Category: Crime
Posted on April 27, 2013 |
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Hard Boiled Sweets (2012)
Crime | Thriller
Ex-con Johnny (WILLIAMS) is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss 'Shrewd' Eddie (FREEMAN) has one million in dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money…
Starring: Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Adrian Bower, Liz May Brice, Paul Freeman
Director: David L.G. Hughes
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Posted on April 26, 2013 |
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Accident (1967)
Crime | Drama
Two Oxford students, William and Anna, crash their car outside their professor Stephen's house. The lecturer finds William dead and Anna in shock, and the horrifying spectacle in front of him triggers memories of their previous meetings. It transpires that Anna had been having an affair with one of the professor's colleagues, and, in a flashback to a Sunday dinner party, it is revealed what part Stephen had to play in the fall-out from the relationship. Harold Pinter provides the script for Joseph Losey's examination of emotional tumult amongst the dreaming spires.
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York
Director: Joseph Losey
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Posted on April 25, 2013 |
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Detective Hunter Zhang / Beijing Blues (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama
Beijing police officer Zhang Hui Ling, who patrols Haidian District's Shuangyushu neighborhood in Beijing, has a job to do. Every day, he has to go out in the street with his cohort of security guards who speak a bewildering array of accents from all over China, and track down and arrest thieves, hucksters, and con artists. And he's good at it; after more than 10 years on the force, Zhang Hui Ling has an uncanny ability to sniff out criminals from the throngs of people passing through his district. He needs those skills in Shuangyushu, a migrant neighborhood where criminals congregate. Like the car thief who steal BMW's and Mercedes with interface gadgets he buys on the Internet, or the family gang who crash cars into passing automobiles and demand settlement on the spot, or the currency counterfeiters, con artists who dress as monks to defraud religious old women in crisis, or the former thief who was injured during his last arrest and now hounds his unemployed younger brother for…
Starring: Lixian Zhang
Director: Qunshu Gao
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Posted on April 23, 2013 |
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Assassins Run / White Swan (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Maya, a beautiful Russian ballerina, is pursued by the Russian mafia after they kill her husband, a successful American businessman, and financial documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars go missing. Maya is framed by corrupt cops and imprisoned, and then when she is due to be released, her daughter is kidnapped, and she must fight to save her life. However, those who seem to be her friends may really be her enemies…
Starring: Christian Slater, Sofya Skya, Cole Hauser, Angus Macfadyen, Marianna Khalifman
Director: Robert Crombie
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Tags: Angus MacFadyen, Christian Slater, Cole Hauser, Marianna Khalifman, Robert Crombie, Sofya Skya
Posted on April 23, 2013 |
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle / Charlie's Angels 2 (2003)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Sexy Angels (Cameraon Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu) are back to go head-to-head with Angel-Gone-Bad (Demi Moore)! Aided by trusty sidekick Bosley (Bernie Mac), these hot and heavenly beauties really kick butt to reclaim rings encrypted with information about every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program! Sizzling with attitude, they put the pedal to the metal to launch a do-or-die thrill ride that never slows down!
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, Bernie Mac, Demi Moore, Shia LaBeouf
Director: McG
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Posted on April 23, 2013 |
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Bedevilled / Kim Bok-nam salinsageonui jeonmal (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When her pleas for help are ignored and cause her daughter's death, a woman seeks revenge on the person she blames.
Starring: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji, Min-ho Hwang, Min Je, Ji-Eun Lee, Jeong-hak Park
Director: Chul-soo Jang
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Posted on April 22, 2013 |
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Strange Days (1995)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares, dealing in real-life experiences through a new technology that makes every sensation immediate. But on the eve of the new millennium, Lenny and his street-savvy friend and conscience, Mace, are suddenly caught in a deadly fantasy of conspiracy, murder and betrayal–plunging them into the bleak heart of the nightworld he has always inhabited.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Posted on April 21, 2013 |
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The Tiger's Tail (2006)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack, Sean McGinley, Cathy Belton, Brian Gleeson, Angeline Ball
Director: John Boorman
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Tags: Angeline Ball, Brendan Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, Cathy Belton, Ciarán Hinds, John Boorman, Kim Cattrall, Sean McGinley, Sinéad Cusack
Posted on April 21, 2013 |
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You Only Live Twice (1967)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
After a mysterious rocketship seizes manned space missions from Earth's orbit, suspicions mount and the world superpowers are hurled toward the brink of war. Their only hope rests with James Bond (Agent 007), who races to stop the space-jackings' true mastermind, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, chief of the evil SPECTRE organization. Blofeld is bent on instigating global warfare from his massive headquarters nestled in an inactive volcano located in a Japanese island. As the countdown begins, Bond joins forces with the gorgeous Japanese agent Kissy Suzuki and scores of Ninja warriors, to mount a daring raid on Blofeld's lair and prevent a calamitous world war.
Starring: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Donald Pleasence, Tetsurō Tamba, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Posted on April 20, 2013 |
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The Protector / Wai lung mang tam (1985)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate. Once in Hong Kong, the pair causes no end of trouble for both Mr. Ko and the local authorities.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello, Sandy Alexander, Victor Arnold, Kim Bass
Director: James Glickenhaus
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Posted on April 20, 2013 |
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Swallowtail Butterfly / Suwarôteiru (1996)
Crime | Drama
After a young girl's mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives the girl the name "Ageha" (Butterfly). Ageha goes to work for a collection of oddballs who run a junkyard and salvage business.
Starring: Hiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Ito, Yôsuke Eguchi, Andy Hui Chi-On, Atsurô Watabe, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Director: Shunji Iwai
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Posted on April 18, 2013 |
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Flic Story / Crime Story / Cop Story (1975)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. During three years Buisson manages to hide from detective Borniche by repeatedly killing his informants. When he's finally caught with help from the little criminal Paul, Buisson will have committed more than 100 robberies and killed 30 people.
Starring: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori, Claudine Auger, Maurice Biraud
Director: Jacques Deray
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Posted on April 17, 2013 |
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Los Angeles in the early 50s. Unrelenting sunshine, alluring glamour, easy money and a burgeoning industry called Hollywood. The entire country is transfixed by the seductive images coming from the City of Angles. But beneath the gleaming surface lies a corrupt soul. The energy and growth of post-war America is a combustible mix that's bound to explode.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn
Director: Curtis Hanson
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Posted on April 17, 2013 |
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The Colombian Connection / Through the Eye (2011)
Action | Crime | Mystery
The year is 1976 and it is a dangerous year in the Straits of Yucatan. The man is Jack Hooks, a former cop set up by his corrupt partner and sent to jail for a drug crime he didn't commit. After being yanked out of prison with an early release deal offered by the DEA, he is sent on a do or die mission; bring down the drug trade of his former partner, Frank Rossi and his contacts. Hooks has no choice but to plunge into the underworld of marijuana smuggling by making one big run through the narrow channel that flows between Cuba and Mexico, also known as "The Eye", and into the heart of a violent Colombian drug ring. At the head of the ring is Carlos Huerta, the ruthless drug lord that is Rossi's source of supply, and Jack's final objective. That is, if he can escape the jungles of Colombia before his clandestine relationship with Elena, Huerta's young courtesan is discovered and threatens the lives of himself, his crew and his freedom.
Starring: Tom Sizemore, Robert Thorne, Bertie Higgins, Bianca Malinowski
Director: Julian Higgins
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Posted on April 16, 2013 |
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The Punisher (1989)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb, has become THE PUNISHER… a shadowy, invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies. Only his ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast. Lashing out from a labyrinth of subterranean sewers, THE PUNISHER leads a heavily armed raid into a world of brutal crime and savage retribution. A world where only one thing is certain…the guilty will be punished.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Louis Gossett Jr., Jeroen Krabbé
Director: Mark Goldblatt
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Posted on April 16, 2013 |
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Burn After Reading (2008)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
An ousted CIA official's memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find.
Starring: Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Richard Jenkins
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Posted on April 16, 2013 |
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Crime Story / Zhong an zu (1993)
Action | Crime | Drama
The infamous Eddie Chan, member of Hong Kong's Crime Squad, is assigned to protect a millionaire real estate developer threatened with kidnapping by a powerful triad of groups.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Kent Cheng, Kar-Ying Law, Christine Ng, Ken Lo
Director: Kirk Wong
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Posted on April 15, 2013 |
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Hard to Kill (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Detective Mason Storm, falls into a coma after being shot during a fire-fight that killed his wife Felicia and son Sonny. He reawakens seven years later to find his son alive and seeks vengeance with the coma-ward nurse and his old partner.
Starring: Steven Seagal, William Sadler, Frederick Coffin, Kelly LeBrock, Branscombe Richmond
Director: Bruce Malmuth
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Posted on April 15, 2013 |
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Ministry of Fear (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War 2 in England when he stumbles on a deadly Nazi spy plot by accident, and tries to stop it.
Starring: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Dan Duryea, Hillary Brooke, Alan Napier
Director: Fritz Lang
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Posted on April 12, 2013 |
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Turner & Hooch (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A detective must adopt the dog of a dead man to help him find the murderer.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Reginald VelJohnson, Scott Paulin, J.C. Quinn
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
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Tags: Craig T. Nelson, J.C. Quinn, Mare Winningham, Reginald VelJohnson, Roger Spottiswoode, Scott Paulin, Tom Hanks
