Rashomon / Rashômon / Rashou-mon (1950)
Crime | Drama
A tale of rape and murder in 12th-century Kyoto.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Newsmakers / Goryachie novosti (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When the police flub the capture of a gang of robbers and it is caught on camera. Consequently, the public's confidence in the police department drops to an all-time low. To transform the image of the force, PR director Katya proposes creating a reality show around a mission to apprehend the gang. However, the special police force effort fails and Katya decides to manipulate the footage to make it seem like a victory. When the leader of the gang sees the faked news on television, he broadcasts the real events via a Web cam. This is the beginning of the real war.
Starring: Andrey Merzlikin, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Mariya Mashkova, Sergey Garmash, Maksim Konovalov
Director: Anders Banke
Blue Steel (1989)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Holiday / Holli-dei (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama
Ji Kang-hun is imprisoned after taking part in a protest against the government for clearing out their neighborhood to make way for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. After being repeatedly beaten by prison officials, Ji Kang-hun, with the help of 12 inmates, escapes the prison and is able to elude the police for 9 days. Kang-hun’s main objective is to tell his story of prison abuses and the favoritism held by the Korean legal system for the wealthy to the media or government officials. When they are finally caught and surrounded by the police and media, it is now up to Ji Kang-hun to decide whether he will go out as a hero or criminal.
Starring: Min-su Choi, Hyun Dong, Se-jin Jang, An Jo, Bong-gyu Lee, Eol Lee, Sung-jae Lee, Young-dong Moon, Sung-min Sol, Hyeon-Soo Yeo
Director: Yun-ho Yang
Fire with Fire (2012)
Action | Crime | Thriller
After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son; firefighter, Jeremy Coleman nearly escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against the crime lord, Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshalls. As his new identity becomes compromised Jeremy is forced to take an unexpected course of action in order to get is life back and save the lives of those he loves.
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, Richard Schiff
Director: David Barrett
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My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Comedy | Crime
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer – Vincent, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. Vinny's never been in court – or in Alabama – and when he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock – for him and the Deep South!
Starring: Ralph Macchio, Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne, Mitchell Whitfield
Director: Jonathan Lynn
The Killer / Dip huet seung hung (1989)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Chow Yun-Fat stars as an assassin with a code of honor, who agrees to one last job before quitting for good. When his bosses double-cross him, he must confront the mob in one of the most explosive showdowns in film history.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Kenneth Tsang, Fui-On Shing
Director: John Woo
City on Fire / Lung fu fong wan (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chow Yun Fat plays Ko Chow, a police undercover agent who is torn between his duty as a police officer and his loyalty to his friends on the wrong side of the law. He wants out and his commander officer Inspector Lau, played by Sun Yueh reluctantly approves his resignation but gives him his last assignment – supplying guns to a gang at criminals suspected of armed robbery. Danny Lee who plays Tigers, heads the gang of robbers. He has built a relationship with Ko Chow based on mutual trust and respect. During the final shoot out with the police, he is equally tom when Ko Chow sacrificed himself to save him and simultaneously revealed his true identity.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Yueh Sun, Carrie Ng, Roy Cheung
Director: Ringo Lam
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Bubby is a demented man-child kept locked his entire life in a squalid apartment by his depraved mother. But when Bubby – who can only communicate by mimicking what others say and do – escapes into the outside, he soon discovers the wonders of sex, crime, rock & roll and pizza. Will this 'mad bastard' be destroyed by the realities of our cruel world, or does a higher calling ultimately await him in the most unlikely place of all?
Starring: Nicholas Hope, Ralph Cotterill, Carmel Johnson, Norman Kaye, Paul Simpson, Audine Leith
Director: Rolf de Heer
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame / Di Renjie zhi tongtian diguo (2010)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
In 689 A.D., the Empress Wu Zetian is building a 66 m high statue of Buddha for her inauguration as the first empress of China under the objections and conspiracy of the other clans. When the engineer responsible for the construction mysteriously dies by spontaneous combustion, the superstitious workers are afraid since the man removed the good luck charms from the main pillar. There is an investigation of Pei Donglai and another investigator that also dies after withdrawing the amulets. Empress Wu assigns her loyal assistant Shangguan Jing'er to release the exiled Detective Dee from his imprisonment to investigate with Donglai and Jing'er the mystery of the deaths. They ride in a mystic and epic adventure to unravel the mystery.
Starring: Andy Lau, Bingbing Li, Carina Lau, Tony Leung, Chao Deng
Director: Hark Tsui
The Burning Plain (2008)
Crime | Drama | Romance
Connected storylines about love, forgiveness and redemption that take place in different places and times–Mariana, a 16 year old girl tries to put together the shattered lives of her parents in a Mexican border town; Sylvia, a woman in Portland, undertakes an emotional odyssey to redeem a sin from her past; Gina and Nick, a couple who must deal with a clandestine love; and Maria, a young girl who helps her parents find forgiveness.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, José María Yazpik, Robin Tunney, Fernanda Romero, Kacie Thomas
Director: Guillermo Arriaga
The Recruit (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
James Clayton might not have the attitude of a typical recruit, but he is one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country-and he's just the person that Walter Burke wants in the Agency. James regards the CIA's mission as an intriguing alternative to an ordinary life, but before he becomes an Ops Officer, James has to survive The Farm, where the veteran Burke teaches him the ropes and rules of the game. James quickly rises through the ranks and falls for Layla, one of his fellow recruits. But just when James starts to question his role and decides to "wash out," Burke taps him for a special assignment to root out a mole. It soon becomes clear that at The Farm, the CIA's old maxims are true: "trust no one" and "nothing is at it seems."
Starring: Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht
Director: Roger Donaldson
Homeland (TV Series 2011- )
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody returns home eight years, after going missing in Iraq. Carrie Mathison, a driven CIA officer, suspects he might be plotting an attack on America.
Starring: Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, F. Murray Abraham, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor
Creator: Gideon Raff
Killer Joe (2011)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon, Scott Martin
Director: William Friedkin
Olsen Gang Gets Polished / Olsen-banden på de bonede gulve (2010)
Animation | Comedy | Crime
Egon has a plan! He'll need a drill, a cardboard honey and prune juice and a pile of dead rats. The goal is Hans Christian Andersen's original quill, as the Prime Minister himself has recruited Olsen Gang to pilfer from the Danish Export Museum. It is alleged national security and reputation. Or is it just the gang's nemesis Hallandsen who again took the ass on Egon…
Starring: Martin Buch, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Esben Pretzmann, Annette Heick, Albert S. Lund, Jonas Schmidt, Søren Sætter-Lassen
Director: Jørgen Lerdam
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse / Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Crime | Fantasy | Horror
Berlin police inspector Lohmann investigates a case, in which all clues lead to a man, who's in a hospital for mental illnesses for since many years – Dr. Mabuse.
Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl, Rudolf Schündler, Oskar Höcker, Theo Lingen, Oscar Beregi Sr.
Director: Fritz Lang
Lethal Hostage / Bian jing feng yun (2012)
Crime | Drama
Produced by Crazy Racer director Ning Hao, Lethal Hostage revolves around a drug dealer who falls in love with his hostage and decides to quit the business following one final deal.
Starring: Dahong Ni, Honglei Sun, Luodan Wang, Kun Yang, Mo Zhang
Director: Er Cheng
Dolan's Cadillac / La cadillac de Dolan (2009)
Crime | Thriller
A dark revenge tale about Las Vegas middle school science teacher (Robinson) whose beloved wife (Elizabeth) witnesses an execution in the desert and is then targeted for death by the mobster who committed it, notorious Vegas crime lord Jimmy Dolan. Dolan's vast wealth stems from his human trafficking operations. Dolan succeeds in having Elizabeth killed before she can testify against him. Without a witness to the murders, Dolan goes free, and Robinson must avenge Elizabeth's death on his own
Starring: Christian Slater, Wes Bentley, Emmanuelle Vaugier
Director: Jeff Beesley
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Taken / 96 Hours (2008)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A former government operative comes out of retirement and uses his extensive training to rescue his daughter from a slave trade operation.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky
Director: Pierre Morel
The Silent War / Ting feng zhe (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A blind man works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
Starring: Xun Zhou, Tony Leung, Mavis Fan, Xuebing Wang, Yong Dong
Director: Felix Chong, Alan Mak
