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	remove undo remove undo add Alphaville Set in the future on another planet, Alphaville is about Lemmy Caution, an undercover agent posing as a journalist, hoping to find Henry Dickson an agent who has gone missing. While at the same time trying to kill the dictator of Alphaville.
	remove undo remove undo add Batman Gotham City citizens are terrified as their town is becoming overrun with gangsters and criminals causing havoc of all kinds. Just when things look like they couldn't get any worse, along comes the Joker. The Batman looks to be the only one who can save the day.
	remove undo remove undo add Batman Begins The first movie in Chris Nolan's Batman movie-franchise reboot is the retelling of Batman's origin story, and puts him opposite Ra's Al Ghul and the Scarecrow.
	remove undo remove undo add Batman Returns Gotham City is in the spirit of Christmas when along comes the Penguin and a ruthless business man, Max Shreck, trying to take control of the city. Can Batman stop the duo in their tracks? And who is the mysterious Catwoman causing trouble throughout Gotham?
	remove undo remove undo add Blade Runner Based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", Blade Runner is a detective noir science fiction film that touches heavily upon themes of existentialism and morality.
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	remove undo remove undo add Chinatown Jake "J.J." Gittes is a private detective sent to investigate an adultery cases stumbles across something indifferent about the water supply.
	remove undo remove undo add City Hunter A Hong Kong action-comedy based on the manga of the same name. Jackie Chan stars in the film as Ryo Saeba.
	remove undo remove undo add City Hunter: .357 Magnum
	remove undo remove undo add Dirty Harry The first in the Dirty Harry Series.
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	remove undo remove undo add Face/Off Agent Sean Archer must switch faces with the maniacal Castor Troy (his son's murderer) in order to prevent a bomb from destroying Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Troy awakes from his coma and decides to be Archer for awhile.
	remove undo remove undo add Girl from the Naked Eye A guy tries to find who killed his call girl friend.
	remove undo remove undo add Hard Boiled Hard Boiled is John Woo's final Hong Kong magnum opus. Hard Boiled follows Detective Tequila, busting bad guys in Hong Kong to stop the mob, and Tony Leung as Alan, an undercover gangster for the mafia who must trust and work with Tequila to take the city back.
	remove undo remove undo add Harry Brown A widowed Northern Ireland veteran takes the law into his own hands in South London after his friend is brutally murdered.
	remove undo remove undo add Hoosiers A volatile coach leads a small town Indiana basketball team to the state finals with the help of the team's now alcoholic former star player. Inspired by a true story.
	remove undo remove undo add Key Largo When a notorious gangster holds up a hotel, it's up to a guest to stand up to him.
	remove undo remove undo add Kill Zone Wong Po, a vicious gangster is free once more. Detective Chung is determined to stop him at any cost.
	remove undo remove undo add L.A. Confidential L.A. Confidential follows three distinctly different police officers as they each try to unmask the circumstances surrounding the mysterious mass-murder at the Nite Owl, a local coffee shop.
	remove undo remove undo add L.A.P.I The general description of our protagonist.
	remove undo remove undo add Magnum Force Rogue cops are murdering legally untouchable criminals. Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan must decide whether to join the vigilante police officers or bring them to justice.
	remove undo remove undo add Miami Vice Miami narcotics detectives Crockett and Tubbs go deeper undercover than they've ever been to expose an international drug ring.
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	remove undo remove undo add Rio Bravo When Dude (Dean Martin) witnesses outlaw Nathan Burdette murder a man in a saloon, Dude and Chance have to hold him in jail until the US Marshall arrives to take him away. The following days are filled with attempted jail breaks, love interests, and murder.
	remove undo remove undo add Se7en Seven (sometimes spelled Se7en) stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, who play the new detective and the old veteran. Assigned to a case involving bizarre and gruesome murders based on the seven deadly sins, they try to put their differing styles aside to solve the case.
	remove undo remove undo add Sin City While not a detective, Marv (Mickey Rourke) has to solve the mystery behind Goldie's murder.
	remove undo remove undo add The Big Heat
	remove undo remove undo add The Big Sleep Based on the Raymond Chandler novel of the same name, Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled private eye who gets mixed up in a web of murder, blackmail, and sex.
	remove undo remove undo add The City of Violence A childhood friend was killed for reasons unknown. It's time to find the killer and seek vengeance.
	remove undo remove undo add The Dark Knight Batman has to walk the thin line between hero and criminal in Christopher Nolan's second Batman film, which won an Academy Award for Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker, and went on to become one of the highest grossing films of all time.
	remove undo remove undo add The Dead Pool
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	remove undo remove undo add The French Connection Two dedicated New York cops of the Narcotics Bureau stumble upon a multi-million dollar drug smuggling operation and set out to bring it, and everyone involved with it, down.
	remove undo remove undo add The Friends of Eddie Coyle
	remove undo remove undo add The Hard Goodbye One of the four stories told in Sin City. On the Sin City Recut - Extended - Unrated DVD, Robert Rodriguez extended each story and allowed viewers to watch each one separately.
	remove undo remove undo add The Killer Inside Me 'The Killer Inside Me' is a film based on the 1952 novel of the same name, by American writer Jim Thompson. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, it follows the story of Deputy Sherriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck), a seemingly respectable member of his small hometown's community.
	remove undo remove undo add The Maltese Falcon The third film adaptation of the famed novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, the story follows the exploits of detective Sam Spade. When his partner is killed he unearths an intricate plot between three ruthless world travelers searching for the mysterious Maltese Falcon.
	remove undo remove undo add The Maltese Falcon A San Francisco private eye is caught up in a conspiracy to steal an ancient relic.
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	remove undo remove undo add The Town Set in Boston, a group of Bank robbers keep escalating their heists and the FBI are hot on their trail. However, things get complicated as Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) gets caught up in a romance with a former hostage.
	remove undo remove undo add Watchmen Based on Alan Moore's graphic novel, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985, where superheroes have now become outlaws in America, but it is only them that can stop a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union from destroying the world.