Category: Crime
Posted on May 11, 2012 |
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The Gray Man (2007)
Crime | Thriller
Obsessive manhunt to identify and capture a despicable serial killer.
Starring: Patrick Bauchau, Jack Conley, John Aylward, Jillian Armenante, Silas Weir Mitchell, Mollie Milligan
Director: Scott L. Flynn
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Posted on May 11, 2012 |
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Punished / Bou ying (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When a tycoon's daughter is found dead of cocaine overdose after being rescued from abduction, he will stop at nothing to avenge her.
Starring: Anthony Wong, Richie Ren, Janice Man, Maggie Cheung, Candy Lo, Charlie Cho, Lei Lam, Jun Kung
Director: Wing-cheong Law
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Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Before and After (1996)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
When teenage son Jacob is being accused of murdering his girlfriend, the well-respected and close-knit Ryan family is in turmoil. Jacob flees, father Ben destroys possible evidence, the village community turns hostile and mother Carolyn is forced to temporarily close her doctor's practice. Then Jacob gets arrested and soon finds himself and his family entangled in a web of truth, trust and lies, all on his way to court.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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One for the Money (2012)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin's bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Jason O'Mara
Director: Julie Anne Robinson
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Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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The Mechanic (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Jason Statham, Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland star in this remake of Michael Winner's 1972 action thriller. When his best friend and mentor Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, professional hitman Arthur 'The Mechanic' Bishop (Statham) sets out to wreak his revenge on those responsible. When Harry's son Steve (Ben Foster) asks if Arthur will take him on as an apprentice, the two look set to become the deadliest duo in town, but complications arise as the young student starts to outstrip his master.
Starring: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Chase
Director: Simon West
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Posted on May 7, 2012 |
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Stir Crazy (1980)
Comedy | Crime
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
Starring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams, Georg Stanford Brown, Craig T. Nelson
Director: Sidney Poitier
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Tags: Craig T. Nelson, Gene Wilder, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Richard Pryor, Sidney Poitier
Posted on May 6, 2012 |
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Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Bobbie is an addict and small-time thief. When one of his jobs goes bad, Mel is called in to patch him up. Mel offers him a chance at a bigger score. Over time, Mel and his girlfriend Sid become almost like parents to Bobbie and his girlfriend Rosie, but this can't last.
Starring: James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner
Director: Larry Clark
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Posted on May 5, 2012 |
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Green Street Hooligans 2 / Hooligans 2 – stand your ground (2009)
Crime | Drama | Sport
Following the deadly climax of "Green Street Hooligans," several members of the West Ham firm and numerous members of Millwall end up in jail. The GSE quickly discover the brutality of life on the inside, as they are constant targets of the superior numbers and better-financed Millwall crew.
Starring: John Bariamis, Nicola Bertram, Matt Candito, Lonnie Cayetano, Paul Cullen
Director: Jesse V. Johnson
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Posted on May 4, 2012 |
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Transit (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A family on a road trip is stalked by criminals who stashed stolen money in their car.
Starring: Jim Caviezel, Diora Baird, Sterling Knight, James Frain, Elisabeth Röhm
Director: Antonio Negret
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Posted on May 4, 2012 |
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Green Street Hooligans / Hooligans (2005)
Crime | Drama | Sport
Unjustly expelled from Harvard when a stash of cocaine is found in his possession, Matt moves to London to live with his sister and her husband Steve. He is quickly introduced to Steve's chirpy, cock-sure younger brother Pete. Initially, Pete is reluctant to get acquainted with Matt and allow him to tread around the capital city with him because he may be seen by others as an 'outsider', but after a heavy drinking session with him and his mates he quickly changes his opinion of him. On the way back from a football match, Matt is viciously accosted by a gang of Birmingham City thugs, until Pete and his friends step in and save him. It is from here that Matt learns the truth about Pete and his friends- they are football hooligans, operating the GSE (Green Street Elite) 'firm.'
Starring: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Geoff Bell
Director: Lexi Alexander
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Posted on May 3, 2012 |
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Turning Point 2 / Laughing Gor – Qian Zui Fan (2011)
Action | Crime
Undercover cop Laughing enters prison to track inmate and corrupt cop Tai Chit. Laughing then meets fellow prisoner Fok Tin Yam, who is a former professor now imprisoned for drug dealing. Fok Tin Yam seems also interested in Tai Chit. Things become more complicated when Laughing encounters his old nemesis So Sing Pak.
Starring: Michael Tse, Francis Ng, Chapman To, Bosco Wong, Kara Hui, Kate Tsui, Janice Man, Kai Chi Liu, Cheung-Ching Mak, Suet Lam, Kong King, Chi-Kwong Cheung, Jin Auyeung, Siu-Ming Lau, Rebecca Zhu
Director: Herman Yau
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Tags: Bosco Wong, Chapman To, Cheung-Ching Mak, Chi-Kwong Cheung, Francis Ng, Herman Yau, Janice Man, Jin Auyeung, Kai Chi Liu, Kara Hui, Kate Tsui, Kong King, Michael Tse, Rebecca Zhu, Siu-Ming Lau, Suet Lam
Posted on May 2, 2012 |
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Brake (2012)
Crime | Thriller
What appears to be a random kidnapping becomes something more sinister when Secret Service Agent Jeremy Reins discovers he's being used as a pawn in a terrorist plot. Watching the clock tick down to an unknown catastrophe, Jeremy is forced by his captors to listen to the outside world on the brink of collapse, knowing that the only way to save the people he loves is to divulge a secret that he has sworn to protect.
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Chyler Leigh, JR Bourne, Tom Berenger
Director: Gabe Torres
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Posted on May 2, 2012 |
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4.3.2.1. (2010)
Crime | Thriller
While Jo (Roberts) is chained down in a dead end supermarket job, her friends are all out on their own separate adventures: Cassandra (Egerton) is jetting off to New York to meet her Internet boyfriend; Kerrys (Warren-Markland) is on a one woman crusade fighting for female liberation and Shannon (Lovibond) is on a one way trip to meet her maker. But a chance encounter with some diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but fate itself. These 4 girls are about to have 3 days they will never forget, spanning to 2 cities. That is … if they survive.
Starring: Emma Roberts, Tamsin Egerton, Ophelia Lovibond, Noel Clarke, Shanika Warren-Markland
Director: Noel Clarke, Mark Davis
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Posted on April 27, 2012 |
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Rampart (2011)
Crime | Drama
Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Steve Buscemi, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Foster, Ned Beatty, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon
Director: Oren Moverman
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Tags: Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Woody Harrelson
Posted on April 26, 2012 |
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Initial D / Tau man ji D (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Teen | Thriller
Based on a popular manga by Shuichi Shigeno, Initial D is a high-octane movie about the world of downhill mountain racing. Takumi Fujiwara is an average high-school student who has honed his driving skills while making late-night deliveries for his father's tofu restaurant. When he has an inadvertent run-in with one of the area's top racers, Takumi finds himself thrust into the world of mountain racing and is soon duking it out for top honors in a series of daredevil downhill races. Thrilling and adrenaline-fueled, the anime is presented in its entirety with this collection of episodes.
Starring: Jay Chou, Shawn Yue, Shawn Yue, Edison Chen, Anthony Wong, Anne Suzuki, Jordan Chan, Chapman To, Kenny Bee, Tsuyoshi Abe
Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
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Posted on April 25, 2012 |
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The Terrorists / Ransom (1974)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A gang of hijackers led by Ian McShane seize a British plane as it is landing in Scandinavia. Ruthless military police chief Colonel Tahlvik is assigned to rescue the plane and it's passengers. But he must also deal with the problem of the British Ambassador, whose residence has been seized by a second group of terrorists.
Starring: Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffrey Wickham
Director: Caspar Wrede
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Posted on April 24, 2012 |
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Vengeance is Mine / Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari (1979)
Crime | Drama
Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs a brothel. They love each other but how long can they be together?
Starring: Ken Ogata, Rentarô Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako, Mitsuko Baishô, Mayumi Ogawa
Director: Shôhei Imamura
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Posted on April 23, 2012 |
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Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da / Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Crime | Drama
A murder has been committed and a man has confessed; all that remains is for him to lead police to the body so they can wrap the case. In the dead of night, two cars and a Jeep carrying the murderer, the police chief and the prosecutor set out to find the burial spot. As the small convoy inches its way through the darkness of the deserted countryside, it becomes clear that the killer can't locate the place where he left his victim. Cigarettes are smoked; conversations occur and refreshments are served in a local village; nothing significant seems to happen. Yet whether we are aware of it or not, small clues are being planted along the way.
Starring: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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Posted on April 22, 2012 |
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Sister Act (1992)
Comedy | Crime | Music
Whoopi Goldberg stars as a Reno lounge singer who has been put under protective custody in a San Francisco convent and has to pretend to be a nun when a mob boss puts her on his hit list. Also in the cast are Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, and Harvey Keitel. The film is #83 on Bravo's The 100 Funniest Movies list.
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy
Director: Emile Ardolino
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Posted on April 20, 2012 |
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Donkey (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama
Upon his release from jail, two-bit thug Don Keys gets caught up in the kidnapping plot of a mobster's daughter.
Starring: Matthew Stefiuk, Cassandra Petrella, Greg Hiscock
Director: Adrian Langley
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