Taxi Driver (1976), Serpico (1973), The French Connection (1971), Dirty Harry (1971), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Getaway (1972) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best North American Poliziottesco movies.
Storyline: Picking up three years after the events in Magnum Force (1973), a threatening terrorist group called "The People's Revolutionary Strike Force" declare war on the city of San Francisco and demand a ransom to be paid, otherwise they plan to blow the city apart. While Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is in limbo following his unorthodox method during a robbery, he's sent to dispatch the terrorist group, by playing their game by being dirtier than ever. But this time, he has a new partner, Inspector Kate Moore (Tyne Daly), which might prove the task to be somewhat more difficult than ever, unless the two can work together.
Plot Keywords: male nudity, female nudity, tough girl, maverick cop, female gunfighter, female villain, neo noir ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.
Plot Keywords: japan, yakuza, police chase, counterfeit, pistol, police badge, rain ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Plot Keywords: poliziottesco, black cop, racial slur, street life, death, corruption, sadism ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Shaft is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working with both against the White Mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter.
Plot Keywords: private detective, tough guy, african american protagonist, times square manhattan new york city, harlem manhattan new york city, drug lord, kidnapping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Phoenix, Arizona, alcoholic and mediocre Detective Ben Shockley (Clint Eastwood) is assigned by Chief Commissary Blakelock (William Prince) to bring witness Gus Mally (Sondra Locke) from Las Vegas, Nevada for a minor trial. Shockley travels to Las Vegas and finds that Gus Mally is an aggressive and intelligent prostitute with a college degree and she tells him that the odds are against her showing up in court. Shockley learns that she will actually testify against a powerful mobster, and the mafia is chasing them, trying to kill them both. He calls Blakelock and requests a Police escort from Phoenix to protect them. But soon, he discovers that someone is betraying him in the Police Department. Now, Shockley and Malley hijack a bus and Shockley welds thick steel plates and transforms the cabin in an armored bus trying to reach the Forum. But they will need to drive through a gauntlet of Police Officers armed with heavy weapons.
Plot Keywords: road movie, cowboy hat, motorcycle chase, sunglasses, beard, bandana, headband ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
Plot Keywords: pool hall, whiskey, shovel, cigarette smoking, tax evasion, bloodhound, running ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a roller coaster in California goes off its track, killing several people, safety inspector Harry Calder, who had recently inspected the coaster, is assigned to investigate. After another amusement park suffers a suspicious fire, Calder uncovers a blackmail plot by a psychopathic terrorist. The terrorist seems to know everything Calder and the FBI say and do, and insists that Calder deliver the blackmail money personally at an amusement park in Virginia. After running Calder all over the park, the money drop is made and the terrorist gets away, but he discovers that the FBI had marked the money, making it useless to him. He plots to get revenge by blowing up a giant new roller coaster on its opening day, and it's up to Calder to stop him.—Mark Walker
Plot Keywords: amusement park, revolver, held at gunpoint, secretary, media coverage, security guard, concert ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam War veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the previous generation of Sicilian mafiosi were all killed on a single day. Torrey gets various clues that something big is about to happen, but will he discover what is planned before the big day?—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: shot to death, shootout, revolver, shot multiple times, chauffeur, trapdoor, parking garage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Remy tries to persuade her father, Sam Royce, who is Stuart's employer, to use his influence to stop Stuart from seeing Denise. Rogue policeman Lew Slade is suspended from the L.A.P.D. for having punched an obtuse officer from another jurisdiction. Embittered, Slade contemplates quitting the police force. Jody, a perverted grocery store manager, lusts after Rosa Amici, sister of Sal, the assistant to Miles Quade, an aspiring daredevil motor cyclist. The lives of all these people are devastated when a major earthquake rips through Los Angeles and reduces the city to ruins.
Plot Keywords: earthquake, pantyhose, attempted rape, breasts, title spoken by character, los angeles california, national guard ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions, Danielle "Dany" Lang, a meek English secretary with an international advertising agency in Paris, drives to sun-kissed French Riviera to blow off steam, after seeing her boss, Michael Caldwell, and his wife, Anita, off at the airport. The plan was to drop them off and drive Michael's car back to the house; however, as soon as Dany sets foot on the picturesque resort for the first time in her life, a series of chance encounters with perfect strangers, who claim that they recognise her, begin to mar her ideal weekend. Now, there's a strange noise coming from the boot of the car. Is the lady in the car going mad?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: frame up, french riviera, secretary, road trip, road movie, 20th century literature on screen, crime literature on screen ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.
Plot Keywords: corruption, united states, usa, showdown, boat chase, car chase, topless female nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Shaft is persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor, to assume the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker in Africa. His job is to help break a racket that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: africa, muslim, pistol, semiautomatic pistol, one man army, terrorist, terrorism ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually, briefly covering the years after Capone was imprisoned.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: female frontal nudity, vagina, female nudity, bare breasts, sex, brutality, shoulder holster ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate hisbrother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead to a breathless race course chase, the destruction of a dopepusher and a violent waterfront climax.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: blaxploitation, neo noir, gangster, los angeles california, mob boss, mobster, murder of brother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge the killing of his brother by a rival gang. In the course of getting even, Rick is arrested, leaving Melissa without anyone to protect her. She falls in with a crack dealer and quickly becomes addicted to the drug. When she gets sold to a drug kingpin by a minor dealer to pay off a debt, only Rick can save her.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: gang, blaxploitation, crack cocaine, drug dealer, hispanic, mexican american, revenge murder ...
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