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21) El poeta
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Jack McEvoy es un periodista especializado en crímenes. Su hermano, policía de homicidos, aparentemente se ha suicidado. Cuando se decide a escribir sobre el asunto, descubre el rastro de El Poeta, un asesino en serie que ha dejado junto a sus ocho víctimas, todas ellas policías, falsas notas de suicidio con versos de Edgar Allan Poe. Su descubrimiento hace que intervenga el FBI. Una de las agentes, Rachel Walling, personaje habitual en las novelas...
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The definitive work on the murder of Dallas patrolman J. D. Tippit-killed forty-five minutes after President Kennedy-and its far-reaching implications for the JFK assassination and aftermath Although considered the Rosetta stone of the case against Lee Harvey Oswald, the murder of Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit-killed less than an hour after the assassination of President Kennedy-has proven to be one of the most misunderstood, largely ignored,...
23) THE RENEGADES
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Sheriff's deputy Charlie Hood is transferred to the supposedly quiet desert community of Antelope Valley, only the quietness is shattered one night during a routine call: someone guns down his partner, Terry Laws, in their patrol car. Hood is out to find the killer Wild West style.
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On the night of Monday, May 4, 1998, in Vatican territory, the bodies of the commander of the Swiss Guard, his wife, and a young lance corporal were found in the barracks of the picturesque force entrusted with protecting the pope. It was the worst bloodbath to take place in more than a century in the heart of the supreme authority of the world's one billion Catholics. Four hours later, the Vatican announced that the lance corporal, twenty-three-year-old...
26) La Femme Nikita
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"Rescued from death row by a top-secret agency, Nikita is slowly transformed from a cop-killing junkie into a cold-blooded bombshell with a license to kill. But when she begins the deadliest mission of her career -- only to fall for a man who knows nothing of her true identity -- Nikita discovers that in the dark and ruthless world of espionage, the greatest casualty of all is true love"--Container.
27) Supremacy
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A white supremacist (Joe Anderson) shoots a cop on his first day of parole, driving he and his girlfriend to take an entire family hostage. Now, the father (Danny Glover) must use his understanding of the racist mind to keep his family alive.
28) RoboCop
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In a near future. Detroit has slowly become the center of criminal activity when a gang who likes to kill cops goes on the rise. Omni Consumer Products eventually seizes control of local law enforcement. Just assigned to the Metro West Precinct is Officer Alex Murphy. Alex is massacred by the gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes his chance when the ED-209 law...
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Criterion collection volume 408
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A small-time criminal kills a police officer, setting in motion a tragic series of events for both himself and his American girlfriend.
30) 21 bridges
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"[An] embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on whom he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all of the city's bridges to prevent any entry or exit from the iconic island"--Container....
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Harry Vicary novels volume 1
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After discovering the body of an undercover officer who disappeared thirty years earlier buried in the woods, the police investigation gradually uncovers clues indicating corruption and murder within their own ranks.
36) Czas łaski
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Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds him self embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake's fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial...
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Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed him."--Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide.
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38) Tiempo de perdón
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Clanton, Misisipi. 1990. Jake Brigance se ve envuelto en un juicio profundamente divisivo cuando el tribunal lo nombra abogado de Drew Gamble, un tímido muchacho de dieciséis años acusado de asesinar a un diputado local. Muchos en Clanton quieren un juicio rápido y la pena de muerte, pero Brigance investiga y descubre que hay más en la historia de lo que parece. El feroz compromiso de Jake de salvar a Drew de la cámara de gas pone en peligro...
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Criterion collection volume 753
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Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
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