Movies and TvShows featuring "corrupt-military-officer" theme.

Shamus is a 1973 movie about a rugged private detective named Shamus McCoy who is hired to track down a missing person and recover stolen diamonds. As he delves deeper into the case, he becomes entangled in a dangerous web of crime and corruption in New York City. With his trusty mustache and sharp wit, Shamus navigates through a gritty and treacherous world filled with nefarious characters and high-stakes situations. Along the way, he encounters a variety of colorful individuals, including a seductive femme fatale, a ruthless gangster, and a mysterious cat. Armed with his skills and determination, Shamus sets out to unravel the truth and bring the culprits to justice.

A Bright Shining Lie is a movie set during the Vietnam War, telling the true story of how a soldier navigates through the corrupt army officers, failed military strategies, and the complexities of the war. It explores themes of patriotism, careerism, and the impact of the war on both soldiers and civilians.

Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.

This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat.

After suffering a concussion from a grenade blast in Vietnam, Sgt. Frank Johnson has been getting flashes of his childhood in which strangely he is a ninja. Because of this, he is given a codename: "Black Fire" by the US Army. He is sent to San Sebastian together with his buddy Sgt. Jim Anderson to work as U.S. military advisers. One night, Sgt. Johnson discovers Capt. Salcedo of the local corrupt army is trying to transport arms.

An action-packed, brought to us by Ignazio Dolce - the guy who directed several other 'Nam action flicks including "The Last Platoon". It's a plot less little exploitation movie, filmed on a shoestring budget in the Philippines.