Check out all of the posts tagged with "police station".
Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1959 British-German co-production The Treasure of San Teresa [Hot Money Girl] stars Eddie Constantine as former World War Two OSS agent Larry Brennan, who goes to Czechoslovakia after the war and gets […]
Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 The Choirboys is a raw and repulsive black-comic crime thriller about the delinquent members of an American police department in Los Angeles, the Wilshire Divison of the Los Angeles Police Department. […]
Director Daniel Petrie’s 1981 Fort Apache the Bronx is an urgent Eighties police report from deep in New York’s South Bronx area with its derelict tenements, hookers, pimps, wailing police cars, rain-swept streets and murderous assaults […]
Director Charles Frend’s 1956 British Ealing Studios thriller stars Jack Hawkins, an always welcome and more than capable player, at least when he was properly cast, unlike his Pharaoh Khufu in the previous year’s Land of the […]
A film buff’s delight, this nailbiting, non-stop 1976 action thriller about a gang of delinquents besieging a strangely empty Los Angeles police station deservedly helped to catapault its writer-director John Carpenter into the big time, […]
After Training Day (2001), Ethan Hawke again proves he can play a tough cop as Sgt Jake Roenick, the useful hero of this brilliantly tense action thriller. It is a poundingly full-on and strikingly well-filmed if ultimately […]
Co-writer/ director Claude Miller’s satisfying 1981 French police thriller is neatly done, atmospheric, gripping and very dark. It won four French César Awards in 1982 – Best Actor (Michel Serrault), Best Supporting Actor (Guy Marchand), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Michel […]