Le Doulos (1961), The Fugitive (1947), The Departed (2006), Reservoir Dogs (1992), JFK (1991), Pickup on South Street (1953), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), The Undercover Man (1949) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Informant movies.
Storyline: Martin Riggs finally meets his match in the form of Lorna Cole, a beautiful but tough policewoman. Together with Roger Murtaugh, his partner, the three attempt to expose a crooked former policeman and his huge arms racket. The crooked cop (Jack Travis) thwarts them at every turn, mainly by killing anyone who is about to talk, but Murtaugh has personal problems of his own as his family are brought into the equation.
Plot Keywords: police detective, wife, informant, beautiful woman, arms dealer, son, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Once Clouseau's death has been announced, the former Chief Inspector, Charles Dreyfus, feels much, much better and is released from the mental hospital. Jacques Clouseau tries to take advantage of his "death" and goes under cover with Cato to find out who tried to assassinate him.
Plot Keywords: inspector clouseau, boss, servant, crime boss, woman, informant, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the cops have to scramble for a replacement. Deciding on Dede, they begin to put a nasty squeeze on him and Nicole.—Paul Berk <pbnyc@compuserve.com>
Plot Keywords: pimp, prostitute, police officer, police detective, kingpin, informant, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sang-do (Ryoo Seung-bum) has ambitions of becoming a major player in the drug racket. Working as a two-bit crystal meth dealer, he pays the bills and supports his semi-retired drug-dealer uncle by acting as an informant for corrupt cop Ho (Hwang Jung-min). The two form an uneasy alliance when they try to take down a local drug lord protected by government officials, but problems in their personal lives continue to intrude at inopportune moments, jeopardizing their chances for success.
Plot Keywords: cop, partner, drug dealer, informant, young girl, dark, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally disabled brother. Innocently caught up in a gangland fight, the brother is kidnapped to force the cop to turn over a police informant.—Towne 3, San Jose, Ca
Plot Keywords: informant, cop, handicapped, thrilling, amusing, hong kong, mafia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Plot Keywords: reporter, victim, mobster, thug, businessman, informant, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of hand--two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Under the watchful eye of Roger, a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, technical mastermind Vladimer, former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said, Anne, a young Eastern girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft--identical twins Albert and Bertram.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: thief, junkie, informant, prostitute, computer programmer, twin, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, WHITE BOY RICK is based on the moving story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer, before he was abandoned by his handlers.
Plot Keywords: father, teenager, drug dealer, gunrunner, federal agent, informant, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake - being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal price-fixing activities of his company, Whitacre gradually adopts the idea that he's a true secret agent. But as his incessant lies keep piling up, his world begins crashing down around him.
Plot Keywords: informant, fbi agent, wife, boss, coworker, witty, illinois ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is a cinematographer's film. Kelari, who is mainly a cinematographer, got to direct this film because of an incidence. The arrangement with the original film's director fell apart and producers gave the film to Kelari to direct. The visuals are gripping, funny and reminded me of Kiarostami's nature shots.I watched the film in NY's Moma.
Plot Keywords: detective, police officer, informant, drug dealer, friend, father, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, warden, guard, informant, convict, girlfriend, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After he's busted for smuggling coke on his plane, Jim Hoffman has a chance to start over in a lush, affluent suburb of San Diego. Jim and his wife, Ellen are surprised to find maverick auto mogul John DeLorean lives in a glamorous house down the street. Soon an unexpected friendship forms between the two men, just as John's new venture--the DeLorean Motor Company--is taking off. But with the FBI pushing Jim to inform on his flashy former dealer, Morgan Hetrick and John's financing falling through the cracks, things are far from idyllic...and about to take a dark turn. Based on the real events that would become the celebrity scandal of its generation.—Lauren G
Plot Keywords: informant, con man, magnate, neighbor, drug trafficker, playful, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Michael Gordon, star reporter with a nose for trouble, is heading home after completing a difficult assignment in Iraq. On a Damascus stopover he relays a tip to a fellow American newsman who subsequently ends up in a local camel market with a knife in his back. Even though everyone, including the American legation, seems to want Gordon to leave the country, he feels obliged to find his friend's murderer. Among the red herrings he must sort through in the "World's Oldest City" are an informing card cheat, a beautiful femme fatale, an enigmatic hotel owner, a Frenchman with two aliases, and several sinister Arabs. In short order, Gordon foils Nazi plots to unite the Arab tribes against the Allies and help the Germans seize the Suez Canal.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: reporter, secret agent, beautiful woman, nazi, informant, suspenseful, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set against the backdrop of the Philippines Government's crackdown on illegal drugs, a SWAT-led police force launches an operation to arrest Abel, one of the biggest drug lords in Manila. Police Officer Espino and Elijah, a small-time pusher turned informant, provide the intelligence for the operation, which quickly escalates into a violent and heavily-armed confrontation in the slums between the SWAT and Abel's gang. Before the investigators arrive at the crime scene, Espino and Elijah walk off with Abel's backpack full of money and methamphetamine. This gesture of survival for one and corruption for the other will soon set off a dangerous series of events, both of them risking their reputations, families and lives in the process.
Plot Keywords: corrupt cop, informant, drug lord, suspenseful, thrilling, slum, drug bust ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Agents Mickey Waters and John Flannery re-team to investigate the theft of medicinal narcotics from the S.S. Florentine. The vicious gang responsible is headed by the ruthless, but debonair Paul Vicola, who doesn't hesitate to murder anyone who stands in his way. Vicola's girlfriend is garroted when she becomes unreliable, and when go-between nightclub comic Dolly Carney poses a risk, he is thrown from his apartment window. After Waters is shot and killed trying to break into the gang's Brooklyn-based yacht club front, Flannery decides to go undercover and pose as a San Francicco drug dealer. The gang is smoked out and after a furious gun battle, Vicola is apprehended and his gang broken.—Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
Plot Keywords: federal agent, drug dealer, smuggler, gangsters, informant, suspenseful, thrilling ...
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