The Devil's Miner (2005), Cowboy Up (2000), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), The House of the Devil (2009), Leon - The Professional (1994), Dial M for Murder (1954), Elite Squad (2007), 1 (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Dangerous Job movies.
Storyline: Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to make ends meet in the face of corrupt businessmen and intense competition. They are forced into driving long hours, and one night pick up waitress Cassie Hartley who's just quit her job at a truck stop. The three of them witness the death of a mutual acquaintance when he falls asleep at the wheel. This has a profound effect on Paul and Joe and they become determined to find a way to make the business pay so they can quit.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: truck driver, brother, business owner, girlfriend, uneasy, gritty, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detroit cop Axel Foley is delighted when he receives a surprise visit from his best friend Mikey Tandino, who lives in California. Not long after Mikey arrives in Detroit, Mikey is killed, right in front of Axel, by a man named Zack. Axel follows Zack to Beverly Hills, California, where Beverly Hills police department Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Detective Billy Rosewood and Rosewood's partner, Sergeant John Taggart, to keep an eye on Axel. Axel visits his friend Jenny Summers, who works in an art gallery. With Jenny's help, Axel discovers that Zack works for Jenny's boss, Victor Maitland, the man who owns the art gallery. Maitland is a drug kingpin who is using the gallery as a front, and Maitland had Zack kill Mikey after Maitland accused Mikey of stealing some of Maitland's bonds. With the help of Jenny, Billy, and Taggart, Axel does what he can to make sure Maitland and Zack won't kill any more people.
Plot Keywords: cop, friend, lieutenant, businessman, victim, police officer, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
Plot Keywords: corpse, loner, con artist, concerned mother, police detective, sexual predator, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, a security guard (Matthias Schoenaerts) utilizes his training as a French special forces soldier to protect the wife (Diane Kruger) and son (Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant) of a shady Lebanese businessman.
Plot Keywords: bodyguard, husband, son, wealthy man, goon, wife, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a terrifying riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorienting, alien and deadly landscape.
Plot Keywords: british soldier, recruit, alien, daughter, wife, british officer, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe "Tom" Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to start working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. It's an aggressive company, where speed is everything. Doing too few runs in a day? You're out. Red is the most experienced trucker. He can do eighteen runs in a day. Tom soon makes friends with Lucy, the secretary, and Gino, a driver. But the record of Red intrigues him and he wants to break it. Gino advises against it, but he helps Tom when he wants to go through with it. Soon trouble begins when Red and the other drivers form a united front against Tom. Just when Tom has enough and decides to pack his bags, Lucy tells him Gino had a terrible accident. She also tells about the corruption of Hawlett Trucking.—Arnoud Tiele (zelva@tiele.nl)
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, truck driver, foreman, secretary, friend, gritty, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Forty years later, his son John Harlin III, an expert mountaineer and the editor of the American Alpine Journal, returns to attempt the same climb.—Murray Chapman
Plot Keywords: mountain climber, wife, daughter, father, thrilling, uneasy, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: British commando, Captain Curry, is hired by President Ubi of war-torn Congo, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds from a time-locked vault before the separatist Simba army that's fighting Ubi's forces and the UN peacekeepers overruns the remote town where the bank that holds the vault is located. Curry teams up with his friend Ruffo, Doctor Wreid, who's an alcoholic, and Henlein, a sadistic Nazi who left Germany after WWII to work as a mercenary. The mercenaries reach the town by Ubi's train after surviving an attack from the UN peacekeepers, only to find a number of terrified Westerners who were driven out from their homes by force, including torture, rape and murder, by the Simba rebels. They agree to help them leave town and befriend one of them, a pretty widow called Claire whose husband was murdered by the rebels. As their mission nears completion everything suddenly goes horribly wrong and the story culminates in an orgy of sadistic graphic violence as Henlein betrays the group and the rebels arrive to brutalize and slaughter the whites. However, Curry still plans to complete his mission no matter what.
Plot Keywords: mercenary, doctor, nazi, missionary, president, tense, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin (Rosamund Pike) is one of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time. Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless, while constantly testing the limits between bravery and bravado. After being hit by a grenade in Sri Lanka, she wears a distinctive eye patch and is still as comfortable sipping martinis with London's elite as she is confronting dictators. Colvin sacrifices loving relationships, and over time, her personal life starts to unravel as the trauma she's witnessed takes its toll. Yet, her mission to show the true cost of war leads her -- along with renowned war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan) -- to embark on the most dangerous assignment of their lives in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.—Aviron Pictures
Plot Keywords: war correspondent, photographer, friend, love interest, colleague, brooding, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An L.A. insurance detective starts to get involved with a girl he is increasingly attracted to, even though he sees her as a chiseller. She makes it clear that her tastes are too expensive for him, so he sets about getting a lot of money quickly if illegally. Perhaps too late, she starts to find that she is content with him just the way he is.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: insurance investigator, partner, beautiful woman, racketeer, gangster, bank robber, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rock and Roll singer is taken captive by a motorcycle gang in a strange world that seems to be a cross of the 1950's and the present or future. Her ex-boyfriend returns to town and to find her missing and goes to her rescue.
Plot Keywords: rock star, motorcycle gang leader, mercenary, ex-soldier, ex-lover, manager, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dave and Rob, fresh from the Police Academy, enrage their captain because they want to do more than controlling the traffic. As penalty they are sent to Brooklyn. However they don't give up, but develop their own methods to fight against dealers, criminals and corrupt colleagues.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: teammate, friend, drug dealer, teamwork, burglar, police officer, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young Russian intelligence officer is assigned to seduce a first-tour CIA agent who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young officers collide in a charged atmosphere of trade-craft, deception, and inevitably forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but the lives of others as well.
Plot Keywords: ballerina, spy, killer, victim, cia agent, brutal, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Relentless postal inspector Al Goddard is set to Gary, Indiana, when another officer is murdered. He must find the nun who witnessed the murder, then infiltrate the gang by convincing them he is a postal inspector gone bad.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: detective, witness, murderer, crime boss, henchman, suspenseful, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The telling of Chance Buckman an oil rig fire fighter who becomes hospitalized and has to come to grips with how his job interfered with his marriage, after being laid up in a hospital bed after an accident with a news man running in front of a bulldozer causing it to swirve into Chance, and forcing him to allow veteran oil fire fighter Greg, a cocky but knowledgeable Greg becoming his son in law and he has to learn tolerance for not being able to control his daughter wanting to visit oil fires and learn how to rekindle the spark that went out with his ex of more than 25 years and the fear of losing her daughter as well as her husband to the oil fighting.—Jared Johnson
Plot Keywords: fireman, assistant, wife, daughter, executive, son-in-law, fascinating ...
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