Tiptoes

Dirty (2005)

Actors: Pamela B. Green (miscellaneous crew), Michael Barnes (miscellaneous crew), Bret Roberts (actor), Steve Gehrke (miscellaneous crew), Keith David (actor), Ash R. Shah (producer), Cuba Gooding Jr. (actor), Kevin Grevioux (actor), Chris Mulkey (actor), Robert LaSardo (actor), Pat Healy (actor), Clifton Collins Jr. (actor), Wyclef Jean (actor), Aaron Pope (miscellaneous crew), Charles Heaphy (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In a Los Angeles dominated by violent gangs and a corrupt LAPD Precinct, the dirty Officer Armando Sancho is haunted by his guilty since an innocent old man was accidentally killed in an operation with his also dirty partner Salim Adel. The Internal Affairs is pressing Sancho, who feels split between the loyalty to his mates and his conscience, and he has to make a statement at 6:00 PM. When his superiors Captain Spain and his Lieutenant assign the two cops for an operation dealing drugs apprehended by the police and stored as evidence with a powerful drug dealer, Sancho feels that something is wrong and they have been framed.

Keywords: black-cop, blood, chase, child-smoking-cigarette, cigarette-smoking, cocaine, corrupt-cop, death, dirty-cop, drug-dealer
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Violence Is A Language People Understand

Quotes:

Officer Salim Adel: I hate white people.

[last lines]::Officer Armando Sancho: You see things more clearly when you're dead.

Captain Spain: A man said, "Someday a real rain is gonna come and wash all the scum off the streets." But it don't rain in the desert.

Officer Salim Adel: We da only gang that's left, so wise up nigga.

Layer Cake (2004)

Actors: Roger Phillips (miscellaneous crew), Marc Wolff (miscellaneous crew), Nick Thomas-Webster (actor), John Charles (miscellaneous crew), Kenneth Cranham (actor), Jon Baker (miscellaneous crew), Michael Gambon (actor), Colm Meaney (actor), Daniel Craig (actor), Jason Flemyng (actor), Dexter Fletcher (actor), Jamie Foreman (actor), Steve Hooper (actor), Marc Wolff (miscellaneous crew), Ilan Eshkeri (composer),

Plot: A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title "LAYER CAKE" refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his 'savvy', 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..

Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, accountant, african-anglo, airport, amsterdam-netherlands, anti-hero, argument, arsenal
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,

Quotes:

XXXX: Always remember that one day all this drug monkey business will be legal. They won't leave it to people like me... not when they finally figure out how much money is to be made - not millions, fucking billions. Recreational drugs PLC - giving the people what they want... Good times today, Stupor tomorrow. But this is now, so until prohibition ends make hay whilst the sun shines.

XXXX: [over the phone] Dragan?::Dragan: Yes.::XXXX: I've got an idea... Why don't you come 'round for breakfast? I'll squeeze some orange juice and grind some coffee and we can talk about this like adults. How's that sound?::Dragan: Sounds very hospitable.::XXXX: Do you know where I live?::Dragan: No.::XXXX: Well, fuck off then.::[hangs up]

XXXX: That's a very expansive question.::Jimmy Price: Expansive?::[laughs]::Jimmy Price: Tell me son, are you a homosexual? The day was when only homosexuals used words like "expansive".

Duke: Oh, you give a fuckin' aspirin a headache, pal!

Crazy Larry: Fucking females is for poofs.

XXXX: My name? If you knew that, you'd be as clever as me.

Clarkie: The king is dead. [pause] Long live the king. [glasses are raised]::XXXX: Well I'm honored. But for me this is all over. I'm getting out. What was true then is true now. Have a plan. Stick to it. So I'm sure you must have lots to discuss... but I have no business being here. I've got someone to meet. Adios, amigos.::XXXX: [voiceover] Paul the Boatman. Kinky, The Duke. Slasher. Kilburn Jerry. Crazy Larry. Mr. Lucky. Troop. Jimmy. I don't want to add my name to that list. My name? If you knew that you'd be as clever as me.::Tammy: NO! [shot fired]::Sidney: I'm sorry.

Eddie Temple: You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.

XXXX: Life is so fucking good I can taste it in my spit.

Eddie Temple: England. Typical. Even drug dealers don't work weekends.