Posts Tagged ‘investigation’

In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Theron, Charlize | Patric, Jason | Sarandon, Susan | Franco, James | Corbin, Barry | Brolin, Josh | Fisher, Frances | Chatham, Wes | McLaughlin, Jake | Brooks, Mehcad | Tucker, Jonathan | Duvall, Wayne | Wolf, Victor | Briscoe, Brent
Directors: Haggis, Paul
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man’s disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police’s apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike’s disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose

Death Warrant (1990)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Guillaume, Robert | Cynthia Gibb | Dickerson, George | LaFleur, Art | Kilpatrick, Patrick | Miller, Joshua John | Stone, Hank | Dunn, Conrad | Bannon, Jack | El Razzac, Abdul Salaam | Shimerman, Armin | Lantz, John | Howes, Hans | Waters Jr., Harry
Directors: Deran Sarafian
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In an abandoned house, detective Louis Burke confronts a maniac called the Sandman. Although the Sandman nearly kills Burke, Burke manages to stop him with a bullet. Sixteen months later, Burke joins a task force put together by the governor to investigate a series of unexplained deaths in the Harrison Penitentiary. While Burke poses as an inmate, attorney Amanda Beckett acts the role of his wife. In the penitentiary, Burke is forced to survive in an environment so dismal and filthy that it makes a public restroom in New York City look like a room in a five star hotel. Burke does succeed in befriending a few of the inmates, including Hawkins and Priest, who help him with the investigation. More inmates are mysteriously murdered. Burke’s cell-mate is killed, and prison guard DeGraff puts Burke in solitary confinement, where he’s interrogated and beaten. As if that’s not enough, the Sandman ends up at Harrison. As it turns out, the prisoners are being murdered for their body organs. Back on the outside, Beckett attends a party given by Vogler, the state’s attorney general. Just as she’s preparing to tell him about the murders at the prison, Beckett receives a call from her assistant, who identifies Vogler’s henchman Keane as the man behind the murders, which also involve Dr. Gottesman, the surgeon who harvests the organs to be sold to people who are in desperate need of them. The assistant’s suspicions are confirmed when Vogler tries to kill Beckett. Burke begins an escape from the penitentiary, pursued by the Sandman and hundreds of angry inmates who have been set free and armed with the knowledge that Burke is a cop. Burke and the Sandman have brutal showdown in which Burke tries to get the Sandman out of the way so he can go after Vogler, Keane, and Gottesman.

Last House on the Left, The (1972)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hess, David | Lincoln, Fred J. | Sheffler, Marc | Towers, Richard | Anker, Marshall | Kove, Martin | Edwards, Ray | Craven, Jonathan | Forcelli, Anthony J. | Miner, Steve
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After kidnapping and butchering two teenagers, a gang of rapists and murderers unknowingly seeks refuge with the parents of one of the victims.

FeardotCom (2002)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Luxembourg | UK | USA
Actors: Dorff, Stephen | McElhone, Natascha | Rea, Stephen | Kier, Udo | Curtis, Amelia | Combs, Jeffrey | Terry, Nigel | Cukrowski, Gesine | Sarrazin, Michael | Güttgemanns, Jana | Thalbach, Anna | Flynn, Siobhan | Garratt, Evie | Kreps, Lex | McBride, Joan
Directors: Malone, William
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Four bodies are found in New York City. Why, why, why? The coincidence? They all died 48 hours after logging on to a site named feardotcom.com. Tough detective Mike Reilly collaborates with Department of Health associate Terry Huston to research these mysterious deaths. The only way to find out though what really happened is to enter the site itself…

Street Kings (2008)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Whitaker, Forest | Common | Cedric the Entertainer | Evans, Chris | Gugliemi, Noel | Choi, Kenneth | Laurie, Hugh | Sloan, Cle Shaheed | Nolasco, Amaury | Corbett, John | Crews, Terry | Game, The | Benton, Kevin | Gates, Daryl
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

It (1990)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Anderson, Harry | Christopher, Dennis | Masur, Richard | O'Toole, Annette | Reid, Tim | Ritter, John | Thomas, Richard | Curry, Tim | Brandis, Jonathan | Crane, Brandon | Faraizl, Adam | Green, Seth | Heller, Ben | Perkins, Emily | Taylor, Marlon
Directors: Wallace, Tommy Lee
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Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as “It”. The only victims of “It” are children. Through the form of a clown named Pennywise, “It” wakes up every 30 years and feeds. The adults of Derry act like “It” doesn’t happen. Ironically they know about “It”, but the events are too horrible to talk about. Seven outcasts, know as The Lucky Seven, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Eddie, Richie, Mike, and Stan are able to defeat “It” as children and make a pact to return and do battle again should the terror return. Now 30 years later, Mike Hanlon who stayed behind, is puzzled by a bizarre occurance of child murders. When he discovers that “It” has come back, he reunites what’s left of The Lucky Seven, now in their middle ages to do battle once again, and “It” is ready. The Lucky Seven must now defeat “It” and cure Derry of “The Derry Disease”.

Candyman (1992)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Madsen, Virginia | Todd, Tony | Berkeley, Xander | Lemmons, Kasi | Williams, Vanessa | Guy, DeJuan | Lowery, Carolyn | Alston, Barbara | Grant, Sarina C. | Culkin, Michael | DeSantis, Stanley | Elliott, Marianna | Raimi, Ted | Pavia, Ria | Daniels, Mark
Directors: Rose, Bernard
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Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a paper on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his client’s daughter. Robitaille’s right hand was sawn off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word “Candyman” five times in a mirror, he’ll appear behind that person, a bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn’t believe it. Until she meets the man with a hook for a hand. Now, he’s begun to murder her friends and no one believes her. Can Helen clear her name and stop the Canydman from killing anyone else?

Ricochet (1991)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Lithgow, John | Ice-T | Pollak, Kevin | Wagner, Lindsay | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Evans, Josh | Dillard, Victoria | Amos, John | Cothran Jr., John | Dona, Linda | Landers, Matt | Cheshier, Lydell M. | DuPois, Starletta | Howard, Sherman
Directors: Mulcahy, Russell
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Rookie Los Angeles cop Nick Styles is at a Los Angeles street fair, where hit man Earl Talbot Blake pulls a double cross on some drug dealers, killing four men. Minutes later, Nick shoots Blake in the knee, and Blake is grabbed by Nick’s partner and best friend Larry Doyle. Nick becomes the focus of the media, thanks to an amateur cameraman’s footage of Nick disarming Blake. Over the next few years, Nick’s career takes off: he’s offered a job in the district attorney’s office, and his hip media style keeps him in the public eye. Nick marries a woman named Alice and they go on to have two daughters named Lisa and Monica. While Blake is in prison, he vows revenge on Nick. When Blake comes up for parole, he orchestrates a bloody escape — which includes faking his own death. Blake doesn’t want Nick dead. He just wants Nick to suffer in spades. He wants to ruin Nick’s life as completely as possible, and then have Nick sent to prison for murder so Nick will know how Blake feels. Blake begins his vendetta by killing city councilman U. B. Farris and planting evidence to make everyone think Nick and Farris are running an underage pornography ring. Blake then kidnaps Nick, forces him to take drugs and have sex with a prostitute, videotapes the whole thing, and then releases Nick. Nick tells everyone that it was Blake who kidnapped him, but everyone refuses to believe Nick because everyone thinks Blake is dead. That night, Blake breaks into Nick’s house, and makes a threatening videotape with Lisa, Monica, and an ax in it, but Blake didn’t actually do anything to Lisa and Monica. Nick is then suspended from the DA’s office, with everyone thinking that Nick is mentally ill because he keeps saying that Blake is still alive. Blake then begins the final phase of his vendetta — he kills Larry and frames Nick for it. Blake also links Nick to misappropriation of public funds, specifically, the funds he’s supposed to be raising for a children’s center in a building at the base of the Watts tower. Nick is forced to turn to his childhood friend, gang leader Odessa, for help in clearing his name and stopping Blake once and for all.

Angel Eyes (2001)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Caviezel, James | Sisto, Jeremy | Howard, Terrence | Braga, Sonia | Argo, Victor | Mazur, Monet | Knight, Shirley | Magder, Daniel | St-Onge, Guylaine | McAuley, Connor | Ratchford, Jeremy | MacNeill, Peter | Hyndman, Eldridge | Matchett, Kari
Directors: Mandoki, Luis
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While pursuing a suspect one night, Chicago Police officer Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) nearly becomes the victim of a fatal ambush until a mysterious stranger, Catch (Jim Caviezel) intervenes, disarms the assassin and saves Sharon’s life. Is it a stroke of luck? A twist of fate? Or just a concerned citizen who happened to pass by at the right time and wasn’t afraid to get involved? Maybe, But Sharon and Catch have met once before. As the two fall in love, they discover the truth about each other and are forced to deal with the secrets from their past.

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.