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A police officer (also known as a policeman or policewoman, and constable in some forces, particularly in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth nations) is a warranted employee of a police force. In the United States, "officer" is the formal name of the lowest police rank; in many other countries "officer" is a generic term not specifying a particular rank, and the lowest rank is often "constable". Police officers are generally charged with the apprehension of criminals and the prevention and detection of crime, and the maintenance of public order. Police officers may be sworn to an oath, and have the power to arrest people and detain them for a limited time, along with other duties and powers.
Some police officers may also be trained in special duties, such as counter-terrorism, surveillance, child protection, VIP protection, and investigation techniques into major crime, including fraud, rape, murder and drug trafficking.
Responsibilities of a police officer are varied, and may differ greatly from within one political context to another. Typical duties relate to keeping the peace, law enforcement, protection of people and property, and the investigation of crimes. Officers are expected to respond to a variety of situations that may arise while they are on duty. Rules and guidelines dictate how an officer should behave within the community, and in many contexts restrictions are placed on what the uniformed officer wears. In some countries, rules and procedures dictate that a police officer is obliged to intervene in a criminal incident, even if they are off-duty. Police officers in nearly all countries retain their lawful powers, while off duty.
Actors: Youssra (actress), Nour El-Sherif (actor), Amr Waked (actor), Salah Abdallah (actor), Wahid Hamid (producer), Wahid Hamid (writer), Mona Zaki (actress), Mohamed Sharaf (actor), Omar Khairat (composer), Abdel Aziz Makhyoun (actor), Ayman Halawani (producer), Motaz El-Kateb (editor), Mahmoud Abdel-Moghni (actor), Sherif Salama (actor), Mohamed Yassin (director),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Adel Imam (actor), Sa'eed Saleh (actor), Youseff Daoud (actor), Younes Shalaby (actor), Raga El Geddaoui (actress), Hamdy Youssef (writer), Khaled Sarhan (writer), Khaled Sarhan (actor), Dina (actress), Tawfik Abdel Hamid (actor), Rami Imam (director), Reda Hamed (actor), Diaa Abdel Khalek (actor), Alaa Zenhom (actor), Khaled Hammad (composer),
Plot: Pilot and October veteran Saeed El Masry has lost his sight. In the aftermath, he is in turnaround in special hostels due to his rebellious manners. In his next stop, he befriends a group of blind youngsters who make him their leader and furthermore their eyes to see the world. At night, Saeed dresses up and goes to a nightclub where he encounters Alia who falls in love with him. At the meantime, a mysterious gang of foreign terrorists chooses the blind hostel as their base to assassinate a politician visiting Egypt. These various plot elements culminate at the final climax when Saeed faces solely the terrorists with bravery.
Keywords: blind, cameo-appearance, irony, love, october-war, soccer-match, soldier, war-hero, year-1973Actors: Aaron Michael Lacey (producer), Aaron Michael Lacey (writer), Aaron Michael Lacey (actor), Aaron Michael Lacey (writer), Steve Tartalia (actor), Richard Kohn (actor), Alvaro J. Gonzalez (actor), Jeff Mandon (actor), Josh Kletzin (miscellaneous crew), Brian Harty (writer), Josh Kletzin (actor), Brian Harty (director), Brian Harty (editor), Briel Banks (actress), Celeste Lynch (actress),
Plot: Edge is the story of Edward 'Edge' Jones (Edge), a man with no memory of the event in the Persian Gulf war that left him physically scarred and lost in a civilian world that offers him no direction. From the past comes Lennox, a fellow soldier from the war, who invites him to go on a road trip with the promise of regaining the adventure and camaraderie they knew in the military. Edge is captured in the attraction of regaining his identity as a soldier and agrees to go, unaware of Lennox's all-consuming need for the powers of a warrior in battle. In the beginning, the trip re-awakens Edge's spirit, but gradually his memory returns as well, and as the events of the past become more horribly clear, so does Lennox's 'mission' become evident, and Edge finds himself in a nightmarish world of betrayal, both past and present. On a parallel road trip, a young girl, Berry, leads her mother on a quest to photograph UFO's, presumably for initiation into a society of witnesses. True motives involving the denial of her father's death, however, push below the surface of Berry's mission. Moving deeper into open country, the mother struggling to understand her daughter's feelings, the two women unknowingly get closer to the point where their own journey will converge with that of Edge and Lennox.
Keywords: absent-without-leave, air-cavalry, air-raid, air-strike, allegory, anti-hero, assassin, assassination, atrocity, battleActors: Bill Weldon (actor), Jon Stout (editor), Jon Stout (writer), Jon Stout (director), Roger Shank (actor), William Smith Keane (actor), Anthony Shaw Abaté (actor), Andrew Rapoport (actor), Kerry de Lusignan (miscellaneous crew), Mark Korman (actor), Doug Tannahill (actor), Jerrie Belle (actress), Samantha Henderson (actress), Andrea Liebert (actress),
Plot: A dark comedy in which an utterly random event reveals the most inhuman aspects of life in a bureaucratic system. A strange substance flies in from nowhere and lands on an unwitting Administrative Analyst, who is slowly consumed. Much paper-filing and bumbling ensues.
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Saeed Jaffrey (actor), Angela Allen (miscellaneous crew), Russell Lloyd (editor), Edith Head (costume designer), Rudyard Kipling (writer), John Huston (director), John Huston (writer), Maurice Jarre (composer), Michael Caine (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Sean Connery (actor), Bob Simmons (miscellaneous crew), Jack May (actor), William Hill (producer), Gladys Hill (writer),
Plot: This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th-century, abstinence, abyss, action-hero, adventure-hero, adventurer, afghanistan, ambition, ambitious-manActors: Laurence Olivier (director), Anton Chekhov (writer), Harry Fielder (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Jack Harris (editor), Joan Plowright (actress), Beatrice Dawson (costume designer), Alan Bates (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Ronald Pickup (actor), Sheila Reid (actress), Maggie Unsworth (miscellaneous crew), Timothy Burrill (producer), John Goldstone (producer), John Sichel (director),
Plot: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
Keywords: aging, based-on-play, brother-sister-relationship, clucking, death-of-father, dissatisfaction, feeling-old, husband-wife-relationship, independent-film, moscow-russiaActors: Tadeusz Lomnicki (actor), Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz (actor), Jerzy Stefan Stawinski (writer), Stanislaw Lenartowicz (director), Adolf Chronicki (actor), Boleslaw Abart (actor), Artur Mlodnicki (actor), Stanislaw Igar (actor), Andrzej Hrydzewicz (actor), Teresa Galkowska (costume designer), Ryszard Wojtyllo (actor), Aleksandra Zawieruszanka (actress), Andrzej Antkowiak (actor), Medard Plewacki (actor), Jadwiga Pytlasinska (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: William Henry (actor), Herbert Heyes (actor), Joe Haworth (actor), Peter Graves (actor), Robert Bice (actor), William Forrest (actor), Art Gilmore (actor), Griff Barnett (actor), Ralph Bellamy (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), Fred Clark (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Stuart Holmes (actor),
Plot: The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of America's armed forces still think of the airplane as little more then a carnival attraction. Even after sinking an "unsinkable" captured German battleship from the air, Mitchell sees funds dry up and friends die due to poor equipment. He is court-martialed after questioning the loyalty of his superiors for allowing the air corp to deteriorate.
Keywords: admiral, air-power, airship, american-president, army-air-corps, army-general, aviation-accident, aviation-pioneer, battleship, bomberActors: Frank Elliott (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Thomas Carr (actor), King Baggot (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), James Blaine (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), D'Arcy Corrigan (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Jules Cowles (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor),
Plot: The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the relationship with married Katie O'Shea which threatens to bring all Parnell's plans to ruin. Moderately accurate historically.
Keywords: aunt, based-on-play, blackmail, box-office-flop, catholic, character-name-in-title, critically-bashed, death, divorce, dying