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1) Chips
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jon Baker and Frank Ponch Poncherello have just joined the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in Los Angeles, but for very different reasons. Baker is a beaten-up former pro motorbiker trying to put his life and marriage back together. Poncherello is a cocky undercover Federal agent investigating a multi-million-dollar heist that may be an inside job-inside the CHP.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, guns, and if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop, except for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders who come...
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"This classic is probably the most successful police drama in television history. With Joe Friday's dry documentary-style and the use of real cases drawn from the files of the LAPD, this show was the first to introduce realism into television police fiction"--Container.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Rick Hunter and his partner, Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, are homicide investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department. Often they must go undercover to catch a variety of L.A.-style villains. "Sporty" James, a helpful police-informant, occasionally provides a bit of humor in this action-drama T.V. series.
6) Dragnet
Series
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2004
Language
English
Description
Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are detectives who work in the Los Angeles Police Dept. Each of the 4 episodes follows them as they interview people who help them solve the crime.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After a rocky start, Detective Vic Mackey and Captain David Aceveda have formed an uneasy alliance that Detective Claudette Wyms is determined to destroy. Vic's personal life is in shambles and a new nemesis on the street forces the Strike Team to risk everything in the pursuit of one last big score for their "retirement fund."
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
9) Dirty
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A gang member-turned-cop is forced to choose between his conscience and his loyalty. Recruited into an undercover, anti-gang unit of the LAPD, Amrmado Sancho brings his street smarts onto the force that he has sworn to protect. With his partner Salim Adel, the two patrol LA's streets with force.
10) Blade runner
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
11) Heat
Publisher
Regency Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Detective Vic Mackey is the leader of an elite Strike Team unit, a group of cops effective at eliminating crime but also operating under Vic's own set of rules. But his rules sometimes cross the fine line between legal and illegal. Now the precinct has a new captain who doesn't like Vic's tactics and wants to bust him off the force-- even as the captain finds himself going to Vic for help whenever the going gets rough.
13) Heat
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop. following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
14) The Black Dahlia
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered. With a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department. The case...
15) Tango & Cash
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Two rival L.A. policemen who have one thing in common -- each thinks "he" is the best -- team up to pursue a vicious international crimelord who has set them up.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Take a hardnosed, strong-willed, undercover cop outraged by crime and the loopholes in the United States justice system and team him up with a sexy, no-nonsense policewoman whose unorthodox tactics sometimes rival his own, and you get Hunter!"--Container.
18) Blue Thunder
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Chosen to test Blue Thunder, Frank Murphy is amazed by the capabilities of the high-speed, high-tech chopper. It can see through walls, record a whisper or level a city block. Distrusting the military mentality behind Blue Thunder, Murphy and his partner learn the remarkable craft is slated for use as the ultimate weapon in surveillance and crowd control.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The classic police drama is updated for the 1960s. No-nonsense Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, tackle traditional police cases and face new challenges such as LSD, race riots, and public service TV shows.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Taking the successful radio program to the new medium of television, Dragnet was famous for its use of actual Los Angeles Police Department case files. Joe Friday works the dayshift with his partners on a variety of interesting cases. This program was reincarnated in 1967; eight years after its first television series had ended, with Jack Webb reprising his role of Sgt. Joe Friday.