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The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: Being a better son to his mother, being a better partner to his girlfriend, and being a better father to T, their beautiful four-year-old daughter. Then he's gunned down by BART officers on New Year's Day in 2009, sending shock waves...
2) Vertigo
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Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
3) Dirty Harry
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In San Francisco a rooftop killer has already murdered two people, and now he's kidnapped a girl. He threatens to let her suffocate unless the city pays his ransom demand. Harry's out to get him.
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San Francisco police detective "Dirty Harry" Callahan learns his name is on an underground betting pool for celebrities who will die. With his new partner, a Chinese-American karate whiz, Dirty Harry must track down the killer while evading a TV reporter who is hounding him and avoiding death himself.
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Nick Curran is a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case. She is manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Tramell. Catherine's latest book features a murder uncannily similar to the one Nick is investigating and as the pair engage in a mating dance of dangerous one-upmanship more murders occur, all are exactly as described in her current work about a boozy cop in love with a killer....
9) Dirty Harry
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A rock-hard cop attempts to track down a psychopathic killer before a kidnapped girl dies. The killer is released after the cop abuses his civil rights, and hijacks a school bus. The only answer to this vicious killer seems to be death in cold blood.
10) Vertigo
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San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.
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Scottie Ferguson, a recently retired San Francisco police detective, is hired to shadow a rich shipbuilder 's tragically suicidal wife, Madeleine Elster. After he saves her from drowning in the San Francisco Bay, Scottie's interest in the beautiful but icy blonde shifts from business to romance. But when tragedy strikes again, Scottie must overcome the vertigo that haunts his dreams in order to unravel the secrets of the past and find the key to...
12) Magnum force
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Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
13) Sudden impact
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Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. This time, he is tracking a traumatized rape victim who coldly guns down her bygone attackers-- and as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman.
14) 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.
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Recounts the grisly events of the only murder ever to take place within the Presidio, one of America's oldest and most honored military bases. Even though the victim seems random, the list of suspects is long, from the obvious to the inexplicable, setting off an investigation with a shocking climax nobody could have predicted. When a sergeant's wife is stabbed to death in her quarters, the army wants, and decidedly takes swift justice. But one internal...
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Nash Bridges is a charming, street-smart inspector for San Francisco's elite Special Investigations Unit. Nash often goes undercover to track down the city's most vile criminals, from drug dealers and smugglers to the Russian mob. Nash's loyal partner, Joe Dominguez is a retired cop who's as obsessed with solving crimes as he is with getting rich quick, a weakness that always seems to get the two into hot water.
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"The acclaimed police drama follows the cases of detective Lt. Mike Stone, a 23-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department, and his young partner, Inspector Steve Keller. The smooth handsome Keller is the perfect foil for the gruff, trenchcoat-wearing Stone. Yet what they have in common is they both have no patience for criminals!"--Container.
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Left wheelchair-bound by a sniper's bullet, long-time San Francisco Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside, becomes the head of his own special police unit. Operating from a specially equipped office at SFPD headquarters, Ironside fights crime using intelligence and action. His crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown, ex-con-turned-assistant Mark Sanger, and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield.
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San Francisco veteran homicide detective Mike Stone is paired with Inspector Steve Keller-- a young, idealistic partner who has a lot to learn about being a cop. A ruthless newspaper columnist, a retired hit man, and a newly released psychopath are just some of the characters Stone and Keller encounter in this season.
20) The lineup
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Follows the duel plots of two criminals smuggling dope, and the policemen trailing them across San Francisco.
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