Tokyo Drifter / Tôkyô nagaremono (1966)
Action | Crime | Drama
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu's attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.
Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryûji Kita, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
Director: Seijun Suzuki
The Mexican (2001)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
A man tries to transport an ancient gun called The Mexican, believed to carry a curse, back across the border, while his girlfriend pressures him to give up his criminal ways.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini
Director: Gore Verbinski
Burn Notice (TV Series 2007-2013)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Covert intelligence operative Michael Westen has been punched, kicked, choked and shot. Now he's being burned, and someone's going to pay! When Michael receives a "burn notice", blacklisting him from the intelligence community and compromising his very identity, he must track down a faceless nemesis without getting himself killed in the process. Meanwhile, Michael is forced to double as a private investigator on the dangerous streets of Miami in order to survive. Fully loaded with sly humor, Burn Notice is a fresh spin on the spy genre with plenty of precarious twists to keep you guessing and enough explosive action to keep you riveted!
Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, Coby Bell
Creator: Matt Nix
21 / 21 – The Movie (2008)
Crime | Drama
Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is a shy, brilliant M.I.T. student who – needing to pay school tuition – finds the answers in the cards. He is recruited to join a group of the school's most gifted students that heads to Vegas every weekend armed with fake identities and the know-how to turn the odds at blackjack in their favor. With unorthodox math professor and stats genius Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) leading the way, they've cracked the code. By counting cards and employing an intricate system of signals, the team can beat the casinos big time. Seduced by the money, the Vegas lifestyle, and by his smart and sexy teammate, Jill Taylor (Kate Bosworth), Ben begins to push the limits. Though counting cards isn't illegal, the stakes are high, and the challenge becomes not only keeping the numbers straight, but staying one step ahead of the casinos' menacing enforcer: Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne).
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira
Director: Robert Luketic
Hodejegerne / Headhunters (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Aksel Hennie, Julie R. Ølgaard, Synnøve Macody Lund, Baard Owe, Joachim Rafaelsen
Director: Morten Tyldum
The Exterminator (1980)
Action | Crime | Thriller
When his friend is paralysed in a gang attack Vietnam veteran John Eastland decides to wreak revenge upon anyone who crosses his path. He becomes a hero to the public with his no-nonsense approach to law enforcement, but the police believe him to be an unstable psychopath, capable of untold murder and mayhem.
Starring: Christopher George, Samantha Eggar, Robert Ginty, Steve James, Tony DiBenedetto
Director: James Glickenhaus
Touch of Evil (1958)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
After a murder is committed in a small town right on the US-Mexico border a rogue cop from the US tries to frame his Mexican counterpart for it.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Dennis Weaver, Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Director: Orson Welles
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Mortal Kombat: Legacy (TV Series 2011)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
An adaptation of the fictional universe of the Mortal Kombat video game franchise. The show's premise originated with the short film entitled Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, portraying the original game's story in a realistic way and it became a web series.
Starring: Johnson Phan, Darren Shahlavi, Andrew Chin, Ian Anthony Dale, Aleks Paunovic, Michael Jai White, Samantha Jo
Creator: Kevin Tancharoen
The Guard (2011)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it.
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Covert Affairs (TV Series 2010- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
"Covert Affairs" centers on a young CIA trainee, Annie Walker, mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. Auggie Anderson is a CIA military intelligence agent who was blinded while on assignment and is Annie's guide in this world of bureaucracy, excitement and intrigue.
Starring: Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Anne Dudek, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Peter Gallagher, Gregory Itzin
Creator: Chris Ord, Matt Corman
Quadrophenia (1979)
Crime | Drama | Music
London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Only when he's together with his friends, a 'Mod' clique, cruises London on his motor-scooter and hears music such as that of 'The Who' and 'The High Numbers', he feels free and accepted. However, it's a flight into an illusionary world.
Starring: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Philip Davis
Director: Franc Roddam
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chuck Barris, young, energetic, and focused on a top career in the growing television industry, finds himself being followed by a suspicious character who quickly lures him into a secretive and dangerous world: that of a CIA operative. While Barris gains notoriety as a dynamic television producer–creating such innovative and popular shows as "The Newlywed Game" and the self-hosted "The Gong Show"–he regularly executes assassinations for the United States government. As ratings rise, Barris incorporates his shows into his secret life, providing a cover for his covert missions. As Barris basks in the glamour of his two worlds, his life begins to spiral out of control. He is torn between the woman who loves him and the mysterious woman of his fantasies. Just as he receives mass criticism from the public who accuses him of contaminating the airwaves, he finds himself marked for death by an operative.
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney
Director: George Clooney
Colombiana (2011)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Cataleya is a young woman who has grown up to be an assassin after witnessing the murder of her parents as a child. Turning herself into a professional killer and working for her uncle, she remains focused on her ultimate goal: to hunt down and get revenge on the mobster responsible for her parents’ deaths.
Starring: Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan, Callum Blue
Director: Olivier Megaton
Entrapment (1999)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Romance | Thriller
When a priceless Rembrandt is stolen in New York, the evidence points to a solitary master thief (Connery), who is about to meet the insurance company's most cunning – and seductive – investigator (Zeta-Jones). Following a nerve-racking game of cat and mouse, the two join forces, or so it seems, to attempt a daring multibillion-dollar heist tied to the dawn of the new millennium.
Starring: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin
Director: Jon Amiel
Cherry Tree Lane (2010)
Crime | Horror | Thriller
Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some local boys, who are quite prepared to camp out and wait for him to get home… The resulting culture-clash chamber drama is raw, revealing and nerve-splittingly tense.
Starring: Rachael Blake, Tom Butcher, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin, Sonny Muslim. Jennie Jacques
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
12 Angry Men (1957)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
In what seems to be an open and shut murder case, twelve jurors slowly begin to take serious interpretation of the "beyond a reasonable doubt" clause and over the course of an hour and a half debate their impending verdict on a hot New York summer day.
Starring: Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Jack Warden, Henry Fonda, Joseph Sweeney, Ed Begley, George Voskovec, Robert Webber
Director: Sidney Lumet
La mala educación / Bad Education (2004)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
In the early 60s, two boys – Ignacio and Enrique – discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them.
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Javier Cámara, Alberto Ferreiro
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Straw Dogs (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
David and Amy Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father's death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie, leading to a violent confrontation.
Starring: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, Willa Holland
Director: Rod Lurie
Sleepers (1996)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, Dustin Hoffman, Ron Eldard, Billy Crudup, Minnie Driver
Director: Barry Levinson
Point Blank / À bout portant (2010)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A couple's lives are turned upside down when the woman is kidnapped and her boyfriend must negotiate her realease.
Starring: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier
Director: Fred Fred Cavayé
