Yume uru futari / Dreams for Sale (2012)
Crime | Drama
After a fire destroys their restaurant, a married couple turn to conning lonely spinsters out of money to make ends meet.
Starring: Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûsuke Iseya, Takako Matsu, Kyôsuke Yabe, Kana Kurashina, Rena Tanaka, Sadao Abe
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Side Effects / The Bitter Pill (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Starring: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Vinessa Shaw, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Serial Mom (1994)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A sweet mother takes a little too much at heart for the defence of her family.
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, Justin Whalin, Traci Lords
Director: John Waters
Blind Fury (1989)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A Vietnam vet blinded in the war uses his samurai fighting skills and a concealed sword stick to help protect the son of a dead comrade from a crime organisation.
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Terry O'Quinn, Brandon Call, Noble Willingham, Lisa Blount, Nick Cassavetes, Rick Overton
Director: Phillip Noyce
High Sierra (1941)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with the police and an angry press hot on his tail he eventually takes refuge among the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, where a tense siege ensues. But will the Police make him regret the attachments he formed with two women during the brief planning of the robbery.
Starring: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Jerome Cowan
Director: Raoul Walsh
Birthday Girl (2001)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John should have known. Having never been lucky in the game of love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia online. At first, things seem perfect: his new bride Nadia is a gorgeous woman, and although she may not speak much English, her skills in the bedroom more than make up for any communication problems. When Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption and crime.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Lynn Evans
Director: Jez Butterworth
Shagird (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Sub-Inspector Mohit Kumar joins Delhi Police' Crime Branch and is instructed to work under the supervision of Senior Police Inspector Hanumant Singh, who lives with his wife and school-going son, Nikhil. Mohit witnesses Hanumant's family come under attack and becomes sympathetic – especially when the media – including his Aaj Tak Reporter and girlfriend, Varsha Mathur – criticizes him. Mohit does change his mind about Hanumant when he witnesses the latter break the laws as well as accept bribes and shares it with other police officers with impunity. Mohit will not only face career and personal challenges when he decides to oppose politically-connected Hanumant, but also when Varsha, along with two other journalists, will be abducted by Islamic terrorists.
Starring: Nana Patekar, Mohit Ahlawat, Rimi Sen, Anurag Kashyap, Zakir Hussain
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
Aftershock (2012)
Adventure | Crime | Thriller
After an earthquake erupts in Chile, tourist discover that a neighboring prison in the area collapsed in the event, and all surviving criminals managed to break free. Soon they learn that the most terrifying thing, more threatening that Mother Nature, is what she created.
Starring: Eli Roth, Andrea Osvárt, Ariel Levy, Lorenza Izzo, Natasha Yarovenko, Nicolás Martínez, Matías López
Director: Nicolás López
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Parker (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A thief lives by a code of honor that includes never stealing money from people who need it.
Starring: Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Michael Chiklis, Clifton Collins Jr., Emma Booth
Director: Taylor Hackford
Dobermann / Doberman (1997)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Dobermann, the leader of a dangerous gang of bank robbers is targeted by a corrupt police official at their underground partying fortress spot, a transvestite club called Jo Hell.
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo, Monica Bellucci, Antoine Basler, Dominique Bettenfeld, Pascal Demolon, Marc Duret
Director: Jan Kounen
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog / The Lodger (1927)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In this silent film, a family running a boarding house suspects their new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Starring: Marie Ault, Ivor Novello
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Hayride (2012)
Crime | Drama | Horror
Steven Summers returns home to southern Alabama from college with his girlfriend to attend his Uncle's annual Haunted Hayride. Unaware that an escaped killer is on the loose, Steven will soon face the real life embodiment of PITCHFORK a character his uncle created for the hayride and Steven's childhood tormentor. Steven will soon realize that not all childhood fears are imagined when the legend of Pitchfork suddenly becomes dangerously real.
Starring: Richard Tyson, Sherri Eakin, Jeremy Ivy, Jeremy Sande, Corlandos Scott, Kara Riann Brown, Randy Hicks, Shannon Box
Director: Terron R. Parsons
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The Mentalist (TV Series 2008-2015)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The Mentalist tells the tale of Patrick Jane, who is employed as an independent consultant working with the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He had been making a living as a psychic, and he would assist the police on cases — until his life changed when he lost the two most important people in his life to one of those serial killers he was helping track. He now uses his refined observation skills to help the CBI solve cases. He works with Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon, Agents Kimball Cho and Wayne Rigsby and the rookie Grace Van Pelt.
Starring: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman, Amanda Righetti
Creator: Bruno Heller
The Power of Few (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Spies, cops, holy fools and well-armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. 'The Power of Few' unfolds over twenty minutes on one New Orleans afternoon, experienced through the lives of five unusual characters who unknowingly are connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Christian Slater, Q'orianka Kilcher, Anthony Anderson, Jesse Bradford, Moon Bloodgood, Nicky Whelan
Director: Leone Marucci
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Side Effects / The Bitter Pill (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Starring: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Vinessa Shaw, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Special 26 / Special Chabbis (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Based on a real life group of con artists who pulled off many clever robberies during 1980s, and robbed famous businessmen and politicians by pretending to be the CBI or Income tax officers and conducting raids, on the pretext of conducting raids they would take away all the black money hoarded by them.
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Shergill, Deep Raj Rana, Divya Dutta, Neeru Bajwa, Kajal Agarwal, Vipin Sharma
Director: Neeraj Pandey
Running on Empty (1988)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.
Starring: River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, Steven Hill
Director: Sidney Lumet
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Starring: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn
Director: Raoul Walsh
Fear City (1984)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In New York City, a psycho killer is stalking and randomly slashing and killing strippers working in various nightclubs. Matt Rossi is a former boxer trying to escape his past whom is currently employed at a talent agency which caters exotic dancers to the mafia-controlled strip clubs all over Manhattan. Matt and his business partner, Nicky, are relentlessly dogged by Al Wheeler, a persistent police detective on the case of the murdered strippers, and hoping to find something to nail both Matt and Nicky on. Matt is trying to reconcile with his former flame, Loretta, whom also works as a dancer and has a off-again, on-again drug problem. With the police constantly hounding them, and under pressure from his mob boss and other bosses to do something, Matt must somehow face his inner demons to find the killer before he strikes again.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi, Rae Dawn Chong
Director: Abel Ferrara
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
Starring: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth Gish, Jay Brazeau, John Maclaren
Director: Bruce Beresford
