Reasonable Doubt / The Good Samaritan (2014)
Crime | Thriller
A District Attorney has his life turned upside down when he's involved in a hit and run and another man is arrested for his crime and charged with murder.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Gloria Reuben, Erin Karpluk, Ryan Robbins
Director: Peter Howitt
Tiger Bay (1959)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A 12 year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Starring: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Megs Jenkins, Anthony Dawson
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Little Monsters (2012)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
James and Carl were only 10 years old when they kidnapped and murdered 3 year old David McClendon. They were caught, tried, convicted and placed in separate juvenile facilities. At 18-years old, both are given new names and released back into society – much to the horror of the nation. They can have no contact with each other or with their past friends or relatives. The story follows the lives of these two boys as they try to start over, escape the past and survive the growing outcry following their release.
Starring: Charles Cantrell, Ryan LeBoeuf, Jackson Larson, James Greco, Danny Countess, Adam Kilbourn
Director: David Schmoeller
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Dom Hemingway (2013)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Dom Hemingway is the story of a larger-than-life safecracker with a loose fuse who is funny, profane, and dangerous. After twelve years in prison, he sets off with his partner in crime Dickie looking to collect what he's owed for keeping his mouth shut and protecting his boss Mr. Fontaine. After a near death experience, Dom tries to re-connect with his estranged daughter , but is soon drawn back into the only world he knows, looking to settle the ultimate debt.
Starring: Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Emilia Clarke, Demian Bichir
Director: Richard Shepard
The Last Drop (2006)
Action | Adventure | Crime | War
In a daring attempt to end the war by Christmas, Winston Churchill and the British High Command hatch an extraordinary plan – Operation Market Garden. 35,000 British troops are dropped behind enemy lines in German occupied Holland. In the midst of the largest airborne invasion in history, one small unit of men, codename "Matchbox" has it's own agenda. When Matchbox are shot down short of their landing zone, the odds of their success seem hopeless. Seven very different British soldiers find themselves separated from the Allied invasion, on a collision course with three renegade German soldiers who also want to lay claim to the horde.
Starring: Laurence Fox, Louis Dempsey, Lucy Gaskell, Coral Beed, Andrew Howard, Jack Dee, Neil Newbon
Director: Colin Teague
Poklad byzantského kupce / The Treasure of a Byzantine Merchant (1967)
Comedy | Crime
The Treasure of Byzantine Merchant is one the Czech detective classics from the sixties. This movie is based on the novel of Vaclav Erben, successful writer of mysteries, whose famous criminologist was captain Exner. Exner is a clever investigator, but also an elegant playboy with great charm and sense of humor. The theme of this movie is an inquiry of the theft of the treasure which is connected with murder.
Starring: Jirí Vala, Gabriela Vránová, Jirí Sovák, Lubomír Lipský, Vladimír Smeral
Director: Ivo Novák
Bad Country / Whiskey Bay (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Inspired by real events, 'Bad Country' (a.k.a. 'Whiskey Bay') is a Louisiana set crime drama. In 1983, veteran Baton Rouge detective Bud Carter infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organisation, including its architect, Lutin.
Starring: Amy Smart, Neal McDonough, Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Bill Duke, Tom Berenger
Director: Chris Brinker
Smrt cerného krále / The Death of Black King (1972)
Crime
The Death of Black King (the title devises both to chess play and to murder of Mr Král (in English King)) is the last of four movie-continuators of TV series Sinful People of Prague, the famous cycle of mysteries from the first decades of Czechoslovakia. In this full-length movie criminologists investigate strange murder of "debt-collector" Král. The crime is complicated – there are many suspicious and many other lesser serious misdoings.
Starring: Jaroslav Marvan, Josef Bláha, Josef Vinklár, Jana Brejchová, Vlastimil Brodský
Director: Jirí Sequens
Partie krásného dragouna / The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon (1970)
Crime
The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon is full-length picture consequent on a successful TV series The Sinful People of Prague. It is a serial of criminal cases investigated by a group of detectives from the time of the First Republic. In this movie investigators looks for the murderer of one old lonely lady from peripheral Prague quarter. The suspicious is young and beautiful dragoon Rudi, coming son-in-law of the local commissar. But he is entangled to another crime!
Starring: Josef Vinklár, Josef Bláha, Josef Abrhám
Director: Jirí Sequens
Hindsight / Poo-reun so-geum (2011)
Action | Crime | Romance
Retired mob boss Du-heon enrolls in a cooking class with the hopes of making a fresh start as a restaurant owner. In the class he meets a quirky girl, Se-bin, and finds himself drawn to her. Despite his determination to wipe the slate clean, Du-heon is summoned back into the criminal fold by his old colleagues.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Se-Kyung Shin, Jeong-myeong Cheon, Min-jun Kim, Jong-hyeok Lee, Yeo-jeong Yoon, Roe-ha Kim, Dal-su Oh
Director: Hyun-seung Lee
Rizzoli & Isles (TV Series 2010- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery
RIZZOLI & ISLES follows Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles, complete opposites and good friends who solve crimes and bust some of Boston's most notorious criminals. Growing up at opposite ends of the economic spectrum, the two remain strikingly different from one another in many ways. Jane, the only female detective in Boston's homicide division, is a tough and gutsy cop who doesn't let her guard down (except with Maura), dodges her overprotective mother and is better at basketball than her brother. Maura, meanwhile, is usually more comfortable among the dead than the living. She is always impeccably dressed in designer duds with a steady, sometimes icy temperament. And she is working on curbing her tendency to diagnose the people she meets – including her first dates. Jane and Maura often find themselves working together as both use their brilliant minds and expertise to figure out the "who done it" as well as the "how done it" of Boston's most complex cases.
Starring: Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Jordan Bridges, Lee Thompson Young, Bruce McGill, Lorraine Bracco, Brian Goodman
Creator: Janet Tamaro, Tess Gerritsen
Perception (TV Series 2012- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
This fascinating series features one of the most unique crime solvers on television, an eccentric neuroscience professor who is recruited by the FBI to help solve complex cases. Eric McCormack stars as Dr. Daniel Pierce, who possesses an intimate knowledge of human behavior and a masterful understanding of the way the mind works. Although Pierce's mind may be brilliant, it's also damaged as he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Rachael Leigh Cook co-stars as FBI agent Kate Moretti, Pierce's former student who has recruited Pierce to consult on cases.
Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Kelly Rowan, Eric McCormack, Arjay Smith, LeVar Burton, Scott Wolf
Creator: Kenneth Biller, Michael Sussman
Perception (TV Series 2012- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
This fascinating series features one of the most unique crime solvers on television, an eccentric neuroscience professor who is recruited by the FBI to help solve complex cases. Eric McCormack stars as Dr. Daniel Pierce, who possesses an intimate knowledge of human behavior and a masterful understanding of the way the mind works. Although Pierce's mind may be brilliant, it's also damaged as he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Rachael Leigh Cook co-stars as FBI agent Kate Moretti, Pierce's former student who has recruited Pierce to consult on cases.
Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Kelly Rowan, Eric McCormack, Arjay Smith, LeVar Burton
Creator: Kenneth Biller, Michael Sussman
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel Geddes, Paul Douglas, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
Director: Elia Kazan
Johnny Handsome (1989)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
John Sedley is a petty gangster whose facial deformities earned him the nickname "Johnny Handsome." When Johnny and a friend are double-crossed during a robbery by two partners, his friend is killed and Johnny is sent to prison. There, a sympathetic surgeon makes a deal to give Johnny a new face – and a new shot at life. Once on the outside, Johnny discovers that staying straight isn't easy. But his new look does open one door for Johnny – revenge.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Forest Whitaker, Morgan Freeman, Lance Henriksen
Director: Walter Hill
Bullet Raja (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance
Bullett Raja is the story of a common man, Raja Mishra, who transforms into a dreaded gangster of the Hindi heartland. A victim of the system and chained by it, Raja's life changes as he takes on those that rule and shakes the very foundations of the nexus of the police, the government, and the industrialists. As he rises and revolts against the system becoming an outlaw, Bullett sets ablaze the nexus and changes the landscape forever. The powers that be, fight back in a compelling struggle for power and money against the backdrop of personal ambitions, greed and revenge. Redefining love, friendship and loyalty, Bullet Raja creates a world, where a common man, tests his endurance and fortitude against the very system he once obediently followed and then declared a war on it!
Starring: Saif Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Vidyut Jamwal, Sonakshi Sinha, Raj Babbar, Gulshan Grover, Ravi Kishan, Chunky Pandey, Vipin Sharma, Sharat Saxena
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
People I Know (2002)
Crime | Drama
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
Starring: Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Téa Leoni, Ryan O'Neal, Richard Schiff
Director: Daniel Algrant
5th Street (2013)
Crime
When Joe Montoya loses his wife in a gang related shooting – he vows to stop at nothing to exact his revenge on those responsible. While investigating his wife's murder he discovers a whole community of people who the police have failed. In killing his wife, they created their worst nightmare. Suddenly the local gangsters start disappearing, the violence escalates and the police search for clues to stop this mayhem. One man must decide how far he is willing to go in this tale of love and revenge.
Starring: Eric Arthur Martinez, Christian Monzon, Joe Voltierra, Annie Fetchu, Anne Leighton, Adam Lopez, Jason Giuliano, Orson Chaplin
Director: Alex Meader
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 20 months in prison for refusing to cooperate in a massive 1990s securities fraud case that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Bernthal, Kyle Chandler, Jon Favreau
Director: Martin Scorsese
Le sucre (1978)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
One influent person make the curves of the sugar price rocket up artificially on the stock market whereas on the other side of the power another person losses all his money when the market crash down after somebody advised him to invest on sugar.
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jean Carmet, Gérard Depardieu
Director: Jacques Rouffio
