The Corruptor (1999)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An Anglo rookie is partnered with a world-weary Chinese detective in NYC's corrupt Chinatown.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Mark Wahlberg, Ric Young, Paul Ben-Victor, Jon Kit Lee, Andrew Pang
Director: James Foley
Bullet Ballet (1998)
Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Goda returns home one night to find police cars and ambulances surrounding the entrance to his apartment building. When he gets upstairs he's told that his girlfriend, Kiriko, who he's been with for a decade, has committed suicide. If this wasn't devastating enough Goda also learns that she killed herself with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws in the world, not only is Goda left with the yawning, black "why" behind Kiriko's suicide, but also a whole other set of mysterious "hows", "wheres" and "whos". How did Kiriko get a handgun in the first place? From where? And most importantly from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions, and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life…
Starring: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Murase, Kyôka Suzuki, Hisashi Igawa
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Amen. / Eyewitness (2002)
Crime | Drama | War
In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.
Starring: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Iures, Friedrich von Thun
Director: Costa-Gavras
The Gambler (2014)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A literature professor with a gambling problem runs afoul of gangsters.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Brie Larson, Richard Schiff, Michael Kenneth Williams
Director: Rupert Wyatt
U Turn (1997)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drifter becomes entangled with a femme fatale and her husband after his car breaks down in their small Southwest town.
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Voight, Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe
Director: Oliver Stone
The Girl Is in Trouble (2015)
Crime | Thriller
After spending the night with a mysterious woman, a down on his luck DJ discovers evidence of a murder involving a dangerous drug dealer and a billionaire's son. Desperate for money, he must decide whether to blackmail the killer or help the girl out of escalating troubles.
Starring: Columbus Short, Wilmer Valderrama, Alicja Bachleda, Jesse Spencer, Paz de la Huerta
Director: Julius Onah
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The Seventh Lie / Dai chat fong yin (2014)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Spellbinding vignettes reveal the deception and treachery in the intertwined lives of four flawed characters: a chauffeur falling for his boss's wife, a sneaky bellhop who rips off hotel guests, a runaway bride seeking out her ex-boyfriend, and a conflicted murderer trying to cover up his crimes.
Starring: Ronald Cheng, Chung Him Law, Shiu Hung Hui, Josie Ho, Peggy Tseng
Director: James Hung
Buffalo Boys (2013)
Crime | Drama
BUFFALO BOYS is a feature film about Ian, a 15 year-old entangled in a plot to murder a 67 year-old woman. After discovering the man who raised him is not his biological father, Ian's world is forever changed. His mother, Mary-Ann, refuses to name his real father, fueling Ian's desire to escape suburbia. His girlfriend, Lindsay, urges him to stay and work things out, while his best friend, Daniel, continues to lead him down a violent path. Together, the boys sell drugs to make money – until their dealer Maxine, offers an easier way to get rich quick.
Starring: Paul Castro Jr., Rodney Mack, Ilana Mollick, Mckenzie Trent, Tilke Hill
Director: Raymond Guarnieri
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A Most Violent Year (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac, David Oyelowo, Albert Brooks, Alessandro Nivola, Elyes Gabel
Director: J.C. Chandor
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in Tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
Starring: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Moritz Bleibtreu, Rutger Hauer
Director: Thomas Jahn
Bandidas (2006)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Western
Determined to avenge the deaths of their fathers, Sara Sandoval and María Alvarez vow to seize the ill-gotten gains of robber baron Tyler Jackson. So, with help from a retired bank robber and a jittery criminologist, these two beauties become unlikely outlaws, blazing a trail of larceny and laughter across Mexico.
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn, Dwight Yoakam, Denis Arndt, Sam Shepard
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
The Con Artists / Criminal Designer (2014)
Action | Crime
Ji-hyuk is an expert safe-cracker who lives the highlife stealing antiques and jewellery with his team. Cho, a powerful and cruel gang boss threatens them to steal $150 million with him. Ji-hyuk plans to get revenge on Cho, but ends up falling into his trap. However, Cho later realises it was all part of Ji-hyuk's scheme. When Ji-hyuk, who was thought dead, reappears, hidden secret relations between the technicians also surface.
Starring: Woo-bin Kim, Yeong-cheol Kim, Chang-Seok Ko, Lee Hyun Woo, Yoon-Hee Cho, Dal-hwan Jo, Ju-hwan Lim
Director: Hong-seon Kim
Miami Blues (1990)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Veteran criminal Junior Frenger (Baldwin) has moved to Miami to get a fresh start…. at robbing a whole new set of people.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Edward Saxon, Obba Babatundé, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Napier
Director: George Armitage
No Man's Land / Wu ren qu (2013)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A young lawyer from the city travels to the Gobi desert where he embarks on a series of adventures and challenges.
Starring: Zheng Xu, Duobujie, Nan Yu, Bo Huang
Director: Hao Ning
Banshee (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Lucas Hood is an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa., where he continues his criminal activities, even as he’s hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier.
Starring: Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison, Hoon Lee, Rus Blackwell, Matt Servitto, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Ryann Shane, Lili Simmons, Matthew Rauch, Demetrius Grosse, Ben Cross, Anthony Ruivivar, Afton Williamson, Geno Segers, Gabriel Suttle, Kevin J. O'Connor
Creator: David Schickler, Jonathan Tropper
My Man / Watashi no otoko (2014)
Crime | Drama | Romance
After losing everything in a tsunami, 10-year-old Hana is taken in by 26-year-old distant relative Jungo Kusarino. They live as father and daughter but share a profound sense of loss. Jungo works as a cook for the coast guard, leaving young Hana alone for days at a time. In wintry Hokkaido, Jungo and Hana both desire to fill their empty, love-starved hearts as they set foot into a forbidden world. Eventually, an elder benefactor in their small town learns of their illicit relationship. When he tries to separate them for Hana's own good, it provokes her emotional rage. Soon after, a murder quietly occurs atop the ice floes. With their dark secret, Jungo and Hana escape to Tokyo. However…
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Fumi Nikaidô
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Fasandræberne / The Absent One (2014)
Crime | Thriller
The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.
Starring: Fares Fares, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Pilou Asbæk, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, David Dencik, Danica Curcic
Director: Mikkel Nørgaard
Black Rain (1989)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Director Ridley Scott's international crime thriller stars Michael Douglas as Mike Conklin, a New York detective under investigation for corruption. When yakuza hit man Sato (Yusaku Matsuda) kills two American mobsters in New York, he's extradited to Osaka to face trial, with Conklin and Charlie Vincent (Andy Garcia) as his escorts. Mistakenly turning over their prisoner to yakuza disguised as police, Conklin and Vincent realize, after running down some blind alleys, that they have no chance of finding Sato in the unfamiliar city and enlist the services of Japanese desk cop Masahiro "Mas" Masumoto (Ken Takakura). While relaxing with Mas at a karaoke bar, the cops also get information on the world of the yakuza from Joyce Kinglsey (Kate Capshaw), a high-class bargirl. As they continue the search for Sato, the scrupulous, methodical, and civilized style of Japanese police work rubs the improvisational, rule-breaking Americans the wrong way. But when Vincent is murdered, Mas and Conklin realize that success will come only through a blending of investigative and cultural styles. The almost impenetrably sooty, neon-saturated city of Osaka is superbly photographed by future director Jan de Bont.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Andy García, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Shigeru Kôyama, Yûsaku Matsuda
Director: Ridley Scott
Blood Lines / The Trace (2014)
Crime | Drama | Romance
The story of the consequences when you mix business with pleasure. When love, betrayal and business collide it produces tension soaked drama and possible catastrophe. Stanley who is a member of a gang falls in love with Lily, a girl with a rich father. Stanley's gang now demands that Stanley sets up Lily's father for them to scam, Stanley doesn't want that because he is in love with Lily and all hell breaks loose. THE TRACE, is a dramatic film infused with comedy that will keep the audience entertained and glued to their seats to the very last second…
Starring: Billy Dee Williams, Lynn Whitfield, Pascal Atuma, Tangi Miller, Chico Benymon, Rosalie McIntire, Brian Hooks, Brittany Alexis Phillips, Edward Hong, Lauren C. Mayhew
Director: Pascal Atuma
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A Most Violent Year (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac, David Oyelowo, Albert Brooks, Alessandro Nivola, Elyes Gabel
Director: J.C. Chandor
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