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...

Clint Eastwood plays an over-the-top fascist cop prepared to break all the rules in order to nail the "bad guys". Excellent entertainment, oft quoted by US politicians, and a warning to us liberals - keep the buggers under control. find out more...

A multi-stranded tale of tragedy after tragedy unfolds against an icy Finnish backdrop. Following the sacking of a school teacher we follow a chain of misfortune from victim to victim; a loser car-thief, an ex-alcoholic vacuum salesman, who falls off the wagon in spectacular style, a depressed policewoman, a computer hacker and the policewoman's husband amongst others. A dark, uncompromising film which shows how fickle and cruel fate can be. There are some moments of humour but they are jet jet find out more...

Lucky grows up in a South African township in the post-apartheid era and is caught between the desire to go university and the lure of easy money from violent crime.
A decade on an we see him as a struggling taxi-driver before his transformation into a businessman who uses violence to reclaim inner-city Joburg tenement blocks from the drug-dealers and hookers who inhabit them and from the rich white slum landlords who own them. Thus the ambitious gangster realises an aim of the revolution find out more...

Adrenaline-fueled car chase drug-smuggling cop drama from the big city across Franco-Spanish border.

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Superbly stylish thriller played out amongst the seedy Paris underworld. A pimp is forced to turn informer when the flics put the hard word on the hooker he adores. Car chases and bar room brawls abound, but it's the painfully real emotions which make this tale of love and betrayal truly outstanding. find out more...

Daniel, a taxi driver who loves to push his foot to the metal, gets caught speeding by the cops. In an attempt to keep his driving licence, Daniel offers to help a loser police inspector catch a gang of German bank robbers. Despite being scripted by Luc Besson (Nikita, Leon, The Big Blue) 'Taxi' seems content to be an average action flick. Despite all this, the film went down a storm at the French box office, the car chase scenes may have helped, and, at the time of writing, a sequel is well un find out more...

A totally seductive knockabout movie with Robert Mitchum 'Duke' and Jane Greer 'Chiquita Graham' in fine form. Duke has to catch the culprit for a payroll heist to prove his own innocence and shake off a pursuing army officer, a chase that takes him to Mexico, where he meets Chiquita, who is independently after the same con-man, and here they find action, adventure and romance. A fast paced narrative with an outstanding supporting cast, especially Ramon Novarro as Inspector General Ortega. find out more...

The famous drugs thriller as Gene Hackman plays the cop determined to fix the Marseille based heroin runners once and for all. An action-packed movie full of murders, car chases and everything else a good thriller should have - making it one of the classics and a yardstick for others since. Won Best Picture at 1971 Academy Awards. find out more...

A fast-paced, blackly comic sci-fi thriller about a power-hungry alien organism which invades the bodies of law-abiding citizens and transforms them into deranged criminals with a penchant for fast cars, blasting rock music, and violent anti-social behaviour. Nice, normal citizens are going on bloody rampages and there's no explanation for it until Detective Tom Beck is assigned to the case and realises that they are possessed by something that isn't human! A fast, action packed and highly en find out more...