Police Chase
"police chase" Movies and TV Shows
#1
White Heat
Synopsis:
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
Starring:
Paul Guilfoyle,
James Cagney,
Fred Clark
Plot:
gangster,
prison,
heist,
undercover,
psychopath,
chemical plant,
transmitter,
revenge,
explosion,
mother son relationship
...
#2
Vanishing Point
Synopsis:
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Starring:
Dean Jagger,
Cleavon Little,
Barry Newman
#3
True Romance
Synopsis:
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Starring:
Gary Oldman,
Brad Pitt,
Samuel L. Jackson
Plot:
drugs,
cocaine,
pimp,
aspiring actor,
los angeles california,
hotel,
beach,
drug addict,
prostitute,
detroit michigan
...
#4
THX 1138
Synopsis:
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
Starring:
Donald Pleasence,
Robert Duvall,
Sid Haig
#5
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Synopsis:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Geoffrey Lewis,
Jeff Bridges
#6
The Warriors
Synopsis:
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Starring:
Brian Tyler,
James Remar,
David Patrick Kelly
Plot:
new york city,
street gang,
disc jockey,
warrior,
truce,
social decay,
sociopath,
threatened with a knife,
fugitive,
survival
...
#7
The Sting
Synopsis:
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Starring:
Harold Gould,
Robert Redford,
Paul Newman
Plot:
con,
con man,
illegal activity,
playing golf,
con artist,
caper,
sting operation,
gangster,
burlesque dancer,
violence
...
#8
The Pink Panther
Synopsis:
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who any…
Starring:
Robert Wagner,
Claudia Cardinale,
David Niven
#9
The Parallax View
Synopsis:
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Starring:
William Daniels,
Warren Beatty,
Paula Prentiss
#10
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Synopsis:
A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
Starring:
James Stewart,
Bernard Miles,
Alan Mowbray
#11
The Machinist
Synopsis:
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
Starring:
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Christian Bale,
Michael Ironside
Plot:
hallucination,
insomnia,
mental breakdown,
paranoia,
single mother,
waitress,
alienation,
urban gothic,
post it,
machinist
...
#12
Thelma & Louise
Synopsis:
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
Starring:
Brad Pitt,
Christopher McDonald,
Geena Davis
#13
The Living Daylights
Synopsis:
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
Starring:
John Rhys-Davies,
Timothy Dalton,
Jeroen Krabbé
#14
The Kid
Synopsis:
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
Starring:
Charlie Chaplin,
Edna Purviance,
Nellie Bly Baker
#15
The Italian Job
Synopsis:
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one his of friends has attempted a high risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.
Starring:
Michael Caine,
Noël Coward,
Benny Hill
Plot:
car chase,
cliffhanger,
caper,
mafia,
ambiguous ending,
1960s,
car movie,
gold theft,
caper comedy,
heist
...
#16
The Italian Job
Synopsis:
Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.
Starring:
Mark Wahlberg,
Donald Sutherland,
Charlize Theron
#17
The Getaway
Synopsis:
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
Starring:
Al Lettieri,
Richard Bright,
Bo Hopkins
#18
The French Connection
Synopsis:
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
Starring:
Roy Scheider,
Gene Hackman,
Fernando Rey
#19
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Synopsis:
A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Starring:
Horst Frank,
Karl Malden,
James Franciscus
#20
The Bourne Identity
Synopsis:
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
Starring:
Clive Owen,
Walton Goggins,
Franka Potente