Daekwon is the team leader of the surveillance team on the verge of getting a demotion. His mission is to be as an unemployed head of a household and monitor the politician's family who's been house arrested right after arrival from abroad for 24 hours a day with his team. Members of the surveillance team, who have moved into the next door disguised as a neighbor, discover secrets one by one, through monitoring all the sounds and behaviors of suspicious family members, from requests for a radio show to midnight rustling noises…

Bad Lieutenant

1992

English

7.0

♡ 40

77%

Abel Ferrara Director

Victor Argo as Beat Cop

Bo Dietl as Detective Bo

Vincent Laresca as J.C.

Michael Rubin as Musician at Nightclub

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

Theaters of War

2022

English

7.5

♡ 1

government corruption

government cover-up

History

Roger Stahl Director

Michelle Obama as

Tom Cruise as Self

John Krasinski as Self

Michael Bay as Self

If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does the military actually get a crack at the script? With the release of a vast new trove of internal government documents, the answers have come into sharp focus: the US military has exercised editorial control over thousands of films and television programs. As these activities gain new public scrutiny, new questions arise: How have they managed to fly under the radar for so long? And where do we go from here?

Tango One

2018

English

4.6

♡ 11

Action

based on novel or book

Sacha Bennett Director

Enrique Arce as Carlos Rodriguez

Vincent Regan as Donovan

Chris Wilson as Punter

Christopher Ellison as Terry James

Three officers are assigned to go undercover and join a mission to capture Den Donovan.

Hands Over the City

1963

Italian

7.6

♡ 1

Francesco Rosi Director

Gaetano Grimaldi Filioli as Amico di Nottola

Angelo D'Alessandro as Balsamo

Pasquale Martino as Capo dell'archivio

Rod Steiger as Edoardo Nottola

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

The Man from Hong Kong

1975

English

6.5

♡ 7

100%

Brian Trenchard-Smith Director

George Lazenby as Jack Wilton

Biao Yuen as Martial Artist Mars

Mars as Police Cadet

Peter Armstrong as Wilton's Bodyguard

Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.

Street Kings

2008

English

6.8

♡ 90

37%

David Ayer Director

Chris Evans as Detective Paul Diskant

Keanu Reeves as Detective Tom Ludlow

Patrick Gallagher as LAPD Captain

Jay Mohr as Sgt. Mike Clady

Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket

2023

English

6.0

♡ 1

Supriya Sobti Gupta Director

Ajay Jadeja as Self

Mohammad Azharuddin as Self

Aniruddha Bahal as Self

Sriram Karri as Self

The sports documentary examines India's biggest match-fixing scandal, the icons caught in its web and the journalists who uncovered the corruption.

The Border

1982

English

6.4

♡ 19

65%

Tony Richardson Director

Harvey Keitel as Cat

William Russ as Jimbo

Lupe Ontiveros as Madam in Whorehouse

Warren Oates as Red

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

The Candidate

2018

Spanish

7.1

♡ 29

92%

Rodrigo Sorogoyen Director

Bárbara Lennie as Amaia Marín

Luis Zahera as Cabrera

Ana Wagener as La Ceballos

María de Nati as Nati

Manuel, a Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye. Rather than admit to any wrongdoing, he decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that will put many lives at risk.

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold

1964

Japanese

7.3

♡ 9

83%

Kazuo Ikehiro Director

Hiroshi Hayashi as

Shinjirô Asano as

Kenjirô Uemura as Gundayu Matsui

Tomisaburô Wakayama as Jushiro

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.

Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

1965

Japanese

6.9

♡ 5

72%

Kazuo Mori Director

Kenjirô Ishiyama as Boss Jubei Araiso

Kôichi Mizuhara as Shimazo Kitase

Ryûzô Shimada as Yakuza boss

Eiko Taki as Yone

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.

Money for Nothing

1993

English

5.7

♡ 14

Ramón Menéndez Director

Benicio Del Toro as Dino Palladino

Lenny Venito as Hrbek

Michael Rapaport as Kenny Kozlowski

David Norona as U.S. Air Ticket Clerk

When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

Why Me?

2015

Romanian

7.5

♡ 3

Tudor Giurgiu Director

Andreea Vasile as Dora

George Remes as Ovidiu Florea

Radu Banzaru as Prim-ministrul

Corneliu Ulici as Sofer autocisterna

Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations.

City Hall

1996

English

6.2

♡ 38

60%

Harold Becker Director

Mel Winkler as Det. Albert Holly

Bill Farmer as Homer Simpson

Al Pacino as Mayor John Pappas Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Newscaster

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

A Most Violent Year

2014

English

6.9

♡ 66

89%

husband wife relationship

J.C. Chandor Director

Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales

Jessica Chastain as Anna Morales

Jimmy Palumbo as Barber Jimmy O.

Peter Gerety as Bill O'Leary

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Bordertown

2007

English

6.0

♡ 7

64%

Gregory Nava Director

Antonio Banderas as Alfonso Diaz

Kate del Castillo as Elena Diaz

Martin Sheen as George Morgan

Sonia Braga as Teresa Casillas

American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.

Blood Sucking Freaks

1976

English

4.7

♡ 5

29%

Joel M. Reed Director

Viju Krem as Natasha Di Natalie

Dan Fauci as Police Sgt. John Tucci

Seamus O'Brien as Sardu

Niles McMaster as Tom Maverick

Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.

Five Fingers for Marseilles

2017

English

6.1

♡ 2

76%

Michael Matthews Director

Anthony Oseyemi as Congo

Jerry Mofokeng as Jonah

Mduduzi Mabaso as Luyanda

Kenneth Fok as Wei

Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one of them, returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it.

Smoke & Mirrors

2016

Spanish

6.8

54%

Alberto Rodríguez Director

Eduard Fernández as Francisco Paesa

José Coronado as Jesús Camoes

Luis Callejo as Juan Alberto Belloch

José Manuel Poga as Periodista 2

A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.

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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

Money for Nothing

Why Me?

City Hall

A Most Violent Year

Bordertown

Blood Sucking Freaks

Five Fingers for Marseilles

Smoke & Mirrors