police protection

17 movies and shows

Copycat

Fri, 27 Oct 1995

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to escort Daniella Riva, a wisecracking Colombian beauty, from San Antonio to Dallas so both she and her husband can testify against a drug lord. Plans go awry when Mr. Riva gets ambushed, leaving Daniella a widow. Cooper and her witness must now use their wits to escape from crooked cops and murderous gunmen, while not killing each other in the process.

Fair Game

Fri, 03 Nov 1995

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her

The Gauntlet

Sat, 17 Dec 1977

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties—and incriminating information regarding a high-ranking figure.

Bounty Tracker

Wed, 05 May 1993

Almost the whole staff of a tax consultant office is slayed by a team of professional killers, only Paul Damone can escape. He didn't know that his partner used to wash gangster Louis Sarazin's money and had to testify as chief witness against him. Paul's brother Johnny, best bounty tracker of Boston, visits Paul to protect him, but can't prevent that he and his pregnant wife are targeted by the same team. Now Johnny's out for revenge...

Kuffs

Fri, 10 Jan 1992

George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed and George inherits Brad's "patrol special" privatized police district and all the problems that come with it.

The Phantom of the Opera

Fri, 20 Nov 1998

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld.

The Narrow Margin

Sat, 03 May 1952

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Max Dugan Returns

Fri, 25 Mar 1983

An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.

Dead in 3 days

Fri, 21 Jul 2006

When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey prank - until one by one, the pals start turning up dead in the alpine countryside. With the cops stymied, Nina and her remaining friends must scour their past for clues to identify the madman before he kills them all.

Fake-Out

Thu, 18 Nov 1982

Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.

Night Watch

Sun, 15 May 2005

A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to friends to a gay gym then a hotel room and an all-night café. He plays pick-up soccer with kids whose parents are going through trash or waiting in parks. A vendor gives him a chrysanthemum. It seems he's being followed, and on the night streets, death is close at hand. Can Victor survive until dawn?

Jingle Bell Glock 2

Sat, 21 Dec 2024

In the sequel to the parody trailer, Nick Donner is back and bigger than before. Exhausted by his career as both a rank-climbing law enforcer and the icon of the holidays, Donner sweeps numerous criminal chases under the rug with intents of lightening his doubled work load. When the crime rate - and, by extension, the notorious naughty list - boil to the surface, the action explodes as Donner takes on the corrupted police force and his iron-fisted business affiliates!

The Star Witness

Sat, 22 Aug 1931

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.

Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection

Mon, 17 Oct 2016

An upbeat and humorous account of the hard life under police protection led by Italian writer Roberto Saviano since the publication in 2006 of Gomorrah, his controversial book about the Camorra, the ruthless organization that has dominated the criminal underground in Naples for centuries.

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Sat, 05 Aug 2023

Pursued

Sat, 04 Sep 2004

Basque Country, Spain. No one seems to know them. Some glances avoid theirs. Their social circle becomes smaller and smaller. They live under escort, watched by those who protect them and by those who threaten them: it is the experience of living in the shadow of ETA, a savage terrorist gang of unscrupulous criminals… of merely existing under the yoke of those who tomorrow could be their executioners.