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Attack of the Giant Leeches
After a local slackjaw reports shooting something in the swamp that "weren't nothin' nature put out there," an apparent love-triangle-gone-bad reveals a darker mystery in the Everglades. The 1959 swamp horror ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES is a boilerplate Roger Corman-produced...Watch Movie
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
In the dead of night, a group of men (among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect) drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the...Watch Movie
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Referenced in Tarantino’s KILL BILL VOL. 2, UOMINI SI NASCE POLIZIOTTI SI MUORE (LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN, 1976) opens with an insane motorcycle chase that was filmed in rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission from the local authorities. To top it off, this is one...Watch Movie
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Le petit lieutenant
A gripping police noir, LE PETIT LIEUTENANT tells the story of Antoine, an ambitious young cop from the provinces who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris. Antoine spends his days eagerly awaiting his first assignment, drinking with his fellow detectives and developing an...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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Small Town Murder Songs
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake (the victim of a brutal and violent crime), Walter, an aging small town police officer (Peter Stormare), is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by...Watch Movie
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Shoot First, Die Later
Desperately sought after, the tough, exciting, dramatically potent, action packed film SHOOT FIRST, DIE LATER is known as one of the most impressive Italian crime/police movies ever made. Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as a highly regarded police detective who...Watch Movie
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The Tracker
The year is 1922. The Tracker has the job of pursuing the Fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen: the Fanatic, the Follower and also the Veteran across the outback. The Tracker, a mysterious and enigmatic figure whose true character...Watch Movie
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Creature with the Blue Hand
The inimitable Klaus Kinski plays twin brothers (one of whom is found guilty of murder and sent to an insane asylum in the prologue) and he is not even the creepiest part of this colorful murder mystery. Based on a novel by British author Edgar Wallace, this is from the...Watch Movie
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Dirty Like an Angel
Georges Deblache, a despondent middle-aged cop who suspects he has cancer, falls for his partner's wife. Didier, his partner, is only recently married, but beds women he encounters while on the job. Georges takes a keen interest in his partner's unrealistically appreciated...Watch Movie
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Hafford's Saloon
This is a short video I made while doing research for my new feature, TOMBSTONE RASHOMON. It was shot on the streets of Tombstone and in a Western movie set, Old Tucson. It details, in real time, how long it took the Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday to walk from their saloon...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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What a Wonderful World
Souad is a prostitute whose best friend is Kenza, a tough traffic cop. Kamel is a stony–eyed contract killer who receives his hit orders via the Internet; he is also Souad's favorite customer. When Kenza falls in love with Kamel, the two begin a bizarre courtship doomed by...Watch Movie
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The Break
A dangerous prisoner, Jacko Thomas, overpowers his police guard and jumps from a speeding train in the Dartmoor countryside. In the ensuing fight Jacko kills the guard and makes his way to a secluded hotel on the moors where Tredgar is being paid to arrange a safe transit for Jacko and his sister...Watch Movie
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Cairo 678
Three Cairene women from different backgrounds join together in uneasy solidarity to combat the sexual harassment that has impacted each of their lives. We begin on an overcrowded bus line, dreaded by Fayza as a daily site of humiliation and anguish. Responding to a self-defense talk by Seba,...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
