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
Police Story / Ging chat goo si (1985)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A police raid on a drug gang goes awry, and for detective Kevin Chan, nothing seems to go right from there. Even when the gang boss is brought to trial, he is acquitted when Kevin's evidence disappears from under his nose. His attempt to rescue a beautiful but reluctant key witness results in Kevin being wanted for murder and on the run from both the gang and his own squad. To bring the gang to justice he has to find the evidence and the witness–and stay alive long enough to convince his colleagues of his innocence.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung
Director: Jackie Chan
Only God Forgives (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas star in this violent, Thai-set revenge thriller directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Lying low in Bangkok ten years after killing a cop, Julian (Gosling) runs a Thai boxing club as a cover for his family's drugs business. But when his brother kills a local prostitute, and is then slain in retribution, Julian's mother Jenna (Scott Thomas) arrives in the city demanding that he track down the killer and mete out revenge. After learning that the man responsible is a retired police officer and lone dispenser of justice known as 'The Angel of Vengeance' (Vithaya Pansringarm), Julian, confident of success, sets out to find him, little realising what he has taken on.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Burke, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cold Blooded (2012)
Crime
Frances is a tough as nails female cop, Cordero, a cold blooded gangster arrested for thievery and murder. When Cordero's heist goes awry, his bloodthirsty boss wants him dead at any cost, and Officer Frances has to fight for their lives all the while not letting Cordero escape.
Starring: Ryan Robbins, Zoie Palmer, William MacDonald, Huse Madhavji, Thomas Mitchell, Sergio Di Zio
Director: Jason Lapeyre
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I Against I (2012)
Crime | Thriller
Focusing on the timeless themes of jealousy, murder and betrayal, 'I Against I' is set over one night and utilises different time lines to reveal a dark and unexpected conclusion to a simple mystery premise. The main protagonists, opposite in character, take a frantic journey into a desolate nocturnal world with the common aim of survival, though once completed, the plot reveals a trap from which escape may be impossible. Taking influence from films like 'Le Samurai', 'Point Break', and new Asian noir, the film is a modern homage to hard boiled cinema with its own original take.
Starring: Kenny Doughty, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Mark Womack, Sónia Balacó, John Castle
Director: Mark Cripps, David Ellison, James Marquand
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Nordvest / Northwest (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama
18-year-old Caspar wants to reach the top, no matter what. He carries out small-time break-ins for Jamal, before moving on to work for big player Björn. All goes well, until Jamal's gang decide they want revenge. What starts with pushing and shoving soon escalates into armed conflict. This is a big test for Caspar: is he ruthless enough for this battle? And will he drag his younger brother into it?
Starring: Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Lene Maria Christensen, Annemieke Bredahl Peppink, Nicholas Westwood Kidd, Roland Møller, Dulfi Al-Jabouri
Director: Michael Noer
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Biography | Crime | Thriller
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Katherine LaNasa, Gia Mantegna
Director: Scott Walker
Thursday (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A former L.A. drug dealer has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts who comes carrying heroin. Discovering the dope, the architect flushes it down the drain. This sets up a series of tough customers seeking the dope including a Rasta hit-man, an ex-lover Dallas who ties him up and rapes him, a criminal called Billy with a penchant for torture, and a rogue cop.
Starring: Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart, James LeGros, Paula Marshall, Michael Jeter, Glenn Plummer
Director: Skip Woods
Gimme the Loot (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
When a rival gang buffs Malcolm and Sofia's latest graffiti masterpiece with a replica of the NY Mets home-run apple, they're determined to get spectacular revenge – by tagging the real Mets' apple. Over the course of a whirlwind two-day heat wave, these tough teens from the Bronx must hustle, scramble, and steal to execute the scheme that will make them the most famous writers in New York.
Starring: Ty Hickson, Tashiana Washington, Joshua Rivera, Zoë Lescaze
Director: Adam Leon
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A Broken Code (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two brothers Carmelo and Gino (Girgenti and Webber) are raised by their mob boss grandfather Salvatore Gianni (Williams). Through a series of events Salvatore is killed and the boys then go on a journey to find the killers. No one is ruled out as a suspect, including one of the brothers. How will the truth unfold?
Starring: Michael Girgenti, Josh Abraham Webber, Bill T. Williams, Eleni Symeonides, Joey Napoli
Director: Michael Girgenti, Josh Abraham Webber
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
Comedy | Crime
A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Tim Kazurinsky, Sharon Stone
Director: Jim Drake
Blood of Redemption (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the patriarch of the criminal empire is killed and his brother suspects that Quinn is behind it all. When he's released from jail he tries to escape the demons from his past, but that becomes an impossible task. Campbell, the ruthless new leader of "The Company" won't let him leave in peace. So instead of escaping them, Quinn fights back. He joins forces with his former henchman and friend, The Swede, and takes on his enemies head on.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Billy Zane, Vinnie Jones, Robert Davi, Gianni Capaldi
Director: Giorgio Serafini, Shawn Sourgose
Mean Streets (1973)
Crime | Drama
The future is set for Tony and Michael, owning a neighborhood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle making collections and reclaiming bad debts. He's probably too nice to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of (because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all, he can't reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova
Director: Martin Scorsese
Blue Caprice (2013)
Crime | Drama
An abandoned boy is lured to America and drawn into the shadow of a dangerous father figure. Inspired by the real life events that led to the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks.
Starring: Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson, Joey Lauren Adams, Leo Fitzpatrick
Director: Alexandre Moors
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