San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most: freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison.
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities.
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea.
While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is picked up by an ex-con, with whom she begins a passionate affair.
A man wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and learns that he's wanted by the police for a committing a series of murders.
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Desperate Measures Trailer HQ (1998)
Director:Barbet Schroeder Cast:Michael KeatonAndy GarciaBrian Cox. Plot:San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible ...
Desperate Measures Trailer 1997
Desperate Measures Trailer 1997 Director: Barbet Schroeder Starring: Andy Garcia Marcia Gay Harden Michael Keaton Brian Cox Erik King Joseph Cross ...
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Barbet Schroeder directs this riveting suspense thriller about a San Francisco police officer's (Andy Garcia) frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor ...
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Frank Conner is an honest police officer who desperately needs to save his son's life. However after losing all hope he finds out that a criminal Peter McCabe in ...
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Desperate Measures - Official Movie Trailer 2011
Released to rave reviews Desperate Measures is a taut psychological thriller about drink and drug rehab on an ...
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