Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Crime | Drama
A realistic road movie about a drug addict, his 'family', and their inevitable decline into crime.
Starring: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham, James Remar, William S. Burroughs
Director: Gus Van Sant
The Dentist 2 (1998)
Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Dr. Caine, the murdering dentist from the original movie, has escaped from the mental hospital where he has been since being caught. Hoping to resume a normal life, he makes his way to a quiet Midwestern town under a false name and takes on the responsibilities of the town dentist Things are starting to look up for Caine, until the day when he catches his new love in the arms of someone else. Just as in the first movie, this sends him back over the edge and into another homicidal rampage, with his unfortunate patients bearing the brunt of his hostility.
Starring: Corbin Bernsen, Jillian McWhirter, Jeff Doucette, Susanne Wright, Jim Antonio, Clint Howard, Linda Hoffman
Director: Brian Yuzna
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Hannibal (TV Series 2013- )
Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Gifted criminal profile Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) has a unique way of thinking and can empathize with anyone, making it easy for him to figure out how a killer thinks. Needing the help of an expert when a twisted killer becomes too complicated for Will, he joins up with Dr. Lecter, one of the top psychiatrists in the country. Will and Hannibal (only the audience knows he's a serial killer) develop a talented partnership and seem unstoppable when it comes to catching criminals.
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne, Scott Thompson, Aaron Abrams, Gillian Anderson, Hettienne Park
Creator: Bryan Fuller
Blind Spot / Doudege wénkel (2012)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Charismatic and mysterious Inspector Hastert takes on his last case before retirement : investigating on the death of a fellow cop. He gets the help of restless and resentful Olivier, the brother of the departed cop. Corruption, false appearances and make-believes are on the menu and that's just the beginning…
Starring: Jules Werner, André Jung, Brigitte Urhausen, Gilles Soeder, Luc Feit
Director: Christophe Wagner
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419 (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When a struggling New York actor loses everything in a scam based in South Africa, his two best friends take him to Cape Town to find the scammer with the help of a smooth-talking local. The search begins well, but soon takes a dark turn.
Starring: Mike Ivers, Scott Kerns, Ned Thorne, Ezra Mabengeza, Cara Loften, Emilea Wilson, Tshamano Sebe
Director: Ned Thorne
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Come Drink with Me / Da zui xia (1966)
Action | Crime
A ruthless band of thugs kidnaps a young official to exchange for their leader who has been captured. Golden Swallow is sent to take on the thugs and free the prisoner (who is also her brother). Though she is able to handle the overwhelming odds, she is hit by a poison dart and gets help from a beggar who is really a kung-fu master in disguise. With his help, she forms a plan to get her brother back.
Starring: Pei-pei Cheng, Hua Yueh, Hsi Chang, Hung Lieh Chen, Siu-Tung Ching
Director: King Hu
The Heat (2013)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. The hitch: neither woman has ever had a partner — or a friend for that matter.
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock, Kaitlin Olson, Ben Falcone, Marlon Wayans, Tony Hale
Director: Paul Feig
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The Dead Pool / Dirty Harry 5 (1988)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Fame isn't San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan's style. He'd rather not be lumped in with a rocker, a film critic and a talk-show host. They're slain celebrities named in a mysterious betting pool. And Harry just joined the list. Clint Eastwood straps on his holster again for the fifth and final Callahan caper. This time Harry's new partner is a karate wiz. The Mafia goons sworn to snuff Harry now scramble to protect him. And in the nuttiest City by the Bay vehicular chase since Bullitt, Harry puts pedal to the metal t outrace a bomb-carrying, radio-controlled toy car. It's a great showcase for two future stars: Jim Carrey is marvellous as an ill-fated heavy-metal musician and Liam Neeson hits the mark as a power-tripping director. For hard-hitting action, dive into this cool pool.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, Jim Carrey, Evan C. Kim, David Hunt
Director: Buddy Van Horn
Magnum Force / Dirty Harry 2 (1973)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Mysterious murders of underworld figures are taking place all over San Francisco. Criminals who have escaped prosecution are getting the justice they deserve, the sort of justice you'd think Detective Harry Callahan would approve. But if you think that way you've misjudged Harry – and so have the killers. Clint Eastwood headlines this solid sequel pitting Callahan against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect. Written by future directors John Milius and Michael Cimino, it's suspenseful, power-packed entertainment.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Kip Niven
Director: Ted Post
Dirty Harry (1971)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is a tough, streetwise San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the psychotic killer known only as Scorpio (Andrew Robinson), Harry is assigned by the mayor (John Vernon) and Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) to try to stop him, pairing him with reluctantly accepted new partner Chico (Reni Santoni). Scorpio kidnaps a 14-year-old girl and buries her alive, demanding a $200,000 ransom for her return. Harry is to bring him the money-alone. What follows is one of the most exciting ransom deliveries in film history.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson, John Larch
Director: Don Siegel
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Childhood friends on opposite sides of the law fight over the future of a street gang.
Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Director: Michael Curtiz
Arrow (TV Series 2012- )
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Missing and presumed dead, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was the lone survivor of a shipwreck, but being stranded on a remote, uncharted island for five years has changed him. Upon returning home, Oliver is determined to fulfill his father's dying wishes; to right the wrongs of the Queen family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. To fight crime and corruption, Oliver maintains his billionaire playboy image by day, but becomes a secret vigilante by night.. Arrow, a masked crusader whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow.
Starring: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Paul Blackthorne, Willa Holland, Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes, Susanna Thompson, John Barrowman, Manu Bennett, Colin Donnell, Caity Lotz
Creator: Greg Berlanti
Burn Notice (TV Series 2007-2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Covert intelligence operative Michael Westen has been punched, kicked, choked and shot. Now he's being burned, and someone's going to pay! When Michael receives a "burn notice", blacklisting him from the intelligence community and compromising his very identity, he must track down a faceless nemesis without getting himself killed in the process. Meanwhile, Michael is forced to double as a private investigator on the dangerous streets of Miami in order to survive. Fully loaded with sly humor, Burn Notice is a fresh spin on the spy genre with plenty of precarious twists to keep you guessing and enough explosive action to keep you riveted!
Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, Coby Bell
Creator: Matt Nix
Once Upon a Time in America / C'era una volta in America (1984)
Crime | Drama
Drama about the rise and fall of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York at the beginning of the century through the 1960s.
Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Elizabeth McGovern, Burt Young
Director: Sergio Leone
Run for the Money / Hard Cash (2002)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Fresh out of prison, Thomas Taylor (Christian Slater) assembles a team of outlaws to pull off his most brilliant heist yet. Alas, the stolen money is marked, enabling FBI agent Mark Cornell (Val Kilmer) to swiftly track down Taylor & Co. But the corrupt agent is not interested in making an arrest: Using his knowledge of Taylor's guilt as leverage, the wily agent coerces the crooks into engineering an even bigger robbery, this time targeting a high-profile riverboat casino.
Starring: Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Sara Downing, Vincent Laresca, Balthazar Getty
Director: Predrag Antonijevic
The Enforcer (1951)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Michael Tolan, King Donovan
Director: Bretaigne Windust
SPEC: Heaven / Gekijouban SPEC: Ten (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Saya Toma (Erika Toda) is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi (Ryo Kase) is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unknown "SPEC" to make arrests. A mystery occurs when bodies are found on a cruiser in the ocean. Saya Toma and Ryo Kase of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are brought in to solve the case.
Starring: Erika Toda, Ryo Kase
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
The Getaway (1994)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, David Morse, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Roger Donaldson
New Police Story / Xin jing cha gu shi (2004)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Massive explosions and incredible stunts abound as Jackie Chan makes what many refer to as a comeback with this Chinese release. He plays the burned-out Inspector Wing, whose motivation died when the rest of his police team was wiped out at the hands of a wily and brutal new gang. When, against the odds, a rookie cop rouses the weathered Inspector to go after the gang, however, there is no stopping him until justice has been served.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Daniel Wu, Charlie Yeung, Charlene Choi, Dave Wong, Andy On, Terence Yin, Rongguang Yu, Coco Chiang, Tony Leung
Director: Benny Chan
Police Story II / Ging chaat goo si juk jaap (1988)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
His personal war against crime has earned Kevin Chan a demotion from detective to traffic cop just as Hong Kong is hit with a wave of bomb scares. Chan unofficially follows up his own leads and tracks down the bombers, but not before his girlfriend is abducted.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung
Director: Jackie Chan
