Exit Wounds (2001)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Orin Boyd, a tough cop in an inner-city precinct discovers a web of dirty cops and corruption.
Starring: Steven Seagal, DMX, Isaiah Washington, Anthony Anderson, Bill Duke, Jill Hennessy
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Crimewave / The XYZ Murders (1985)
Comedy | Crime | Horror
Ernest hired a pair of exterminators. He had a rat in his place of security system business – his partner. Unfortunately, the exterminators dispatched the wrond rat and they frame a poor security guard for the murder of the company boss…
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Brion James, Louise Lasser, Sheree J. Wilson, Edward R. Pressman, Richard Bright
Director: Sam Raimi
For the Emperor / Hwangjereul Wihayeo (2014)
Action | Crime
Yi Hwan is a former professional baseball player. He was involved in fixing games and lost everything. Gang boss Sang Ha runs a money lending business and a gambling location. He makes Yi Hwan work for him. Meanwhile, Yi Hwan falls for bar owner Yeon Soo.
Starring: Min-ki Lee, Park Sung-woong, Tae-im Lee, Jae-won Lee
Director: Sang-Joon Park
A Fork in the Road (2010)
Comedy | Crime
Wrongly accused of a crime, Will Carson (Josh Cooke) seizes his chance to escape when the cop car he's riding in spits him out at a fork in the road. But he really puts his freedom at risk when he agrees to help a woman (Jaime King) he barely knows get rid of a dead body. On the road to redemption, the pair can't help but attract each other — and more than their fair share of trouble. For starters? The stiff might still be alive.
Starring: Jaime King, Josh Cooke, Silas Weir Mitchell, Missi Pyle, Daniel Roebuck
Director: Jim Kouf
Misfire (2014)
Action | Crime
Hardened DEA agent, Cole, descends into the dangerous underworld of Tijuana, Mexico in search of his journalist ex-wife who he believes has been abducted by a charismatic Cartel boss with aspirations for public office.
Starring: Gary Daniels, Vannessa Vasquez, Michael Greco, Luis Gatica, Geoffrey Ross, Patricia Peinado Cruz
Director: R. Ellis Frazier
Next of Kin (1989)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A southern boy goes to Chicago where he becomes a cop and finds himself in the middle of a plot involving a vengeance-seeking Appalachian relative.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Andreas Katsulas, Bill Paxton
Director: John Irvin
Across 110th Street (1972)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Slicker than a Harlem shakedown, Across 110th Street "hits hard" (Cue) with a jacked-up, smacked-down thrill-ride through the hell-raisin' hoods of Harlem! Cooler-than-cool Anthony Quinn leads a hot cast, including Anthony Franciosa and Yaphet Kotto, in a "hair-raising" (Motion Picture Herald) cop thriller that packs a double barrel of "gory vengeance raw, ugly and unnervingly real" (Playboy)! When a crew of gun-totin' gangstas knocks over a mafia racket in Harlem, their plan gets blown to hell and the crib gets blown to bits! But as the bullets start flyin' and cops start dyin', a pair of New York's finest (Quinn and Kotto) are forced to work together to bring justice to the streets before the Mafia brings the ghetto to its knees! Now, wanted by the Man and hunted by the Mob, there ain't no way these homicidal homeboys are getting across 110th Street except in a body bag! Directed by Barry Shear (The Deadly Trackers).
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Bernard, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Richard Ward
Director: Barry Shear
Topkapi (1964)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Thought by many to be the inspiration for the TV series 'Mission: Impossible', Jules Dassin's comedy-thriller follows a group of art thieves as they plot and plan to rob a jewelled dagger from the fortress-like Topkapi Palace museum in sun-soaked Istanbul. With an international cast and a screenplay written by ex-Ealing stalwart Monja Danischewsky, 'Topkapi' is one of the great comic-exotic heist movies.
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Jess Hahn, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Jules Dassin
Welcome to New York (2014)
Crime | Drama
Intense public fascination and life-changing personal crises ensue after a wealthy French lawyer and politician is charged with sexual assault by a hotel maid in the United States.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Paul Calderon, Shanyn Leigh, Drena De Niro
Director: Abel Ferrara
Mystery Road (2013)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outback home town, to solve the murder of a teenage girl, whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Alienated from both the white dominated police force and his own community, including his teenage daughter, who he discovers is connected with the murdered girl, Jay stands alone in his determination to fight back for his town and his people.
Starring: Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jack Thompson, Tasma Walton
Director: Ivan Sen
Open Windows (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Nick is excited to discover that he's won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, her manager Chord makes an offer he can't refuse – the ability to view Jill secretly via computer. Nick begins watching the unknowing star on her webcam, not realizing that this decision will put both himself and Jill at risk as they enter a terrifying world of cat-and-mouse where nothing, and no one are as they seem.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Sasha Grey
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
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Murder, My Sweet / Farewell, My Lovely (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it for a musical (for which Powell was already famous) has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one's motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe's.
Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Plastic (2014)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
British heist drama, based on a true story. Scam artists Sam and Fordy have long been successful at stealing money through elaborate credit card fraud schemes. However, when they steal from local criminal kingpin Tariq and he becomes aware of the theft, Sam and Fordy must use every trick in the book to pay back the money or face the consequences of their actions. With the help of their friends they fly to Miami where they plan on raising the funds through a number of targeted scams. Can they pay back the money before it's too late?
Starring: Ed Speleers, Alfie Allen, Will Poulter, Sebastian De Souza, Emma Rigby, Mem Ferda
Director: Julian Gilbey
The Man Who Knew Too Little / Watch That Man (1997)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
While visiting his brother in England, Wallace Ritchie attends the "Theatre Of Life," which promises to treat the participant as a character in a crime drama. When Wallace is mistaken for a real spy, he becomes entangled in a plot to kill Russian dignitaries and reignite the Cold War. But for Wallace, it's all an act.
Starring: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson, Geraldine James
Director: Jon Amiel
Band of Outsiders / Bande à part (1964)
Crime | Drama
Three young people, Odile, Arthur and Frantz meet up at an English language class and become instant friends. They share an interest in literature and crime fiction. When Odile reveals that the house she is staying is loaded with loot, the three friends decide to stage a robbery. Of course, it all goes horribly wrong…
Starring: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard, Sami Frey
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Gridiron Gang (2006)
Crime | Drama | Sport
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars in this gritty and inspirational movie based on a true story of a group of teenage delinquents given a second chance to redeem themselves by playing football. Sean Porter (Johnson) is a frustrated juvenile probation officer. Most of the kids in his detention camp are either sent back to prison once they leave or meet a violent end when they return to the streets. Desperately looking for a way to make a difference, he and his co-worker Malcolm Moore devise a plan to teach discipline and responsibility through the game of football. But with only four weeks before the start of the season, Porter must overcome insurmountable odds to put together a competitive team. It's a season that will test their minds, spirit, and bodies as Porter teaches his players the principles of good character, strength through resiliency, and genuine respect for one another.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jade Yorker, Xzibit, Leon Rippy, Kevin Dunn, L. Scott Caldwell
Director: Phil Joanou
Vivement dimanche! / Confidentially Yours (1983)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is very suspected. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations…
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Director: François Truffaut
Good People (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Discovering a cache of cash in their dead tenant's apt, a couple in debt take the money and find themselves the target of a deadly adversary-the thief who stole it.
Starring: James Franco, Kate Hudson, Omar Sy, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Friel, Sam Spruell
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
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The Maiden Heist / The Lonely Maiden (2009)
Comedy | Crime
Three museum security guards devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macy, Marcia Gay Harden, Breckin Meyer
Director: Peter Hewitt
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When a notorious, highly sophisticated counterfeiter murders his partner, Secret Service agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) launches a furious vendetta to capture the man responsible. But master counterfeiter Rick Masters (Willem Dafoe) is always just one step ahead of Chance in William Friedkin's thrilling, suspenseful crime drama. With violent shoot-outs and a turbulent chase scene reminiscent of Friedkin's own The French Connection, To Live and Die in L.A. broke with tradition by making the ostensible hero as morally reprehensible as the villain he pursues. Clashing with bureaucratic obstacles, Chance is forced to break the rules in order to procure cash for a sting operation, but the risks he takes snowball into an avalanche of violence and moral repercussions, leading to a morally ambiguous cul-de-sac from which there may be no return.
Starring: William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro, Darlanne Fluegel, Dean Stockwell
Director: William Friedkin
