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Certification18 Our Rating

Jackie Chan plays a police man assigned to track down kidnappers, unaware that his partner is also a villain. Blazing through incredible stunts, car chases and brutal rooftop brawls (not forgetting the heart attack victim brought back to life with jump leads and a revving engine!), we see Jackie the maverick cop in full throttle to bring this case to its final and bloody conclusion. With non of his normal comic routines this is the best pure thriller Chan has ever starred in. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

A single mother blames an African-American man from the projects when her car is stolen with her young son in it. A black detective and a white missing child researcher team up to investigate the case, which they discover may be more complicated than they expected, and the investigation sparks off a race riot. find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

Noirish, black and white thriller, adapted by Kurosawa from a novel by Ed McBain. Wealthy tycoon Kingo Gondo is prepared to face financial ruin when his young son is kidnapped, but it soon emerges that the ruthless abductor has accidentally snatched the chauffeur's child instead. With the ransom demand still standing, Kingo faces a terrible moral dilemma, while wily policeman Inspector Tokuro employs ever more cunning methods in his hunt for the kidnapper. Tense and thought-provoking. find out more...
HOSTAGE (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Jeff Talley is an ex hostage negotiator, tortured by his past and now living out his days as chief of police in a small uneventful hick town. Three lads decide to make a bit of easy money when they spot an obviously loaded dad with his two kids, but ‘dad’ is an accountant to some super shady crime syndicate and his house makes fort Knox look like a tent. Having inadvertently trapped themselves in what now resembles a luxury prison, Jeff finds himself once again resuming his old role; but as tens find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

January 1966: in a Paris flat police discover the body of Georges Figon. A year earlier, tired of dodgy deals and petty scams, ex-con Georges Figon had gone in search of something big and, through his underworld connections, had got himself hired as producer for a documentary on de-colonialisation to be written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju. The well-known Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka was to be the film's 'historical advisor', but the whole film project was an elaborat find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

Lovable old Morgan Freeman plays a deep-thinking detective in this gripping tale of the hunt for a depraved kidnapper and murderer. Dubbing himself "Casanova", the unknown nutter has so far abducted eight young women, and shows no sign of slowing up. But when victim number 9 manages to escape the fiend's evil clutches, she becomes the one chance Freeman has to nail him and save the remaining captives, who now include the cop's own niece. An understated but genuinely suspenseful serial killer thr find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

Gracie Hart is back, but rather than the hard nosed, no nonsense FBI agent of old we now find her previous assignment has "mellowed" her. As the celebrity face of the agency, Gracie has become little more than a glorified version of the beauty pageant sweeties she originally held in such low regard. A new partner kick starts her old self bringing this little comedy back to life. Miss Congeniality 2 is an amiable enough comedy, though suffering quite severely from complacent sequelitis. find out more...
MR 73 (2009)

Certification18 Our Rating

Controversial former BRI (hard guys) police detective Olivier Marchal follows up his excellent police drama/thriller '36 Quai des Orfevres' with this tale of a washed up Marseilles flic finding some sort of redemption as he hunts for a serial killer and exposes police corruption at the highest level. Since '36' Marchal has come out and stated - yes they did do drugs, yes they did hang out in the same bars as criminals and yes they did cut deals. Enuff said. find out more...
MUNICH (2005)

Certification15 Our Rating

After the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 German Olympics the Israeli secret service, Mossad, were sent to wreak terrible vengeance on those it was believed were responsible. Avner is the young man chosen to head up the unit, but as Mossad's assassination team effectively wipes out suspect after suspect he begins to doubt the wisdom of their mission and his ideological faith gives way to guilt and confusion. Munich is an unblemished technical exercise from Spielberg, the action find out more...


Certification15 Our Rating

A sexy, stylish thriller, starring two of Hollywood's hottest properties in an exhilirating adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel. Taking in locations from Miami to Detroit, and set to a fast and funky soundtrack, this is a crime caper with a forbidden, sizzling romance at its core. Habitual bank robber Jack Foley (Clooney) is the original lovable rogue, newly escaped from jail, who's got a $5 million diamond stash in his sights, and drop-dead gorgeous Deputy Marshal Karen Sisko (the awesome Lope find out more...