Dangerous Mind of a Hooligan (2014)
Crime
Five criminals unknown to each other are hired to complete a bank robbery. What should have been a smooth operation soon descends into paranoia, violence and horror.
Starring: Samuel Anoyke, Simon Phillips
Director: Greg Hall
Judex (1963)
Action | Crime | Drama
Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at his masked ball. However, he is only drugged by Judex and locked away. Judex spares his life when the banker's widowed daughter, Jacqueline, rejects the inheritance. Meanwhile Diana Monti, the former governess, kidnaps Jacqueline to try to get the banker's money. But Judex is hot on her trail.
Starring: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Théo Sarapo, Sylva Koscina
Director: Georges Franju
War / Rogue (2007)
Action | Crime | Thriller
After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin Rogue, FBI agent Jack Crawford vows to find the elusive killer and personally avenge his partner's death. But Rogue proves untraceable until three years later when he resurfaces to ignite a bloody turf war between Chinese mob leader Chang and Japanese Yakuza boss Shiro. Eager to capture Rogue once and for all, Crawford leads his team of crime specialists headlong into the conflict. But Crawford's thirst for vengeance jeopardizes his professional judgment, and as the violence escalates, Crawford finally comes face to face with his enemy to discover that nothing about Rogue or his plan is quite what it seems.
Starring: Jet Li, Jason Statham, John Lone, Luis Guzmán, Devon Aoki, Sung Kang
Director: Phillip Atwell
The Raid 2 / The Raid 2: Berandal / The Raid: Retaliation (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.
Starring: Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Julie Estelle, Arifin Putra, Donny Alamsyah, Oka Antara, Tio Pakusodewo
Director: Gareth Evans
Orange Is the New Black (TV Series 2013- )
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Piper Chapman’s wild past comes back to haunt her, resulting in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Taryn Manning, Jason Biggs, Natasha Lyonne, Danielle Brooks, Uzo Aduba, Samira Wiley, Dascha Polanco, Nick Sandow, Selenis Leyva, Yael Stone, Taryn Manning, Laura Prepon
Creator: Jenji Kohan
The Basketball Diaries / Streets of New York (1995)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
An autobiographical account of poet and rock musician Jim Carroll's delinquent high school years, during which he excelled playing basketball for a boy's club team, meanwhile hustling to support his growing heroin addiction.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, Mark Wahlberg, Vincent Pastore, Bruno Kirby
Director: Scott Kalvert
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Crime | Thriller | Western
A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead. But he doesn't die. He returns to his former profession of lawman to hunt down his lynchers and bring them to justice.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Ben Johnson, Charles McGraw
Director: Ted Post
The January Man (1989)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A fired cop, the brother of the police commissioner, is reinstated in order to track down a brutal serial killer who has eluded the city for 11 months. In the process of figuring out the killer, the cop falls in love with the mayor's daughter.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Danny Aiello, Rod Steiger, Alan Rickman
Director: Pat O'Connor
Doomsday Party / Mo ri pai dui (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A college dropout, a bank clerk, a cop, a middle-aged woman and a retired teacher are caught up in an armed bank robbery. Their fates become entwined with one another's forever since that fateful day. The robbery changes their lives forever, but will they get a fresh start or have they already passed the point of no return?
Starring: Goon Chung Wong, Kay Tse, Chor-yiu Kwan, Teddy Robin Kwan, Wilfred Lau, Kwok Keung Cheung, Maggie Chan, Fish Liew, Kyle Tse
Director: Ho Hong
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai / E Zhan (2014)
Action | Crime | History
Possessing unique martial arts skills since childhood, Ma Yongzhen (Philip Ng) travels from his hometown to Shanghai to seek a livelihood. There he meets rising overlord Lung Chat (Andy On). The two youth who both possess a dream quickly befriend each other and they become brothers after going through difficulties together. Since then, the two brothers have worked hard together, defeating numerous enemies, and took down the largest triad gang the Axe Gang in one swoop, which makes them renown throughout Shanghai. At the same time, Ma also got help from retired kung fu master, the Iron Leader (Sammo Hung), to fight their common enemy.
Starring: Philip Ng, Andy On, Sammo Hung, Luxia Jiang, Raiden Integra
Director: Ching-Po Wong
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
Action | Animation | Crime | Thriller
Batman along with new sidekick Robin have finally reclaimed Gotham City and allowed a ray of hope to penetrate the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. With Batman back in the spotlight the extended media coverage has awoken a far worse evil at Arkham Asylum The Joker! Forever destined to be mortal enemies The Joker has a diabolical scheme that may pull Batman down to the darkest levels of insanity. While on the horizon a global catastrophe races towards Gotham and with it comes a familiar face The Man of Steel though this time he has Batman in his sights. Witness as the aging Dark Knight wages a tireless war against crime while proving that courage and will are indeed timeless.
Starring: Peter Weller, Michael Emerson, Mark Valley, Ariel Winter, David Selby
Director: Jay Oliva
Péril en la demeure / Peril / Death in a French Garden (1985)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's inquisitive neighbor. One night, David is mugged but rescued from injury by a stranger, Daniel, who also becomes David's friend and admits to being a hit man. Video tapes of their activities appear in the lovers' mail; David thinks they're from the neighbor, Daniel is sure the husband is onto the affair and hired the mugger. After Daniel tells David that he's been hired to kill the husband, an elaborate manipulation plays out, with murder, suicide, a payoff, more videos, and a surprise pairing.
Starring: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy, Michel Piccoli
Director: Michel Deville
Vosmerka / Break Loose (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama
A shared army past and a shared ideal of serving their country bring four friends together. They go on to serve in the OMON, the Russian Special Police Squad, leading honest lives in the turbulent present, and dreaming of a better future. The young tend to be idealistic. The protagonist (Alexey Mantsigyn) thinks: "I am the sovereign's watchdog, I will tear anyone to pieces with my teeth, there is power and fury in me, honesty in my eyes, and my friends are by my side." He walks up to the mirror but instead of his eyes he sees empty sockets, deadly anguish instead of love, and his own betrayal multiplied by four instead of his friends. Fate comes in the shape of a femme fatale (Vilma Kutavichute), leaving them no chance. Or almost none. In a small two-door car, wounded, with broken joints, barely alive, the four friends make their way around their town or their own dream. With nothing but a prayer to keep them going. Amid the white Russian snow.
Starring: Artem Bystrov, Vilma Kutaviciute, Alexey Mantsigyn, Aleksey Mantsygin, Alexander Novyn, Artur Smolyaninov, Pavel Vorozhtsov
Director: Aleksey Uchitel
Crime Insiders / Truands (2007)
Crime | Thriller
A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.
Starring: Benoît Magimel, Béatrice Dalle, Philippe Caubère, Tomer Sisley
Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer
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The Naked Kiss (1964)
Crime | Drama
Kelly is a feminist who takes on the causes of abused women and disabled children. Originally a prostitute, she flees from the city to a small town where she reforms and becomes a pediatric nurse after she looks in the mirror and sees "nothing but the buck, the bed, and the bottle for the rest of my life." She falls in love with Grant, the town's philanthropist and most eligible bachelor, but a sinister secret he's hiding mars their chance for a happy ending, as she learns the true price of going straight.
Starring: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly, Betty Bronson
Director: Samuel Fuller
Tightrope (1984)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Marco St. John, David Valdes
Director: Richard Tuggle
25th Hour (2002)
Crime | Drama
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
Starring: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox
Director: Spike Lee
Deewaar / Wall / I'll Die for Mama (1975)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
As a youth, Vijay struggles as a dockworker. Eventually, he becomes a leading figure of the underworld, while younger brother, Ravi, is an educated, upright policeman. But in the end, it all comes down to, who does mother love more?
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh
Director: Yash Chopra
Summer of Sam / The Son of Sam (1999)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Starring: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Rispoli, Patti LuPone
Director: Spike Lee
That Demon Within / Mo jing (2014)
Action | Crime
That Demon Within stars Golden Horse Award-winner Daniel Wu as a dutiful police officer who doubts himself after saving the life of a notorious and ruthless killer played by Nick Chueng. Unsure if he did the right thing by protecting a cold-blooded murderer, his actions come back to haunt him when the killer and his gang become the leading suspects in a bloody armed robbery.
Starring: Daniel Wu, Nick Cheung, Kai Chi Liu, Ka Wah Lam, Andy On, Kwok-Lun Lee, Stephen Au, Kuan-Chun Chi
Director: Dante Lam
