Black Dog (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Meat Loaf, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Kelly, Graham Beckel
Director: Kevin Hooks
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)
Comedy | Crime
Hit man Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) has twenty-four hours to deliver a bag of eight "former associates" to an angry mob boss in San Diego. But when a fellow traveler, Charlie (Andy Comeau), mistakenly takes the bag, the heads go to Baja…and Tommy just goes ballistic! While the hit man desperately tries to find Charlie, Charlie desperately tries to find a way to get the bag's horrific contents back across the border. Who's gonna wind up with the heads? And who's just gonna lose his? One thing's for sure…they'll both have to use their noggins to get out of this one!
Starring: Joe Pesci, Andy Comeau, Kristy Swanson, George Hamilton, Dyan Cannon, David Spade
Director: Tom Schulman
Legend (2015)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1950s and 1960s.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Christopher Eccleston, Paul Anderson, Paul Bettany, Taron Egerton
Director: Brian Helgeland
The Choirboys (1977)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Starring: Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu, Stephen Macht, Tim McIntire
Director: Robert Aldrich
The American Friend / Der amerikanische Freund (1977)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller
Director: Wim Wenders
The Contract (2016)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Two worlds collide when a wealthy financier returns home to find his country house has been occupied by squatters.
Starring: Robert Fucilla, Sarah Armstrong, Danny Webb, Patrick Ryecart, Isabelle Allen
Director: Nic Auerbach
Schone Handen / Clean Hands (2015)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Sylvia (Thekla Reuten) and Eddie (Jeroen van Koningsbrugge) live a good life in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid. They have two children. The richness comes from a thriving drug trade, led by Eddie. A brutal police raid shakes things up and then Sylvia decides to flee the place. But Eddie would not allow that, because she knows too much.
Starring: Thekla Reuten, Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Cees Geel, Angela Schijf, Teun Kuilboer
Director: Tjebbo Penning
Autostop rosso sangue / Hitch Hike (1977)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer and his beautiful wife pick up a stranded motorist. But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath, their road trip takes a vicious detour into sex and savagery where the miles are marked in mayhem and vengeance is the ultimate rule of thumb.
Starring: Franco Nero, David Hess, Corinne Cléry, Joshua Sinclair
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery
This time the bumbling French detective Inspector Clouseau is reluctantly called back into service by Chief Inspector Dreyfus when someone swipes the infamous Pink Panther diamond from the museum in Lugash. The prime suspect is the smoothly aristocratic jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton, aka the Phantom.
Starring: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Jeffrey, Peter Arne
Director: Blake Edwards
Band of Robbers (2015)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A comedic adventure that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer as grown men in current day. Petty criminal Huck Finn hopes to leave his criminal life behind when he is released from a stint in prison, but his lifelong friend, and corrupt cop, Tom Sawyer, has other plans. Not ready to give up on his childhood fantasies of wealth and adventure, Tom forms the "Band of Robbers," recruiting their misfit friends Joe Harper and Ben Rogers, to join them for an elaborate plan to find a fabled treasure. But the plan soon unravels, thrusting the guys on a wild journey with dangerous consequences…
Starring: Kyle Gallner, Adam Nee, Matthew Gray Gubler, Hannibal Buress, Melissa Benoist, Daniel Edward Mora, Stephen Lang, Eric Christian Olsen, Johnny Pemberton, Beth Grant, Cooper Huckabee, Lee Garlington, Creed Bratton
Director: Aaron Nee, Adam Nee
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Out of the Heart (2016)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Following the apparent heart attack and death of a controversial radio talk-show host, a cynical detective's nagging hunch that sinister forces are at play, drives him to doggedly pursue a killer only he is convinced exists. A savvy and compassionate Priest ultimately helps the detective unravel a series of mysteriously coded numerical clues, leading to the detective's discovery of a murderous plot, while in the process, also discovering something far more significant to believe in.
Starring: Ryan Wayne, Derek Childs, Jed Taufer, Cydney Moody, Sarah Evans Mayo, William D. Mayo, Stephen Dean, Jean Moore, Patrick Oberlander
Director: Michael Jordan Mayo
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Sherlock Holmes stalks again in contemporary versions of the classic detective stories, translated to 21st century London, where the world's first "consulting detective" advises Scotland Yard with the aid of his friend and comrade, Dr. John Watson, a soldier recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Loo Brealey, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Twisted (2004)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
"Ashley Judd is sensual and stunning"* as Jessica Sheppard, a San Francisco police inspector prowling the wharf for a serial killer whose victims all have one thing in common: her. The investigation becomes more and more twisted as her partner (Andy Garcia) behaves strangely, and the police commissioner (Samuel L. Jackson) is being asked to remove her from the investigation as she is a prime suspect. All the clues point to her and Jessica begins to suspect that she might be the killer she is looking for.
Starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy García, David Strathairn, Russell Wong, Camryn Manheim
Director: Philip Kaufman
Nightmare / Nightmare in a Damaged Brain / Blood Splash (1981)
Crime | Drama | Horror
Mentally unbalanced patient, George Tatum, is released from a New York mental hospital, slums it up on sleazy 42nd Street, and then travels to Florida to terrorize an unsuspecting family. Brutal, uncompromising, and graphic, this is one NIGHTMARE that you'll never forget! Originally released unrated to theaters during the height of the slasher craze in the early 1980s, this slasher-splatter classic has garnered a huge cult horror fanbase in the years since.
Starring: Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith, C.J. Cooke, Mik Cribben, Danny Ronan, John L. Watkins
Director: Romano Scavolini
Captive (2015)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
In this fact-based thriller, a single mother struggling with drug addiction is randomly taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run from the law for breaking out of jail and murdering the judge assigned to his case – only to realize before the climactic finish that they have actually saved each other's lives.
Starring: David Oyelowo, Kate Mara, Michael Kenneth Williams, Mimi Rogers, Leonor Varela, Leon Pridgen
Director: Jerry Jameson
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Road to Perdition (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Twelve-year-old Michael Sullivan Jr is curious about what his father does for a living, and one night decides to hide in his car as he goes off to work. It soon transpires that the elder Sullivan is a hitman for the mob, and when young Michael witnesses a killing carried out by the gangster boss' son Connor, it starts off a chain of events which will mark Michael's life forever.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig
Director: Sam Mendes
Jerusalema / Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008)
Action | Crime | Drama
Young hoodlum's rise from a small-time criminal to a powerful crime entrepreneur during the turbulent years before and after the fall of apartheid.
Starring: Rapulana Seiphemo
Director: Ralph Ziman
White Rabbit (2015)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
WHITE RABBIT is a gritty crime thriller about a veteran of the Iraq War, Kerryann Terkel. Back home, Kerryann battles Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as she tries to establish a stable civilian life. Instead, she gets tangled up in the schemes of a corrupt cop and his Tea Party sidekick, who exploit her military training to pull off a heist involving cell phone hacking at a political rally. The crime forces Kerryann to confront violent wartime memories – and her new domestic enemies. WHITE RABBIT is about what happens when war comes home.
Starring: Carla Pauli, Eric Michael Kochmer, James Anthony Cotton, Nicholas Russell
Director: Bill Kinder
Thelma and Louise / Thelma & Louise (1991)
Adventure | Crime | Drama
Thelma and Louise are accidental outlaws on a desperate flight across the Southwest after a tragic incident at a roadside bar. With a determined detective on their trail, a sweet-talking hitchhiker in their path and a string of crimes in their wake, a high-speed thrill ride and empowering personal odyssey follows even as the law closes in.
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald
Director: Ridley Scott
Sicario (2015)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Victor Garber, Jeffrey Donovan
Director: Denis Villeneuve
