Election / Hak se wui (2005)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Rival gang leaders are locked in a struggle to become the new chairman of Hong Kong's Triad society.
Starring: Simon Yam, Tony Leung, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Ka Tung Lam, Siu-Fai Cheung
Director: Johnnie To
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Crime | Drama
A nameless New York cop is hopelessly addicted to drugs, gambling and sex. As he makes his way to various crime scenes, he is concerned only with taking bets from his fellow cops on the outcome of the ongoing National League playoffs. As his bad decisions drive him deeper into debt, his life becomes a surreal hell, with a constant intake of crack, coke, heroin and booze eroding what remains of his sanity. An investigation into the rape of a nun leads to his spiritual breakdown at the church crime scene, where he sees Jesus and the road to his salvation.
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Zoe Tamerlis, Anthony Ruggiero, Victoria Bastel, Eddie Daniels
Director: Abel Ferrara
Tango & Cash / The Set Up (1989)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Ray Tango (Sylvester Stallone) and Gabe Cash (Kurt Russell) are rival L.A. policemen with one thing in common: each thinks he is the best. Team them and theyre like oil and water. But frame them for a crime and theyre like a match and kerosene. Unjustly jailed among lowlifes they put behind bars, the two stage a prison breakout thats a breathless rush of weapons and wisecracks then roar after the shadowy crimelord (Jack Palance) who set them up. Tango & Cash are out to clear their names. Join them and feel the rush.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James, James Hong
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Brubaker (1980)
Crime | Drama
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Starring: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Plunder Road (1957)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
On a dark rainy night, five men stage a well-planned U.S. Mint train robbery and walk away with ten million in gold bullion. To throw the cops off the track, the gang split up the massive haul into three concealed truckloads and go off to three different directions hoping for a perfect getaway.
Starring: Gene Raymond, Elisha Cook Jr., Wayne Morris, Stafford Repp, Steven Ritch, Jeanne Cooper
Director: Hubert Cornfield
The Rover (2014)
Crime | Drama
In the Australian desert in the dangerous and dysfunctional near future, Eric is a withdrawn lone-wolf drifter who is sent into a rage when his only important possession, his car, is stolen by a sadistic band of thieves. During their escape, the thieves leave behind one of their own, Rey, and Eric uses him to hunt the others.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, David Field, Anthony Hayes, Gillian Jones, Susan Prior
Director: David Michôd
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Série noire / Black Series (1979)
Crime | Drama
Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds to achieve his goal… A very gloomy movie, exuding dispair and uneasiness, with pathetic characters.
Starring: Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant. Bernard Blier
Director: Alain Corneau
Z Storm / Z fung bou / Z Feng bao / Fan tan feng bao (2014)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
This is a story about the biggest financial fraud attempted in Hong Kong, directed at the Government of Hong Kong and involved all 7 million Hong Kong citizens… no one is free from the scheme. Within the four decades of guarding Hong Kong's financial integrity, the ICAC has never come across an opponent so huge and so well organized as in the Z Torrent file… shadowy figures from the underworld of South America, Italy and Europe all ready to plot against the estimated 150 million dollars of Hong Kong citizens' tax money which was pooled in a fund called the WELFARE FUND. High profile chartered accountants, high ranking law enforcers, power lawyers, the super entrepreneurs; they all have their shares of play but none can really grasp the big picture; they are there only for what they desire most. When the wife of an up-rising star Superintendent of police force reported his corruption simply out of bitterness for being ill-treated, little did she know she is about to pull the head string from a very well weaved web of deceive, greed, sex, power, and last but not least, fear. The ICAC agent LOK who took charge of the simple complaint felt otherwise… it's his passion for justice that has been driving him all these years in the battle against bribery and corruption, even after losing his beloved wife. Further investigation soon revealed many unanswered questions and loose ends…the death of an ex-godfather status accountant of Hong Kong, the threats to even the seemingly harmless witnesses and informers, and the surfacing of a mysterious lady that has all connection with LOK's wanted list but with a background as simple and as tragic as a girl next door with terminal illness… As Lok dug deeper into the web, he is being hunted by trained foreign mercenaries; a tactic very seldom or never heard of in the history of Hong Kong's underworld! With the support of his superior the old but streetwise Deputy Chief of ICAC, Lok eventually unlocked the door to the plan, but only after a bloodbath gun battle that almost cost him his life and that of the attractive mysterious woman, Angel.
Starring: Louis Koo, Ka Tung Lam, Dada Chan, Janelle Sing, Michael Wong, Hoi-Pang Lo
Director: David Lam
Brick Mansions / District B13 (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An undercover cop tries to take down a ruthless crime lord with access to a neutron bomb by infiltrating his gang.
Starring: Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA, Robert Maillet, Catalina Denis
Director: Camille Delamarre
Rampage (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A man with a thirst for revenge builds a full body armor from Kevlar and goes on a killing spree.
Starring: Brendan Fletcher, Shaun Sipos, Michael Paré, Matt Frewer, Lynda Boyd
Director: Uwe Boll
Rampage: Capital Punishment / Rampage 2 (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.
Starring: Lochlyn Munro, Brendan Fletcher, Mike Dopud, Bruce Blain, Dan Zachary, John Sampson, Michaela Ross
Director: Uwe Boll
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Starring: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page, Christopher Lee, Irene Handl, Clive Revill
Director: Billy Wilder
Banlieue 13: Ultimatum / District 13: Ultimatum (2009)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Leito and Damien are back to the same Parisian ghetto, this time a few years later, and are once more battling the bad guys and the clock to save the city from catastrophe.
Starring: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Philippe Torreton, Daniel Duval, Elodie Yung, MC Jean Gab'1
Director: Patrick Alessandrin
Boardwalk Empire (TV Series 2010- )
Crime | Drama | History
Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Stephen Graham, Vincent Piazza, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham, Michael Kenneth Williams, Paul Sparks, Gretchen Mol, Michael Stuhlbarg, Anthony Laciura, Jack Huston, Anatol Yusef
Creator: Terence Winter
Go for Sisters (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Fontayne is enlisted by Bernice- her estranged old friend and current parole officer – along with a disgraced cop to search for Bernice's son, who went missing on the Mexican border.
Starring: Edward James Olmos, LisaGay Hamilton, Yolonda Ross, Harold Perrineau, Hector Elizondo, Isaiah Washington
Director: John Sayles
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Devil's Mile / The Devil's Mile (2014)
Action | Crime | Horror
A gang of psychotic convicts take a dangerous and ill-advised detour after brutally kidnapping two young girls. As the captors speed away, events quickly turn out to be much more dangerous and gruesome than they had planned for. While driving down a long and dark stretch of deserted highway, the car becomes surrounded by mysterious sinister spirits, forcing the captors and young girls to work together in hopes of surviving the deadly evil force.
Starring: David Hayter, Maria del Mar, Casey Hudecki
Director: Joseph O'Brien
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A Night in Nude: Salvation / Nûdo no yoru: Ai wa oshiminaku ubau (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Jiro (Naoto Takenaka) is a man who can do anything for you for a price. Part odd jobs man and part private eye he takes on tasks as simple as clearing out storage lockers to tracking down lost items. That's what he's asked to do by a beautiful young woman (Hiroko Sato) who shows up at his warehouse living space one afternoon. This young woman asks Jiro to help her track down a lost Rolex watch that she says was accidentally thrown out of a helicopter while she was scattering the ashes of her late father. Jiro knows the story isn't true, but he needs the money so he and the young woman begin poking around miles of woodland in the proverbial search for a needle in a haystack. Miraculously Jiro finds the wrist watch, but it looks to be caked in rotting meat. Needy but not stupid Jiro hands the watch over to a sympathetic police woman he knows for analysis. Little does Jiro know that the discovery of this Rolex will lead to another case, one filled with violence, sex and danger, one that will lead him directly into the heart of darkness.
Starring: Naoto Takenaka, Hiroko Satô, Machiko Kochi, Harumi Inoue, Jô Shishido, Shinobu Ôtake
Director: Takashi Ishii
Twin Peaks (TV Series 1990-1991)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Richard Beymer, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Warren Frost, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall, Everett McGill, Jack Nance, Joan Chen
Creator: Mark Frost, David Lynch
An Inspector Calls (1954)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
The comfortable complacency of the British Birling family is upset when Inspector Poole (Alastair Sim) comes calling. An impoverished young working girl named Eva Smith (Jane Wenham) has committed suicide, and Poole hopes that the Birlings will help him find out why. As the evening progresses, a series of flashbacks reveal that each member of the Birling family has in some small way been responsible for Eva's demise. A twist ending adds a mystical, thought-provoking touch to the proceedings.
Starring: Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham, Brian Worth, Eileen Moore, Olga Lindo, Arthur Young
Director: Guy Hamilton
Oliver Twist (1948)
Adventure | Crime | Drama
Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket and he joins a household of young boys who are trained to steal for their master. This version of Oliver Twist is topped by Alec Guinness's masterly performance of arch-thug Fagin.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Henry Stephenson, Francis L. Sullivan
Director: David Lean
