The Guard is a thriller - comedy set on the west coast of Ireland where Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Gleeson) is a small -
town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine - smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett (Cheadle) to his door.
Not exact matches
As law enforcement officers descended on the
town of 21,000 equipped
with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals
cops have been amassing.
Desperate for a night out, they hit the
town only to have their plans foiled by a missing baby, a car chase, their husbands, and
cops with a Taser.
A home in the upscale Westchester
town of Mamaroneck became a scene of carnage Saturday,
with cops shooting a knife - wielding 28 - year - old woman — and trying in vain to save the...
Mr. Lake, a rookie
cop with the
town's police department, was terminated in a unanimous decision of the Town Board following an executive session May 19 — four days before his probationary period was set to
town's police department, was terminated in a unanimous decision of the
Town Board following an executive session May 19 — four days before his probationary period was set to
Town Board following an executive session May 19 — four days before his probationary period was set to end.
The county made a deal
with the
Town of Ossining Tuesday night to take over its police force, getting needed extra cops and the new precinct house and allowing the town to save $ 1 million annually in the proc
Town of Ossining Tuesday night to take over its police force, getting needed extra
cops and the new precinct house and allowing the
town to save $ 1 million annually in the proc
town to save $ 1 million annually in the process.
While this creepy walk through post-war Vienna may not always make sense (Joe Cotton's character argues
with the
cops about them having a lack of evidence when he in fact is on the light side of proof) it's moody atmospherics make for an interesting crawl through the bad side of
town.
Dexter gets some much - needed R&R time
with Rita and the kids out of
town, leading to his stalking of a new victim - until he unexpectedly begins to empathize
with his target, a
cop that murdered her family.
Hank delivers a completed draft of «Santa Monica
Cop» to Samurai Apocalypse but his attempts to leave
town are once again thwarted when he's asked to show a night on the
town to Kali, his «acquaintance» from the flight to Los Angles; Tyler crashes
with Karen and Becca while he recovers from his injuries; things get unprofessional fast when Charlie is saved from a serious parental crisis by his son's nanny, Lizzie.
Director: Edgar Wright Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman Edgar Wright's follow - up to «Shaun of the Dead» is a bigger, busier, slightly less focused ramble through small -
town cop - movie clichés, but it might just be the better film, benefiting from a script packed
with smart one - liners and neat riffs on everything from Hammer horror to cosy ITV dramas.
Kelly is a prostitute who, upon arriving at Grantville and engaging in one last professional rendezvous (
with Griff, the
town cop played by Anthony Eisley), decides to go the way of Mother Teresa.
Cool big city
cop Sidney Poitier happens to be caught in a bigoted Southern
town when a bizarre murder is committed and, after tussling
with the local good ole boy Sheriff (Rod Steiger), finds himself drafted in to help out
with the investigation.
LA
Cops is an action - packed 3D top down shooter set in 1970s LA
with police trying to do a tough job in a tough
town.
The small - minded, small -
town police force doesn't seem to care, but the chief (a strong Woody Harrelson) and his
cop on the beat (Sam Rockwell at his best) have their own issues to deal
with.
WHAT: After serving as a sex slave for ruthless crime boss Taiko (Hiroyuki Watanabe) for the past five years, Everly (Salma Hayek) strikes a deal
with one of the few honest
cops in
town to testify against Taiko.
Soon, John finds himself embroiled in the strange sightings and crank calls occurring at the tiny
town of Point Pleasant, teaming
with local
cop Sgt. Parker (Linney) to get to the heart of the winged «mothman» and its titular prophecies of doom.
The ubiquitous racism taints everything in Easy's path:
cops arrest and beat him
with impunity; white teens assault him when he casually chats
with a white woman; and everywhere the glances from white people confused as to why a Negro would be walking around the white part of
town.
Jigsaw's
town has been littered
with druggies, crooked
cops and murderers.
Flint
Town: Season 1 (Netflix Original, 2018): Over a two - year period, filmmakers embedded
with cops in Flint, Michigan, reveal a department grappling
with volatile issues in untenable conditions.
Mildred, whose bottomless grief has hardened into a single - minded, nothing - left - to - lose crusade, bulldozes through anyone unwise enough to stand in her way: not just the
cops who, in her words, are «too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crimes,» but also neighbors, asshole teenagers, and the
town's condescending Catholic priest, who she dresses down
with a juicy, show - stopping monologue.
Christopher McQuarrie «s adaptation of Lee Child «s thriller novel One Shot is moving forward
with Tom Cruise in the lead role of hulking ex-military
cop Jack Reacher, who is drawn into a strange plot involving sniper shootings in a mid-size
town.
Who: Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon, Anson Mount and James Hong What: A former
cop must protect a Chinese girl who's been entrusted
with the combination to a safe that every criminal organization in
town is after.
Into this add a diverted prison transport, unable to cope
with the snow covered roads, containing the most notorious crime figure in
town who that day had been arrested for killing a
cop, and the scene is set...
This powerful, sometimes - bleak tale depicts a small -
town cop in upstate Vermont struggling to rebuild his relationship
with his young daughter after ending his marriage.
With Hot Fuzz, the buddy - cop actioner is joyfully challenged with a hilarious twist of its own, as a small - town cop learns that not everything is as peaceful and calm as it first would appear to
With Hot Fuzz, the buddy -
cop actioner is joyfully challenged
with a hilarious twist of its own, as a small - town cop learns that not everything is as peaceful and calm as it first would appear to
with a hilarious twist of its own, as a small -
town cop learns that not everything is as peaceful and calm as it first would appear to be.
«Howard will play Sheriff Braydon, a small -
town cop who crosses paths
with the pair as they're on the run.»
Gass - Donnelly was responsible for 2010's little seen thriller SMALL
TOWN MURDER SONGS starring the great Peter Stormare as a local
cop with a secret.
There's an uneasy relationship between the
town and the tribe, which is fighting for formal recognition from the government while struggling
with poverty and crime, that is exacerbated by a forbidden romance between the
cop's teenage daughter and the ex-con's young half - brother.
In his new film, writer - director John Michael McDonagh's The Guard, Cheadle plays a FBI agent, Wendell Everett, who arrives in rural Ireland to head up a large international drug trafficking investigation, and is then forced to rely on an eccentric small
town cop, Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson),
with a confrontational and crass personality.
This adaptation of Stephen King's 2009 doorstop of the same name features all the familiar characters: James «Big Jim» Rennie (Dean Norris), a used - car salesman who is second selectman of Chester's Mill and would very much like to be first selectman; Dale «Barbie» Barbara (Mike Vogel), a former Army captain in
town on some sort of business; Deputy Linda (Natalie Martinez), the kindhearted
cop; lovely Angie (Britt Robertson) who has a regrettable fling
with not - so - lovely «Junior» (Alexander Koch); intrepid newspaper reporter Julia Shumway (Rachelle Lefevre); and so on...
On the less sympathetic side are people like Dixon (Sam Rockwell), a patrol
cop with a bad reputation for his harsh treatment of the black population in
town.
«Following up his shockingly sturdy Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck takes a header
with The
Town, a formulaic
cops - and - robbers vanity project
with an emphasis on local color and dropped R's.
Picard flees Paris and heads for a small
town, only to be snatched by Bonet, one of France's top
cops — a man so familiar
with Picard's antics that he manages to out - guess his maneuvers to escape the law in a small
town.
Clive Owen (Closer, The Bourne Identity) takes center stage right after, as Dwight, who takes up the fight along
with Old
Town's prostitutes when a slimy
cop gets iced, potentially starting a war between the city's competing factions should the police no longer offer their «protection».
On the case is a trio of
cops: Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell), a dirty detective in the
town of Vinci, a fictional L.A. suburb; Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams), a Ventura County sheriff's deputy
with family issues and a love of knives; and Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch), a brooding Army vet - turned - highway patrolman recently embroiled in scandal.
They worked in story terms and emotional terms, and told its tale
with buoyant invention, a tale of small -
town daughter of a carrot farmer — a rabbit, female, patronized right and left but undeterred — who becomes Zootopia's first rabbit
cop and cracks an insidious political conspiracy
with the aid of her fox pal.
Although the 3D animated pic Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole and the gritty
cops & robbers drama The
Town could not be more different, both look to be a hit
with moviegoers when they arrive within a week's time of one another this September.
So here's the deal, see: Officer Dwight «Bucky» Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) is partners on the LAPD force
with Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart), and they are the most high - profile
cops in
town, thanks to a well - publicized boxing match between the two.
The second season of Fargo (which, as every summary of the show must mention, is not a remake of the Coen brothers movie) is a «70s period piece that's every bit the equal of its fantastic (and unrelated) first season,
with actors like Jesse Plemons, Ted Danson, Patrick Wilson and Jean Smart doing some of their best dark comedy work as small -
town Midwestern crooks and
cops.
Much more than just a
cop movie spoof, Hot Fuzz does excellent things in toying
with audience expectations while scoring points as a murder mystery, a detective drama, a slasher film, a small -
town sitcom, and a fish out of water story.
Intentionally or not, this small -
town thriller
with corrupt
cops and abusive family themes has Frailty vibes (which was directed by Paxton) and more recently reminiscent of
Cop Car.
On Dangerous Ground — Odd little Nicholas Ray noir
with Robert Ryan as a
cop so close to the borderline of police brutality that he gets sent upstate to help solve a murder in a small
town.
Wyldstyle whisks Emmet away
with her, out of the clutches of the villainous Bad
Cop (Liam Neeson) and Lord Business» robotic henchmen, and together they travel to different corners of the Lego Universe, including an Old West
town (where a honky tonk version of «Everything is Awesome» gently plays in the background) and Cloud Cuckoo Place, a magical, glittery land that looks like what would happen if a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper was brought to three - dimensional life.
The Guard took the Festival's spirit to heart
with expert storytelling, a beautiful Irish setting, and exceptional performances by an accomplished cast led by Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle, the flinty local
town cop and Don Cheadle as the FBI outsider investigating an international drug - smuggling ring who turns that
cop's sleepy, workaday world completely upside down.
Terribly Happy (Unrated) Crime thriller about a Copenhagen
cop (Jakob Cedergren) who is reassigned after suffering a nervous breakdown to a small
town only to end up at odds
with the local bully (Kim Bodnia), a wife beater
with a flirtatious wife (Lena Maria Christensen).
Local
cops, security guards, and the port patrol have trailed our 2017 Infiniti QX30 Sport and the 2018 Mercedes - Benz GLA250 we brought along
with it around
town since dawn, but no one has been ticketed or arrested.
With her home now a crime scene and her
cop husband, Tom, out of
town searching for a fugitive hijacker, Goldy has no choice but to show up at the castle — six hours early.
The manga revolves around Nick and Worrick, two men who take on jobs from both the mafia and the police in the
town of Ergastulum, a rotten
town filled
with mafia, hoodlums, prostitutes, and dirty
cops.
Now that he's back in the notorious East London
town he must reckon
with long lost friendships, boyhood enemies and a chance to rekindle lost love.Ali will have to fend off vicious gangsters, religious extremists, hostile businessmen and suspicious
cops to get to the bottom of this mystery.
Being a horror monster is a lot like being a small
town cop: there's lots of down time mixed
with brief moments of intense violence.