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21 Bridges: Directed by Brian Kirk. With Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller, J.K. Simmons, Stephan James. An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Brian Kirk
- 2019-11-22
The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
Categories: Fictional portrayals of the New York City Police Department. Films about law enforcement in the United States. Films set in New York City.
Tough detective Buddy leads an elite New York City unit to convict felons and jail them for a minimum of seven years. Buddy is trying to find out who killed his partner but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
Believing that they need a Japanese martial artist to go undercover, the New York City police turn to an unorthodox officer named Toshi (Tôru Nakamura).
- Tôru Nakamura
- Action
- Chad Mcqueen
American Gangster: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin. An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
Cruising is a 1980 crime thriller film written and directed by William Friedkin, and starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino and Karen Allen. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by The New York Times reporter Gerald Walker about a serial killer targeting gay men, particularly those men associated with the leather scene in the late 1970s.
