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
Politist, adjectiv / Police, Adjective (2009)
Crime | Drama
In grim, dull Vaslui, Cristi is a young police officer, conscientious, laconic, recently married to Anca, a teacher. He's tailing a kid who smokes pot and may be supplying his friends. Cristi dislikes the assignment: the kid's clearly not a dealer, an arrest would ruin his life, and, Cristi assumes that Romania will soon tolerate marijuana. His superior tells him flatly that the law is the law and to finish the case with a quick arrest. Cristi wants to follow the informant, a youth whose father is a builder. Cristi watches, he smokes, he writes reports, he wants to meet with the prosecutor. Can a cop have a conscience? Is the noun being modified "procedural" or "state"?
Starring: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica, Irina Saulescu, Cerasela Trandafir
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Beverly Hills Cop II / Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogamil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox, John Ashton, Brigitte Nielsen
Director: Tony Scott
The Virgin Spring / Jungfrukällan (1960)
Crime | Drama
After a group of men brutally attack a young woman they unknowingly ask for food and shelter from the girl's parents, setting the stage for chilling revenge.
Starring: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson, Allan Edwall
Director: Ingmar Bergman
3-Iron / Bin-jip (2004)
Crime | Drama | Romance
The lonely and silent rider Tae-suk breaks in empty houses and lives a normal life while the owners are traveling. He does not steal anything and moves from house to house without any loss other than food, and he cleans the houses, provides small repairs or washes some clothes to pay for the hospitality. When he enters in the house of Sun-hwa, he does not see the woman that is wounded in her room after being beaten up on by her abusive husband Min-gyu Lee. Tae-suk helps the hurt woman and when Min-gyu returns, he hits the husband with golf balls and Sun-hwa leaves her husband with Tae-suk on his motorcycle. When they break in the house of an old man, they find that the man is dead and Tae-suk provides funeral service for him. However, his son returns and Tae-suk and Sun-hwa are arrested by two abusive police detectives. He is sent to prison and Sun-hwa is forced to return home. But she never forgets him.
Starring: Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon
Director: Ki-duk Kim
The Losers (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An elite Special forces unit is sent to the Bolivian jungle on a search-and-destroy mission. But the team soon find that they have become the target of a deadly double cross instigated by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Making good use of the fact that they're now presumed dead, the group goes deep undercover in a dangerous plot to clear their names and even the score with Max.
Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Jason Patric, Óscar Jaenada
Director: Sylvain White
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Comedy | Crime
In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.
Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Director: Charles Crichton
