Burglar (1987)
Comedy | Crime
Whoopi Goldberg is the owner of a San Francisco bookstore who leads a secret life – bookseller by day, thief by night.
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, G.W. Bailey, Lesley Ann Warren, James Handy, Anne De Salvo, John Goodman
Director: Hugh Wilson
Man from Reno (2014)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In a small town south of San Francisco, Sheriff Paul Del Moral (Pepe Serna) is driving home through the fog when he accidentally strikes a pedestrian, a lone Japanese man. However, before an investigation can take place the man disappears from the hospital without a trace. At the same time, Japanese mystery author Aki Akahori (Ayako Fujitani) takes a trip to San Francisco in order to escape the press tour for her latest book–a potboiler in her world famous "Inspector Takabe" series. Feeling lonely and vulnerable, she begins a romantic affair with a mysterious Japanese traveler from Reno (Kazuki Kitamura). Her new lover is charismatic and charming but abruptly disappears from the hotel, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions…
Starring: Ayako Fujitani, Pepe Serna, Kazuki Kitamura
Director: Dave Boyle
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The Forger (2014)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The world's best art forger makes a deal with a crime syndicate to get an early release from prison, but in return he must pull off an impossible heist – he must forge a painting by Claude Monet, steal the original from a museum, and replace it with a replica so perfect that no one will notice. He enlists the help of his father and son and together they plan the heist of their lives!
Starring: John Travolta, Christopher Plummer, Tye Sheridan, Abigail Spencer, Anson Mount, Marcus Thomas
Director: Philip Martin
Hot Pursuit (2015)
Action | Comedy | Crime
A police officer and a prisoner are on the run in Texas.
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Michael Mosley, Robert Kazinsky, Matthew Del Negro, John Carroll Lynch
Director: Anne Fletcher
The Winner (1996)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Vincent D'Onofrio stars as Philip, a soft-spoken, rather dimwitted young man who stumbles into an incredible lucky streak in Las Vegas. Every Sunday, he enters the same casino, wins some money, and goes home. While Philip himself is pretty nonchalant about his lucky streak, it earns him the attention of a lot of unsavory characters. Louise, a tacky nightclub singer, and her impotent hitman boyfriend, Jack, plan to get Philip to fall in love with Louise and offer her a fortune to pay off her debt to the sinister, seemingly omnipotent Kingman, the casino owner who employs Jack. A small-time hood, Joey and his motley crew plan to rip Philip off, but their plans are complicated when the antic, impulsively violent Joey begins to feel a strange attraction to his would-be prey. Wolf, Philip's thuggish brother (and Louise's former lover) arrives in town, practically guaranteeing some kind of violent showdown.
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent D'Onofrio, Richard Edson, Saverio Guerra, Delroy Lindo, Michael Madsen
Director: Alex Cox
Revenge of the Green Dragons / Ching lung (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama
Two immigrant brothers Sonny and Steven who survive the impoverished despair of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang "The Green Dragons". The brothers quickly rise up the ranks, drawing the unwanted attention of hard-boiled city cops. After an ill- fated love affair pits Sonny against his own brother, he sets out for revenge on the very gang who made him who he is.
Starring: Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, Harry Shum Jr., Ray Liotta
Director: Wai-Keung Lau, Andrew Loo
Poker Night (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
When you become a detective in Warsaw, Indiana, you go to Poker Night, where you play against some of the best cops in the business, who tell you stories about their time on the job. After new Detective Stan Jeter leaves the game, he is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, where he must match wits against his captor.
Starring: Beau Mirchoff, Ron Perlman, Giancarlo Esposito, Titus Welliver, Ron Eldard, Halston Sage
Director: Greg Francis
The Chase / Stakeout / Harikomi (1958)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
When a team of detectives losees the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect's ex-lover, who is trapped in an oppresive marriage.
Starring: Minoru Ôki, Takahiro Tamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Hideko Takamine, Kin Sugai, Masao Shimizu
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
10 Cent Pistol / Ten Cent Pistol (2014)
Crime | Thriller
Two brothers maneuver through the criminal underworld of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption. Their string of success screeches to a halt when a high stakes job goes horribly wrong. Soon they find themselves at the mercy of a crooked mob lawyer, and tangled in a love triangle with a sexy femme fatale. With no other choice but to do what they do best, the brothers take on the craziest job of their careers, and pray they get out alive.
Starring: Jena Malone, Joe Mantegna, Thomas Ian Nicholas
Director: Michael C. Martin
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Furious 7 / Fast & Furious 7 (2015)
Action | Crime | Thriller
After dealing with Owen Shaw, Dominic, Brian and their crew are able to return to the United States and live the normal life again as they had wanted. Meanwhile, Owen's brother Deckard Shaw is seeking to kill all of the crew for their role in Owen's paralyzation.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson
Director: James Wan
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery
The Johnny Worricker Spy trilogy concludes with Salting the Battlefield, in which our hero with his ex girlfriend, Margot are criss-crossing Europe trying to stay one step ahead of the security services and a vengeful Prime Minister. Worricker is being watched – His family and friends are being watched – He is running out of cash and he needs to make a move to reach an endgame.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Anna Böger, Shazad Latif, Felicity Jones, James McArdle, Bill Nighy
Director: David Hare
A History of Violence (2005)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Everyone has something to hide. This is the story of a mild-mannered man named Tom Stall who lives a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana. One night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner and becomes a local hero through this act of violence. The resulting media spotlight unwittingly changes the lives of Tom and his family in ways they never could have foreseen.
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes, Peter MacNeill
Director: David Cronenberg
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Crime | Drama
Gentlemen's club owner Cosmo Vitelli is a man dedicated to pretenses of composure and self-possession. When he runs afoul of a group of gangsters, Cosmo is forced to commit a horrible crime in a last-ditch effort to save his beloved club and his way of life.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey, Al Ruban, Morgan Woodward
Director: John Cassavetes
Wild Horses (2015)
Crime | Drama
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case and begins to suspect that the boy it belongs to was murdered – and that a local rancher was involved.
Starring: Robert Duvall, James Franco, Josh Hartnett, Luciana Pedraza, Angie Cepeda, Jim Parrack
Director: Robert Duvall
Rapid Fire (1992)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Brandon Lee stars as a young art student who happens to witness a drug murder and is placed in protective custody by federal agents. It's not too long before he realizes that the only real protection he can count on is his own martial-arts training.
Starring: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso, Raymond J. Barry, Kate Hodge, Tzi Ma
Director: Dwight H. Little
Lucky Numbers (2000)
Comedy | Crime
Russ Richards, a weatherman on a local TV station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sells snowmobiles on the side, but both careers are in a rut thanks to an unusually warm winter. Russ's girlfriend Crystal appears on the State Lottery's weekly televised drawing, pulling the numbered balls out of the rotating bin. With the help of a few of his less scrupulous friends – among them sleazy strip joint proprietor Gig, small time hood Dale The Thug, and Crystal's sleazy cousin Walter – Russ figures out a way to rig the drawing and have Crystal pull numbers that they happen to own. However, Russ discovers that making the scheme work and keeping everyone quiet about it is more trouble than it's worth.
Starring: John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rapaport, Daryl Mitchell
Director: Nora Ephron
Veronica Guerin (2003)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
In the mid-1990s, Dublin was a war zone as the most dangerous and powerful drug lords fought for absolute control of the city. But their most fierce opponent was not the police, but rather unyielding Sunday Independent journalist Veronica Guerin.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Gerard McSorley, Don Wycherley, Colin Farrell
Director: Joel Schumacher
Meu nome não é Johnny / My Name Ain't Johnny (2008)
Biography | Crime | Drama
In the 90's, In Rio de Janeiro, the middle-class João Guilherme Estrella is introduced to the world of drugs consuming maconha and cocaine first and later becoming a drug-dealer with many connections inclusive in Europe. However, he spends all the money he makes in his addiction, parties with clients and friends and travels, never structuring or organizing a network or saving money. When he is arrested, he is sent to the prison first and later to the judicial asylum for treatment, reintegrating to the society. Presently João is a successful musical producer.
Starring: Selton Mello, Giulio Lopes, Júlia Lemmertz
Director: Mauro Lima
Carandiru (2003)
Crime | Drama
Brazilian MD Drauzio Varella starts AIDS prevention in Brazil's largest prison, Carandiru, in São Paulo, where the population is nearly double its 4,000 maximum. Doc learns from experience and mainly stories the tragic stories of hideous crimes which landed scum there and passionate dramas adding otherwise decent people. Just when he believes to leave the prisoners happy with a soccer tournament, a silly clothing line argument kick-starts a politically opportune revolt repression.
Starring: Enrique Diaz, Wagner Moura, Rodrigo Santoro, Milton Gonçalves
Director: Hector Babenco
Urban Justice (2007)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Max Ballester was a good cop who made the unfortunate mistake of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now Max is dead, the victim of a senseless and seemingly random act of violence. When the murder goes unsolved and the police fail to single out a suspect, Max's father, former government special ops agent Simon Ballester, decides to take the law into his own hands. After moving in to the very neighborhood where his son was recently gunned down, Simon embarks on a relentless mission to find his son's killer – constantly probing everyone who crosses his path and never hesitating to crack a skull or two when things get tough. Of course the local gangs don't take kindly to such bold inquiries, especially when they are being conducted by an ex-government agent. Fortunately Simon is more than capable of fending for himself in such dangerous situations, and as the local thugs come out to play he unleashes a fury the likes of which have never been seen even on these treacherous streets.
Starring: Steven Seagal, Eddie Griffin, Carmen Serano, Cory Hart, Liezl Carstens, Kirk B.R. Woller
Director: Don E. FauntLeRoy
