Casino (1995), Carlito's Way (1993), The Conversation (1974), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Black Book (2006), Serpico (1973), The French Connection (1971), Frost/Nixon (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Wiretap movies.
Storyline: After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Finn and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents and sadistic dealer Pooh-Bear.
Plot Keywords: shot in the back, night vision, rain, playing pool, shot through a door, junkie, silencer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a phone booth in belief it is Pam, Stu is on the line with a dangerous yet intelligent psychopath with a sniper rifle. When realizing it is not a joke, Stu is placed in a powerful mind game of wits and corruption. The New York City Police eventually arrive thereafter and demand Stu comes out of the phone booth- but how can he when if he hangs up or leaves the booth he will die?
Plot Keywords: single set production, hostage, mind game, psychopath, containment, minimal cast, hidden truth ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true story of James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather and a FBI informant who had a "secret trading" deal with his brother, William "Billy" Bulger, a state senator and a Boston public figure, and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down theft Italian mob and mafia in Boston, which went awry and things turned massively violent. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders, and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI's Boston office to confirm that Whitey Bulger was one of the most notorious criminals in US history and also one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List criminals.
Plot Keywords: true crime, fbi agent, gangster, boston massachusetts, based on true story, tough guy, illness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chinatown, New York City. There has long been an unofficial agreement that the NYPD will leave the traditionally run Chinese triad alone to manage the crime issue in the neighborhood, the triad who is the face of organized crime of Chinatown. The triad also has an unofficial agreement with the Italian mafia, still seen as the major player in organized crime in the city, to be cooperative in a win-win situation in their illegal activities. However, the Chinese youth gangs are disregarding these unofficial agreements, being another violent player in the crime scene in Chinatown, they who take a stand by killing Jackie Wong, the head of the triad. To deal with the matter, the NYPD reassign Captain Stanley White from Brooklyn to Chinatown. Stanley, of Polish heritage, is not averse to slinging slurs toward his adversaries, most of those of a racial nature. This reassignment will not help the already deteriorating marriage he has to his long suffering wife, Connie. While Stanley is ...
Plot Keywords: asian woman, shot in the head, upskirt, woman shot, english subtitles in original, controversy, chinatown manhattan new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When they were kids Texas Ranger Jack Benteen used to be best friends with drug kingpin Cash Bailey. At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack's girlfriend Sarita, who used to be with Cash. She returns to Cash as a voluntary hostage to make certain that Jack keeps his hands off the drug lord's operation. On top of that, there is a meticulously planned drug bust, in which both Jack and Cash butt heads with CIA-funded paramilitary Maj. Paul Hackett, following his own agenda.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: texas mexico border, exploding house, false identity, female nudity, female singer, fiesta, fistfight ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marshal O'Niel's assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. He soon encounters miners who are dying, due to use of an illegal amphetamine. O'Niel follows the trail, and now O'Niel must watch his back, as he's now their target.
Plot Keywords: shotgun, amphetamine, space western, ledge, fall from height, morgue, night vision ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Family man Marlon Villar - a longtime chauffeur to corrupt Filipino politician Manuel Chango - is faced with an unthinkable predicament when he is ambushed while driving both his boss's and his own daughter home from school one afternoon. In the chaos of the kidnapping attempt, things go horribly awry and Marlon's daughter is taken and held for ransom instead. Desperate to save his daughter, Marlon must navigate the conflicting motives between the ruthless kidnappers, untrustworthy Chango and determined detectives eager to name him a suspect without letting on the wrong girl was taken hostage. As events spin wildly out of control, Marlon, Chango and their families are forced into a rapid downward spiral of deceit and betrayal that will leave no one innocent.—Graceland
Plot Keywords: hands tied, grandmother, morality, hospital, manila philippines, village, dead body ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.
Plot Keywords: drug cartel, cigarette smoking, based on true story, father son relationship, foot chase, sting operation, informant ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After years in hiding, ex-Weather Underground militant, Nick Sloan, a.k.a. Jim Grant, learns about his old compatriot's arrest for a bank robbery turned deadly in the 1970s, for which he is wanted as an accomplice. This puts the ambitious young local reporter, Ben Shepard, on the scent of a story that exposes Nick as well. As such, Nick goes on the run while taking his daughter to safety. With that accomplished, Nick stays one step ahead of the F.B.I. while pursuing a faint hope to clear his name. Meanwhile, Shepard digs deeper into the case as he discovers the true complexities of another times' determined ideals, even as Nick faces their consequences with another.
Plot Keywords: surveillance, canada, surrender, testimony, professor, lecture hall, backpack ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mick and Sue continue where they left off in "'Crocodile' Dundee". New York City drug lords are pursuing Sue for having solid evidence against them for murder, so for her safety, Mick takes her back to Australia. When the gangsters follow them, Mick demonstrates his outback skills once more.
Plot Keywords: drug lord, wiretap, surveillance, sneak attack, snake, police, mohawk haircut ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sonny "Sundown" Garcia is the top North American narcotics distributor for the Colombian cartels. He has created the most efficient and productive distribution pipeline since the era of the Cocaine Cowboys. John Doe is a man of mystery. His identity and history are unknown. All we know is that he wants Sundown dead and six feet under. But before he does so, he wants to make Sundown feel every thing that he felt, suffer every thing that he suffered and lose everything that he lost. To exact his revenge, John Doe hires 6 contractors from the criminal underworld with individual specialties, to execute his plan. John wants 6 things taken from Sundown: his freedom, his love, his reputation, his most valuable possession, his money and finally, his life. Sundown's life is quickly and efficiently turned to a living hell. His bank account is wiped clean. His wife disappears. His loyalties are put to the test. Systematically, Sundown's entire life is being wiped out, ending with his successful assassination. This is an enemy the type of which 'Sundown' has never experienced.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: gun, husband wife relationship, shootout, wiretap, dirty cop, public execution, assassination ...
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