GoldenEye / Golden Eye (1995)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Pierce Brosnan ignites the screen as James Bond in this explosive, thrill-packed adventure that pits him against a vengeful adversary who controls an awesome space weapon capable of global destruction.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Judi Dench, Joe Don Baker
Director: Martin Campbell
Shaitan (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
After the passing of her mother, and the entry of a step-mother, Amrita Jayshankar retreats into herself. Her father is summoned to her school and is told that his daughter may require counseling, but he refuses to believe and instead makes a donation to the school. Then Amrita meets with three males and a female, namely Zuben, Dushant Sahu, Karan Chaudhary; and Tanya Sharma respectively. Together they live it up with drugs and alcohol until things get out of control when they accidentally kill a couple. A corrupt police constable demands Rs.25 Lakhs to eliminate their involvement. Unable to come up with so much cash, the five decide to fake a kidnapping, demand the cash from Amrita's father, and clear their respective names. Amrita accordingly goes 'missing', and her father involves the police, who assign this case to once-suspended police inspector, Arvind Mathur. With the media getting involved, Arvind begins his investigation, but will soon find it hampered – complicating not only his assignment – but also his personal life.
Starring: Kalki Koechlin, Shiv Pandit, Gulshan Devaiah, Rajeev Khandelwal, Neil Bhoopalam, Kirti Kulhari, Raj Kumar Yadav, Rajat Barmecha, Nikhil Chinappa
Director: Bejoy Nambiar
Quicksilver (1986)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A former options trader takes a job as a bike messenger after incurring major losses in the market.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Laurence Fishburne, Louie Anderson, Charles McCaughan
Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly
Pari e dispari / Trinity: Gambling for High Stakes (1978)
Comedy | Crime
Johnny is a very good driver motorboat with which it is competing in many competitions in Miami, Charlie instead is a truck driver making deliveries in various places and ultimately must carry a tank full of dolphins. The two characters meet when some miscreants sabotage speedboat Johnny. He thinks that it was Charlie who was eating a plate of beans, but in the end they discover that the real culprits are a gang of illegal bookmakers are putting their hands boobies next races to be held in Miami. Johnny to discover the intentions of the band Charlie proposes to work with him, but these early disagrees because his acquaintance seems too clever, witty trickster and for his rough taste. However, at the end, the two combine to sabotage plans by gangsters fighting and fisticuffs fun. In the midst of this climate Charlie, in despair, he will find also be the illegitimate brother of Johnny for an escapade of his father, still alive, who pretends to be blind in order to collect a pension. After Johnny was passed off as a runner with the horses and Charlie took part in a second meeting, the two brothers find out which houses the boss of the gang of bookmakers and Johnny will have to play with him and his henchmen in a poker game. Johnny wins but the boss does not intend to make it go away, so Charlie and Johnny greet the members of the band with a new and more powerful punch and brawl.
Starring: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Luciano Catenacci, Marisa Laurito, Kim McKay
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Miami Supercops / Trinity: Good Guys and Bad Guys (1985)
Action | Comedy | Crime
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a seven-year head start on the authorities.
Starring: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, C.B. Seay, William Jim, Ken Ceresne
Director: Bruno Corbucci
The Trap (1959)
Crime | Drama
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes…
Starring: Richard Widmark, Earl Holliman, Tina Louise, Lee J. Cobb, Carl Benton Reid, Lorne Greene
Director: Norman Panama
The Last of the Finest (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly becomes three when one is killed early) band together to fight the drug ring undercover. They gain capital for weapons by ripping off minor drug dealers. Then well-armed they go after the kingpin (Boyd).
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Fahey, Bill Paxton, Michael C. Gwynne
Director: John Mackenzie
Dark Angel (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Houston cop Jack Caine is a not-by-the books police officer investigating the death of several people, including his partner, by a gang called the "White Boys." All the victims seemed to have died of drug overdoses, but Jack thinks that there is something more sinister afoot. His investigation reveals a plot by aliens who use the bodies to extract a chemical that is sold to addicts on their home planet.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Jim Haynie, Michael J. Pollard, Jesse Vint, Al Leong
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Zen (2011) (TV Mini-Series)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Drama series centred around Rome detective Aurelio Zen, who finds it tough being the only honest cop in town. Plotting politicians, a stressed-out boss and vengeful gangsters don't make it easy.
Starring: Rufus Sewell, Caterina Murino, Stanley Townsend, Ben Miles, Vincent Riotta, Catherine Spaak, Sargon Yelda, Francesco Quinn, Ed Stoppard, Anthony Higgins, Garry Cooper, Daniele Monterosi, Cosima Shaw
Creator: Simon Burke, Michael Dibdin
The Borgias (TV Series 2011-2013)
Crime | Drama | History
The Showtime Original Series The Borgias is the sordid saga of one of the most remarkable and legendary families in history. Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia (Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons) to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family. The unbounded audacity of this original crime family went on to inspire Machiavelli's The Prince and Mario Puzo's The Godfather. Don't miss a minute of the lavish, sexy, scandalous drama from the creative mind of Academy Award® winner Neil Jordan.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Colm Feore, Peter Sullivan, Joanne Whalley, Sean Harris, Lotte Verbeek, David Oakes, Bosco Hogan, Vernon Dobtcheff, Gina McKee
Creator: Neil Jordan
Educazione siberiana / Siberian Education / Deadly Code (2013)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria.
Starring: Eleanor Tomlinson, John Malkovich, Peter Stormare, Arnas Fedaravicius, Mindaugas Papinigis
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Gangster / Gangster: A Love Story (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Daya Shankar lived with his family in Kashmir, but then subsequently re-located to Bombay where he took to crime as a career. One day while on the run from the Police, he holes up in a small room with a young bar dancer, Simran. She shields him from the Police, and he falls in love. He finds out the bar she dances in and comes in silently to watch her perform. He had come to her rescue when she was being molested and thereafter asked her to move in with him, which she did. For sometime it was as though they seemed to be living in bliss, then all of a sudden, they were on the run again. Then Daya decided that it was time to settle down, and they adopted a young boy, Bittu, made different passports, and decided to re-locate to Dubai. That did not happen, instead Bittu gets killed, and a heart-broken Simran and Daya are forced to live apart, with Simran moving to Seoul, Korea. It is here that she meets with Akash and both fall in love, get intimate and Simran gets pregnant. Then Daya re-enters her life, disrupting it completely, beating Akash to a pulp. It is now that Simran has to decide whether to stay with Akash, get married, and have her baby, or continue to live a life on the run with Daya – who is not only on the run from the Police, but also from the underworld Don, Khan. What the three players do not known that two of them are going to be betrayed – a betrayal so shocking that none of them may be able to survive it.
Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Shiney Ahuja, Kangana Ranaut, Gulshan Grover, Vicky Ahuja
Director: Anurag Basu
Branded to Kill / Koroshi no rakuin (1967)
Action | Crime | Drama
Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin (chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) with a fetish for sniffing boiled rice who botches a job and ends up a target himself.
Starring: Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Anne Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Hiroshi Minami
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Antapal / The Gangster (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Bangkok in the 1950s. Jod and his friend Daeng are fearless aspiring gangsters. Their ability in street fight have them hired by a local gang and admired by all. But as years go by, this violent lifestyle is more and more difficult for Jod. He tries to avoid violence when he can but is soon put aside by more violent youngsters. When some of his friends die in internal wars, he decides to take his revenge on the gang.
Starring: Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Somchai Kemglad, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Krisada Supapprom, Pakchanok Wo-Onsri, Wasu Sangsingkaew, Boonsong Nakphoo, Nantharat Chaowarat
Director: Kongkiat Khomsiri
Joe the King (1999)
Crime | Drama
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father's debts and to replace his mother's records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks.
Starring: Noah Fleiss, Karen Young, Camryn Manheim, Austin Pendleton, Val Kilmer
Director: Frank Whaley
Rumble in the Bronx / Hung fan kui (1995)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream, Garvin Cross, Morgan Lam
Director: Stanley Tong
Dedd Brothers (2009)
Comedy | Crime
A year after their father's death, four brothers decide it's time to quit their dead-end jobs and start a family business… a funeral home. Soon after securing a business loan from a shady, drug-addicted acquaintance, the foursome finds out that they actually borrowed this guy's theft debt… to the mafia. With a call from the Mafia's boss, the guys not only learn that their loaner has been killed, but that they must come up with double the money they borrowed in two weeks time. The brothers turn to theft, conning, and anything else they can do to get the money, but they just aren't any good at it. As the end of the two weeks nears, the family is forced to turn to desperate measures and a bizarre road trip.
Starring: Dustin Dugas Schuetter, Tim Lacatena, Alison Sieke, Jayk Gallagher, Carlucci Weyant
Director: Dustin Dugas Schuetter
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Z (1969)
Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.
Starring: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
Director: Costa-Gavras
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Crashout (1955)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.
Starring: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans, Marshall Thompson, Beverly Michaels
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Michael Clayton (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Amy Hargreaves
Director: Tony Gilroy
