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John Q

director: Nick Cassavetes actor: Denzel Washington / James Woods …

other title: John Q. - Verzweifelte Wut / John Q. …

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

Strongroom (1962) TMDB IMDb WikiData

Strongroom

director: Vernon Sewell actor: Colin Gordon / John Chappell …

other title: La camera blindata

During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.

Gilda (1946) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB

Gilda

director: Charles Vidor actor: Rita Hayworth / Glenn Ford …

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

The Seven-Ups (1973) IMDb WikiData

The Seven-Ups

director: Philip D'Antoni actor: Roy Scheider / Jerry Leon …

other title: Squadra speciale / O Esquadrão Indomável …

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.

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Shaft

director: Gordon Parks actor: Richard Roundtree / Moses Gunn …

other title: Shaft il detective / John Shaft - detektiv i aktion …

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Murder in the Heartland (1993) TMDB IMDb

Murder in the Heartland

actor: Kate Reid / Brian Dennehy …

other title: Heart to Kill

Murder in the Heartland tells the grotesque true story of Charlie Starkweather, 19, who killed 11 people in Nebraska in 1957-58, and his 14-year-old girlfriend,

The Dry (2021) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData

The Dry

director: Robert Connolly actor: Eric Bana / Genevieve O'Reilly …

other title: Chi è senza peccato - The Dry / Canicule …

Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound — the unsolved death of a teenage girl.

Dead for a Dollar (2022) TMDB IMDb WikiData

Dead for a Dollar

director: Walter Hill actor: Christoph Waltz / Willem Dafoe …

other title: Morto per un dollaro / Caçadores de Recompensas …

In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.

Malice (1993) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban

Malice

director: Harold Becker actor: Alec Baldwin / Nicole Kidman …

other title: Malice - Il sospetto / Malícia …

A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.

Band of the Hand (1986) TMDB

Band of the Hand

director: Paul Michael Glaser actor: Stephen Lang / Michael Carmine …

other title: I 5 della squadra d'assalto / De 5 fra Miami …

An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.

New World Disorder (1999) IMDb WikiData

New World Disorder

director: Richard Spence actor: Rutger Hauer / Tara Fitzgerald …

other title: File: programma mortale / New World Disorder - Das Killerprogramm …

A gang of four eyed crooks led by Kurt Bishop are ripping off top dollar computer chips from a list of factories. The night they hit Dynaphase Systems, two dirty employees are staying late using company resources to develop their own plans for a security microchip worth millions of dollars. Psychopathic Bishop raids the Dynaphase facility and downloads the mainframe before the employees have a chance to completely erase their work from it. When Bishop discovers the value of the stolen, but partially erased information, he sets out after the rest of the chip design, letting nothing stand in his way.

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The Foreigner

6.0 (6 ratings) director: Martin Campbell actor: Pierce Brosnan / Jackie Chan …

other title: O Estrangeiro / El extranjero

Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

Code of Silence (1985) TMDB IMDb WikiData

Code of Silence

director: Andrew Davis actor: Chuck Norris / Mike Genovese …

other title: Il codice del silenzio / Politiets Hemmelige Våben …

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Southern Comfort (1981) TMDB

Southern Comfort

director: Walter Hill actor: Keith Carradine / Powers Boothe …

other title: I guerrieri della palude silenziosa / Manøvre med døden …

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

Left for Dead (2014) IMDb

Four of the toughest girls from the streets of New Mexico take on the hit-men that killed their little sister.

The Warriors (1979) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData

The Warriors

director: Walter Hill actor: Michael Beck / James Remar …

other title: I guerrieri della notte / Krigerne …

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB Douban

Devil in a Blue Dress

director: Carl Franklin actor: Denzel Washington / Tom Sizemore …

other title: Il diavolo in blu / Djævel i blåt …

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

Saloon Bar (1940) IMDb WikiData

Saloon Bar

director: Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Elizabeth Allan …

On Christmas Eve, a group of pub regulars led by a bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempt to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man the next day.

Eclipse (1977) IMDb

Eclipse

director: Simon Perry actor: Tom Conti / Gay Hamilton …

A bereaved brother is troubled by memories of his twin who died at sea. Having returned to his childhood home, a Christmas celebration with his brother’s widow and her son goes horribly awry, as dark secrets and sibling rivalries return to haunt them - before the past can be laid to rest.

Fear City (1984) IMDb WikiData

Fear City

director: Abel Ferrara actor: Tom Berenger / Billy Dee Williams …

other title: Paura su Manhattan / Cidade do Medo …

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.