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Riveting crime dramas

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Training day

Antoine Fuqua

Actors: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Eva Mendes, Tom Berenger

Working undercover is a job. And an attitude. A mad dog narco cop blurs the line between cop and criminal as he mentors an idealistic rookie partner during his Training Day.


Source: iTunes

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Pride and glory

Gavin O'Connor

Actors: Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Jon Voight

Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Edward Norton (The Incredible Hulk, American History) and Colin Farrell (Miami Vice, Alexander) star in this crime thriller that blurs the line between morality and duty as it asks the question: What does it mean to be loyal? In New York City, a homicide detective is assigned to investigate the precinct run by his own brother, Francis (Noah Emmerich - Little Children, Cellular). Meanwhile, the investigator's best friend is a cop in that precinct who may be corrupt as well. The truth opens up a Pandora's Box that threatens not only the family legacy but the entire precinct. Also starring Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Jon Voight (Ali, Transformers) and directed by Gavin OConnor (Miracle, Tumbleweeds).


Source: iTunes

3

Out of time

Carl Franklin

Actors: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes

Matt Lee Whitlock is chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida. He's respected by his peers and loved by his community. But when Banyan Key is shocked by a double homicide, everything Matt Lee thought he knew starts to unravel, and he finds himself in a race against time to solve the murders before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.


Source: iTunes

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Triple 9

John Hillcoat

Actors: Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet, Norman Reedus, Gal Gadot

Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Casey Affleck lead an all-star cast in an explosive action-packed thriller critics call “a twisty, terrific ride” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Inside the Atlanta police department, corruption is rampant and members of a gang task force are secretly committing heists for a Russian mob boss (Winslet). When the crooked cops are strong-armed into performing an impossible heist, they look to rookie cop, Chris (Affleck), as bait to create a deadly distraction needed to pull off the job.


Source: iTunes

5

The pledge

Sean Penn

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke

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We own the night

James Gray

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, Robert Duvall

What if your own family stood in the way of everything you worked for? Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has forsaken his name to escape his family and their tradition in law enforcement to pursue his ambitions as a Brooklyn nightclub owner. As he turns a blind eye to the drug dealers around him, he comes face to face with the family he abandoned when his brother (Mark Wahlberg) and father (Robert Duvall) crack down on the club. Now Bobby must choose a side. Is he going to turn informant or will he help run the biggest crime ring in New York history?


Source: iTunes

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16 blocks

Richard Donner

Actors: Bruce Willis, Mos Def

Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Bruce Willis ("Sin City," "The Whole Nine Yards") stars as a Jack Mosley, a broken down NY detective assigned to escort a petty criminal (Emmy and Golden Globe-nominee Mos Def -- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," TV's "Something the Lord Made") from the precinct to the courthouse. The seemingly simple 16 block journey becomes a test of character when Jack's ex-partners attempt to stop them. It's the story of how two men change each other during a tense struggle between life and death. Also starring Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Alfre Woodard ("Beauty Shop," TV's "Desperate Housewives") and David Morse ("The Green Mile," "Contact").


Source: iTunes

8

Cop land

James Mangold

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro

This tense action-thriller explodes with nonstop excitement and riveting star performances! Sylvester Stallone (SPY KIDS(TM) 3D: GAME OVER, DRIVEN) stars as Freddy Heflin, the sheriff of a place everyone calls "Cop Land" a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he's long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town's peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols ... and upholding the law! Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta head an incredible cast.


Source: iTunes

9

Brooklyn's finest

Antoine Fuqua

Actors: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke

In the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three conflicted New York City police officers are dramatically transformed by their involvement in a massive drug operation. Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan (Golden-Globe®-winner Richard Gere of PRIMAL FEAR) is just one week away from his pension and a fishing cabin in Connecticut. Narcotics officer Sal Procida (Oscar®-nominee Ethan Hawke of TRAINING DAY) has discovered there’s no line he won’t cross to provide a better life for his long-suffering wife and seven children. And Clarence “Tango” Butler (Oscar®-nominee Don Cheadle of OCEAN'S ELEVEN Franchise) has been undercover so long his loyalties have started to shift from his fellow police officers to his prison buddy Caz (Wesley Snipes of BLADE), one of Brooklyn’s most infamous drug dealers. With personal and work pressures bearing down on them, each man faces daily tests of judgment and honor in one of the world’s most difficult jobs in this searing new crime drama from acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (TRAINING DAY).


Source: iTunes

10

From Paris with love

Pierre Morel

Actors: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

A low-ranking intelligence operative working with the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.


Source: iTunes

11

Narc

Joe Carnahan

Actors: Jason Patric, Ray Liotta

Jason Patric and Ray Liotta star in this sizzling action-drama that Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times says "...has the velocity of a hot slug from the barrel of a gun." Patric stars as Nick Tellis, a suspended narcotics officer recruited to investigate the murder of Michael Calvess, a rookie cop killed under mysterious circumstances. Tellis is teamed with Calvess's partner, Henry Oak (Liotta), a hot-tempered renegade who'll stop at nothing to avenge his friend's death. As Tellis and Oak follow a shadowy trail through the seamy drug underworld, the lines start to blur - between right and wrong, good and evil, and justice and revenge. Costarring music superstar Busta Rhymes.


Source: iTunes

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