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3.00 Stars
A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.
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3.20 Stars
A secret party is thrown by ex-students from the American school who bet fortunes on poor wrestlers confronting each other inside an empty swimming pool for a few dollars.
3.30 Stars
A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.
Home Video Trailer from Warner Home Video
3.45 Stars
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Home Video Trailer from Paramount Home Entertainment
3.55 Stars
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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2.80 Stars
Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
Colombian kidnappers give a man 90 minutes to produce ran...
3.15 Stars
When student Jake Lo witnesses a killing, he finds himself caught between two feuding drug lords. Betrayed and set up by the federal agents, the only person he can trust is Ryan, a Chicago cop who reminds Jake of his deceased father.
3.00 Stars
Mercenary Shale's team is retired after a (not so) covert mission in Cuba. He becomes substitute teacher at his teacher fiancee's Miami high school to get those behind kneecapping her. His team helps him.
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4.25 Stars
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
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3.50 Stars
A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.
A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced i...
3.85 Stars
In the good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from the secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to a new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all privileges. Some, like Franz, are l
2.40 Stars
Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.
2.80 Stars
Orin Boyd, a tough cop in an inner-city precinct discovers a web of dirty cops and corruption.
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3.95 Stars
In Detroit, a lonely pop culture geek marries a call girl, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine, the Mob, track them down in an attempt to reclaim it.
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3.30 Stars
A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
3.90 Stars
A story that revolves around drug abuse in the affluent north Indian State of Punjab and how the youth there have succumbed to it en-masse resulting in a socio-economic decline.
A story that revolves around drug abuse in the affluent n...
3.85 Stars
A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.
An ex-con is lured back into the drug trade.
3.55 Stars
A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.
A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battl...
3.20 Stars
A mysterious outsider from South Africa, named Jacob King, arrives in Los Angeles to look for his missing younger sister.
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Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed for
3.05 Stars
When he loses his son from overdose in his school, the outraged father will look for the villains responsible for his child's loss. At the same time, a journalist covers the narrative report on drugs in schools. With her help, the fa
2.95 Stars
When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police. Markos falls in love with her and they start going out until he asks her to marry him. That's exactly when she meets
4.00 Stars
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Home Video Trailer from Universal Studios Home Entertainment
2.80 Stars
A small-time criminal, betrayed by his girlfriend and owing money to a fearsome crime lord, agrees to travel to Goa for a drug deal and becomes involved with a local woman and her much older husband, both of who want to kill each oth
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Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
From Alexander the Great to king of cool Sonny Crockett, ...
3.05 Stars
Forced by the imminent foreclosure of their friend's bar, two lifelong buddies will decide to rob a bank's armored car, not knowing that its cargo is not money but a new street drug.
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Young couple Carla (Maestro) and Martin (Leroux) are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father (Blades) to hand over the ransom.
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2.55 Stars
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. On
2.15 Stars
Three problem teens sent to jail are offered a deal to work with an undercover cop, uncover an intricate drug ring and are caught in a deadly set-up. With cops on their trail, they have little time to solve the case and clear their n
Home Video Trailer from MGM Home Entertainment
2.95 Stars
A story describing Turkish narcotic police team named "Pars" who are trailing the traffic through Afghanistan, Turkey, Europe and USA.
3.25 Stars
The story of Dayavan, a benevolent gangster who dedicates his life to helping those less fortunate than himself.
3.70 Stars
Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.
Home Video Trailer from Columbia Tristar
3.75 Stars
Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.
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3.50 Stars
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption.
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2.45 Stars
1972 Vietnam, a small group of United States Marines relive flashbacks of their contrite lives prior to serving in the military while being left to survive behind enemy lines.
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3.10 Stars
A woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Home Video Trailer from First Look
3.55 Stars
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Theatrical Trailer from Warner Independent Pictures
2.30 Stars
An American army intelligence officer discovers corruption and murder by American soldiers in Vietnam.
Home Video Trailer from PM Entertainment
3.40 Stars
Desperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.
3.30 Stars
Tough cop Durai Singam performs an undercover operation and identifies some nefarious activities in the seas around the coastal town.
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3.30 Stars
An uptight FBI Special Agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord.
Uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn is paired with te...
3.90 Stars
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
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3.55 Stars
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
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4.30 Stars
12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
Theatrical Trailer from Columbia Pictures
3.65 Stars
A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.
Trailer for Drugstore Cowboy
4.55 Stars
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
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3.20 Stars
A Vietnam veteran goes on a crime spree and starts torturing and killing men he served in the army with.
3.65 Stars
Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lord and a dangerous federal agent.
Dominic and his crew find themselves on the wrong side of...
3.60 Stars
A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
In a seaside village on the outskirts of an Italian city,...
3.20 Stars
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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2.95 Stars
An end of the world battle between gangsters, cops and zombies.