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Beast Stalker
Ace action director Dante Lam is in top form once again with this raw, nail-bitingly intense action thriller and with award-worthy emotional performances by Nicholas Tse and Nick Cheung. Tse is Tong, a take-no-prisoners police sergeant who accidentally kills a girl during his relentless pursuit of armed robber Cheung (Ho-man...Start your free trial to watch -
The Big Chase
As his expectant wife (Adele Jergens) enters the hospital in anticipation of the blessed event, cop Glenn Langan is off to the races, trailing payroll robbers (including Jim Davis and Lon Chaney Jr.) on a mad chase that goes from cars to rowboat to motorboat to helicopter. The chase sequence, captured in all its...Start your free trial to watch -
Black Heat
Timothy Brown (NASHVILLE, STUD BROWN) stars as "Kicks" Carter, a tough-as-nails LA cop and one bad dude hot on the trail of a black mob boss named Guido. Guido and his sleazy henchman Ziggy (Russ Tamblyn, Twin Peaks) are planning a big-time, drugs-for-munitions trade, but Kicks and partner Tony (Geoffrey Land) stand in the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Center of the Web
A counterfeiting gang is foiled by police, and the action-chase takes up almost all of the second reel. The real stars of the chase are the agile and determined police dogs. This is a rather conservative example of late-1914 film style with only a couple of interesting camera set-ups and compositions, few...Start your free trial to watch -
The Copper
Though many audiences are initially familiar with the extraordinary German actor Hans Albers from his role in Josef von Sternberg's THE BLUE ANGEL, his reputation was enhanced (and his fame soared) after his starring role in DER GREIFER (THE COPPER) released the following year. Nearly three decades later, Albers again starred...Start your free trial to watch -
Cops
One of Buster Keaton's greatest and most famous comedies, COPS is universally enjoyed for the inventive comedy and amazing chase sequences. However, its darker aspects (Keaton's use of an anarchists bomb risked painful reminders of the horse and wagon, similar to the one Buster drives, that carried a bomb into New York city's...Start your free trial to watch
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Crazy 'n the City
Eason Chan, pop diva Joey Yung and Francis Ng star in this police action comedy. Jack (Chan) is a Hong Kong beat cop who is getting weary of his mundane job routine until a new cadet, Liu (Yung), comes along and becomes his partner. Liu's dedication and devotion to her line of duty changes Jack's outlook...Start your free trial to watch -
Eye for an Eye
Han Suk-kyu (SHIRI) and Cha Seung-weon headline director K.T. Kwak's (TYPHOON) crime thriller concerning an aging police captain who's lured back to the job on the eve of retirement, following a most peculiar crime. Capt. Baek Seong-chan (Han) was about to turn in his badge and run a grocery store when a criminal commits a...Start your free trial to watch
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Eye in the Sky
Johnnie To produces this crackerjack thriller directed by To's longtime screenwriter Yau Nai-Hoi with an all-star cast. Hong Kong Police's elite SU (Surveillance Unit), led by its veteran leader Wong (Simon Yam), has been monitoring Shan (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), the criminal mastermind whom Wong suspects may have been involved...Start your free trial to watch -
Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Wonder what all that produce is up to when the store is closed? Well, like the rest of us, they're mostly sleeping, with a street cop, an early Mr. Potato (or, rather, Sgt. Potato), complete with Irish accent, on the beat. When a nocturnal thief kidnaps some of the carrot population, everybody's a suspect...Start your free trial to watch
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Gunfire
Bank, train and stagecoach heists, plus plenty of ridin' and shootin', pepper this sagebrush saga of a reorganized Jesse James gang terrorizing the Old West, now under the leadership of a man (Donald Barry) impersonating Jesse's brother Frank James. Can sheriff Robert Lowery pierce Barry's disguise and put the renegades...Start your free trial to watch -
Headshot
A darkly turbulent crime noir from Thai new wave director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, HEADSHOT is an existential thriller, ripe with shadowy paranoia that will turn your world upside-down, literally. This disorienting game of cat and mouse is played out in present-day Thailand, where corruption runs rampant and the good die young....Start your free trial to watch
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Hi-Jacked
Parolee/truck driver Jim Davis now wants to stick to the straight-and-narrow, but finds himself riding a highway of terror when his truck is hijacked and police suspect him because of his past record. The hijackers will stop at nothing to frame him and even frame his wife, unless fugitive Davis can deliver them to justice...Start your free trial to watch -
Highway Patrolman
Against his father's wishes, Pedro, a naive kid from Mexico City, joins the Federal Highway Patrol. His simple desire to do good rapidly comes into conflict with the reality of police work in a lonely rural environment populated by poor farmers, rich drug dealers, beautiful women and his father's ghost.Start your free trial to watch -
The House of Cards
THE HOUSE OF CARDS is designed to culminate in a confrontation between a sheriff ("Rattlesnake Jim") and a man who has gambled away someone else's money. Both love the same woman and they stage a duel where the victor will be determined by a rattlesnake. The movie critic for the New York Dramatic Mirror...Start your free trial to watch




