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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Crime | Thriller
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Katherine LaNasa, Gia Mantegna
Director: Scott Walker
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Love Crime / Crime d'amour (2010)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Ruthless executive Christine brings on Isabelle as her assistant, and she takes delight in toying with the young woman's innocence. But when the protégé's ideas become tempting enough for Christine to pass on as her own, she underestimates Isabelle's ambition and cunning — and the ground is set for all out war.
Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille, Guillaume Marquet, Gérald Laroche
Director: Alain Corneau
The Law of the Border / Hudutlarin kanunu (1966)
Crime | Drama
Life at the border is very tough. The land is stony and dry, farmers plough fields of sand and illegal trafficking seems to be the only way to make a living. In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a herd of sheep across the border. Amidst poverty and the landmines Hidir struggles to keep his dream and his young son alive.
Starring: Yilmaz Güney, Pervin Par, Erol Tas, Tuncer Necmioglu, Muharrem Gürses
Director: Lutfi Akad
A Single Shot (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.
Starring: Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Ted Levine, Kelly Reilly, Jason Isaacs, Joe Anderson, Jeffrey Wright
Director: David M. Rosenthal
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Redemption / Hummingbird (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Back home after a harrowing tour in Afghanistan and haunted by his dark past, veteran Joey Jones takes on an assumed identity and tries to atone. But when his pregnant girlfriend is murdered, he must risk stepping into the light to get revenge.
Starring: Jason Statham, Vicky McClure, Benedict Wong, Agata Buzek, Ger Ryan
Director: Steve Knight
American Autumn: An Occudoc (2012)
Crime | Documentary | News | War
What would a world look like that had a culture and an economic system that places human need above corporate greed, and how do we bring that world into being? Who cares what it is called. Call it Socialism, Call it Real Democracy Now, and Call it Chunky-Monkey-Cherry Garcia. The world needs to change radically, it needs to change dramatically, and it needs to change fast. This documentary is an invitation for you to participate in that positive change. Frankly, because, we need you. Yes, you.
Director: Dennis Trainor Jr.
Shootout at Wadala / S.A.W. (2013)
Action | Crime
The first-ever registered encounter by the Mumbai Police, which took place on November 1, 1982. Based on a true story.
Starring: John Abraham, Manoj Bajpayee, Sophiya Chaudhary, Priyanka Chopra, Chetan Hansraj, Anil Kapoor
Director: Sanjay Gupta
Schutzengel / The Guardians (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.
Starring: Til Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Karoline Schuch, Luna Schweiger, Herbert Knaup
Director: Til Schweiger
The Iceman (2012)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ariel Vromen directs this gritty biopic tracing the career of New York contract killer Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon). After convincing his Catholic wife Deborah Pellicotti (Winona Ryder) that he works for Disney when he in fact produces porn videos, Polish-American Kuklinski soon finds himself on the payroll of local mobster Roy Demeo (Ray Liotta) as an 'enforcer'. As he warms to his new role amidst the New Jersey underworld, despatching 'contracts' with clinical precision, a striking contrast begins to build between that of the outwardly devoted family man and the ruthlessly efficient, emotionless killer.
Starring: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans, James Franco, David Schwimmer
Director: Ariel Vromen
Infamous (2006)
Biography | Crime | Drama
On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock, Isabella Rossellini, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels, Daniel Craigs, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Panes, Hope Davis
Director: Douglas McGrath
Maniac (2012)
Crime | Horror | Thriller
Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank's obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder
Director: Franck Khalfoun
