The Hunted (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An FBI deep-woods tracker captures a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen
Director: William Friedkin
A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave the U.K. and start a new life. The IRA wants him back (he knows too much) and the local crime boss, Meehan, will only help him if he performs one last hit, on a rival crime boss. When Fallon does perform the hit, he is seen by a catholic priest. He refuses to kill an innocent again and must find a way to escape the police without killing the priest who can identify him.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Liam Neeson
Director: Mike Hodges
Prison Break (TV Series 2005- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When his brother is wrongly convicted of murder, a structural engineer resolves to bust his sibling out of the notorious Fox River State Penitentiary.
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Sarah Wayne Callies, Wade Williams, William Fichtner, Paul Adelstein, Marshall Allman, Rockmond Dunbar, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Creator: Paul Scheuring
Prison Break (TV Series 2005- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When his brother is wrongly convicted of murder, a structural engineer resolves to bust his sibling out of the notorious Fox River State Penitentiary.
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Sarah Wayne Callies, Wade Williams, William Fichtner, Paul Adelstein, Marshall Allman, Rockmond Dunbar, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Creator: Paul Scheuring
Prison Break (TV Series 2005- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When his brother is wrongly convicted of murder, a structural engineer resolves to bust his sibling out of the notorious Fox River State Penitentiary.
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Sarah Wayne Callies, Wade Williams, William Fichtner, Paul Adelstein, Marshall Allman, Rockmond Dunbar, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Creator: Paul Scheuring
Prison Break (TV Series 2005- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When his brother is wrongly convicted of murder, a structural engineer resolves to bust his sibling out of the notorious Fox River State Penitentiary.
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Sarah Wayne Callies, Wade Williams, William Fichtner, Paul Adelstein, Marshall Allman, Rockmond Dunbar, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Creator: Paul Scheuring
Find Me Guilty (2006)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Ron Silver, Alex Rocco, Richard DeDomenico, Jerry Grayson, Tony Ray Rossi
Director: Sidney Lumet
8 Women / 8 femmes (2002)
Comedy | Crime | Musical | Mystery
A wealthy industrialist who has been found murdered in his home while his family gathers for the holiday season. The house is isolated in a snowstorm and the phone lines have been cut. Eight women are his potential murderers; his calculating wife, his two mischievous daughters, his meddling mother-in-law, his neurotic sister-in-law, his sexy sister, the faithful family cook and the sultry new maid. Each woman is a suspect. Each has a motive.
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sagnier, Firmine Richard
Director: François Ozon
Layer Cake (2004)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Planning to retire and begin a new life, Mr. X (Daniel Craig, Casino Royale), a successful West End drug dealer, has been asked for one last favor: to negotiate the sale of one million hitsof Ecstasy. Unfortunately for Mr. X, the pills were stolen from a Serbian drug lord who'll cut offhis head if he sells them. And with a London crime czar (Michael Gambon, Open Range & The Insider)promising to retire him permanently if he doesn't, Mr. X may be rightfully concerned about his future. Nothing worth losing his head over.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman, Tom Hardy, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon
Director: Matthew Vaughn
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Presumed Innocent (1990)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A prosecutor is accused of murdering a beautiful colleague with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Greta Scacchi, Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Dennehy, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Big Momma's House / Big Mama (2000)
Action | Comedy | Crime
FBI agent Malcolm Turner is known best for being a brilliant, master of disguise. Malcolm's latest assignment sends him to small-town Georgia, where he's assigned to trap a brutal bank robber (and a recent prison escapee) who they suspect will be coming down to visit his ex-girlfriend Sherry and her son. Malcolm sets up a stakeout across from the home of a larger-than-life southern matriarch known as Big Momma, who's about to be visited by Sherry. It's a simple plan, but there's one big problem: Unbeknownst to Sherry, Big Momma has unexpectedly left town. So Malcolm, decides to impersonate the cantankerous Southern granny. Using a few tricks of disguise, he completely transforms himself into Big Momma, even taking on the corpulent septuagenarian's everyday routine-from cooking soul food to delivering babies to "testifying" at the local church. In the mean time…
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti
Director: Raja Gosnell
Murder 2 (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A former police officer gets hired by a gangster to trace missing call girls and their abductor.
Starring: Jaqueline Fernandes, Yana Gupta, Emraan Hashmi, Amardeep Jha, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
Director: Mohit Suri
The Getaway (1972)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once he's on the outside – and executing the ultimate robbery. Fasten your seat belts and join Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in a supreme action thriller based on Jim Thompson's novel. Sam Peckinpah directed, filming on locations across Texas and in sequence – from the opening inside Hunstville State Prison to the explosive El Paso border climax. Once The Getaway starts, there's no escaping its breathless intensity.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri
Director: Sam Peckinpah
The Prey / La Proie (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence for robbery. When he learns that his wife is in financial difficulty he confides in his cellmate, Jean-Louis Maurel, the location of the booty of his last heist. Maurel is due to be released soon and Franck is certain that he can trust him to come to his wife's rescue…
Starring: Albert Dupontel, Alice Taglioni, Stéphane Debac, Sergi López, Natacha Régnier, Serge Hazanavicius, Zinedine Soualem, Caterina Murino
Director: Eric Valette
Freedom Writers (2007)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed – a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, the real-life teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High who inspired her students to overcome the gangs that divided them and the education system that forgot them. Based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary and supported by a cast of first-time actors who drew from their actual experiences on the street, Gruwell teaches us all an important lesson about tolerance and trust.
Starring: Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, April Lee Hernandez
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Pour la peau d'un flic / For a Cop's Hide (1981)
Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Once a regular cop, Choucas now works as a private investigator, using methods his former colleagues would revile him for. One day, he receives a visit from an old lady, Madame Pigot, who asks him to look into the disappearance of her blind daughter. Choucas accepts the apparently anodyne case but soon finds he may be in for more than he bargained. First he is assaulted by a mysterious stranger and then Madame Pigot is shot dead just before she can give him vital information relating to her daughter. Then, when he is set up for killing a police commissioner, Choucas realises that he has been caught up in a very deadly game of cat and mouse. But who are his opponents and why are they so keen to have him killed…?
Starring: Alain Delon, Anne Parillaud, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean-Pierre Darras, Michel Auclair
Director: Alain Delon
Extreme Rage / A Man Apart (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Sean Vetter and his partner Demetrius Hicks came up on the mean streets of Los Angeles but now work together as DEA agents, fighting a seven-year war to stem the virulent drug pipeline along the US/Mexico border. Dubbed "the gunslingers'" for their tough street tactics, their perseverance pays off when they take down notorious Baja Cartel kingpin Memo Lucero Geno.With Lucero locked away in a maximum security prison, Vetter is finally able to go home to his wife, Stacy, a sanctuary from the harsh realities of his job. But in the wake of Lucero's arrest, a mysterious figure, known only as Diablo, emerges to violently claim the Baja Cartel. And when Vetter and Hicks set their sights on identifying and stopping this dangerous and elusive new player, Diablo makes the fight personal– robbing Vetter of the one person who gives his life meaning–Stacy. With nothing to lose, Vetter pulls out every hidden resource at his disposal to bring Diablo down–including an unlikely alliance with the jailed Cartel boss Lucero. He will stop at nothing to avenge his wife's murder, edging dangerously close to the line between justice and lawlessness, even if it sets him at odds with the police unit to which he has dedicated his life.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Timothy Olyphant, Jacqueline Obradors
Director: F. Gary Gray
Lord of War (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chance leads Yuri Orlov to discover his one talent – illegal arms dealing. With his brother's help, he reaches the top of the trade, supplying anyone whose check clears. His skills and quick wits bring him everything he's ever wanted – and help him elude a persistent Interpol agent. But at the peak of his prowess, he discovers his customers might demand more than he can give…and those he's trying to protect could become deadly liabilities.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Holm, Ethan Hawke
Director: Andrew Niccol
American Gangster (2007)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner- city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city's mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars. Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, making them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, Carla Gugino
Director: Ridley Scott
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The Four / Si Da Ming Bu (2012)
Action | Crime | Fantasy
Security agencies in the Ming Dynasty "Hou of God House" and "six doors" for the breaking story of outstanding cases of wits to fight.
Starring: Chao Deng, Yifei Liu, Ronald Cheng, Collin Chou, Anthony Wong
Director: Gordon Chan, Janet Chun
