Jack Mosley epitomizes the jaded disillusioned detective, hovering on the verge of moral bankruptcy, that Hollywood is so fond of and when he is assigned the task of escorting a petty criminal, who knows a thing or two about corruption, down to the court house the story is set for a re-awakening of his conscience. Directed by Lethal Weapon helmer, Richard Donner, 16 Blocks is an action-packed run for your life movie, short on believability but full of non-stop action. find out more...

1970s; Harlem hood Frank Lucas has hijacked the New York heroin business by dealing directly with the Chinese growers in SE Asia and importing large amounts of the drug inside the caskets of soldiers killed in Vietnam. However his nemesis, flamboyant, tenacious and unbribable narcotics cop Richie Roberts, is on his tail and is determined to bring him down. find out more...

Precinct 13 is facing its last night as an active police station, only a skeleton staff is kept on, but then nobody is expecting any trouble, and as a blizzard rages outside everyone settles down for an uneventful evening. A prison bus, no longer able to cope with the weather conditions pulls up to the precinct, and discharges a motley selection of prisoners, one of them a recently convicted high profile ganglord. What follows is a lethally one sided siege, convicts and cops forced into an uneas find out more...

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A dedicated cop (Chow Yun-Fat) infiltrates a murderous gang of jewel thieves and is badly injured in a bungled heist, leaving him at the mercy of his "colleagues" as they get ever closer to discovering the truth. The ending of the film provided the inspiration for Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. find out more...

Ryuichi is a gangster, Jojima a detective and both are in the middle of a brutal gang war between the Japanese Yakuza and the Chinese Triads. Miiki supposedly throw out most of the script for this movie and replaced it with a series of bizarre deaths. Dead Or Alive is a brutal, frantic and dark thriller from the Japanese master of the avant-garde. find out more...

Intense thriller with Fishburne as the undercover cop trying to bring down the big boys and Goldblum excellent as Fishburne's lawyer-turned-dealer partner. As Fishburne realises what a political pawn he has become, he has to re-examine his past to establish his motives. Utterly absorbing filmmaking with a hip hop soundtrack to match.

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It's 2010 and a wall has been built around Paris's most criminally inclined neighbourhood, a prison of sorts but run by the inmates, all of whom answer to the lord of it all, Taha. However when Taha kidnaps the sister of heroic loner Leito his days immediately become numbered. I fear I've over complicated the plot being as this makes Taxi look overly wordy, but 'District 13' is all about the action and the ‘Free Running' set pieces have to be one of the most mesmerising expressions of physical a find out more...

The sequel to cult hit 'District 13'... lots of bubblegum action as, following the death of gang warlord Taha, five different ethnic gangs fight for control of the lawless ghettos of 2010 Paris and 'Free Runners' Leito and Damien return to try and bring peace before the law and order forces move in for the kill. find out more...

St. Jude Square is a neighborhood living in fear and despair. The dueling gangs of local kingpins Dash and Antuan terrorize the streets and the citizens live without a shred of hope... until mysterious stranger Ryan Hong (Cung Le) arrives in town. He begins to play one gang against the other using his unparalleled martial arts skills, and by calling on the teachings of his brilliant mentor Tiano (Jean-Claude Van Damme) to find the strength to battle back. However, just as he begins to bring t find out more...