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61) The heat
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"Uptight FBI agent Sarah Ashburn ... and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins ... couldn't be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected-- buddies"--Container.
63) Walking tall
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Buford Pusser, an ex-marine, returns to his home town to see it full of corruption and crime. With a four-foot club in hand, he goes on a violent quest to make his town right again.
64) Madigan
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A veteran New York City detective is given only a few hours to track down a vicious killer.
65) The enforcer
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Detective Harry Callahan has a new partner, Inspector Kate Moore, who has two jobs: tracking down a band of armed-and-wacko terrorists and winning Harry's confidence.
66) Die hard
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A team of terrorists has seized a building in L.A. and taken hostages. A New York cop, in town to spend Christmas with his estranged wife, is the only hope for the people held by the savage criminals.
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Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
Die hard 2: John McClane is off-duty on Christmas Eve in the nation's capital...
70) Speed
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Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and passenger must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour- or the bomb will explode.
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Miss Congeniality: Sandra Bullock stars as an operative posing as a pageant contestant in order to ferret out a terrorist targetting the Miss United States beauty pageant.
Miss Congeniality 2: This time, Federal Agent Gracie Hart goes undercover in Las Vegas to rescue her best friend, the Miss United States Pageant winner. She also has to deal with a new partner with anger-management issues and a dim view of Gracie.
74) Dragnet
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A comedy that pays homage to the famed original police drama of the '50s and '60s. The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew (Aykroyd) of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner (Hanks) to rescue the City of Angels from the machinations of a power-mad reverend (Plummer) and a corrupt police commissioner.
75) Thief
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Criterion collection volume 691
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Frank is a professional safecracker. He wants to quit to start a new life, but the mobsters disagree.
76) Speed
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Jack Traven is a L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist. He and his partner diffuse a bomb planted in an office elevator, saving the passengers inside. Later, he is sent to diffuse a bomb that the same revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and a passenger must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour-- or the bomb will explode.
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A drama that takes you deep inside organized crime and the cops who keep tabs on it. A father, businessman and drug smuggler, Jimmy Reardon, feels the heat from outlaw bikers muscling in on his territory. Mary Spalding, head of Vancouver's Organized Crime Unit, fears her rivals in the intelligence community more than criminals. Together, they form an alliance that threatens to undo them both.
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A pair of ten-year-olds find an abandoned cop car in a field. When they take it for a joyride, it seems like they could kill themselves at any moment. But things only get worse when the small town sheriff goes looking for his missing car. The kids find themselves in the center of a deadly game of cat and mouse they don't understand and the only way out is to go as fast as their cop car will take them.
79) Inside man
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"[A] disgraced police detective seeks redemption by going undercover to expose a violent and bloody crime syndicate. But as he sinks deeper into the mob and more bodies drop, the price for absolution may be higher than he can afford"--Container.
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"Bailey, Thornton and Cryer were eighties entrepreneurs until it was found that they had stolen millions of pounds from their investors. All three are serving sentences in the same prison where Cryer is found dead in his cell. It looks like a heart attack but the pathologist's report quickly points to murder. Morse and Lewis go behind bars to investigate but must tread carefully with the prison governor, Mrs. Stevens, who is concerned about the reputation...
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