The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann
Director: Paul Greengrass
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Director: Doug Liman
The Escapist (2008)
Thriller | Crime | Action | Drama
The Escapist stars Brian Cox as Frank Perry – an institutionalized convict who is twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists – misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.
Starring: Brian Cox, Damian Lewis, Joseph Fiennes
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Death Proof (2007)
Action | Crime | Thriller
In Quentin Tarantino's 'Death Proof,' Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe (2011)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Follows Sam Axe on a mission in Latin America and gives us a glimpse into his military past.
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Kiele Sanchez, RonReaco Lee
Director: Jeffrey Donovan
Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis (2011)
A man accepts a dangerous task from an old acquaintance.
Action | Comedy | Crime
Starring: Santiago Segura, Carlos Areces, Goyo Jiménez
Director: Santiago Segura
The Score (2001)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Nick Wells is ready to retire from crime. He'll settle down with his girlfriend Diane and focus on running his legitimate business: a Montreal jazz club. But Max, his fence, friend and financial partner, has other plans for him. Persuading Nick to violate two of his most important rules- always work alone and never operate in the city where you live -Max teams him up with Jack Teller. A young, aggressive and talented thief, Jack needs Nick's safe-cracking talents to make his first big score: a prize worth millions locked behind the walls of Montreal's Custom's House. It's a volatile combination in which egos clash and sparks fly, but the thrill of the heist has a grip on all three men, who won't give up no matter what the risk.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer
Director: Frank Oz
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Action | Comedy | Thriller | Crime
A homeless vigilante delivers justice, one shell at a time and blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Pasha Ebrahimi, Robb Wells
Director: Jason Eisener
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Daniel Craig returns as James Bond in this thrilling, action-packed adventure which starts shortly after Casino Royale ends. Betrayed by the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. On a nonstop quest for justice that crisscrosses the globe, Bond meets the beautiful but feisty Camille (Olga Kurylenko), who leads him to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a ruthless businessman and major force within the mysterious "Quantum" organization. When Bond uncovers a conspiracy to take control of one of the world's most important natural resources, he must navigate a minefield of treachery, deception and murder to neutralize "Quantum" before it's too late!!
Starring: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Marc Forster
Sweet Karma (2009)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A mute Russian girl infiltrates Toronto's underground sex trade to avenge the death of her sister.
Starring: Shera Bechard, John Tokatlidis, Frank J. Zupancic
Director: Andrew Thomas Hunt
House of the Rising Sun (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ex-cop gets more than he bargained for when transitioning to a quieter life. Ray, former crooked cop, sets out to reform his ways and takes on a low-key job at a New Orleans strip club called House of the Rising Sun. Unfortunately, trouble quickly finds Ray, when the club is robbed and the owner's son is shot to death on Halloween night. When his past is exposed, Ray looks to clear his own name and assumes his own criminal search before both the police and the mob close in on him.
Starring: Dave Bautista, Amy Smart, Dominic Purcell, Danny Trejo
Director: Brian Miller, Brian A Miller
Flaming Brothers / Jiang hu long hu men (1987)
Action | Crime
A pair of boys work their way up from the streets to become organized crime leaders. When they run afoul of the bigger crime syndicates, the pair are forced to make tough decisions and the double-crossing begins. A tough Hong Kong variation on THE GODFATHER, featuring Chow Yun-fat in one of his earliest starring roles.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Alan Tang, Pat Ha
Director: Tung Cho Cheung
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Having spent most of his career defending gutter-variety criminals, attorney Mick Haller (McConaughey) takes on a case that could land him a real office, instead of running his practice out of his old Lincoln. Haller reaches a crisis of conscious, though, while working on the defense of Beverly Hills playboy Louis Roulet (Phillippe). Roulet is charged with attempted murder and what appears to be a straightforward case with a big payoff escalates into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe
Director: Brad Furman
Blood and Concrete (1991)
Comedy | Crime
Billy Zane stars in this direct-to-video gem as a spectacularly unsuccessful car thief. Hoping to reform by leaving LA, Zane must scare up $400 worth of exit money. He decides to pull off one last job, stealing a TV from William Bastiani. An ill-tempered criminal, Bastiani stabs Zane, who then runs off blindly into a cemetary ("Blood" and "Concrete": get it?) Weaving around the tombstones, Zane makes the acquaintance of would-be suicide Jennifer Beals. Love blooms, but it might be too late for both of them: Bastiani is found murdered, and Zane is suspect number one-forcing him to hide out from both the cops and the mob. Luxuriating in its tawdriness and cheapness, Blood & Concrete: A Love Story actually has an offbeat charm all its own
Starring: Billy Zane, Jennifer Beals, Darren McGavin
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
High Life (2009)
Comedy | Crime
It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past – his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense money. The latter development gives Dick an idea.
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Rossif Sutherland
Director: Gary Yates
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)
Action | Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Dylan Dog and his partner Marcus are private investigators who discover that the dead–some good, some bad–live among us. They are drawn into the world of the walking dead especially when Marcus himself becomes a zombie.
Starring: Brandon Routh, James Hebert, Sam Huntington, Anita Briem, Taye Diggs, Peter Stormare
Director: Kevin Munroe
The Detective 2 / B+ jing taam (2011)
Thriller | Crime | Drama
Solid if underwhelming effort from the usually underwhelming Oxide Pang. Aaron Kwok's return to his dorky "B+ detective" role offers up some minor thrills and chills, but little in the way of character development or actual need. Warning: the movie sets up a sequel. If that sort of thing annoys you, well, too bad.
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Patrick Tam, Beibi Gong
Director: Oxide Pang
Thunderball (1965)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
In a bold and deadly scheme, the evil SPECTRE organization hijacks a NATO plane and seizes two atomic warheads, each capable of killing millions of innocent people. As the world is held hostage by the threat of a nuclear nightmare, James Bond (Agent 007) jumps into action, racing against the clock as the trail leads him to tropical Nassau. There he meets Emilio Largo, a high-ranking agent of SPECTRE, and the stunning Domino, with whom Bond shares an irresistible attraction. The confrontation builds to an epic battle on the ocean floor, as Bond and his allies fight to avert a catastrophe of disastrous proportions. His mission leads him from a perilous jet-pack flight to a terrifying clash with Largo's killer sharks.
Starring: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rick van Nutter, Bernard Lee
Director: Terence Young
From Russia with Love (1963)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Secret agent James Bond battles the all-enveloping tentacles of an international crime syndicate called SPECTRE. The organization's mad plan for world supremacy unfolds with the icy efficiency of a chessmaster's complex strategy, and if they succeed, the antagonism of the cold war will be pushed from deep-freeze to the supernova of atomic oblivion. But our man Bond dispatches sultry spies, madmen, and double agents with the same coolness he displays while downing Martinis and making love to beautiful blondes. In this, the second of the series, Bond travels to Turkey to meet a mysterious Russian woman who claims to have fallen in love with his photograph. She offers him a secret translating device if he will join her, although he does not know that she has been put up to the task by Rosa Klebb, formerly of the KGB, who has gone to work for SPECTRE. It's Bond's assignment to get the girl and the machine back to England and to do it, of course, in style.
Starring: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee
Director: Terence Young
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Roger Moore makes his fifth appearance as 007 in this, the twelfth Bond film. In this outing, the renowned British double agent must locate a weapons system known as ATAC, which controls Great Britain's submarines, after it is sunk on a ship in the Ionian Sea. While he must contend with a formidable foe in the villain known as Kristatos (Julian Glover), he does have the lovely and talented Melina (Carole Bouquet), the daughter of a scientist killed by Kristatos, on his side. For fans craving their old favorites, Blofeld, Moneypenny and Q all put in appearances. The stunts come fast and furious, most notably a breathtaking race down a ski slope at the film's opening.
Starring: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Julian Glover, Michael Gothard
Director: John Glen
