The Killing of Randy Webster (1981)
Género : Drama, Película de TV
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 40M
Director : Sam Wanamaker
Sinopsis
When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and uncovers the fact that the gun found with the boy's body was a "throwdown," a weapon planted by the cops.
Estela, una niña de 12 años, se acaba de enamorar perdidamente de un joven cadete que se quiere escapar con ella y casarse. Al intentar cumplir este sueño, su familia tendrá que vivir la violencia que azota la región.
A young woman with a long rap sheet who steals cars for a living is befriended by a public defender who tries to steer her straight. But her goal is to steal and subsequently sell enough cars (sometimes the same car more than once) to buy a new Ferrari.
Boon is a cop working in the Bangkok Narcotics Control Board. His father just happens to be the officer in charge and is a senior police general. He and other cops go on a raid to catch some relatively small amphetamine dealers. During the raid the dealers shoot at the police while fleeing. They are shot dead on the spot. However he sees what appears to be a "pregnant woman" who runs off and Boon gives chase. When he catches up, he corners "her" but as "she" is pregnant he cannot bring himself to pull the trigger and "she" escapes. He is sent undercover and told to pose as a gay while finding out if any drug dealing is going on in a nightclub where it is suspected the kingpins are based. He falls in love with a singer there who is the daughter of the boss he is supposed to be watching. When he eventually finds out they are indeed major dealers can he do his duty or will he fail due to his new love and whose side will she be on when she finds out everything?
An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
The Inspector Wasan, a cop under investigation by internal affairs but called back to duty to investigate the murder of a minister's daughter. He's joined in the investigation by Sergeant Thong and the young female officer Lieutenant Nalin , whose investigative style is the opposite of Wasan's. Meanwhile, the killer has Wasan in his sights, setting out to ruin him by exposing his role in a previous case.
La propietaria de un motel (Alice Eve) es raptada junto a su hija (Ursula Parker) por un criminal al borde de la ceguera (Bryan Cranston), para que sea sus ojos y tratar de recuperar el dinero de un policía corrupto (Marshall-Green).
Carmen, a free-spirited young woman who sometimes earns money as a prostitute, lives a bohemian existence in a small town where most of the locals allow her to do as she pleases. Jose, a naive young man who has just been hired as the town's new police officer, arrests her. However, Jose is soon drawn into Carmen's sensual spell, and he is compelled to do her bidding as she slowly brings him to his doom.
A San Francisco detective (Elliott) goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him. After beating the man to death, he comes to his senses and realizes that he has to get rid of the body of the beaten man. Dumping the man in the river, he returns to his partner's body and calls in the death. He is then given a new partner (Morales) and is assigned to investigate the death of a man just pulled from the river causing all the expected problems. However, the investigation does lead to police corruption and his own partner's involvement in drug running.
Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car refuses to start, Fuke has to stay over in their house. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbors there.
Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri), un agente especial que trabaja para el servicio de aduanas de EEUU, está investigando las consecuencias de un incendio a bordo de un barco en el puerto de San Pedro de Los Ángeles, con un balance de 27 víctimas mortales -todas aparentemente asesinadas-. La única fuente de información de Kujan es Roger Kint (Kevin Spacey), un estafador lisiado que sobrevivió al incendio. En comisaría, Kint cuenta que todo comenzó 6 semanas atrás en Nueva York, cuando 5 delincuentes, 5 "sospechosos habituales", fueron detenidos para una rueda de reconocimiento referente al robo de un camión de armas...
Liu Jian (Jet Li) es un experto agente del gobierno chino que llega a París desde Shanghai para desarrollar una delicada y ultrasecreta misión. Liu va a París para ayudar a Richard (Tchéky Karyo), un poco ortodoxo oficial de policía con un pequeño ejército a sus órdenes. La misión es un completo desastre, pues el hombre al que Liu ha de ayudar le traiciona. Liu se ve atrapado en una vasta y mortal conspiración: acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido y perseguido en una ciudad que no conoce. Sin ningún lugar a dónde dirigirse, Liu se une a una chica americana llamada Jessica (Bridget Fonda), a quien Richard ha obligado a ejercer la prostitución. Mientras Jessica y Liu conspiran contra su taimado y cruel adversario que ha puesto ya en marcha sus respectivas trampas, Liu hace a Jessica una promesa que podría poner en peligro su carrera e incluso su vida.
Freddy Heflin es el sheriff de un lugar que todos llaman "Cop Land", un pueblo pequeño y aparentemente tranquilo poblado por los policías de la gran ciudad que siempre ha admirado. Sin embargo, algo feo está ocurriendo detrás de la tranquila fachada de la ciudad. Y cuando Freddy descubre una conspiración masiva y mortal entre estos residentes locales, se ve obligado a tomar medidas y tomar una decisión peligrosa entre proteger a sus ídolos y hacer cumplir la ley.
Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.
Tells the story of Askal (John Regala) hardened by life in poverty. All grown up, he uses his skills to stop the spreading of 'Askals' (Asong-Kalye, Street Dog; used as a metaphor for street children) and give them a better future. Stopping the root of all crimes and poverty in the process. A modern-day Robin Hood.
Volviendo del entierro de su madre, el agente Gun-su atropella a alguien. Aturdido, decide esconder el cadáver en la tumba de su madre. Los problemas, sin embargo, no quedan enterrados: uno de sus compañeros investiga a la víctima y un testigo no tardará en aparecer.
Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press.
Will Dormer, un veterano detective de Los Ángeles, viaja a un pequeño pueblo de Alaska con su compañero Hap para investigar el asesinato de una chica de 17 años. En Los Ángeles queda pendiente un oscuro asunto que les incumbe a los dos. Una vez en Alaska, entran en contacto con el principal sospechoso, Walter Finch, un novelista ermitaño.
Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) es un poco ejemplar teniente de la policía, adicto al juego y a las drogas, que investiga el asesinato de cinco inmigrantes senegaleses en la Nueva Orleans post-Katrina.... Remake de la película "Teniente corrupto", dirigida por Abel Ferrara en 1992 y protagonizada entonces por Harvey Keitel.
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.
Cuando Kanako, hija pródiga y alumna intachable, desaparece, su madre no duda en llamar a su exmarido, un policía poco ortodoxo. A medida que la investigación avanza, la imagen idealizada de Kanako se va resquebrajando, dejando entrever que, bajo la excelencia, la chica esconde otra vida, más oscura y secreta.