The Detective - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[kristen]

We Own the Night 2007

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

We Own the Night features suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating and serious style.

[moviebuff]

Brooklyns Finest 2009

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPDs sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...

Brooklyns Finest features tense, realistic, suspense, neo noir and hood style.

[ken]

The Warriors 1979

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New Yorks gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting a rival leader kills Cyrus but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus ...

The Warriors features neo noir, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized and suspense style.

[TravisFanna]

Gangster Squad 2013

Los Angeles 1949. Ruthless Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs the guns the prostitutes and if he has his way every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it ...

Gangster Squad features rough, tense, exciting, stylized and serious style.

[ken]

Black Rain 1989

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan however he manages to escape. As they try to track him down ...

Black Rain features suspense, neo noir, detective, exciting and tense style.

[tom]

Code of Silence 1985

A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Code of Silence features exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective and realistic style.

[CharlesVob]

Shaft 1971

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Shaft features grindhouse, stylized, tense, harsh and neo noir style.

[xpyneuusp]

Serpico 1973

The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.

Serpico features suspense, realistic, serious, neo noir and psychological style.

[ijlpcdygh]

Shaft 2000

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial confident his money and influence ...

Shaft features stylized, suspense, intense, hood and realistic style.

[Davidmycle]

Boiling Point 1993

Red is an aging scam-artist whos just been released from prison together with Ronnie a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money ...

Boiling Point features suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful and tense style.

[RafaelDet 0]

Training Day 2001

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isnt what he appears.

Training Day features neo noir, tense, realistic, harsh and suspense style.

[bryan]

8MM 1999

A small seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate ...

8MM features psychological, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller and suspenseful style.

[carla]

Snapdragon 1993

An erotic amnesiac lures a police psychologist into a world of lust and danger.

Snapdragon features erotic, tense, realistic, psychological and disturbing style.

[gabriel]

Three Days of the Condor 1975

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Three Days of the Condor features political thriller, tense, suspense, atmospheric and exciting style.

[ZaivsakBuili]

Magnum Force 1973

quotDirtyquot Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion only Dirty Harry can stop ...

Magnum Force features suspenseful, tense, intense, harsh and serious style.

[Antonioliz]

U.S. Marshals 1998

U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan it ...

U.S. Marshals features exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious and entertaining style.

[cinephile]

The Getaway 1972

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

The Getaway features neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, suspense and road movie style.

[gabriel]

The Enforcer 1976

Dirty Harry Callahan returns again this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.

The Enforcer features neo noir, suspenseful, detective, grindhouse and perverse style.

[mathew]

Street Kings 2008

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 hes been a ...

Street Kings features suspense, neo noir, detective, hood and harsh style.

[fred]

Shaft 2000

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial confident his money and influence ...

Shaft features stylized, suspense, intense, hood and realistic style.