Alex Cross (2012)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.
Starring: Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols, Jean Reno, Giancarlo Esposito, Edward Burns
Director: Rob Cohen
Nikita (TV Series 2010-2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When she was a deeply troubled teenager, Nikita was rescued from death row by a secret U.S. agency known only as Division, who faked her execution and told her she was being given a second chance to start a new life and serve her country. What they didn't tell her was that she was being trained as a spy and assassin. Ultimately, Nikita was betrayed and her dreams shattered by the only people she thought she could trust. Now, after three years in hiding, Nikita is seeking retribution and making it clear to her former bosses that she will stop at nothing to expose and destroy their covert operation. For the time being, however, Division continues to recruit and train other young people and turning them into cold and efficient killers. One of these new recruits, Alex, is just beginning to understand what lies ahead for her and why the legendary Nikita made the desperate decision to run.
Starring: Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca, Aaron Stanford, Melinda Clarke, Xander Berkeley, Dillon Casey, Lyndie Greenwood, Noah Bean
Creator: Craig Silverstein
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist / Home Alone 5 (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Family
Finn Baxter and his family move from California to Maine to their new house. Finn is terrified and believes the house is haunted. While he sets up traps to catch the "ghost", his parents get stranded across town and Finn is home alone with his sister. Their house is targeted by 3 thieves.
Starring: Edward Asner, Peter DaCunha, Jodelle Ferland, Ellie Harvie, Christian Martyn, Doug Murray, Debi Mazar, Malcolm McDowell, Chris Sigurdson, Eddie Steeples
Director: Peter Hewitt
The Courier (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A courier hired to deliver a briefcase to an unlocatable crime boss finds himself pursued by corrupt cops and underworld figures.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Til Schweiger, Josie Ho
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Plein soleil / Purple Noon (1960)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Mr. Greenleaf to fetch his spoiled, playboy son, Philippe, and bring him back home to the States. In return, Tom will receive $5,000. Philippe toys with Tom, pretending he will go back home, but has no intentions of leaving his bride to be, Marge, and honoring his father's wishes. After some time passes, Mr. Greenleaf considers the mission a failure and cuts Tom off. Tom, in desperation, kills Philippe, assumes his identity, and lives the life of a rich playboy. However, he will need all his conman abilities to keep Philippe's friends and the police off the trail.
Starring: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Romy Schneider, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns
Director: René Clémentt
Consenting Adults (1992)
Crime | Thriller
Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio, and Kevin Spacey heat up the screen in Consenting Adults, the spine-tingling sexy thriller that seduced audiences and critics alike. When two couples living next door to each other grow too close, one of the husbands risks everything for a passion he can't resist – his neighbor's wife. His temptation traps the foursome in a shocking web of betrayal and murder. And now accused of a crime he didn't commit, he must race against time to save his family from a shocking fate. Directed by master of suspense Alan J. Pakula, this erotic thriller twists and turns as tension builds to a sensational heart-stopping climax!
Starring: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller, Forest Whitaker, E.G. Marshall
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Stealing Harvard (2002)
Comedy | Crime
A middle-class man whose fiancee has just invested their life savings in a "starter" home turns to a life of crime in order to finance his niece's first year in college.
Starring: Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann, Megan Mullally, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins
Director: Bruce McCulloch
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Charlie's Angels are a crime-fighting trio, masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts. When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plot to destroy individual privacy, the Angels are on the spot with their brains, brawn and high-tech toys. Aided by their loyal sidekick Bosley, the girls are about to bring down the bad guys when a terrible secret is revealed that makes the Angels a target of assassination.
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell, Tom Green
Director: McG
Miami Vice (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris) as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell), who may seem unorthodox, but is actually procedurally sound, is charismatic and flirtatious until he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one–especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. Working deeply undercover is dangerous and alluring…especially when Crockett and Tubbs go where their badges don't count…
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Towles
Director: Michael Mann
La cérémonie / La Cérémonie (1995)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
The upper-class owner of a gallery, Catherine Lelievre, hires the efficient and quiet maid Sophie to work in the family manor in the French countryside. Her husband Georges Lelievre, who is an opera lover, her daughter Melinda and her teenage son Gilles welcome Sophie and appreciate her work. Sophie soon befriends the postmistress Jeanne, who is a bad egg and encourages Sophie to rebel against her employers, but the maid stays submissive. However, Sophie is ashamed of a secret and feels uncomfortable in many situations, finding a way to hide her secret. When Georges tells Sophie that he does not want Jeanne in his house, Sophie stands up to him. Melinda discovers her secret and Sophie blackmails her, but Melinda tells her parents what happened. Georges fires Sophie and she returns to the house later with Jeanne on the rampage.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen, Dominique Frot, Julien Rochefort
Director: Claude Chabrol
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle / Charlie's Angels 2 (2003)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Sexy Angels (Cameraon Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu) are back to go head-to-head with Angel-Gone-Bad (Demi Moore)! Aided by trusty sidekick Bosley (Bernie Mac), these hot and heavenly beauties really kick butt to reclaim rings encrypted with information about every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program! Sizzling with attitude, they put the pedal to the metal to launch a do-or-die thrill ride that never slows down!
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, Bernie Mac, Demi Moore, Shia LaBeouf
Director: McG
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The Invisible (2007)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Nick, is a high school senior with a bright future until, in a tragic case of mistaken identity, he is brutally attacked by a troubled girl, Annie, and his body is left for dead. Now in limbo, not quite dead but invisible to the living, his spirit can only watch as his mother and the police search frantically for him, unaware that he is only hours away from truly perishing.
Starring: Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher Marquette, Alex O'Loughlin
Director: David S. Goyer
Rising Sun (1993)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An L.A. cop and a Japan expert investigate the murder of an American call girl at a Japanese
corporation, and the investigation exposes much more than was expected.
Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Tia Carrere
Director: Philip Kaufman
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Based on a true story, Frank W. Abagnale was employed as a doctor, a lawyer, and as a co-pilot for a major airline company-all before reaching his 21st birthday. A successful con artist and master of deception, Frank is also a brilliant forger, whose skill at check fraud has netted him millions of dollars in stolen funds–much to the chagrin of the authorities. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty has made it his prime mission to capture him and bring him to justice, however Frank is always one step ahead of Carl, baiting him to continue the chase.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams
Director: Steven Spielberg
Brother (2000)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Claude Maki, Omar Epps, Masaya Katô, Susumu Terajima, Royale Watkins, Lombardo Boyar
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Beverly Hills Cop III / Beverly Hills Cop 3 (1994)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Jon Tenney, Joey Travolta, Judge Reinhold
Director: John Landis
At Close Range (1986)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A boy and his friends seek to join a mid-atlantic gang led by the boy's estranged father, unaware that his father's ruthlessness takes no account of family ties.
Starring: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, Millie Perkins
Director: James Foley
Botched / 13 (2007)
Comedy | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Ritchie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper. Things start badly and go rapidly downhill when, during the robbery, Ritchie and his Russian accomplices are forced to take hostages because they are trapped by the police on the unused 13th floor.
Starring: David Heap, Alan Smyth, Stephen Dorff, Sean Pertwee, Jamie Foreman
Director: Kit Ryan
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Panic Room (2002)
Crime | Thriller
After purchasing a brownstone in New York, a thirty-something divorced woman and her daughter are forced to take advantage of the hidden room- the "panic room" -when intruders break into their home. However, they soon find that what the intruders want is locked in the panic room with them.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam, Patrick Bauchau
Director: David Fincher
Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
Comedy | Crime
When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected…
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, Leslie Easterbrook, Art Metrano
Director: Jerry Paris
