Posts Tagged ‘detective’

Untouchables, The (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Connery, Sean | Smith, Charles Martin | Garcia, Andy | De Niro, Robert | Bradford, Richard | Kehoe, Jack | Sullivan, Brad | Drago, Billy | Clarkson, Patricia | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Goldstein, Steven | Aylward, Peter | Harvey, Don | Swan, Robert
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Grant, Faye | Woods, Michael | Lerner, Michael | Mason, Madison | Hearn, Ann | Byrnes, Jim | Davis, Don S. | Vieira, Asia | Leitch, Megan | Coghill, Joy | Cameron, David | Fraser, Duncan | Chapple, Susan | Still, Dana | Mann, Andrea
Directors: Montesi, Jorge
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Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene & Karen York. When Karen realizes her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find Delia’s real parents. A series of bizarre accidents occur, and Karen begins to suspect everyone of conspiring against her as she unravels the truth about her baby.

Madigan (1968)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Widmark, Richard | Fonda, Henry | Stevens, Inger | Guardino, Harry | Whitmore, James | Clark, Susan | Dunn, Michael | Ihnat, Steve | Stroud, Don | North, Sheree | Stevens, Warren | St. Jacques, Raymond | Freed, Bert | Bellaver, Harry | Marth, Frank
Directors: Siegel, Don
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Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.

Sudden Impact (1983)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hingle, Pat | Dillman, Bradford | Drake, Paul | Thibeau, Jack | Currie, Michael | Popwell, Albert | Keyloun, Mark | Howard, Kevyn Major | Bellan, Joe | Wellman, Wendell | McCubbin, Russ | Sutton, Robert | Argenziano, Carmen | Reddick, Bill
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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer’s own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer.

Prom Night (2008)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Porter, Scott | Pennie, Collins | Blatz, Kelly | Ransone, James | Lutz, Kellan | Schaech, Johnathon | Elba, Idris | Ashby, Linden | Phillips, Jay | Gould, Kevin | Tarantini, Tom | Hirsch, Charles | Oblak, Brian | Kaufman, David | Partridge, Ross
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Donnas senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible, the man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive their Prom Night.

Dead Pool, The (1988)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Neeson, Liam | Kim, Evan C. | Hunt, David | Currie, Michael | Goodwin, Michael | Gillett, Darwin | Charnota, Anthony | Beale, Christopher P. | Vick, John Allen | Richmond, Jeff | Van Horn, Patrick | Carrey, Jim | Love, Nicholas | Heart, John X.
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After Harry’s arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry’s car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan’s crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn’t long before other people on the list turn up dead…and someone starts making attempts on Harry’s life…

Tightrope (1984)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hedaya, Dan | St. John, Marco | Paul, Graham | Holliday, Bill | Wilmot, John | Houck Jr., Joy N. | Baker-Bergen, Stuart | Barber, Donald | Harvey, Robert | Gural, Ron | Martens, Layton | Boyle, Richard Charles | Sachar, Jonathan | Ferbos, Lionel
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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop.

They Do It with Mirrors (1991)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Simmons, Jean | Ackland, Joss | Brook, Faith | Barge, Gillian | Swettenham, Neal | Horovitch, David | Brimble, Ian | Villiers, Christopher | Villiers, Jay | Aird, Holly | Boyce, Todd | Reichlin, Saul | Cottle, Matthew | Bott, John
Directors: Stone, Norman
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Miss Marple is invited to London to see her old friend Ruth. Miss Marple was a sort of traveling companion to Ruth and her sister, Carrie Louise. Ruth is worried about Carrie Louise. She doesn’t know why, though. Ruth asks Miss Marple to come with her to her sister’s estate, Stonygates. Stonygates is a huge manor house, and some of the buildings and the grounds are used by Carrie Louises’ current husband, Lewis, as a reformatory for juvenile criminals. Miss Marple meets the people who live there - Carrie Louise’s grand-daughter Gina and her malcontent American husband Walter; Stephen and Alex Restarick, Carrie Louise’s stepsons by her first marriage; Edgar Lawson, Lewis’ mentally unstable secretary; and Carrie Louise’s daughter, Mildred, who is jealous of Gina. Soon, Carrie Louise’s stepson by her second marriage shows up. He is Christian Guldbrandsen, and he runs the trust which contributes a fraction of the funds used to run Stonygates. He and Lewis talk in private. Later that night, Edgar begins waving a gun around and ranting that Lewis is his father. Lewis takes him to his office where the argument becomes even more heated. After a few minutes, two shots are heard, and then hysterical crying. The door opens to reveal Lewis, unhurt. Edgar missed him. However, the body of Christian Guldbrandsen is discovered, shot. Miss Marple sets out to find the murderer before it is too late for her good friend Carrie Louise.

Caribbean Mystery, A (1989)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Pleasence, Donald | Lukis, Adrian | Ward, Sophie | McKenna, T.P. | Feast, Michael | Ruskin, Sheila | Middlemass, Frank | Swan, Robert | Lloyd, Sue | Barnes, Barbara | Bent, Stephen | Mydell, Joseph | Buchanan, Valerie | Lucas, Isabelle
Directors: Petit, Christopher
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Although Miss Marple wants only to bask quietly at a West Indian resort, she is badgered with boring reminiscences by an overly talkative ex-soldier and policeman, Major Palgrave. Although he claims to possess a picture of a murderer, Miss Marple is more interested in her omnipresent knitting than his long-winded stories. After the hard-drinking Major dies that night of an apparent heart attack, the maid tells her that the blood pressure medication found in his room belongs to another guest. When she later learns that the incriminating picture is missing and the maid is found stabbed to death, Miss Marple correctly predicts that more murders will follow.

4.50 from Paddington (1987)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Mole, Juliette | Beames, David | Bruce, Mona | Blane, Nicholas | Jarrett, Katy | Adams, Leslie | Horovitch, David | Brimble, Ian | Lewis, Rhoda | Meager, Jill | David, Joanna | Denham, Maurice | Burt, Andrew | Pitchford, Pamela
Directors: Friend, Martyn
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Elspeth McGillicuddy, an old friend of Miss Marple’s, witnesses a strangulation murder in a passing train through the window of her coach compartment. When Police Inspector Slack can’t find a body along the tracks and doubts the validity of the story, Miss Marple and Elspeth locate the area where the body was probably thrown from the train, the isolated manor house of an aged, cantankerous millionaire, Luther Crackenthorpe. Miss Marple’s niece Lucy is recruited to apply for a job on the estate in hopes of locating the corpse. When she finds it in an ancient sarcophagus in an outbuilding housing Egyptian and Etruscan art treasures, the police and Miss Marple are brought in. Obviously someone in the large household is involved, but who?