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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Even as a hardened cop, things have never been tougher for Detective Vic Mackey. In this season, he must deal with a vicious, gang-related slaughter with no leads, the desperate attempts of an Internal Affairs detective to discredit him, and the looming threat of forced retirement. To top it all, he's obsessed with finding the killer of a valued Strike Team member and friend. Meanwhile, Shane hooks up with the Armenian mob and becomes a dangerous...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Publisher
Village Roadshow Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, guns, and if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop, except for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders who come...
6) Rampart
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set in 1999 Los Angeles, an unethical police officer becomes a target when his division gets caught up in a corruption scandal.
7) Chips
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jon Baker and Frank Ponch Poncherello have just joined the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in Los Angeles, but for very different reasons. Baker is a beaten-up former pro motorbiker trying to put his life and marriage back together. Poncherello is a cocky undercover Federal agent investigating a multi-million-dollar heist that may be an inside job-inside the CHP.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Chev Chelios returns to track down a ruthless Chinese mobster who has stolen his most prized possession: his heart. As he hunts down his enemy in Los Angeles, his battery-operated ticker requires regular jolts of electricity in order to work. Chev is determined to get his real heart back and wreak vengeance on whoever stole it.
10) Changeling
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate a search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to...
11) Street kings
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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 his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington, 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. He teams up with a young detective to track down Washington's killers, who track down the murderers...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The series returns with more mysteries in season five as the squad must solve some of the most challenging homicides in America₂s second largest city. From searching for a missing teenage girl who vanished while helping the homeless, hunting down the killer of a potentially dirty cop, or following up on a beheading in an isolated corner of Los Angeles, the investigators attempt to return balance to the scales of justice.
13) City of lies
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles Police department Detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest case - the murders of the notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, but after two decades, the investigation remains open. Jack Jackson, a reporter desperate to save his reputation and career, is determined to find out why, in search of the truth, the two team up and unravel a growing web of institutional corruption and lies.
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The elite team of Major Crimes is back for its sixth season with three of the most challenging cases yet, struggling to solve mysteries mired in complex political conflicts that move beyond traditional murder cases. As Sharon Raydor grows accustomed to her new boss, Assistant Chief Leo Mason, the detectives find themselves questioning their faith in the rapidly changing priorities of the justice system while also managing the difficult changes in...
16) Ambulance
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Snowfall continues its riveting story about the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. Season two follows our ensemble of characters as they intersect and overlap within the mosaic of Los Angeles as we enter 1984, with all of them working toward their ultimate goals of money, power and influence. Young street entrepreneur Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) is beginning to experience the perils...
19) Fast & furious
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier. Brian is also on the case of the drug smuggler and he...
20) Gully
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Powerful and unflinchingly honest, it is the explosive and timely story of three boyhood friends, Calvin, Nicky, and Jesse, surviving an upbringing in LA's roughest neighborhoods. Steeped in violence but united by friendship, together they find their escape in one out-of-control night of partying. But when the rampage stops, retribution begins.
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