Crashout (1955)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.
Starring: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans, Marshall Thompson, Beverly Michaels
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Michael Clayton (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Amy Hargreaves
Director: Tony Gilroy
Barrio Brawler (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama
A martial arts instructor must enter the world of illegal pit fighting in order to save his family and his dojo.
Starring: Marco Antonio Alvarez, Dennis Ruel, O.G. Dave Rivera, Morgan Benoit, Stacey Rose, E. Ambriz DeColosio
Director: Jose Montesinos
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The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Crime | Drama
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Twilight Gangsters / Yukhyeolpo kangdodan (2010)
Comedy | Crime
For eight years three grandmothers saved their money for a VIP tour packages to Hawaii. The grandmothers have all had difficult experiences and used their dream vacation as a beacon of hope in their lives. Jung-Ja (Na Moon-Hee) was once imprisoned and suffered the ordeal of giving up her son for adoption. Young-Hee (Kim Soo-Mi) has finally broken free from her cheating husband & heartbreak. Shin-Ja (Kim Hye-Ok) is a widow with a son that steals her money. Yet the three grandmothers have finally saved enough money for the dream vacation. The grandmothers then go to the bank to wire their money, but at that moment the bank is held up by robbers. The grandmothers lose their savings and the bank can't offer any assistance. It is at this moment that the grandmothers set off track the robbers down themselves. Using their guile and wisdom the grandmothers are able to track one of the thieves down named Joon-Suk (Im Chang-Jung). Unfortunately for the grandmothers, Joon-Suk was swindled by his gang and is now completely broke. The grandmothers are not willing to give up their dream vacation. They then make Joon-Suk train them in the art of bank robbing and the grandmothers then set out to rob banks themselves…
Starring: Mun-hee Na, Su-mi Kim, Hye-ok Kim, Chang Jung Lim, Eun-woo Lee
Director: Hyo-jin Kang
Double Indemnity (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers
Director: Billy Wilder
Four Brothers (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund co-star in this gripping tale of brotherly love, betrayal and revenge from acclaimed filmmaker John Singleton. After their adoptive mother is gunned down during a grocery store holdup, the estranged brothers reunite to seek revenge and take matters into their own hands. Defying police orders, the four begin turning their old Detroit neighborhood upside down searching for the mastermind behind the brutal killing. Along the way, they discover they are bound by ties thicker than blood in this emotionally powerful, action-packed drama.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund, Terrence Howard. Sofía Vergara
Director: John Singleton
Experiment in Terror (1962)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A woman is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works.
Starring: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ned Glass, Clifton James, Dick Crockett
Director: Blake Edwards
Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Keitel, Alex Meneses, Leonor Varela, Michael Sean Tighe
Director: Franck Khalfoun
Infernal Affairs III / Mou gaan dou III: Jung gik mou gaan (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two Hong Kong police officers – one a gang mole on the force and the other an undercover cop in the gang – who share the same objectives and who find their destinies intertwined.
Starring: Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Leon Lai, Anthony Wong, Kelly Chen, Daoming Chen
Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Infernal Affairs II / Mou gaan dou II (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
In this prequel to Infernal Affairs, Chen Ying Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming starts his life as a triads mole in the police force. This installment in the trilogy chronicles their rise as moles in their respective worlds as they struggle with conflicting loyalties.
Starring: Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Francis Ng, Carina Lau
Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Infernal Affairs / Mou gaan dou (2002)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Two men. Two moles. Yan is your typical undercover cop, tough, smart, and extremely hard- boiled. Before graduating the police academy, Yan is sent by his official to infiltrate the triads. Ming is one of Hong Kong's most decorated cops. However, his awards and promotions are only illusions. Sam, his triad boss, sent him to join the academy to become an officer. With tips from Sam against their triad rivals, Ming steadily becomes one of Hong Kong's elite. But all things, no matter good or evil, must come to an end. So begins the face-off. Only one man, one mole will survive.
Starring: Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Kelly Chen, Sammi Cheng
Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Perfect Friday (1970)
Comedy | Crime
Lord Nicholas Dorset and his beautiful wife Britt live entirely beyond their means, while their timid bank manager Mr Graham has long envied his customers' wealth. Having devised an apparently foolproof plan to rob his own bank, Mr Graham decides that Nicholas and Britt's desperate financial situation makes them his ideal accomplices.
Starring: Stanley Baker, Ursula Andress, David Warner, Patience Collier, T.P. McKenna, Joan Benham
Director: Peter Hall
Patlabor 3: The Movie / Patlabor 3 / WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2002)
Action | Animation | Crime | Sci-Fi
Two police detectives and SV2 investigate a series of mysterious acts of deadly destruction occuring in and around Tokyo Bay.
Starring: Katsuhiko Watabiki, Hiroaki Hirata, Atsuko Tanaka, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa
Director: Takuji Endo, Fumihiko Takayama
Patlabor: The Movie / Patlabor 1 / Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: Gekijô-ban (1989)
Action | Animation | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The year is 1999. Japan has concentrated 45% of its entire labor force in the ambitious Babylon Project, designed to save the Tokyo Bay area from being submerged as an effect of the sea level increment. For this purpose, a 500-meter wide and 150-meter high multy-level platform, called the Ark, has been built on the sea. The suicide of a mysterious man on the massive Babylon Project construction site sets off a cascade of events that may signal the eventual destruction of Tokyo. What is the connection between the suicide, the new Mobile Police AV-X0 Zero Labor, and a military prototype Labor suddenly gone berserk?
Starring: Toshio Furukawa, Mîna Tominaga, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Yô Inoue, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Knockaround Guys (2001)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The wannabe sons of mobsters go to a remote town in the Midwest, and get themselves into more trouble than anyone could anticipate.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Vin Diesel, Seth Green, John Malkovich, Tom Noonan, Barry Pepper, Arthur J. Nascarella
Director: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Bulletproof (1996)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Small time crook Archie Moses considers Rock Keats his best buddy, until Moses graciously brings Keats on a big-time drug score and is horrified to discover that his trusted friend is actually an undercover cop. When a gunfight breaks out, Keats is accidentally shot in the head by Moses in the ensuing melee. After recovering, Keats returns to work only to find that his first assignment is to escort his ex-best friend back home from Arizona, so Moses can turn state's evidence against the ruthless drug king pin he was working for. Hardly a happy traveling duo, they soon discover that there's a mole revealing their every move and that they are neither safe from the police, the FBI nor the drug thugs hot on their trail. Although they hate each other now, they soon realize that with their lives at stake, the original ties that bind are still strong–especially if it means surviving.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Damon Wayans, Jonathan Loughran, James Caan, Kristen Wilson, James Farentino
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
The Mighty Quinn (1989)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
Starring: Denzel Washington, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Art Evans, Esther Rolle
Director: Carl Schenkel
Take / Crossing Paths (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The lives of two strangers – a struggling mother and a gambling addict – meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.
Starring: Minnie Driver, Jeremy Renner, Bobby Coleman, Adam Rodriguez, David Denman, Emily Harrison
Director: Charles Oliver
Graceland (2012)
Crime | Thriller
A desperate father risks everything to save his kidnapped daughter.
Starring: Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Dido De La Paz, Leon Miguel, Ella Guevara
Director: Ron Morales
