partners: The Movie II (2010)



A hostage case occurs in the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department. Head of the Metropolitan Police Department Tamaru (Toru Shinagawa), second in charge Muneo Hasegawa (Jun Kunimura) and 12 other high ranking officers are all held hostage in the conference room. A police squad and SIT (special investigation team) surround the conference room. The motive of a hostage taker is not clear. The first person aware of the hostage situation is Takeru Kanbe (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) who accidentally bumped into the hostage taker. Takeru then contacts partner Ukyo Sugishita (Takeru Kanbe). Ukyo thinks the most important thing is to know what’s occuring inside conference room. With the help of Mamoru Yonezawa (Seiji Rokkaku) of the crime laboratory investigation section and Kohei Jinkawa (Ryuuji Harada ) from ex-special command team, Ukyo works out a secret plan.



Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Assassins (1995)



Robert Rath is a seasoned hitman who just wants out of the business with no back talk. But, as things go, it ain't so easy. A younger, peppier assassin named Bain is having a field day trying to kill said older assassin. Rath teams up with a computer hacker named Electra to defeat the obsessed Bain.



Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Skinning (2010)



SISANJE is a story of a young Belgrade high school math champ Novica who gets seduced into the world of skinheads by their charismatic leader Relja. Novica joins the gang of racist skinheads in an attempt to overcome the geek status in school but soon enough he is sucked into the world of racism, violence and hooliganism, the skinhead movement takes him over and eventually he starts climbing up the ladder in the skinhead hierarchy.



Trapped (2002)



When their daughter is abducted and taken for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor and his wife find themselves held hostage while a 24-hour plan to extort their money is set into motion. Now, with time running out and the health of their asthmatic daughter at serious risk, they find themselves in a life-and-death race against the clock as the "perfect crime" begins spiraling towards an unthinkable, terrifying and deadly conclusion.



Sunday, August 7, 2011

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)



To cash in on all of the "real world" hype of the events in the first film, a man from Burkitsville, Maryland opens a "Blair Witch Hunt" tour, which shows patrons various locations from the original film. A bunch of college students decide to take the tour, and wind up in Rustin Parr's house. There, they decide to camp for the evening, but in the morning, they realize they didn't sleep and they don't remember anything that happened the previous night. From there, they go back to town, and discover that something...or someone has come with them.



Saturday, August 6, 2011

Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema (2008)


Starting off with simple smash and grabs, and petty crime, Lucky Kunene quickly graduates to more aggressive heists such as armed robbery and carjacking. Soon, Lucky realizes he needs a bigger score to fulfill his goals of making it big, and escaping from the slums, to a dream house by the sea. Kunene hatches an elaborate and violent plan to make his fortune - hijacking buildings from landlords of Johannesburg tenements by winning the favor of the tenants and then holding their rent hostage from the landowners. His high-profile real estate acquisitions attract the attention of the local police force who have no qualms about using unprovoked brutality to bring him down. His trouble with the law, coupled with an escalating war between a local drug lord, creates a tense standoff: both sides are closing in, and Kunene must stay one step ahead--or his empire, and his life, will come crashing down.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Murder at the Orient Street Express (2009)


When Broadway legend Bernadette Fitzgerald is murdered after rehearsing at an historical Asian theatre, her piano accompanist, Amy Ng, bravely seeks out her killer.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Ichi the Killer (2001)


When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi's controller Jijii. What will happen as the final showdown happens between the tortured and ultra-violent Ichi and the pain-craving Kakihara?

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The Estate Film (2011)


The Estate film tells the story of five families struggle with life on a tough South London council estate, as a local bad boy Hoodie (Reg West) and his gang dominate their zone. Police corruption is also at a high which soon leads residents to take control of the area in which they live.

20 Funerals (2004)


After a fellow Officer's funeral, 4 Cops decide that the only way to get rid of the criminal element is to stop arresting the criminals, and start burying them.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

An Innocent Man (1989)


Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Kiss the Girls (1997)


Washington DC detective Dr. Alex Cross travels to North Carolina to investigate the apparent kidnapping of his niece. Aided by escaped kidnapee Kate McTiernan, Cross hunts down the kidnapper, who operates under the pseudonym "Casanova".

Children... (2011)


The film is based on a true yet unsolved murder case from the early 1990s that is known among Koreans as the “disappearance of the frog children.” In 1991, five elementary school students told their parents that they were going to hang out on a nearby mountain to catch frogs. They never came back.In the movie, a TV producer, the devastated parents of the missing children, a professor and a detective all take different stances on the case and in the end one of the parents becomes a primary suspect. In reality, the case morphed into a national scandal.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Death Warrant (1990)


The Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate in some murders of prisoners and jailors. When in jail, Lois, using his outstandings martial arts is able to save his life and make himself respected in that violent world. At least, helped by two another prisoners, he succeeded in finding the truth about the dreadful crimes...

The Last Deadly Mission (2008)


In Marseilles, the discredited and alcoholic Detective Schneider hijacks a bus and forces the bus driver with a gun to drive him home. He is arrested by the swat force and his washed up career in the police department practically ends. Schneider is removed from the investigation of a serial-killer that is committing hideous crimes against women and assigned to a bureaucratic work in the night-shift in the precinct. Through glimpses from his recollections, Schneider recalls the tragic accident that killed his daughter and left his wife attached to a life support system. Meanwhile, the sick criminal Charles Subra, who killed the parents of two girls many years ago, convinces the probation committee in the prison that he has found God and is regenerated and may be released. Justine, one of the daughters that survived, has never overcome the trauma of her loss and is worried with the possibility of the freedom of the criminal...

Triad Election (2006)


As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.

Election (2005)


Rival gang leaders are locked in a struggle to become the new chairman of Hong Kong's Triad society.

Biar Betul (2004)


The story happened in a day that hover between the robbers with their prey. Three sisters (played by Afdlin, Wahid and Syanie) stuck in a hard world for piracy. On the same day when the three were planning a robbery, they met with a pickpocket (Yassin) is pursued by police for stealing the purse belongs Apek. Fearing arrest, the three of them ran away with Yassin and Apek into the forest. Starting from that of refugees, many interesting and funny incident happened.

Friday, July 29, 2011

So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)


Charlie, a poet, hasn't had much luck with women, but then he meets Harriet, the girl of his dreams.. or is it his nightmares. Charlie begins to suspect that Harriet is Ms X, a woman who marries then kills her husbands.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

River of Murder (2010)


In 1985, Seung-Ho & Dong-Sik are best friends at the same middle school. They both have a crush on Myeong-Hee, but she doesn’t have the same feelings for either of them. One day, the two best friends make a bet to find out what’s on Myeong-Hee’s mind. But, the next day, Myeong-Hee is found dead & apparently raped. Police officers investigate and finger Dong-Sik’s older brother Kyung-Sik, who is mentally ill, as the prime suspect. Since that time, the relationship between Seung-Ho and Dong-Sik rapidly disintegrates.