RoboCop (franchise) The franchise has made over US$100 million worldwide and a fourth installment, a remake serving as a reboot titled "RoboCop," was released in February 2014. RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, "RoboCop" centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop". The film features Peter Weller, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Allen, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox. In addition to being an action film, "RoboCop" includes larger themes regarding the media, resurrection, gentrification, corruption,
City on Fire (1987 film) Bollywood film "Kaante" was inspired by both "City on Fire" and "Reservoir Dogs". City on Fire (1987 film) City on Fire () is a 1987 Hong Kong crime film written, produced and directed by Ringo Lam, and starring Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee and Sun Yueh. Following "A Better Tomorrow" (1986), it helped establish Chow's popularity as an action star in Asia, and to a lesser degree, North America. The undercover cop Chan Kam-wah (who was investigating a group of jewelry thieves) blows his cover and is stabbed to death by three attackers on a public marketplace. His superior inspector Lau