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281) Chungking express
Series
Criterion collection volume 453
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A greasy Hong Kong fast-food joint serves as the focal point for two off-kilter love stories about two cops, both told from multiple perspectives and exploring the fragility of human connections. Detective 223, dumped by his girlfriend, buys a can of pineapple every day which he will eat in a year, if she hasn't changed her mind and returned to him. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a bewigged drug smuggler. Detective 663, also dumped, falls for...
282) Dark crimes
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When police officer Tadek finds connections between an unsolved murder and a crime from a book by famous writer Krystov Kozlov, Tadek begins to pursue Kozlov and his girlfriend, a secretive sex-club worker. As his fixation with Kozlov grows, Tadek falls into a deadly underworld of sex, lies, and corruption to find the alarming, deadly truth.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The second gripping season of Major Crimes sees the team working overtime to untangle the most challenging cases they've ever faced. But working to rid L.A.'s streets of the worst kind of criminal is only part of the equation, as the team faces more personal and professional struggles than ever while they continue to make deals and crack cases. Captain Sharon Raydor continues to balance her role as team leader with her often controversial let's-make-a-deal...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"10 to Midnight: Charles Bronson plays a tough L.A. cop whose daughter is stalked by a cunning sex-killer. Kinjite (forbidden subjects): ... Charles Bronson is a vice squad veteran forced to battle his own racial prejudices when he's assigned to track down a young, Japanese girl enslaved by a vicious child prostitution ring."--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Police academy: The mayor decides to loosen the restrictions at the academy. Soon, the new class is overrun with misfits and losers who are all determined to make good, even though their superiors try to wash their hands of them every chance they can. Police academy 2: Mahoney and friends have graduated from the academy and are issued their first assignments. Their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are even they ready...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The darkness grows on Gotham, as super villains more ambitious and depraved are introduced, and a realignment of alliances shakes up the fight for power in Gotham City. With Detectives Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock at the forefront of the fight against crime in this dangerously corrupt city, Season Two witnesses Gordon₂s moral compass wavering as he confronts Gotham₂s most notorious criminals.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
The dazzling Guido Caprino stars as Inspector Luca Manara, a dreamy man and a supervisor's worst nightmare. He dismisses procedure and refuses to kowtow to local power players, but he's also without ego and a gifted investigator. When Manara arrives on a motorcycle to head up the police department, his offbeat methods endear him to colleagues and build espirit de corps. He prefers to be called by his first name, doesn't see the need for a warrant,...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
The dazzling Guido Caprino stars as Inspector Luca Manara, a dreamy man and a supervisor's worst nightmare. He dismisses procedure and refuses to kowtow to local power players, but he's also without ego and a gifted investigator. When Manara arrives on a motorcycle to head up the police department, his offbeat methods endear him to colleagues and build espirit de corps. He prefers to be called by his first name, doesn't see the need for a warrant,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Four action films featuring Sylvester Stallone.
Tango & Cash: Two rival L.A. policemen who have one thing in common -- each thinks "he" is the best -- team up to pursue a vicious international crime lord who has set them up.
Demolition man: In 2032 San Angeles, the bad guy Snipes escapes from prison, the only cop who can stop him is Stallone, a cop in an ice cube.
Specialist: Hired by May Munro to bomb the mobsters who murdered her parents, ex-CIA...
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The money pit: A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
The 'burbs: In a typical American neighborhood, some strange new neighbors, the Klopeks, come to live in the house next to Ray Peterson.
Dragnet: A comedy that plays homage to the famed original police drama of the '50s and '60s. Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange thefts which have one thing in common: visit cards with the word "PAGAN" left at the...
291) Deep cover
Series
Criterion collection volume 1086
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens, a police officer who goes undercover as 'John Hull,' the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (Jeff Goldblum), in order to bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A tough Hong Kong cop, Lee, and a fast-talking LAPD detective, Carter, join forces to solve the kidnapping of a Chinese diplomat's daughter, despite the fact that they can't stand each other; Lee and Carter's much needed vacation in Hong Kong is cut short when a bomb explodes at the American Embassy.
293) The Inspector
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a nose for clues, an eye for intrigue, and a mind like a steel trap that's jammed shut, the Inspector sets out to solve Paris' most puzzling crime mysteries. An excellent addition to this wonderful and hilarious series about that wily pink cat known as the Pink Panther!
294) 4-movie laugh pack
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Smokey and the Bandit: A man guarantees that he can get a truck load of unavailable beer from Texas to Atlanta in 28 hours, and is pursued all the way.
Smokey and the Bandit II: The notorious "Bandit" and his beautiful companion Carrie find themselves involved in a mission to transport a pregnant elephant cross-country in 24 hours or less! Hot on their heels is archenemy Sheriff Buford T. Justice, who vows to finally put the Bandit behind bars.
Bandit:...
295) Lantana
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Lantana: a noxious and troublesome weed with dense and spiky undergrowth, sometimes cultivated for its colorful, aromatic flowers (film website). Like the plant, this film is a thicket: lovely and sweet smelling on its surface, dense and thorny beneath. In Lantana, a quartet of married couples from different strata of urban Australian life--wealthy Valerie and John, the middle-class Zats, working-class Jane and her estranged husband Pete, and struggling,...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Hell to pay: "A tale of brothers divided--one a reluctant hero, the other a gambler--forcing one man to make a stand alone against the ruthless killers terrorizing their small Colorado mining town"--Container.
Decoy: "When a deputy's in-laws are murdered, he must escort the accused--his former best friend--to the gallows. But along the way, the deputy discovers a startling truth about the murders that puts them both in imminent mortal danger"--Container.
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