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Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered. With a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department. The case...
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Los Angeles police sergeants Murtaugh and Riggs are working on drug related case. After a chase and car crash, the two find one million dollars worth of South African krugerands. Riggs and Murtaugh are assigned to keep an eye on Leo Getz, who is scheduled to testify in a drug case. The South African drug smugglers, led by Arjen Rudd, the minister of diplomatic affairs, doesn't want Leo to testify. Rudd turns out to be the man that Riggs and Murtaugh...
3) Constantine
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Tells the story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine who has literally been to hell and back. Skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson teams up with Constantine in order to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister. During their investigation they are taken through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the Los Angeles landscape. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldy events, the two become inextricably involved...
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[2009]
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Centers on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal that happens to involve his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy, but the entire NYPD.
5) Die Hard
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
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c2007
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English
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New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian, McClane careens wildly from one end of town to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game.
7) Die hard
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It's Christmas time in L.A. and on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building there's an employee party in progress. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber, who plans to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe. Gruber and his henchmen pretend to be politically motivated in order to throw the authorities off track. Gruber has no intention...
8) Flash point
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[2008]
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The police force's most dangerous detective is building a case against a vicious trio of drug smuggling brothers that are wreaking havoc on the streets. When evidence is destroyed and witnesses are murdered one by one, he takes the fight directly to his enemies and holds nothing back.
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