Stand Up Guys (2012)
Comedy | Crime
A pair of aging con men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment — to kill his comrade.
Starring: Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Mark Margolis
Director: Fisher Stevens
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Sean Connery stars as the dynamic 007, on the trail of a diamond smuggler who leads him on a nerve-shattering chase through Amsterdam, Los Angeles and eventually, glittery Las Vegas.
Starring: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot
Director: Guy Hamilton
The Boston Strangler (1968)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In 1962, elderly women are being strangled to death in their homes in the metropolitan Boston area. Panic starts to ensue not only in the general population, but also within the police forces in the Boston area, they who start to apprehend and question every known sexual criminal. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon…
Starring: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield, Murray Hamilton
Director: Richard Fleischer
Sneakers (1992)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue.
Starring: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Vishwaroopam / The Jihadi Warrior (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Vishwanathan, a Kathak dance teacher in New York, is in a rather happy marriage with Nirupama who is a nuclear oncologist. She hires a detective to keep a watch on her husband, who apparently ends up in a wrong place that reveals Vishwanathan's true idendity.
Starring: Kamal Hassan, Rahul Bose, Shekhar Kapur, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah
Director: Kamal Hassan
Taxi Driver (1976)
Crime | Drama
Paul Schrader's gritty screenplay depicts the ever-deepening alienation of Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in a tour-de-force performance), a psychotic cab driver who obsessively cruises the mean streets of Manhattan.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster
Director: Martin Scorsese
Airheads (1994)
Comedy | Crime | Music
In this hilarious spoof of the music industry, three intelligence-challenged rock'n' rollers decide to take drastic action after their music continually falls on deaf ears. They break into a radio station, hoping to get their demo played on the air. But when the deejay and station manager refuse to play their song, the boys have no choice but to take the entire radio station hostage.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna, Michael McKean, Chris Farley
Director: Michael Lehmann
Bullet to the Head (2012)
Action | Crime | Thriller
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Brian Van Holt, Sung Kang
Director: Walter Hill
En ganske snill mann / A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Plot: Ulrik is reluctantly let out of prison after serving 12 years for murder. He has to cope with his gang, his ex, a few women – and a snitch. His son has a fiancé. Her family doesn't approve of murder. They have a nursery, they have principles. Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man. But how gentle can you be? …and he's losing his hair.
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Jorunn Kjellsby, Gard B. Eidsvold, Bjørn Sundquist, Jon Øigarden, Kjersti Holmen
Director: Hans Petter Moland
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Crime | Drama
Having returned from fighting in World War I, James Allen doesn't want to settle into a humdrum life and decides to set off to find his fortune. He travels the length and breadth of America, working as a skilled tradesman in the construction industry. When times get tough however, he finds himself living in a shelter where an acquaintance suggests they go out for a hamburger. What the friend really has in mind is to rob the diner and Allen soon finds himself working on a chain gang with a long jail sentence. Allen manages to escape however and heads to Chicago where over several years he slowly but surely works his way up the ladder to become one of the most respected construction engineers in the city. His past catches up with him and despite protestations from civic leaders and his many friends in Chicago, he finds himself again on the chain gang. Escaping for a second time, he accepts that to survive, he must lead a life of crime.
Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis, Preston Foster
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out (2012)
Crime | Documentary | History | Mystery
World Trade Center Building 7 was the third skyscraper to collapse completely, rapidly and symmetrically on 9/11. In 2008, a high school physics teacher provided evidence to overturn the government's story on the collapse of WTC7 by demonstrating a period of free fall acceleration. International teams of independent scientists, including the U.S.G.S., have all confirmed the existence of military-grade high-temperature incendiaries in all post-9/11 WTC dust samples. From the point of view of highly – credible professionals (including National Award of Science recipient Dr. Lynn Margulis), as well as a truly compelling look at the reasons why people have difficulty with this evidence from psychologists, explaining all of the available technical evidence in startling clarity and detail.
Starring: Mark Basile, Steven Dusterwald, Jeffrey Farrer, Richard Gage, Lynn Margulis, Kamal Obeid, Frances Shure, Tom Sullivan
Director: Richard Gage
Weeds (TV Series 2005-2012)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Is the grass really greener on the other side? Yes, and it smells better, too! So when Nancy Botwin (Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker) faces both sudden widowhood and poverty, she's determined to do anything to keep her kids in suburbia, including taking a job as the neighborhood pot dealer. Subversive, satirical and hilarious, the first season of this groundbreaking Showtime hit is guaranteed to spark laughter!
Starring: Mary-Louise Parker, Hunter Parrish, Alexander Gould, Kevin Nealon, Justin Kirk
Creator: Jenji Kohan
Identity Thief (2013)
Comedy | Crime
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief — a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, T.I., Morris Chestnut
Director: Seth Gordon
Abducted / Layover (2012)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
When the heiress of a luxury hotel chain is kidnapped at her rat trap motel outside Detroit by a band of ruthless sex traffickers because she has seen to much, her oppressed assistant must figure out a way to rescue her.
Starring: Joe Lando, Lauren Holly, Kaylee Anne DeFer
Director: R.D. Braunstein
The Krays (1990)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The life of a pair of twins (Ronald and Reginald Kray) who were born in London in 1934 and when they grew up became gangsters selling protection.
Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Susan Fleetwood
Director: Peter Medak
Identity Thief (2013)
Comedy | Crime
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief — a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, T.I., Morris Chestnut
Director: Seth Gordon
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Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn / Goat (2013)
Action | Crime
After serving several prison sentences, Bobby Baldano is out. Craving a life of inescapable crime, but desperate to honor his family, Bobby must decide whether to make his family proud or destroy what generations of Baldanos have built before him. A twist ending reveals what truths Bobby always knew forcing him to make a life altering decision. One wrong move could be his last.
Starring: Armand Assante, William DeMeo, Cathy Moriarty, Ice-T, Vincent Pastore, Robert Costanzo
Director: Paul Borghese
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Elementary (TV Series 2012- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare – a sober companion, Dr. Watson. A successful surgeon until she lost a patient and her license three years ago, Watson views her current job as another opportunity to help people, as well as paying a penance. Holmes resumes his work as a police consultant in New York City and Watson has no choice but to accompany her irascible new charge on his jobs. But Sherlock finds her medical background helpful, and Watson realizes she has a knack for playing investigator. With the mischievous Sherlock Holmes now running free in New York solving crimes, it's simple deduction that he's going to need someone to keep him grounded, and it's elementary that it's a job for Watson.
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Aidan Quinn, Jon Michael Hill
Creator: Robert Doherty
Broken City (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ex-cop finds himself in over his head when he agrees to help out the mayor of New York City in this tense political thriller from director Allen Hughes. Having had to sacrifice a promising career when he was involved in a controversial shooting, tough street cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is spared a prison stretch by the intervention of the city's popular Mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crowe). Starting afresh as a private investigator, Billy is soon hired by Hostetler to find out if his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is being unfaithful. But when her suspected lover is later found dead, Billy realises too late that the mayor's motives run deeper than expected, and that if he's to stay alive, he needs to take the fight to his opponents, risking all to reveal the truth.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kyle Chandler, Barry Pepper, Justin Chambers
Director: Allen Hughes
LEGO Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite (2013)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Crime | Thriller
Joker will team with Lex Luthor to destroy the world one brick at a time. It's up to Batman, Superman and the rest of the Justice League to stop them.
Starring: Clancy Brown, Troy Baker, Steve Blum, Laura Bailey, Charlie Schlatter, Cam Clarke, Katherine Von Till
Director: Jon Burton
