RoboCop (2014)
Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In a crime-ridden city, a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Jackie Earle Haley, Jay Baruchel
Director: José Padilha
Gympl / The Can (2007)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A comedy about students, teachers, parents and graffiti.
Starring: Tomás Vorel Jr., Jirí Mádl, Eva Holubová, Tomás Matonoha, Lenka Jurosková
Director: Tomás Vorel
Get Carter (2000)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Jack Carter, a debt collector for Las Vegas gangsters, returns to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. Convinced that the death was not an accident, Carter searches for those responsible.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Rhona Mitra, Johnny Strong, John C. McGinley
Director: Stephen Kay
3 Days to Kill (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A dying Secret Service Agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, Richard Sammel, Eriq Ebouaney
Director: McG
Covert Affairs (TV Series 2010- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
"Covert Affairs" centers on a young CIA trainee, Annie Walker, mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military intelligence agent who was blinded while on assignment and is Annie's guide in this world of bureaucracy, excitement and intrigue.
Starring: Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Peter Gallagher, Anne Dudek, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Gregory Itzin
Creator: Chris Ord, Matt Corman
Underneath / The Underneath (1995)
Crime | Thriller
Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother's marriage. Michael had been ousted from his home town due to his gambling indiscretions and had left his wife to deal with the mess he created. He now must reassimilate back into the town, renew his relationships with his family and friends (and enemies) and, most of all, seek out his ex-wife to woo her again. In the process, he obtains a job working with his mother's new husband as an armored car driver. He almost seems the perfect prodigal son as he finds his niche back in the community and his way back into his ex's heart. His troubles surmount when he and his wife are caught in the act by her hoodlum boyfriend/fiancé. To get out of this predicament, Michael must concoct a plan to heist of a payroll being carried by his armored car company.
Starring: Peter Gallagher, Elisabeth Shue, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner, Paul Dooley, Shelley Duvall
Director: Steven Soderbergh
This Is England (2006)
Crime | Drama
It's 1983 and school is out. Twelve-year-old Shaun is a lonely boy growing up in a grim coastal town in northern England, whose father died fighting in the Falklands War. Over the course of the summer holiday he befriends a group of local skinheads. With his pent-up rage and frustration, Shaun finds exactly what he needs in the gang–mischief, mayhem and brotherhood. He also meets the volatile and boorish Combo, an older skinhead who sees himself in Shaun. Adopting Shaun as his protégé, Combo leads the gang down a hate spewing path that culminates in an irreversible act of violence.
Starring: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Michael Socha, Joseph Gilgun, Jack O'Connell
Director: Shane Meadows
The Principal (1987)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violence and crime ridden high school.
Starring: James Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, Esai Morales
Director: Christopher Cain
Money Talks (1997)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
Starring: Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Paul Sorvino
Director: Brett Ratner
Speed 2: Cruise Control / Speed II (1997)
Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.
Starring: Jason Patric, Sandra Bullock, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, Colleen Camp, Mike Hagerty
Director: Jan de Bont
The Black Dahlia (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Two ambitious cops, Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert, investigate the shocking murder of an aspiring young starlet. With a corpse so mutilated that photos are kept from the public, the case becomes an obsession for the men, and their lives begin to unravel. Blanchard's relationship with his girlfriend, Kay, deteriorates, while Bleichert finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Madeleine, a wealthy woman with a dark and twisted connection to the victim.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Mia Kirshner, Fiona Shaw
Director: Brian De Palma
Tokarev (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rachel Nichols, Peter Stormare, Danny Glover, Elena Sanchez, Judd Lormand
Director: Paco Cabezas
Deranged / Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)
Crime | Horror | Thriller
Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother whom he keeps her corpse, among others, as his companions in his decaying farmhouse.
Starring: Roberts Blossom
Director: Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby
Smoked (2012)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Three stoner buddies throw a house party that ends in flames after two thugs burn the house down. Now in debt and desperate, the three concoct a half-baked plan to rob a medical marijuana club while posing as police officers. Unfortunately, this club is secretly owned by a drug kingpin who dispatches the feared Four Horseman thugs to kill them. This pursuit sends a wave of violence across Oakland as the assassins off hippies, ninjas, naked clowns, and just about anyone who stands in their way.
Starring: Jamie DeWolf, Jack Frost, Abdul Kenyatta, Rupert Estanislao. Jaylee Alde, Asher Kennedy
Director: Joshua Staley, Jamie Dewolf
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All About Lily Chou-Chou / Riri Shushu no subete (2001)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.
Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Ito, Takao Osawa, Miwako Ichikawa, Izumi Inamori, Yû Aoi, Kazusa Matsuda, Ryô Katsuji
Director: Shunji Iwai
Buttwhistle / Samaritan (2014)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Ogden Confer is a community college student living with his parents and dealing with the recent loss of his best pal, Rose, when he foils the suicide effort of a mysterious young lady, Beth, who proceeds to make him pay for not minding his own business.
Starring: Trevor Morgan, Elizabeth Rice, Analeigh Tipton, Adhir Kalyan, Stella Maeve, Thomas Jane
Director: Tenney Fairchild
Child of God (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps." Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.
Starring: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Scott Haze
Director: James Franco
Zulu / Cape Town Cops (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain. Today, Ali is chief of the homicide branch of the South African police in Cape Town. One of his staff is Brian Epkeen, a free-wheeling white officer whose family was originally involved in the establishment of apartheid but who works well with Neuman. Together they have to deal with crime that inevitably exists in sprawling areas of un -and under- employed people, crime exacerbated by gangs, both local and from other parts of Africa. Their job gets even more difficult when the corpses of two young women are found.
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Forest Whitaker, Tanya van Graan, Natasha Loring, Roxanne Prentice
Director: Jérôme Salle
Playing God / Playing Hero (1997)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Dr. Eugene Sands, an ex-surgeon lured into a dark underworld by a hip -but lethal- mob caught in a web of murder and mayhem…and growing far too close to the mobster's seductive mistress.
Starring: David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Michael Massee, Peter Stormare, Gary Dourdan
Director: Andy Wilson
Oxygen (1999)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini, who has kidnapped a rich woman and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband. Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.
Starring: Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, James Naughton, Laila Robins, Terry Kinney, Paul Calderon, Dylan Baker
Director: Richard Shepard
