Crime movies

Heist (2001)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Sam Rockwell | Gene Hackman | Danny DeVito | Delroy Lindo | Ricky Acker | Rebecca Pidgeon
Directors: David Mamet
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don’t. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman’s youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Rutger Hauer | Julia Roberts | Jennifer Rae Westley | Dick Clark | Sam Rockwell | Michelle Sweeney | Drew Barrymore | Chelsea Ceci | Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Michael Cera | Aimee Rose Ambroziak | Isabelle Blais | Melissa Carter | Jennifer Hall | Ilona Elkin | Sean Tucker | Jaye P. Morgan | Maggie Gyllenhaal | David Julian Hirsh
Directors: George Clooney
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Jackal, The (1997)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Richard Gere | Sidney Poitier | Diane Venora | Mathilda May | J.K. Simmons | Richard Lineback | John Cunningham | Jack Black | Tess Harper | Leslie Phillips | Stephen Spinella | Sophie Okonedo | David Hayman | Steve Bassett
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

Magnum Force (1973)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Hal Holbrook | Ryan Mitchell | David Soul | Tim Matheson | Kip Niven | Robert Urich | Felton Perry | Maurice Argent | Margaret Avery | Richard Devon | Tony Giorgio | Jack Kosslyn | Bob March | Bob McClurg
Directors: Ted Post
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San Francisco Police Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. Meanwhile, those of the city’s criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callahan begins to investigate the murders despite the orders of his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations…

Nailed (2006)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Charles Porter | Wilson Jermaine Heredia | Sam Sarpong | George LePorte | Ray Stoney | Marshal Hilton | Henry Maguire | Bashir Salahuddin | Rory Zacher | Patrick Casey | Marcel Donea | Steve Shaheen | Jed Dours | Christian Dunlop | Gerald Webb
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“Nailed” is a thriller about two men who break into a house looking for valuables, and find instead a man lying on a bed, covered in bandages, whose caretaker may have intentions that are less than honorable. All is not as it seems as things begin to go wrong for the thieves and the plot takes a turn for the worse, bringing the supernatural into play.

Dead Pool, The (1988)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Liam Neeson | Evan C. Kim | David Hunt | Michael Currie | Michael Goodwin | Darwin Gillett | Anthony Charnota | Christopher P. Beale | John Allen Vick | Jeff Richmond | Patrick Van Horn | Jim Carrey | Nicholas Love | John X. Heart
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After Harry’s arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry’s car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan’s crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn’t long before other people on the list turn up dead…and someone starts making attempts on Harry’s life…

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jackie Chan | Chris Tucker | Vinnie Jones | Hiroyuki Sanada | NoƩmie Lenoir | Max von Sydow | Yvan Attal | Sun Ming Ming | Simon Rhee | Tzi Ma | Roman Polanski | Jean-Michel Richaud | Julie Depardieu | Youki Kudoh | Roselyn Sanchez
Directors: Brett Ratner
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After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads’ secret leaders.

Botched (2007)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Stephen Dorff | Jaime Murray | Sean Pertwee | Jamie Foreman | Geoff Bell | Edward Baker-Duly | Igor Chistol | David Heap | Greg Jeloudov | Zak Maguire | Hugh O'Conor | Russell Smith | Alan Smyth | Bronagh Gallagher | Gene Rooney
Directors: Kit Ryan
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Ritchie Donovan (Dorff) is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper. Things start badly and go rapidly downhill when, during the robbery, Ritchie and his Russian accomplices are forced to take hostages because they are trapped by the police on the unused 13th floor.

Joe the King (1999)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Anthony Tambakis | Travis J. Feretic | Benjamin Styx | Val Kilmer | Rob Bergenstock | Noah Fleiss | Richard Bright | John Leguizamo | Michael Taylor | Robert Whaley | Max Ligosh | James Costa | Craig Levine | Raymond De Felitta | Jack McNamara
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A destitute 14 year old (Noah Fleiss) struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother’s (Karen Young) hands, harsher abuse at his father’s (Val Kilmer), and a growing separation from his slightly older brother (Max Ligosh). Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father’s debts and to replace his mother’s records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks…

Sydney aka Hard Eight (1996)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Philip Baker Hall | John C. Reilly | Samuel L. Jackson | F. William Parker | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Nathanael Cooper | Robert Ridgely | Michael J. Rowe | Peter D'Allesandro | Steve Blane | Andy Breen | Mark Pinizza | Richard Gross | Cliff Keeley | Truman Robbins
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John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney’s fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.