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Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1959 British-German co-production The Treasure of San Teresa [Hot Money Girl] stars Eddie Constantine as former World War Two OSS agent Larry Brennan, who goes to Czechoslovakia after the war and gets […]
Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 The Choirboys is a raw and repulsive black-comic crime thriller about the delinquent members of an American police department in Los Angeles, the Wilshire Divison of the Los Angeles Police Department. […]
Director Daniel Petrie’s 1981 Fort Apache the Bronx is an urgent Eighties police report from deep in New York’s South Bronx area with its derelict tenements, hookers, pimps, wailing police cars, rain-swept streets and murderous assaults […]
Ealing Studios’ engrossing 1956 British crime thriller film The Long Arm stars Jack Hawkins in one of his quintessential roles as a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of safe-breaking jobs. Director Charles Frend’s 1956 […]
The nailbiting 1976 non-stop action thriller film Assault on Precinct 13 about a gang of delinquents besieging a strangely empty Los Angeles police station deservedly helped to catapult its writer-director John Carpenter into the big […]
Ethan Hawke again proves he can play a tough cop as Sgt Jake Roenick, the useful hero of the brilliantly tense 2005 action thriller film remake Assault on Precinct 13. After Training Day (2001), Ethan […]
Co-writer/ director Claude Miller’s satisfying 1981 French police thriller is neatly done, atmospheric, gripping and very dark. It won four French César Awards in 1982 – Best Actor (Michel Serrault), Best Supporting Actor (Guy Marchand), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Michel […]