Bandits (2001)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, January Jones, Troy Garity, Stacey Travis
Director: Barry Levinson
L'agression / Act of Aggression (1975)
Crime | Drama
Paul Varlin is driving to his holiday destination with his wife Hélène and their young daughter Patty. On the way, Varlin gets into a fierce argument with a group of motorcyclists. The latter take their revenge by violently attacking Varlin's car. When he regains consciousness, Varlin discovers that both his wife and his daughter have been raped and murdered. He turns to his stepsister Sarah for moral support and help in tracking down and convicting the perpetrators of this atrocity. Varlin soon realises that the only way to get the justice he seeks is to prosecute it himself…
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Philippe Brigaud, Milena Vukotic, Franco Fabrizi
Director: Gérard Pirès
The Hit (1984)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance. But one day, ten years later, two hitmen (Braddock and Myron) show up and kidnap Willie. They are ordered to escort him back to Paris where he should stand trial. But it is a long way to Paris…
Starring: Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Ralph Brown, Albie Woodington, Willoughby Gray
Director: Stephen Frears
Control (2004)
Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Lee Ray Oliver grew up from abused kid to sociopath, inevitably condemned to death, but wakes up in the morgue after the 'lethal' injection. Dr. Michael Copeland offers him a choice: the real killer drug or 'volunteering' as life-long test person for his pharmaceutic experiment, Anagress, meant to suppress violent tendencies but side-effects unknown. After vicious escape attempts, Lee Ray finally develops genuine remorse and tries to make-up with Gary Caputo, who Lee shot in the head, leaving him mentally a child. Brother Bill Caputo's hate for ruining both of their lives is however redoubled, with tragic consequences.
Starring: Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Rea, Polly Walker, Kathleen Robertson
Director: Tim Hunter
Year of the Dragon (1985)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Using unprecedented degrees of violence, young Joey Tai becomes the head of Chinese mafia in New York and undisputed leader of the Chinese community. Stanley White, the most decorated cop in New York, who hates Asian people since his service in Vietnam, is put in charge of Chinatown. Both men are prone to breaking long-established rules and both men are unlikely to make compromises with each other, which leads to unavoidable and bloody conflict.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Raymond J. Barry, Victor Wong, Eddie Jones, Jack Kehler
Director: Michael Cimino
Novocaine (2001)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Dr. Frank Sangster is a straight-laced dentist who, because of one innocent lie, finds his tidy, prosperous life transformed into a comic quagmire of illicit sex, illegal drugs and inexplicable murder.
Starring: Steve Martin, Chelcie Ross, Laura Dern, Lynne Thigpen, Helena Bonham Carter, Elias Koteas
Director: David Atkins
Plemya / The Tribe (2014)
Crime | Drama
Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school's network dealing with crime and prostitution, The Tribe. By taking part of several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization. Then he meets one of the Chief's concubines Anna, and unwillingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the tribe.
Starring: Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Oleksandr Dsiadevych
Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
The Big Sleep (1946)
Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen
Director: Howard Hawks
Point Break (2015)
Action | Crime | Sport | Thriller
A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".
Starring: Edgar Ramirez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Ray Winstone, Delroy Lindo, James Le Gros
Director: Ericson Core
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Western
In post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunters try to find shelter during a blizzard but get involved in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Zoë Bell
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Hollow Creek (2016)
Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
"Seeking inspiration for his latest horror novel Blake Blackman, a writer from New York, retreats to a remote cabin in the Appalachian Mountains. He is secretly accompanied by his lover Angelica Santoro a book illustrator who he's been having an affair with. She brings her dog along with them. Upon arrival they hear an amber alert on the radio and first learn about the case of several boys missing in the area. Soon after the arrive to the cabin her dog starts acting strange like there's someone or something out in the woods. A twist of fate turns the romantic interlude into an abduction-murder case when Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and she mysteriously goes missing. Blake then becomes the prime suspect of her disappearance."
Starring: Steve Daron, Guisela Moro, Burt Reynolds, David Ausem, Tony Reichert, Alyn Darnay
Director: Guisela Moro
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The Midnight Man (2016)
Crime | Thriller
A Hitman with a Gift. A Hitman with a Mission. A Hitman with a Problem. When Grady, an assassin with a genetic disorder that renders him unable to feel pain, is sent on a high-stakes assignment, his world is turned upside-down after an attack when he awakens to discover that he can feel pain for the first time in his life. With the clock ticking and his greatest asset gone, Grady will go head-to-head with his greatest fears and unspeakable enemies, while experiencing a tactile world he never could have imagined.
Starring: Will Kemp, Brinna Kelly, William Forsythe, Brent Spiner, Doug Jones, Vinnie Jones, Max Adler
Director: D.C. Hamilton
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No Way Out (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Tom Farrell is a dedicated navy officer who, after an act of valor, gets posted to the Pentagon and is assigned to the secretary of defense David Brice. Prior to this, he had become involved with a young woman named Susan Atwell not knowing that she was Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom ironically is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a KGB mole code-named "Yuri." Tom could soon become a suspect in her murder when a indiscernible Polaroid negative of him is found at Susan's place. He only has a few short hours to find the killer before the negative can be processed. Also to make matters worse, he must contend with the ever shrinking noose of the relentless dragnet put in place to find the ever elusive "Yuri!"
Starring: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff, George Dzundza
Director: Roger Donaldson
Monsieur Hire / M. Hire (1989)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Monsieur Hire is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn't like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.
Starring: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier
Director: Patrice Leconte
Scream and Scream Again / Screamer (1970)
Crime | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The Police follow a serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, to a house owned by an eccentric scientist (Vincent Price), who's creating a race of zombies…
Starring: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alfred Marks, Michael Gothard, Christopher Matthews
Director: Gordon Hessler
I Confess (1953)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
Refusing to give into police investigators' questions of suspicion, due to the seal of confession, a priest becomes the prime suspect in a murder.
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O.E. Hasse, Roger Dann
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
3 hommes à abattre / Three Men to Destroy (1980)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
Starring: Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michel Auclair, Pascale Roberts, Lyne Chardonnet, Jean-Pierre Darras
Director: Jacques Deray
The Captive City (1952)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
A small town newspaperman's investigation into a local bookie operation turns up a web of organized crime.
Starring: John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Victor Sutherland, Ray Teal, Martin Milner, Geraldine Hall
Director: Robert Wise
At Home (2015)
Crime | Drama
A thief (Yutaka Takenouchi) and a swindler (Yasuko Matsuyuki) are also a married couple. They make a living by committing crimes. The couple also have 3 children . One day, the woman goes out for a meal with a man she is planning to swindle. Her target though discovers her plot and kidnaps her. He also demands a ransom. Even though the family are not blood related, the father and the three children attempt to get their mother back.
Starring: Yutaka Takenouchi, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Yuina Kuroshima, Yûto Ikeda
Director: Hiroshi Chôno
Black Mass (2015)
Biography | Crime | Drama
John Connolly and James "Whitey" Bulger grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the late 1970s, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. What happened between them – a dirty deal to trade secrets and take down Boston's Italian Mafia in the process – would spiral out of control, leading to murders, drug dealing, racketeering indictments, and, ultimately, to Bulger making the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons
Director: Scott Cooper
