Category: Crime
Posted on June 29, 2013 |
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The Silent Partner (1978)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
This is an imaginative plot, yet one with which the viewer can readily identify. A bank teller is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook. The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he has been outsmarted. There ensues a terrific battle of wits involving the clever but basically "moral" teller, and the cunning and totally uninhibited bank robber, which involves several other people in ways which cannot be revealed here.
Starring: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Céline Lomez, John Candy
Director: Daryl Duke
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Tags: Céline Lomez, Christopher Plummer, Daryl Duke, Elliott Gould, John Candy, Susannah York
Posted on June 29, 2013 |
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Detective Story (1951)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation of the law and doesn't believe in turning the other cheek. The current object of his zealousness is Karl Schneider, an abortionist responsible for the death of several young women. Schneider's lawyer tells the precinct lieutenant that McLeod has his own personal reasons for going after his client. It turns out that his wife was a patient before they met, although Jim knew nothing of it. His world suddenly turned upside down, McLeod is too late in re-evaluating his priorities.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready
Director: William Wyler
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Tags: Cathy O'Donnell, Eleanor Parker, George Macready, Kirk Douglas, William Bendix, William Wyler
Posted on June 28, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on June 28, 2013 |
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Rushlights (2013)
Crime | Romance | Thriller
Billy and Sarah, two delinquent teenage lovers from the suburbs of Los Angeles, travel to a small southern town to falsely claim a dead friend's inheritance.
Starring: Beau Bridges, Aidan Quinn, Josh Henderson, Haley Webb
Director: Antoni Stutz
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Posted on June 26, 2013 |
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Fly with the Gold / Ôgon o daite tobe (2012)
Crime | Drama
Kota (Satoshi Tsumabuki) hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa (Tadanobu Asano), a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold bar sits in the basement of the HQ of Sumita Bank. Helping Kota and Kitagawa are bank security employee Noda (Kenta Kiritani), a North Korean spy pretending to be a college student (Shim Chang-Min), Kitagawa's younger brother Haruki (Junpei Mizobata) and a former elevator engineer (Toshiyuki Nishida). These 6 men are about to carry the boldest of schemes to bypass the bank's high-tech defense system.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Kenta Kiritani, Junpei Mizobata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Chang-min Shim
Director: Kazuyuki Izutsu
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Tags: Chang-min Shim, Junpei Mizobata, Kazuyuki Izutsu, Kenta Kiritani, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Toshiyuki Nishida
Posted on June 25, 2013 |
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Skytten (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Denmark is in turmoil as it becomes known that the government has broken a crucial election promise not to extract oil in the beautiful and vulnerable Arctic. The potential consequences are incalculable and journalist Julie takes up the battle through a debate with those responsible. But Rasmus, a geophycisist who has just returned from the Arctic, feels a need to resort to extreme methods. Equipped with a gun, he not only takes the government hostage, but the whole of Copenhagen as well. His demand is that the drilling must stop or he will start killing people.
Starring: Trine Dyrholm, Kim Bodnia, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Director: Annette K. Olesen
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Posted on June 25, 2013 |
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Passion (2012)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A young businesswoman plots a murderous revenge after her boss and mentor steals her idea.
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams, Paul Anderson, Karoline Herfurth
Director: Brian De Palma
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Posted on June 25, 2013 |
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City of God / Cidade de Deus (2002)
Crime | Drama
Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that–in the early 80's–became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw, but also too smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pé soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he's been given an artist's point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pé is not the real protagonist of the film–only the narrator–he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pé's perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence.
Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phelipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge, Jonathan Haagensen
Director: Fernando Meirelles
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Tags: Alexandre Rodrigues, Fernando Meirelles, Jonathan Haagensen, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phelipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge
Posted on June 25, 2013 |
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Free Money (1998)
Comedy | Crime
Walrus-like warden, Sven "Swede" Sorenson, a cross between Bluto and Wimpy, runs the prison, murders convicts who escape, and has the FBI on his trail in the form of agent Karen Polarski, the daughter of the town's corrupt judge. Swede's twins tell their father they're pregnant (they aren't), so he pushes their dim boyfriends, Bud and Larry, into shotgun marriages. He also turns his sons-in-law into slave labor, so Bud hatches an escape plan: to rob a train carrying old bills to the mint for burning. Larry's his reluctant accomplice. When Bud is captured and railroaded into Swede's jail, his death looks certain, until he hatches yet another plan that requires Larry's help.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Donald Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Thomas Haden Church, Mira Sorvino, Martin Sheen, David Arquette
Director: Yves Simoneau
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Tags: Charlie Sheen, David Arquette, Donald Sutherland, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Mira Sorvino, Thomas Haden Church, Yves Simoneau
Posted on June 23, 2013 |
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Dead Man Down (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two strangers are irresistibly drawn to one another by their mutual desire for revenge.
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Colin Farrell, Dominic Cooper, Terrence Howard, Armand Assante, Isabelle Huppert
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
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Tags: Armand Assante, Colin Farrell, Dominic Cooper, Isabelle Huppert, Niels Arden Oplev, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard
Posted on June 23, 2013 |
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Nowhere to Hide
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A chase film in which cops try to catch a master of disguise. This is a film as much about the joy of filmmaking as it is about a deadly pursuit.
Starring: Joong-Hoon Park, Sung-kee Ahn, Dong-gun Jang, Ji-Woo Choi
Director: Myung-se Lee
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Tags: Dong-gun Jang, Ji-Woo Choi, Joong-Hoon Park, Myung-se Lee, Sung-kee Ahn
Posted on June 20, 2013 |
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Mon Ami (2012)
Comedy | Crime
Two friends try executing their 'get-rich-quick' plan by kidnapping their boss's daughter, but when the plan falls apart, they must scramble to fix the situation and repair their friendship.
Starring: Mike Kovac, Scott Wallis, Bradley Duffy, Chelsey Reist, Teagan Vincze
Director: Rob Grant
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Tags: Bradley Duffy, Chelsey Reist, Mike Kovac, Rob Grant, Scott Wallis, Teagan Vincze
Posted on June 20, 2013 |
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Tony Rome (1967)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Tony Rome is an ex-cop turned private eye in Miami Beach. For $200 he returns a young woman to her father's house after she passes out in a seedy hotel, and he keeps the hotel's name out of it. Trouble is, she's missing a diamond pin, and tough guys show up at Tony's boat looking for it. When the pin does turn up, it's fake, so the girl's father, a wealthy builder, hires Tony to find out what happened to the real stones. Bodies pile up, Tony suspects the builder's trophy wife, and he's also looking for a mysterious guy named Nimmo who used to date Ann Archer, a stunning redhead Tony meets at the builder's. Can Tony sort it out before too many die, and what about Ann?
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands, Simon Oakland
Director: Gordon Douglas
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Posted on June 19, 2013 |
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The Night of the Generals (1967)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | War
The murder of a prostitute in Nazi occupied Warsaw draws Wehrmacht Major Grau into an investigation where the evidence points to one of three high ranking Generals. The trail leads Grau from Warsaw to Paris and straight into the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, of which two of the Generals are deeply involved. Grau's case goes unfinished and it is not until 1965 when the true killer is brought to justice.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet, Philippe Noiret, Charles Gray
Director: Anatole Litvak
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Posted on June 18, 2013 |
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Prank (2013)
Crime
Harmless prank or violent revenge? Three high school students, sick of living in fear of bullies, plan the ultimate payback. But when their prank goes way too far, they come to realize that getting even can have deadly consequences. Packed with unpredictable twists and turns, this cutting-edge thriller pulls no punches and delivers a shocking conclusion you'll never forget. Just remember…no matter how sweet revenge might taste, there's always a price to pay.
Starring: Nick Renaud, Henry Monfries, Gemmenne de la Peña, Hannah Kasulka, Alastair Ferrie, Rene Cadet
Director: Yiuwing Lam
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Tags: Alastair Ferrie, Gemmenne de la Peña, Hannah Kasulka, Henry Monfries, Nick Renaud, Rene Cadet, Yiuwing Lam
Posted on June 17, 2013 |
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Confidence (2003)
Crime | Thriller
What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of his crew: Insideman Gordo, Shills Miles, and Big Al–and two corrupt LAPD officers, Lloyd Whitworth and Omar Manzano. But when both Lionel and Big Al turn up dead, it becomes clear that Lionel wasn't just any mark–as Jake soon learns, he was an accountant for eccentric crime boss Winston King. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Jake offers to repay The King by pulling off the biggest con of his career. The mark? Morgan Price, a banker with deep ties to organized crime. With so much riding on the outcome, Jake decides to bring in a brash, blonde pickpocket named Lily, who joins the crew in a complex scheme involving corporate loans, creative accounting, wire transfers and off-shore accounts. Jake and his crew will have to stay one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops to finally settle their debt.
Starring: Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia
Director: James Foley
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Posted on June 17, 2013 |
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Murder! (1930)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
The police find the actress, Diana Baring, near the body of her friend. All the circumstantial proofs seems to point to her and, at the end of the trial, she is condemned. Sir John Menier, a jury member, suspects Diana's boyfriend, who works as an acrobat wearing a dresses.
Starring: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman , Miles Mander
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Edward Chapman, Herbert Marshall, Miles Mander, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam
Posted on June 16, 2013 |
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White Heat (1949)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran, John Archer, Fred Clark
Director: Raoul Walsh
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Tags: Edmond O'Brien, Fred Clark, James Cagney, John Archer, Raoul Walsh, Steve Cochran, Virginia Mayo
Posted on June 16, 2013 |
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Legal Eagles (1986)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
Starring: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp
Director: Ivan Reitman
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Tags: Brian Dennehy, Daryl Hannah, Debra Winger, Ivan Reitman, Robert Redford, Terence Stamp
Posted on June 15, 2013 |
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Le cerveau / The Brain (1969)
Comedy | Crime
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach, Silvia Monti, Jacques Balutin
Director: Gérard Oury
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Tags: Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach, Gérard Oury, Jacques Balutin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Silvia Monti
