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1) Bad boys
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An action comedy about two tough cops who heat up the streets of Miami.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Portuguese
Description
Captain Nascimento has risen in his career to become the commander-in-chief of Rio de Janeiro's BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) and later, a populist choice as the Sub-Secretary of Intelligence. In his new post, Nascimento strengthens BOPE and cripples the drug trade even further, bringing it to its knees. But soon he comes to a sobering realization that upon doing so, he ends up aiding his true enemies: Corrupt cops and dirty politicians...
4) Hot pursuit
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An uptight and by-the-book cop tries to protect the outgoing widow of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.
5) 48 hrs
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. Both pursue their separate goals--Nolte wants the villains and Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship.
6) Grupo 7
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
Unit 7 has a tough mission: to clean the most dangerous drug trafficking networks out of the city of Seville, and bring an end to the corrosive power that has taken hold of the streets. A detail of four, led by Angel, a young officer aspiring to detective, and Rafael, a violent, arrogant, yet efficient cop are on the beat. But Unit 7's modus operandi is slipping outside the bounds of law through their use of violence, coercion, lies and half-truths....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
"Deadline at dawn" (83 min.) A gangster's sister lies dead. All clues point to sailor Bill Williams as the murderer. Slated to depart for duty at dawn, the swabbie, aided by good-hearted dime-a-dancer Susan Hayward and affable cabbie Paul Lukas, has mere hours to prove his innocence.
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion and the imminent departure of the chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne. The competition between them becomes increasingly ruthless and blurs the usual lines of morality until there seems no difference between the police and the criminals they...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in this terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw. Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel 'Zeke' Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer's morbid game....
10) Equal standard
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An NYPD ddetective is shot by one of his own and the community is ignited to march for justice. The movement and unity impacts the city's society and leads to an intervention within the polic force.
11) Lethal weapon 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Riggs and Murtaugh must guard a free-wheeling witness in a comedy of car chases, gun battles, under-water escapes, even the destruction of a chic hillside house.
12) The enforcer
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Callahan has a new partner, Inspector Kate Moore, who has two jobs: tracking down a band of armed-and-wacko terrorists and winning Harry's confidence.
13) Lethal weapon 4
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Buddy cop action comedy. Family man Murtaugh is partner to loose cannon Riggs, who may or may not marry his girlfriend.
14) Super troopers
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Five Vermont state troopers are out to have a good time. Stationed in a remote area near the Canadian border, the troopers, avid pranksters have a knack for screwing up on the job. But when budget cuts in the town threaten their livelihood and pit them against arch-rival Spurbury P.D., the five friends try to straighten up and fly right. That is, until a dead body is discovered and a possible drug ring is unearthed. The super troopers spring into...
15) Magnum force
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meaning as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob related double homicide.
17) Lethal weapon 3
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Further action by Riggs and Murtagh, L.A. police detectives, whose work routine is anything but routine, joined by an Internal Affairs investigator who loves taking risks as much as Riggs does.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Short-shorts bedecked Lt. Dangle and company head to Miami for the American Police Convention. No sooner can you say "bio-terrorism" than the hotel is quarantined. The Wahoe County's hapless misfits get shut out when their credentials can't be found. But the crew must step in and save the city from "complete chaos." Complete chaos ensues. The cops, with an early "814" call that does not, as the officers believe, decode as armed intruder, but actually...
19) Miami vice
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ricardo Tubbs lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy. The two work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group. He becomes romantically involved with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge. Identity and fabrication...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Coogan's bluff: An Arizona lawman whose unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer anger a tough NYC police lieutenant.
Play Misty for me: Clint Eastwood stars as a radio disc jokey who becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
The beguiled: A wounded soldier finds shelter in an all-girls academy during the Civil War.
The Eiger sanction: A professional assassin is forced out of retirement...
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