# Is there a topic for everyone to identify movies we don't know the title? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 18, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821 "2025-06-18T22:56:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/1 "2025-06-18T22:56:38Z")
Similar to the Sci-Fi one here, I searched and it seems it’s a bunch of random topics whenever it pops up, maybe this will be a permanent one? Here’s a movie I vaguely remember. Set in the 90s or possibly late 80s but it was heavily LA riots influenced I think. It was The Warriors but with cops as the heroes. Two undercover cops have to rescue an informant/witness who’s going to testify against a big time drug dealer. However the informant lives in an area where a huge riot/protest against police brutality is going on so the undercover cops have no backup because all units are trying to contain the riot. The drug dealer learns of this, and puts a huge bounty on the informant and cops heads, and so after rescuing the informant the cops have to escape the area from a bunch of random gangs much like The Warriors. I think it ends at a scrapyard for the final confrontation? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/2 "2025-06-18T23:14:19Z")
I don’t think this is it but the description sounds a little bit like Strange Days…or at least how I remember it. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/3 "2025-06-18T23:17:40Z")
Street Knight (1993) Is this familiar: > **[Ultimate Fight Scenes | Street Knight (1993)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu-jO4KkFeQ%2F)** > > Some ultimate fight scenes starring Jeff Speakman from Street Knight (1993).UAMC Blog: https://bit.ly/2MZBMXTUAMC Facebook: https://bit.ly/2mQg7osUAMC Twitte... ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/4 "2025-06-19T00:23:44Z")
I was thinking of 16 Blocks > **[16 Blocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Blocks)** > > 16 Blocks is a 2006 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner and starring Bruce Willis, Mos Def, and David Morse. The film unfolds in the real time narration method. It marked the final directed film for Donner during his lifetime in addition to the last acting role for his cousin and frequent collaborator Steve Kahan. > Jack Mosley is an alcoholic, burned-out NYPD detective. Despite a grueling late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Eddie Bunk... but Street Knight (as suggested by @PastTense) > **[Street Knight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Knight)** > > Street Knight is a 1993 American action film directed by Albert Magnoli and starring Jeff Speakman. > Jake Barrett (Jeff Speakman) is a former cop who retired from the LAPD following an incident where he failed to save a young hostage from a disturbed criminal. This incident has haunted him for the past several years, and he now works repairing cars at a garage once owned by his father. > The city, which has been the battleground for a conflict between street gangs the Latin Lords and Blades, is cu... seems closer ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/5 "2025-06-19T19:22:49Z")
Oddly enough, I have found ChatGPT quite good at this sort of question. I wouldn’t trust it for anything important or technical without serious checking, but it does sometimes seem to be able to find things from rather scanty hints… Hmm. Just tried it and it didn’t suggest any movies that fit all the criteria… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/6 "2025-06-19T21:03:56Z")
Did it star Kurt Russel? Sounds familiar but I can’t recall the name of the film. Lemme see if I can find it… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/7 "2025-06-19T21:10:10Z")
[Maybe this? Dark Blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Blue_(film)) Only tangentially has some elements, such as the King riots. Bad cop sets up good cops to get offed. Not even close I think. Nevermind… ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/8 "2025-06-19T21:17:30Z")
Good suggestions, I actually wound up googling “Movies influenced by the LA Riots” and eventually found it. Riot (1996) Starring Gary Daniels, a film so obscure it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia article and the IMDB summary is wrong so I had to piece it together from different sources. It’s two soldiers who are sent to rescue the British ambassadors daughter during a police brutality riot in Los Angeles, and the gang leader who kidnapped her offers a bounty to whoever can kill the soldiers. There’s also a scene where they fight a baseball themed gang too, and it does end at a scrapyard. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/9 "2025-06-20T05:18:52Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > Starring Gary Daniels With Charles Napier and Sugar Ray Leonard! (according to IMDb) ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-topic-for-everyone-to-identify-movies-we-dont-know-the-title/1019821/10 "2025-06-20T06:30:29Z")
All right, a different movie. Saw this on streaming a few years ago. Movie is set in Japan (but is an American movie), the main character is a caucasian who works for the Yakuza (I think he may have been adopted into it as a kid/orphan) as a hitman, and is asked to be the driver for the boss’s daughter (he may have botched up a job). They secretely enter into a relationship and he runs away with her, and they are chased by the Yakuza into the countriside. I vaguely remember that they also meet up with an older woman. I think the movie is from after 2010.