Category: Crime
Posted on September 9, 2013 |
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The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When Duke Anderson gets out of the cooler, he discovers the mother lode in his rich girlfriend's ritzy apartment building. With help from a safecracker, a decorator, and a thug, Duke might be able to pull off the greatest heist yet.
Starring: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Christopher Walken
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Posted on September 7, 2013 |
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Homeland (TV Series 2011- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody returns home eight years, after going missing in Iraq. Carrie Mathison, a driven CIA officer, suspects he might be plotting an attack on America.
Starring: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, F. Murray Abraham, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor
Creator: Gideon Raff
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Tags: Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, F. Murray Abraham, Gideon Raff, Jackson Pace, Mandy Patinkin, Morena Baccarin, Morgan Saylor, Rupert Friend
Posted on September 6, 2013 |
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Breaking the Girls (2013)
Crime | Thriller
The story of a university student named Sara who, when slandered by a hostile classmate, is befriended by the manipulative Alex, who proposes the perfect, untraceable crime – to kill each other's arch enemies. When Alex actually goes through with it, Sara finds herself being framed for murder.
Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Madeline Zima, Shawn Ashmore, John Stockwell, Sam Anderson, Steve Crest
Director: Jamie Babbit
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Tags: Agnes Bruckner, Jamie Babbit, John Stockwell, Madeline Zima, Sam Anderson, Shawn Ashmore, Steve Crest
Posted on September 5, 2013 |
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The Newton Boys (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Western
Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers, and five years later execute the greatest train robbery in American history.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio, Julianna Margulies, Dwight Yoakam
Director: Richard Linklater
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Tags: Dwight Yoakam, Ethan Hawke, Julianna Margulies, Matthew McConaughey, Richard Linklater, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio
Posted on September 5, 2013 |
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Shiner / King Swanny (2000)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Billy Simpson is a shady boxing promoter in South London banned from legitimate fights. It's the biggest day of his life, though, because he has a champion on his hands, his 20-year-old son, Eddie. Billy's put all his money on a victory, as have his quarreling daughters. But Eddie is nervous, an odd guy in a cap is hanging about, the licensed promoter Billy has hired to arrange the evening's other fights has hired dogs, the manager of Eddie's opponent looks down scornfully on Billy and on South London, and Scotland Yard wants to Billy in gaol for the death of a club brawler. When the night goes disastrously wrong, Billy tries to find out who double-crossed him.
Starring: Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Frances Barber, Frank Harper
Director: John Irvin
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Posted on September 4, 2013 |
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Fast & Furious 6 / Furious 6 (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Luke Hobbs calls upon Dominic Toretto and his retired crew to help him take down a gang of criminals who are artists at vehicular warfare. Making matters more complicated is that one of the gang's members is a presumed dead person with close ties to Dominic.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson
Director: Justin Lin
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Posted on September 4, 2013 |
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6Ixtynin9 / Ruang talok 69 (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A woman, fired from a financial coorporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. However, the people that left it there soon want it back.
Starring: Tasanawalai Ongartittichai, Black Phomtong, Lalita Panyopas
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
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Posted on September 4, 2013 |
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All About the Benjamins (2002)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A bounty hunter is on the trail of a conman who skipped bail. The two wind up in a deserted warehouse where they witness a diamond scam in action, caught in the midst they put their differences aside to team up and detain the looters.
Starring: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Tommy Flanagan, Carmen Chaplin, Eva Mendes, Valarie Rae Miller, Anthony Giaimo
Director: Kevin Bray
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Tags: Anthony Giaimo, Carmen Chaplin, Eva Mendes, Ice Cube, Kevin Bray, Mike Epps, Tommy Flanagan, Valarie Rae Miller
Posted on September 4, 2013 |
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
Crime | Documentary | Drama
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child. Friends, relatives, and colleagues say warm and loving things about Andrew, home movies confirm his exuberance. Andrew's parents, Kathleen and David, move to Newfoundland, Canada where the ex-girlfriend has gone. They await an arrest and trial of the murderer. They negotiate with the ex-girlfriend to visit their grandchild, Zachary, and they seek custody. Is there any justice; is Zachery a sweet and innocent consolation for the loss of their son?
Starring: Kurt Kuenne, Andrew Bagby, David Bagby, Kathleen Bagby, Zachary Andrew Turner
Director: Kurt Kuenne
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Posted on September 2, 2013 |
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The Brain Man / Nô Otoko (2013)
Crime | Mystery
A series of bombings occur and police track a lead, where they find the male protagonist Ichiro Suzuki and believe he is somehow involved. After psychiatric evaluation and rigorous questioning, the man is found to be emotionally vacant, highly intelligent with a savant-like photographic memory, physically strong and unable to feel any pain. The female lead who plays psychiatrist Mariko Mashiya is intrigued and attempts to discover what and how he came to this state, fueled by her own past personal tragedy and determination to seek the truth. Is he the psychopath they are all looking for?
Starring: Tôma Ikuta, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Yôsuke Eguchi, Fumi Nikaidô, Rina Ohta, Kensuke Ôwada, Shôta Sometani, Ken Mitsuishi
Director: Tomoyuki Takimoto
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Tags: Fumi Nikaidô, Ken Mitsuishi, Kensuke Ôwada, Rina Ohta, Shôta Sometani, Tôma Ikuta, Tomoyuki Takimoto, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Yôsuke Eguchi
Posted on September 2, 2013 |
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The Presidio (1988)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A series of cross-jurisdictional murders forces a San Francisco police detective and his former Army commander to overcome their differences and work together. The biggest difference of all: the cop is dating the commander's daughter.
Starring: Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden, Mark Blum, Jenette Goldstein
Director: Peter Hyams
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Tags: Jack Warden, Jenette Goldstein, Mark Blum, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Peter Hyams, Sean Connery
Posted on August 30, 2013 |
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The Petrified Forest (1936)
Crime | Drama
A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.
Starring: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Joe Sawyer
Director: Archie Mayo
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Posted on August 30, 2013 |
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Boardwalk Empire (TV Series 2010- )
Crime | Drama | History
Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Stephen Graham, Vincent Piazza, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham, Michael Kenneth Williams, Paul Sparks, Gretchen Mol, Michael Stuhlbarg, Anthony Laciura, Jack Huston, Anatol Yusef
Creator: Terence Winter
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Tags: Anatol Yusef, Anthony Laciura, Gretchen Mol, Jack Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Sparks, Shea Whigham, Stephen Graham, Steve Buscemi, Terence Winter, Vincent Piazza
Posted on August 29, 2013 |
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The Other Guys (2010)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Two mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops whom they idolize — only things don't quite go as planned.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Ray Stevenson
Director: Adam McKay
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Posted on August 29, 2013 |
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Murder by Numbers (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Richard Haywood, a Californian high school's coolest kid, secretly teams up with another rich kid in his class, brilliant nerd Justin 'Bonaparte' Pendleton, whose erudition, specially in forensic matters, allows them to plan elaborately perfect murders, just for the kick, for which they set up Richard's marijuana supplier, their school's janitor Ray Feathers, as a psychotic serial killer. The case is assigned to detectives Cassie 'the hyena' Mayweather, who carries a sequoia-size chip on the shoulder from her previous life, and her brilliant new partner, Sam Kennedy, who just transferred from the vice squad; they can work together very well, and even fit romantically, but fall out over different professional attitudes towards the investigation, which Captain Rod Cody and her understandably vindictive abused ex, Assistant D.A. Al Swanson, soon ban her from when she disobeys instructions and hand to him. When the plotting boys both dig class-mate Lisa Mills, their unnatural bond comes under stress- will it break, allowing the hard-pressed police to bring them down?
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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Posted on August 28, 2013 |
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Badges of Fury / Bu Er Shen Tan (2013)
Action | Comedy | Crime
When a spate of eerie murders erupts across HK two troublemaking cops are assigned to the case. Young maverick WANG and grizzled vet HUANG who is fed up with his reckless younger partner always landing them in hot water. Reaching a dead end after discovering all the victims were former boyfriends of aspiring starlet LIU, the detectives must play a deadly game. One of them must go undercover as Liu's lover to lure the killer out.
Starring: Jet Li, Michelle Chen, Zhang Wen, Shishi Liu, Yan Liu, Aaron Shang, Collin Chou, Lik-Sun Fong, Stephen Fung, Grace Huang, Xiaoming Huang
Director: Tsz Ming Wong
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Posted on August 28, 2013 |
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Cane e gatto / Cat and Dog (1983)
Comedy | Crime
L.A.P.D. Captain Parker finally is going on Holiday with all his family. At the last moment he has to cancel the program to re-capture a pilferer named Tony Roma, bad copy of a Latin lover. He use to seduce older women and then steals their jewelry. Parker is close to sort the case out when Roma is witness of a Mafia murder. Parker Holiday flies away.
Starring: Bud Spencer, Tomas Milian, Margherita Fumero, Marc Lawrence, Joan Call
Director: Bruno Corbucci
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Posted on August 27, 2013 |
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Primal Fear (1996)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this legal thriller based on the novel by William Diehl. Martin Vail is a famed defense lawyer who volunteers his services to Aaron Stampler, a Kentucky teenager charged with the murder of a Chicago archbishop. Covered with blood, Aaron was captured after a foot chase broadcast live on TV, making a gleeful Vail certain that he could raise his profile by defending the obviously guilty suspect. Assigned to prosecute is Assistant District Attorney Janet Venable, who is Vail's ex-girlfriend. Vail's case becomes more complicated than he expected when a psychologist concludes that Stampler suffers from multiple personality disorder. Vail also uncovers evidence that the archbishop was involved in a corrupt land scheme and may have molested young parishioners. Now the cynical, opportunistic attorney is faced with a daunting prospect, a client who may actually deserve his best defense.
Starring: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Alfre Woodard
Director: Gregory Hoblit
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Posted on August 25, 2013 |
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Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Four Perfect Killers. One Perfect Crime. Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one?
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Posted on August 24, 2013 |
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Now You See Me (2013)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
FBI agents track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, Michael Caine, Dave Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Mélanie Laurent
Director: Louis Leterrier
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Tags: Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, Louis Leterrier, Mark Ruffalo, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson