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1) The big heat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Police Sergeant Bannion is investigating the apparent suicide of a corrupt cop and then is suddenly ordered to stop. Ruthless criminals, a dedicated honest cop, sultry women, and a gripping plot
2) Bullitt
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered, and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself
3) Speed
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and passenger must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour- or the bomb will explode
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Damien is an undercover cop determined to bring down Tremaine, the crime lord who murdered his father. Tremaine rules the violent criminal compound known as 'Brick Mansions', but he's thwarted at every turn by a heroic ex-convict named Lino. Their paths never should have crossed, but when Tremaine kidnaps Lino's girlfriend, Damien and Lino become unlikely allies, and must work together to stop Tremaine's sinister plot to devastate the entire city
7) Die hard
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly, when terrorists take control of the building her office party is in
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Here it is Christmas Eve and John McClane is off duty in the nation's capital. But a team of terrorists, in town to rescue a drug lord from justice, has taken over a major airport, holding thousands of travelers hostage
10) 16 blocks
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness
11) Brick mansions
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Damien is an undercover cop determined to bring down Tremaine, the crime lord who murdered his father. Tremaine rules the violent criminal compound known as 'Brick Mansions', but he's thwarted at every turn by a heroic ex-convict named Lino. Their paths never should have crossed, but when Tremaine kidnaps Lino's girlfriend, Damien and Lino become unlikely allies, and must work together to stop Tremaine's sinister plot to devastate the entire city
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
13) Witness
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the death of her husband, Amish woman Rachel Lapp takes her son Samuel on a trip to Philadelphia. While in the train station washroom, Samuel sees two men savagely murder a third. Philadelphia detective John Book discovers that people within the police force were involved, and is assigned to escort Rachel and Samuel back home, protecting the boy until the trial. Book blends in with the Amish community, but the corrupt cops Book has...
14) The heat
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Uptight FBI agent Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins (McCarthy) couldn't be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected... buddies
15) Training day
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins...
16) Dirty Harry
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A rooftop sniper named Scorpio has killed twice. Streetwise San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan will nail the perp one way or another, no matter what "the system" prescribes
17) 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...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
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
20) Destroyer
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
LAPD detective Erin Bell was, as a young cop, placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, Bell must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past
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