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Genre: Crime Ocean's Eleven [2001]
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller Actors: Clooney, George | Birt, Cecelia Ann | Nolan, Paul L. | Florence, Carol | Galinski, Lori | Mac, Bernie | Pitt, Brad | Gantt, Mark | Perez, Timothy Paul | Gould, Elliott | Patton, Frank | Affleck, Casey | Caan, Scott | Jemison, Eddie | Hernandez, Jorge R. Directors: Soderbergh, Steven When Daniel Ocean is released from prison in New Jersey, his next heist is already planned. Danny's target are three Las Vegas casinos: The Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand. They all belong to ruthless entrepreneur Terry Benedict, who, by the way, also shows a certain interest in Danny's beautiful ex-wife Tess. During a much-anticipated boxing event (Lennox Lewis vs. Wladimir Klitschko), there will be $150 million in the safe, 70 yards below the strip. So, Danny starts to hire professionals from all over the country: There's the card magician Rusty Ryan, the perfect pickpocket Linus Caldwell and the ingenious pyrotechnician Basher Tarr. Reuben Tishkoff, who lost a casino to Benedict, provides funding, the brothers Virgil and Turk Malloy will drive and help, and Frank Catton, a professional card dealer, gets a job at the casino to watch the routines. Saul Bloom, already retired, will play the rich heavy weaponry dealer and live in the hotel, while Livingston Dell bugs the place to have a look over the shoulders of the security personnel. Finally, the chinese acrobat artist Yen will be the one to move inside the safe before the motion detectors are turned off. There are three rules to be followed: First: no blood. Second: Rob only who deserves it. Third: Do it as if you have nothing to lose. When the day of the boxing event finally draws near, all is set, and Benedict doesn't have a clue - or does he?
15 Minutes [2001]
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: De Niro, Robert | Burns, Edward | Grammer, Kelsey | Brooks, Avery | Kanakaredes, Melina | Roden, Karel | Taktarov, Oleg | Farmiga, Vera | Handy, James | McCrary, Darius | Cutler, Bruce | Theron, Charlize | Cattrall, Kim | Grier, David Alan Directors: Herzfeld, John When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
3000 Miles to Graceland [2001]
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Russell, Kurt | Costner, Kevin | Cox, Courteney | Slater, Christian | Pollak, Kevin | Arquette, David | Lovitz, Jon | Long, Howie | Church, Thomas Haden | Woodbine, Bokeem | Ice-T | Kaye, David | Lombardi, Louis | Howard, Shawn Michael | Kopsa, Michael Directors: Lichtenstein, Demian It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, and single mom Cybil Waingrow and her son Jesse constantly confounding things, Michael must track down Murphy.
Analyze This [1999]
Genres: Comedy, Crime Actors: De Niro, Robert | Crystal, Billy | Kudrow, Lisa | Palminteri, Chazz | Novakovic, Kresimir | Tangredi, Bart | Straka, Michael | Rigano, Joseph | Viterelli, Joe | Castellano, Richard C. | Shannon, Molly | Casella, Max | Pietrangolare, Frank | Sabihy, Kyle | Macy, Bill Directors: Ramis, Harold Ben Sobol, Psychiatrist, has a few problems: His son spies on his patients when they open up their heart, his parents don't want to attend his upcoming wedding and his patients' problems don't challenge him at all. Paul Vitti, Godfather, has a few problems as well: Sudden anxiety attacks in public, a certain disability to kill people and his best part ceasing service when needed. One day, Ben unfortunately crashes into one of Vitti's cars. The exchange of Ben's business card is followed by a business visit of Don Paul Vitti himself, who wants to be free of inner conflict within two weeks, before all the Mafia Dons meet. Now, Ben Sobol feels somewhat challenged, as his wedding is soon, his only patient keeps him busy by regarding Ben's duty as a 24 hour standby and the feds keep forcing him to spy on Paul Vitti. And how do you treat a patient who usually solves problems with a gun?
Biker Boyz [2003]
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama Actors: Fishburne, Laurence | Luke, Derek | Jones, Orlando | Hounsou, Djimon | Bonet, Lisa | Fehr, Brendan | Tate, Larenz | Kid Rock | Gonzalez, Rick | Good, Meagan | Richardson, Salli | Calloway, Vanessa Bell | Basco, Dante | Basco, Dion | Beckford, Tyson Directors: Bythewood, Reggie Rock A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway (Fishburne), also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all African-American men, mostly white-collar workers who exchange their suits and ties at night and on weekends for leather outfits and motorcycle helmets. The focus of this story takes place at an annual drag-racing event in Fresno, as Manuel tries to retain his championship title.
Bandits [2001]
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance Actors: Willis, Bruce | Thornton, Billy Bob | Blanchett, Cate | Garity, Troy | O'Byrne, Brian F. | Travis, Stacey | Slayton, Bobby | Jones, January | Skye, Azura | Miley, Peggy | Converse-Roberts, William | Riehle, Richard | Mercurio, Micole | Burkholder, Scott | Burch, Anthony Directors: Levinson, Barry A charismatic convict (Bruce Willis) and a hypochondriac inmate (Billy Bob Thornton) break out of prison in a cement truck and immediately start a bank robbing spree. Becoming known as the "Sleepover Bandits", the two kidnap bank managers the night before their robbery, spend the night with their families, and then all go to the bank in the morning to get the dough. Using a dim-witted stunt man (Troy Garrity) as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs that gets them recognition on a tv show about America's criminals. When a bored housewife (Cate Blanchett) with a failing marriage decides to runaway, she ends up in the hands of the criminals. Initially attracted to Willis, she nonetheless also ends up in bed with Thornton and a confused romantic relationship begins. Continuing along with their spree, the bandits hit the wall when the bank managers realize that they are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees. This leads to one more big score at the Alamo Bank, where in the very opening scenes, things appear to go awry.
Gangs of New York [2002]
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, History Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Day-Lewis, Daniel | Diaz, Cameron | Broadbent, Jim | Thomas, Henry | Neeson, Liam | Gleeson, Brendan | Reilly, John C. | Lewis, Gary | Graham, Stephen | Marsan, Eddie | McCowen, Alec | Gilliard Jr., Larry | Seymour, Cara | Hemmings, David Directors: Scorsese, Martin As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!
Stark Raving Mad [2002]
Genres: Comedy, Crime Actors: Scott, Seann William | Sharp, Timm | Breen, Patrick | Crye, John B. | Nakamura, Suzy | Phillips, Lou Diamond | Foley, Dave | Smith, Kavan | Hungerford, Paul | Mazur, Monet | Racicot, Jody | Chen, Terry | Tso, Yee Jee | Olsson, Ty | McDonald, Carl Directors: Daywalt, Drew | Schneider, David Fight Club [1999]
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Norton, Edward | Pitt, Brad | Bonham Carter, Helena | Meat Loaf | Grenier, Zach | Arquette, Richmond | Andrews, David | Maguire, George | Bondurant, Eugenie | Cabot, Christina | Colston, Sydney 'Big Dawg' | Singer, Rachel | Cronenweth, Christie | De Zarn, Tim | Buzzington, Ezra Directors: Fincher, David You're young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there's nothing wrong with you until they're hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.
Snatch. [2000]
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller Actors: Statham, Jason | Graham, Stephen | Ford, Alan | Pitt, Brad | Farina, Dennis | Serbedzija, Rade | Gee, Robbie | James, Lennie | Jones, Vinnie | Del Toro, Benicio | Reid, Mike | Flemyng, Jason | Beckwith, Andy | Beck, William | Bremner, Ewen Directors: Ritchie, Guy Turkish and his rather strange accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets the shit kicked out of him by Pitt, a 'pike' as they call him. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including 'Cousin Avi', 'Boris The Blade', 'Franky Four Fingers' and 'Bullet Tooth Tony'. Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog!
City of Ghosts [2002]
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Dillon, Matt | Caan, James | McElhone, Natascha | Depardieu, Gérard | Sereyvuth, Kem | Skarsgård, Stellan | Byrne, Rose | Andrews, Shawn | Sankhavesa, Chalee | Curry, Christopher | Campbell, Rob | Merklen, Bernard | Shearer, Jack | Fox, Kirk | Kyoza Directors: Dillon, Matt A con man flees to Southeast Asia when an international scam he was involved in goes sour. Suspecting he's been double-crossed by his long-time mentor, he sets off to Cambodia for his promised cut. What he finds there is a mysterious and hostile environment where even the most polished criminal can end up on deadly ground.
Wild Things [1998]
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Dillon, Matt | Bacon, Kevin | Campbell, Neve | Russell, Theresa | Richards, Denise | Rubin-Vega, Daphne | Wagner, Robert | Murray, Bill | Snodgress, Carrie | Perry, Jeff | Pendergast, Cory | Macaulay, Marc | Svane Stepp, Toi | Neal, Dennis | Yáñez, Eduardo Directors: McNaughton, John When High School Guidance counselor Sam Lombardo is accused of raping the popular student Kelly Van Ryan, his carefully structured life is ruined. But as the case heads to trial, an outcast school girl Suzie, may have information to free Sam. But the investigating Detective Ray, thinks that a more devious plan is at work that involves Sam, Kelly, and Suzie. As Ray digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a scheme that has very high stakes and where nothing is as it seems.
Entrapment [1999]
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller Actors: Connery, Sean | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Rhames, Ving | Patton, Will | Chaykin, Maury | McNally, Kevin | O'Neill, Terry | Sharma, Madhav | Yip, David | Potter, Tim | Meyers, Eric | Swartz, Aaron | Marsh, William | Xu, Tony | Saxon, Rolf Directors: Amiel, Jon Following the theft of a highly-secured piece of artwork, an agent convinces her insurance agency employers to allow her to wriggle into the company of an aging but active master thief. Connery's burglar takes her on suspiciously and demands rigorous training before their first job together--stealing a highly-valued mask from a chichi party. Their deepening attraction and distrust could tear apart their partnership but the promise of a bigger prize (some eight billion odd dollars) by Zeta-Jones keeps the game interesting. Only, who's playing with whom?
Empire [2002]
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama Actors: Leguizamo, John | Sarsgaard, Peter | Richards, Denise | Laresca, Vincent | Rossellini, Isabella | Braga, Sonia | Cotto, Delilah | Serrano, Nestor | Criss, Anthony 'Treach' | Báez, Rafael | Joe, Fat | Leon, Carlos | Solis, Félix | Pastran, Omar | Campbell, Rob B. Directors: Reyes, Franc. Victor (Leguizamo), is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack (Sarsgaard), a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor's name (and money) written all over it.
Name of the Rose, The [1986]
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller Actors: Connery, Sean | Slater, Christian | Qualtinger, Helmut | Baskin, Elya | Lonsdale, Michael | Prechtel, Volker | Chaliapin Jr., Feodor | Hickey, William | Habeck, Michael | Althaus, Urs | Vargas, Valentina | Perlman, Ron | Trieste, Leopoldo | Valobra, Franco | Dobtcheff, Vernon Directors: Annaud, Jean-Jacques 1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan's Order's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.
Kangaroo Jack [2003]
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime Actors: O'Connell, Jerry | Anderson, Anthony | Warren, Estella | Walken, Christopher | Csokas, Marton | Cannon, Dyan | Shannon, Michael | Hunter, Bill | Ngoombujarra, David | Sellito, Mark | Fotiou, Damien | Baker, Christopher | Gibson, Ryan | Roberts, Denise | Vitiello, Antonio Directors: McNally, David A comedy that follows the misadventures of two friends from Brooklyn who are forced to deliver mob money to Australia. While taking pictures of a kangaroo, one of them places his red jacket on it. When the wild kangaroo bounces off, they realize the mob money is in the jacket and are forced to give chase through the Outback.
Cobra [1986]
Genres: Action, Crime Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Nielsen, Brigitte | Santoni, Reni | Robinson, Andrew | Thompson, Brian | Herzfeld, John | Garlington, Lee | LaFleur, Art | Rodríguez, Marco | St. Phillip, Ross | Avery, Val | Rasche, David | Hauk, John | Angotti, Nick | Axelrod, Nina Directors: Cosmatos, George P. In the mid-1980s Marion Cobretti, nicknamed Cobra, is a ruthless LAPD lieutenant whose leather-jacketed garb and souped-up early-50s car make him "a reject from the 1950s," as his partner Sergeant Reni Gonzalez puts it. Cobretti and Gonzalez are part of the LAPD's Zombie Squad, officers tasked with criminals considered too violent or unpredictable for regular police; the Zombie Squad, however, is also considered a "dumping ground" for officers considered too extreme for a department increasingly besieged by politics, shown in Cobretti's running clashes with Detective Andrew Monte, an officer who despises Cobretti's methods (the two officers nearly come to blows when Monte accuses Cobretti of using a terrified witness solely as expendable bait), and also in a confrontation between Cobretti and a TV journalist after a gun-wielding psychopath opens fire in a supermarket and is dispatched with ruthless panache by Cobretti. The supermarket showdown comes amid a wave of knife killings by a man known as The Night Slasher, and Detective Monte stubbornly refuses to heed Cobretti's warning that the Night Slasher killings are the work of a criminal anomaly - an organized army of psychopaths. Cobretti's theory proves accurate when Ingrid Knudson, a model, accidentally witnesses a Night Slasher killing and is pursued by the gang, and is placed under the protective wing of Cobretti and Gonzalez. Tragedy nearly strikes, however, when a message from police HQ separates Cobretti and Gonzalez from Ingrid Knudson, and simultaneous attempts are made on the lives of Cobretti and Knudson that both barely escape. Furious that a mole in the department is working for Night Slasher, Cobretti and Gonzalez must take Knudson out of the city, unaware that the department is quietly hoping this will draw Night Slasher's gang away, which leaves the two officers and their scared witness in a wild flight for their lives in upstate California.
Red Dragon [2002]
Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Norton, Edward | Fiennes, Ralph | Keitel, Harvey | Watson, Emily | Parker, Mary-Louise | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Heald, Anthony | Leung, Ken | Faison, Frankie | Jones, Tyler Patrick | Schifrin, Lalo | Wheater, Tim | Rubinstein, John | Doty, David Directors: Ratner, Brett Will Graham is an FBI agent who has an ability to get into the minds of criminals. Currently he is pursuing someone who in addition to killing people is taking parts of their body. Initially it is believed that he is collecting them but Graham believes that he is actually eating them. So he goes to Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a forensic psychiatrist, whom he consults with. When Lecter leaves him for moment he discovers that Lecter is the man. Lecter then tries to kill him but Graham manages to subdue him. Both men are hospitalized and when they recover Graham testifies against Lecter and Lecter is convicted. Graham would leave the FBI. A few years later Graham is approached by his former boss who wants him to help him find this guy who kills a family every full moon. Graham who is still emotionally and psychologically scarred, reluctantly agrees. When Graham hits a wall, he goes to Lecter for help and Lecter wants to play games with him.
Die Hard [1988]
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller Actors: Willis, Bruce | Johnson, Reginald | VelJohnson, Reginald | Bedelia, Bonnie | Godunov, Alexander | Gleason, Paul | Atherton, William | White, De'voreaux | Rickman, Alan | Bochner, Hart | Hayden, Dennis | Gilyard Jr., Clarence | Doyon, Bruno | Wisniewski, Andreas | Shigeta, James | Davi, Robert Directors: McTiernan, John New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John's wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr. have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40-story skyscraper where the uppermost floors are still under construction. John stayed behind in New York because John didn't think Holly would make it in Los Angeles and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug using co-worker Harry Ellis, because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While he's by himself in the office, John is wishing that this argument hadn't happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists, led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl, enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don't even know that John is in the building. Hans takes Holly's boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building's safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans then tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and after John alerts LAPD Sergeant Al Powell about the situation, John is forced to kill Karl's brother Tony. Now, Karl wants revenge on John, and John must keep Karl off his back and work on his own to rescue the hostages from Hans, because other than Powell, the LAPD is not much help.
Die Hard: With a Vengeance [1995]
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller Actors: Willis, Bruce | Irons, Jeremy | Jackson, Samuel L. | Greene, Graham | Camp, Colleen | Larry Bryggman | Anthony Peck | Wyman, Nicholas | Sam Phillips | Chamberlin, Kevin | Washington, Sharon | Pearlman, Stephen | Jackson, Michael Alexander | Hodge, Aldis | Hausserman, Mischa Directors: McTiernan, John It's a quiet morning in New York City...until a massive bomb explodes in the Bonwit Teller department store, causing several vehicles to flip, and causing several drivers to come to a sudden stop. This throws the NYPD into a frenzy, trying to sort out what's going on. At the station, Inspector Walter Cobb of the NYPD's major case unit gets a call from a man who calls himself Simon. Simon asks for Lieutenant John McClane, and Walter tells Simon that John, who is now an alcoholic, is on suspension. Simon wants John to go to the corner of 138th Street and Amsterdam in Harlem and wear a racist sign. Walter and his fellow officers Joe Lambert, Connie Kowalski, and Ricky Walsh find John, who is now an alcoholic who is seperated from his wife Holly, and they talk to him. Ricky tells Walter that there have been 3 killings in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn in the past two nights, and 14 dump trucks were stolen from a construction yard on Staten Island. John wants to know where the backup is going to be, and Walter tells him that the backup will be on 128th Street, 10 blocks away. John complains that 10 blocks is too far away for the backup to be. Walter tells John that Simon has threatened to detonate another bomb if the police don't do what he says. John wants to know why he's been targeted by Simon, but no one knows why. While John is in Harlem, store owner Zeus Carver rescues John from a black street gang that was beating John up because of the sign. John and Zeus find themselves stuck with each other as Simon continues his antics and forces John and Zeus to work together to do what he tells them, but John and Zeus can't stop one of Simon's bombs from blowing up a subway station, and it turns out that Simon is Simon Peter Gruber the brother of Hans Gruber, the terrorist that John rescued the Nakatomi building from in Los Angeles years ago. The question now is, is this about revenge on John, or is Simon planning something a lot bigger?
Mask, The [1994]
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Musical Actors: Carrey, Jim | Riegert, Peter | Greene, Peter | Yasbeck, Amy | Jeni, Richard | Matacena, Orestes | Bagley, Tim | Fish, Nancy | Williams, Johnny | Cathey, Reg E. | Doughan, Jim | Forest, Denis | Diaz, Cameron | Alfieri, Joseph | Barie, B.J. Directors: Russell, Chuck Stanley Ipkiss is a bank clerk that is an incredibly nice man. Unfortunately, he is too nice for his own good and is a pushover when it comes to confrontations. After one of the worst days of his life, he finds a mask that depicts Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. Now, when he puts it on, he becomes his inner, self: a cartoony romantic wild man. However, a small time crime boss, Dorian Tyrel, comes across this character dubbed "The Mask" by the media. After Ipkiss's alter ego indirectly kills his friend in crime, Tyrel now wants this green-faced goon destroyed.
Dead Man [1995]
Genres: Adventure, Crime, Western Actors: Thornton, Billy Bob | Pop, Iggy | Depp, Johnny | Glover, Crispin | Haynes, Gibby | Boes, Richard | Duckworth, George | Hurt, John | North, John | Mitchum, Robert | Avital, Mili | Schrum, Peter | Byrne, Gabriel | Farmer, Gary | Henriksen, Lance | Wincott, Michael | Byrd, Eugene Directors: Jarmusch, Jim Heading towards a metalworks factory at the edge of the known universe, a pristine, young accountant named William Blake steps into the ungodly, mechanical hell that is the town of Machine. And so begins this man's descent into purgatory...in the wrong place, at a point where time itself is nonexistent. Blake arrives in Machine after a demented, tireless train ride through what may be his own self. Spanning the beauty of epic horizons and dense forests, yet ending in the bleak misery of the barren desert, we meet this out-of-place traveler in a tiring, strange situation. His frailty is evident: alone, without a living heir, struggling to make his way amidst the freaks and grim destination that awaits. As expected, the town itself begs no welcome, as the malevolent rumors prove true, and leave Blake face to face with the dusty spines of inexorable destiny. In more ways than one, the Wild West awaits... From this point on, Blake embarks on his surrealistic journey into nothingness, as he becomes a marked man running from nearly everyone and everything. Trusting in a Native friend (appropriately named 'Nobody'), the descent into Blake's rejection is juxtaposed with the realities of a truly inescapable destiny. As such, the notions of ill fate and bad luck are separately defined alongside each other. Soon enough, however, Blake learns to cope with the road to ruin, and from his relationship with Nobody, he begins to transform into the gunslinging poet he never was.
Trainspotting [1996]
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Bremner, Ewen | Miller, Jonny Lee | McKidd, Kevin | Carlyle, Robert | Macdonald, Kelly | Mullan, Peter | Cosmo, James | Nicholas, Eileen | Vidler, Susan | Lynch, Pauline | Henderson, Shirley | McQuarrie, Stuart | Welsh, Irvine | Winton, Dale Directors: Boyle, Danny A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York [1992]
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family, Thriller Actors: Culkin, Macaulay | Pesci, Joe | Stern, Daniel | O'Hara, Catherine | Heard, John | Ratray, Devin | Wolf, Hillary | Shay, Maureen Elisabeth | Maronna, Michael C. | Bamman, Gerry | Snell, Terrie | Cohen, Jedidiah | Moses, Senta | Campeanu, Daiana | Culkin, Kieran Directors: Columbus, Chris Kevin McAllister and his family are planning to go to Miami, Florida during the holiday season this time around. At the airport, Kevin becomes seperated from his family and ends up on an airplane to New York City. Kevin manages to stop a taxi cab and has the driver take him to the Plaza Hotel, and using his father Peter's credit card, Kevin rents out a suite. While in New York, Kevin befriends E. F. Duncan, a friendly toy store owner, and Kevin also befriends a homeless Pigeon Woman then Kevin runs into his old enemies Harry and Marv, who have escaped from prison. When Kevin discovers that Harry and Marv plan to rob Mr. Duncan's toy store on Christmas Eve, Kevin makes plans to stop them. Kevin's mother Kate, upon realizing that she and the family have become seperated from Kevin, frantically tries to find Kevin.
Once Upon a Time in America [1984]
Genres: Crime, Drama Actors: De Niro, Robert | Woods, James | McGovern, Elizabeth | Williams, Treat | Weld, Tuesday | Hayden, James | Pesci, Joe | Rapp, Larry | Aiello, Danny | Forsythe, William | Young, Burt | Fluegel, Darlanne | Miller, Dutch | Harper, Robert | Bright, Richard Directors: Leone, Sergio Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
Osmosis Jones [2001]
Genres: Action, Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller Actors: Shannon, Molly | Murray, Bill | Stein, Ben | Silver, Joel | Rock, Chris | Fishburne, Laurence | Hyde Pierce, David | Norwood, Brandy | Shatner, William | Howard, Ron | Kid Rock | Olson, Kenny | Krause, Jason | C., Joe | Eulinberg, Stefanie | Bones, Jimmie | Uncle Kracker | Adams, Jonathan | Alazraqui, Carlos Directors: Farrelly, Bobby | Farrelly, Peter When Zoo worker Frank, single father to the young and bright girl Shane, swallows a germ-ridden egg, he gives billions of lifeforms inside his body much work to do. In the "City of Frank", which has its good and its bad neighbourhoods, its own TV station, donut shops and traffic jams, the white blood cell Osmosis Jones is one of the many cops who try to keep up peace and order. Unfortunately, Jones seems to be the only cop in town who does not act by the book, but by his instincts. Even more unfortunately, his instincts don't work out that often, and so he causes more trouble than he does good. But with that germ-ridden egg comes a mortal danger: The evil and deadly virus Thrax arrives in order to kill Frank within 48 hours, just to get his own chapter in the medical books. Starting out with flu symptoms in order to deceive the authorities and the public, Thrax makes his way through Franks body. Accompanied only by "temporary relief of symptoms commonly associated with flu" cold tablet Drix, Osmosis Jones suspects that there is more going on than just a simple flu. Meanwhile, Mayor Phlegmming is much more interested in his re-election than in real problems and tries to keep trouble down. So, it is up only to Drix and Os to stop the "red death" from making Shane an orphan.
Basic Instinct [1992]
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller Actors: Douglas, Michael | Stone, Sharon | Dzundza, George | Tripplehorn, Jeanne | Arndt, Denis | Sarelle, Leilani | Young, Bruce A. | Ross, Chelcie | Malone, Dorothy | Knight, Wayne | von Bargen, Daniel | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Mouton, Benjamin | McGee, Jack | Cable, Bill Directors: Verhoeven, Paul Former rock star and San Francisco nightclub owner Johnny Boz is found murdered in his bed. Detective Nick Curran is assigned to the case; he has a history of alcoholism and drug abuse although he is clean now. The prime suspect is Catherine Tramell, an attractive and manipulative novelist who had been seeing Boz for a while. Police psychiatrist Beth Gardner (who happens to be Nick's ex-girlfriend) is brought in on the case when it is discovered that Boz's murder was copied directly from one of Catherine's novels. Nick starts to get too involved and everyone seems to be a suspect.
Minority Report [2002]
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Stormare, Peter | Farrell, Colin | Morton, Samantha | Nelson, Tim Blake | Cruise, Tom | von Sydow, Max | Harris, Steve | McDonough, Neal | Kilpatrick, Patrick | Capshaw, Jessica | Coca, Richard | Campbell, Keith | Woller, Kirk B.R. | Scott, Klea | Grillo, Frank | Horsford, Anna Maria | Simmons, Sarah | Osment, Eugene | Henderson, James Directors: In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three genetically altered humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) heads Precrime and believes the system's flawlessness steadfastly. However one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report' which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha (Samantha Morton) that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent.
Transporter, The [2002]
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller Actors: Statham, Jason | Shu, Qi | Schulze, Matt | Berléand, François | Young, Ric | Rand, Doug | Saint Melin, Didier | Descanvelle, Tonio | Desponds, Laurent | Albertini, Matthieu | Nemeth, Vincent | Bilien, Jean-Yves | Paris, Jean-Marie | Dearnell, Adrian | Lot, Alfred Directors: Yuen, Cory | Leterrier, Louis Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin (Jason Statham) lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Frank's newest transport seems no different from the countless ones he's done in the past. He has been hired by an American known only as "Wall Street" (see Rule Two) to make a delivery, but when Frank stops along route, he notices his "package" is moving. Violating his own personal rules, Frank looks inside the bag, finding its contents to be a beautiful, gagged woman.
Negotiator, The [1998]
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Spacey, Kevin | Morse, David | Rifkin, Adam | Spencer, John | Walsh, J. T. | Fallon, Siobhan | Giamatti, Paul | Taylor, Regina | Beatty, Bruce | Cudlitz, Michael | Gómez, Carlos | Kelleher, Tim | Norris, Dean | Serrano, Nestor Directors: Gray, F. Gary Samuel L. Jackson is Danny Roman, a hot shot police negotiator and the man of the hour in the police department. One day he wakes up to find that he has been set up, and now the police are after him. In his panic, he takes control of a building. Knowing all the rules of negotiation, Danny asks for the only negotiator he can trust - Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey). When the police get itchy trigger fingers and want to go into the building shooting, Sabian finds that the only way he can save Danny Roman's life is to go in there and become his partner. Now the police have to deal with both of them.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai [1999]
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama Actors: Whitaker, Forest | Tormey, John | Gorman, Cliff | Liu, Dennis | Minucci, Frank | Portnow, Richard | Vessey, Tricia | Silva, Henry | Ruffini, Gene | Adonis, Frank | Argo, Victor | Whitaker, Damon | Guay, Kenny | Viverito, Vince | Grills, Gano Directors: Jarmusch, Jim In New York, an African-American hit man follows Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai. He lives alone, in simplicity, with pigeons, calling himself Ghost Dog. His master, who saved his life eight years' ago, is part of the local mob. When the boss's daughter witnesses one of Ghost Dog's hits, he is expendable. The first victims are his birds, and in response, Ghost Dog goes right at his attackers but does not want to harm his master or the young woman. On occasion, he talks with his best friend, a French-speaking Haitian who sells ice cream in the park, and with a child, with whom he discusses books. Can he stay true to his code? And if he does, what is his fate?
Catch Me If You Can [2002]
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Hanks, Tom | Walken, Christopher | Sheen, Martin | Baye, Nathalie | Adams, Amy | Brolin, James | Howe, Brian | Hughes, Frank John | Eastin, Steve | Ellis, Chris | Finn, John | Garner, Jennifer | Lenehan, Nancy | Pompeo, Ellen Directors: Spielberg, Steven An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.
Good Thief, The [2002]
Genres: Crime, Drama Actors: Kukhianidze, Nutsa | Embarek, Ouassini | Lavoine, Marc | Nolte, Nick | Karyo, Tchéky | Darmon, Gérard | Taghmaoui, Saïd | Kell, Patricia | Maurel, Julien | Kusturica, Emir | Munter, Roland | Zavatta, Warren | Trifard, Théo | Bridges, Sarah | Dromard, Nicolas Directors: Jordan, Neil Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of hand--two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Under the watchful eye of Roger, a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, technical mastermind Vladimer, former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said, Anne, a young Eastern girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft--identical twins Albert and Bertram.
Requiem for a Dream [2000]
Genres: Crime, Drama Actors: Burstyn, Ellen | Leto, Jared | Connelly, Jennifer | Wayans, Marlon | McDonald, Christopher | Lasser, Louise | Kurtz, Marcia Jean | Sarno, Janet | Shepherd, Suzanne | Gordon, Joanne | Aronofsky, Charlotte | Margolis, Mark | Kaycheck, Michael | O'Connell, Jack | Mastin, Chas Directors: Aronofsky, Darren Pills and heroin offer fulfillment of the dreams of four residents of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach in the shadow of a crumbling Coney Island amusement park. Sara dreams of appearing on television wearing a red dress that's a bit snug. So she starts a diet assisted by uppers. Her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion, and his best friend Tyrone pin their hopes for money on moving up from pushing nickel bags of heroin to buying in bulk. They also deal to support their growing habits. Things are going well: Harry buys his mom a new TV, she's losing weight, she has status among her friends, Tyrone's girlfriend is cool, and the team has money in a shoe box. These dreams are addictive.
Ronin [1998]
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller Actors: De Niro, Robert | Reno, Jean | McElhone, Natascha | Skarsgård, Stellan | Bean, Sean | Sudduth, Skipp | Lonsdale, Michael | Triska, Jan | Pryce, Jonathan | Perkins, Ron | Atkine, Féodor | Witt, Katarina | Bloch, Bernard | Gugliametti, Dominic | Beckworth, Alan Directors: Frankenheimer, John Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money. Dierdre (undoubtedly from Ireland) hires several Ronin to form a team in order to retrieve an important suitcase from a man who is about to sell it to the Russians. After the mission has been completed successfully, the suitcase immediately gets switched by a member of the team who seems to work into his own pocket. The complex net of everyone tricking everyone begins to surface slowly, and deadly...
Swordfish [2001]
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller Actors: Travolta, John | Jackman, Hugh | Berry, Halle | Cheadle, Don | Shepard, Sam | Jones, Vinnie | de Matteo, Drea | Martin, Rudolf | Grenier, Zach | Grimes, Camryn | Pagan, Angelo | Daniel, Chic | Woller, Kirk B.R. | Argenziano, Carmen | DeKay, Tim Directors: Sena, Dominic When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.
Lethal Weapon [1987]
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller Actors: Gibson, Mel | Glover, Danny | Busey, Gary | Ryan, Mitch | Atkins, Tom | Love, Darlene | Wolfe, Traci | Swanson, Jackie | Hines, Damon | Smith, Ebonie | Kalmenson, Bill | Naff, Lycia | Cameron, Patrick | Gordon, Don | Skaggs, Jimmie F. Directors: Donner, Richard Los Angeles police sergeant Roger Murtaugh, who has just turned 50 years old, is assigned to investigate the death of Amanda Hunsaker, a prostitute who is one of the daughters of bank president Michael Hunsaker, a friend whom Roger has known since they were in the Vietnam War together, but Roger hasn't seen Michael in 12 years. Beginning with this investigation, Roger is assigned a new partner Sergeant Martin Riggs, who has been suicidal ever since his wife Victoria "Vicky" Lynn Riggs died in a car crash in 1984. Riggs and Murtaugh's investigation of Amanda's death reveals that she was murdered. Upon hearing of this, Michael tells Murtaugh that he would like for whoever is behind Amanda's murder to end up dead, like Amanda. Riggs and Murtaugh's investigation continues and it makes them the targets of Shadow Company, a group of former Vietnam War era mercenaries who now bring heroin into the Los Angeles County region. Shadow Company's leader, General Peter McAllister, and his right hand man, Mr. Joshua, want Riggs and Murtaugh dead, no matter what the cost.
Dancer Upstairs, The [2002]
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Malkovich, John | Bardem, Javier | Botto, Juan Diego | Morante, Laura | Mínguez, Elvira | Lencastre, Alexandra | Cotton, Oliver | Cintra, Luís Miguel | Manrique, Javier | Folk, Abel | Berganza, Marie-Anne | Rodríguez, Lucas | Elorriaga, Xabier | Dicenta, Natalia | Sinué, Wolframio | Jiménez, Ramiro Directors: Malkovich, John The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda—his daughter's soulfully beautiful ballet teacher—a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm's eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer's truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary's cause and the detective's peace.
Phone Booth [2002]
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Farrell, Colin | Sutherland, Kiefer | Whitaker, Forest | Mitchell, Radha | Holmes, Katie | Parker, Paula Jai | Ash, Arian Waring | Texada, Tia | Enos III, John | Jones, Richard T. | Nobbs, Keith | Yount, Dell | MacDonald, James | Pais, Josh | Constantine, Yorgo Directors: Schumacher, Joel A fiendish publicist finds himself being held hostage in a phone booth by an extreme moralist who watches his victim's every move through the scope of his high-power sniper rifle, while speaking to the publicist via the phone booth. The caller prides himself on using force to punish corrupt people by forcing them to admit all of their lies and sins through mental games, or killing them. At the same time, he eliminates other people as well; everyday people who are guilty of brutal dishonesty and/or corruption, such as a murderous street pimp and a pushy pizza man (all of which, if you look hard enough in the film, have a guilt link). The caller himself is corrupt, and uses it defeat other corruption. It is evil fighting evil in the phone booth.
Thelma & Louise [1991]
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Sarandon, Susan | Davis, Geena | Keitel, Harvey | Madsen, Michael | McDonald, Christopher | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Pitt, Brad | Carhart, Timothy | Jenney, Lucinda | Beghe, Jason | St. John, Marco | Davis, Sonny Carl | Swofford, Ken | Desai, Shelly | Mansell, Carol Directors: Scott, Ridley Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it but are soon followed closely by the authorities including a local policeman who is sympathetic to their plight. The federal authorities, however, have less compassion and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and suprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.
Training Day [2001]
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Washington, Denzel | Hawke, Ethan | Glenn, Scott | Berenger, Tom | Yulin, Harris | Barry, Raymond J. | Curtis, Cliff | Dr. Dre | Dogg, Snoop | Gray, Macy | Ayanna, Charlotte | Mendes, Eva | Chinlund, Nick | Gomez, Jaime | Cruz, Raymond Directors: Fuqua, Antoine Jake Hoyt wants to become a LAPD narc agent, stop narcs from selling drugs on the streets. But that might be hard as he works with LAPD narc agent Alonzo Harris for the next 24 hours. Alonzo is an LAPD veteran who has been working the narcs for over a decade, but his ways and techniques of becoming a narc agent are questionable, if not corrupt. As the 24 hours go by, Jake observes Alonzo's methods, and in the madness, Jake tries to solve all the twists and turns, trying to figure out who really is the enemy here. Training Day. Its a day of reckoning.
Run for the Money [2002]
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller Actors: Slater, Christian | Kilmer, Val | Downing, Sara | Laresca, Vincent | Getty, Balthazar | Woodbine, Bokeem | Hannah, Daryl | Rowland, Rodney | Coleman, Holliston | Woodward, Peter | Rosas, Michael Anthony | Forsythe, William | Troyer, Verne | Milicevic, Milos | Jason, Peter Directors: Antonijevic, Predrag Fresh out of prison, Thomas Taylor (Christian Slater) assembles a team of outlaws to pull off his most brilliant heist yet. Alas, the stolen money is marked, enabling FBI agent Mark Cornell (Val Kilmer) to swiftly track down Taylor & Co. But the corrupt agent is not interested in making an arrest: Using his knowledge of Taylor's guilt as leverage, the wily agent coerces the crooks into engineering an even bigger robbery, this time targeting a high-profile riverboat casino.
Gone in Sixty Seconds [2000]
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller Actors: Fisher, Frances | Cage, Nicolas | Ribisi, Giovanni | Jolie, Angelina | Cross, T.J. | Scott, William Lee | Caan, Scott | Duval, James | Patton, Will | Lindo, Delroy | Olyphant, Timothy | McBride, Chi | Duvall, Robert | Eccleston, Christopher | Jones, Vinnie | Zabriskie, Grace Directors: Sena, Dominic Legendary car thief/booster Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage) retired from the criminal life in 1995. Now five years later after Auto Thieft in the greater Los Angeles/Long Beach district went down by 47%, his brother, Kip Raines (Giovanni Ribisi) takes over "the job", employed by British car broker Raymond Calitri. When one night Kip messes up stealing some cars, Memphis gets called back to the life he got out of. His most impossible mission: Steal 50 exotic cars all over Los Angeles and Long Beach and deliver them to Long Beach Harbor, Pier 14 by 8:00am, Friday morning, on the button, or watch Calitri kill Kip. And so Memphis, with the help of longtime friend Otto Halliwell (Robert Duvall) reassembles his old crew which includes sexy Sara "Sway" Wayland" (Academy award-winner Angelina Jolie), a renegade white-haired mechanic by day, bartender by night, to pull off the biggest mission ever. The only problem is the LAPD G.R.A.B. (Governor's Regional Auto Bureau) is on the lookout and Dt. Roland Castlebeck (Delroy Lindo) and his partner are keeping close eyes on Memphis and his team. Can the team pull this assignment off and collect $200,000 in cash? Will Kip finally realize that car boosting is dangerous? And can Memphis escape Castlebeck and the cops? It's a long shot, but they may have a chance. Cut to the chase.
2 Fast 2 Furious [2003]
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller Actors: Walker, Paul | Gibson, Tyrese | Mendes, Eva | Hauser, Cole | Ludacris | Barry, Thom | Remar, James | Aoki, Devon | Nolasco, Amaury | Ealy, Michael | Auyeung, Jin | Finlay, Edward | Boone Junior, Mark | Gallini, Matt | Sanchez, Roberto 'Sanz' Directors: Singleton, John Former cop Brian O'Conner who teams up with his ex-con pal Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of 'dirty' money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone, while actually working with undercover agent Monica Clemente to bring Verone down.
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle [2003]
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Barrymore, Drew | Liu, Lucy | Mac, Bernie | Glover, Crispin | Theroux, Justin | Patrick, Robert | Moore, Demi | Santoro, Rodrigo | LaBeouf, Shia | LeBlanc, Matt | Wilson, Luke | Cleese, John | DuBois, Ja'net | Yuen, Cheung-Yan Directors: McG Natalie, Dylan, and Alex, three glamorous, tough-as-nails, investigative agents - who work for the Charles Townsend Detective Agency - are sent undercover to retrieve two missing jewelry bands. These are no ordinary wedding rings. They contain valuable information that reveals the new identities of every person in the FBI's Witness Protection Program. After five of the program's participants turn up dead, only the Angels can stop the perpetrator, using their expertise as masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [1998]
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama Actors: Depp, Johnny | Del Toro, Benicio | Maguire, Tobey | Barkin, Ellen | Busey, Gary | Ricci, Christina | Harmon, Mark | Diaz, Cameron | Helmond, Katherine | Jeter, Michael | Jillette, Penn | Bierko, Craig | Lovett, Lyle | Flea | Newman, Laraine Directors: Gilliam, Terry An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers, and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing know only as the "American Dream" and find fear, loathing and hilarious adventures into the dementia of the modern American West.
Big Bounce, The [2004]
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller Actors: Wilson, Owen | Helemano, Butch | Sheen, Charlie | Jones, Vinnie | Sporleder, Gregory | Ahue, Terry | Johnson, Pete | Renfro, Mike | Dorsett, Tony | Keaulana, Brian L. | Freeman, Morgan | Nelson, Willie | Wilson, Andrew | Foster, Sara | Sinise, Gary Directors: Armitage, George Surfer/drifter/con man Jack Ryan (Wilson) makes his way to Hawaii and lands a job caring for an Walter Crewes (Freeman), a judge on the island. His new gig leads to an involvement with an beautiful, enterprising woman (Foster), who's really the lover of a real estate tycoon (Sinise) - a shady businessman and longtime rival of Judge Crewes. Ryan, naturally, has to choose between the woman, the money, or the honorable path.
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood [1996]
Genres: Comedy, Crime Actors: Wayans, Shawn | Wayans, Marlon | Jones, Tracey Cherelle | Smallwood, Vivian | Spencer, Chris | Martin, Helen | McCullough, Suli | Heath, Darrell | Barnes, Isaiah | Tate, Lahmard J. | Wayans, Keenen Ivory | Everson, Dora | Morris, Keith | Wayans, Craig | Lee, Casey Directors: Barclay, Paris "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood" is a parody of a lot of Afro-American movies, for instance "Boyz N the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. A lot of crazy stuff happens, for example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough.
Whole Nine Yards, The [2000]
Genres: Comedy, Crime Actors: Willis, Bruce | Perry, Matthew | Arquette, Rosanna | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Henstridge, Natasha | Peet, Amanda | Pollak, Kevin | Williams, Harland | Ferland, Carmen | Christianssens, Serge | Le Guerrier, Renee Madeline | Bouchard, Jean-Guy | Bilerman, Howard | Goar, Johnny | Clavet, Deano Directors: Lynn, Jonathan Oz is a Montréal dentist, paying off debts so he can divorce his wife: the dislike is mutual. When she learns their new neighbor is hit man Jimmy the Tulip, with a price on his head, she sends Oz to Chicago to earn a finder's fee telling Mob boss Yanni where to find Jimmy. To get his wife off his back, Oz goes, his assistant Jill urging him to get laid while there. One of Yanni's men awaits Oz at the hotel; Oz's now in too deep to avoid telling Yanni what he knows. Meanwhile, Oz's wife rats on Oz to Jimmy, hoping Jimmy will kill Oz and she can cash in on life insurance. Oz meets Jimmy's wife (Yanni's captive), flips for her, and the double-crosses mount. Even Jill isn't whom she seems.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The [2003]
Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller Actors: Biel, Jessica | Vogel, Mike | Balfour, Eric | Bryniarski, Andrew | Leerhsen, Erica | German, Lauren | Evans, Terrence | Marich, Marietta | Kafka, Heather | Lamkin, Kathy | Leland, Brad | Meek, Mamie Directors: Nispel, Marcus A group of college kids, on their way back from scoring drugs in Mexico, run into a hitchhiker who has just survived a horrific massacre from the night before. They try to help the girl, but in the process end up falling prey to her mysterious fear. It happens to be wielding a chainsaw...
Elephant [2003]
Genres: Crime, Drama Actors: Frost, Alex | Deulen, Eric | Robinson, John | McConnell, Elias | Taylor, Jordan | Finklea, Carrie | George, Nicole | Mountain, Brittany | Miles, Alicia | Hicks, Kristen | Dixon, Bennie | Tyson, Nathan | Bottoms, Timothy | Malloy, Matt | Williams, Ellis Directors: Van Sant, Gus The movie starts as a car has a hard time driving straight down the road in a residential area. We think some kid has stolen this car. Nah. It's the dad driving his son to school, and he's drunk. The teenage son must take over. So, adults give up all responsibility towards their children and mayhem can take place. The film shows one day in the life of several teenage students as they go in and out of classes. They live their student lives and we follow their steps through the corridors and doors, taking them as guides one by one, like avatars in a giant video game.
Silence of the Lambs, The [1991]
Genres: Crime, Thriller Actors: Foster, Jodie | Hopkins, Anthony | Glenn, Scott | Heald, Anthony | Levine, Ted | Faison, Frankie | Lemmons, Kasi | Smith, Brooke | Lazar, Paul | Butler, Dan | Wrentz, Lawrence T. | Brockett, Don | Seals Jr., Frank | Rudin, Stuart | Skorobogatov, Masha Directors: Demme, Jonathan A psychopath known as Buffalo Bill is kidnapping and murdering young women across the midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the F.B.I. sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide psychological insight and clues to the killer's actions. The prisoner is psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lector (Hopkins), a brilliant, murderous cannibal who will only help Starling if she feeds his morbid curiosity with details about her own complicated life. This twisted relationship forces Starling not only to confront her psychological demons, but leads her to face with a demented, heinous killer, an incarceration of evil so powerful, that she may not have the courage -- or strength -- to stop him!
Heartbreakers [2001]
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Romance Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Hewitt, Jennifer Love | Liotta, Ray | Lee, Jason | Bancroft, Anne | Jones, Jeffrey | Hackman, Gene | Dunn, Nora | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Jay, Ricky | Silverman, Sarah | Galifianakis, Zach | Hitchcock, Michael | Gonneau, Pierre | Colvin, Shawn Directors: Mirkin, David Max (Weaver) and Page (Hewitt) are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.
Hannibal [2001]
Genres: Crime, Thriller Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Moore, Julianne | Oldman, Gary | Giannini, Giancarlo | Liotta, Ray | Faison, Frankie | Neri, Francesca | Ivanek, Zeljko | Goodman, Hazelle | Andrews, David | Guinan, Francis | Opher, James | Lo Verso, Enrico | Marescotti, Ivano | Gifuni, Fabrizio Directors: Scott, Ridley Part four in the Hannibal Lecter Quadrilogy. Having escaped the asylum in "Silence of the Lambs," Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor's, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling.
Gosford Park [2001]
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery Actors: Smith, Maggie | Gambon, Michael | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Rutherford, Camilla | Dance, Charles | Somerville, Geraldine | Hollander, Tom | Wightman, Natasha | Northam, Jeremy | Balaban, Bob | Wilby, James | Blakley, Claudie | Fox, Laurence | Ford, Trent | Phillippe, Ryan Directors: Altman, Robert Set in the 1930's the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. The story centers around the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on and secrets are revealed, it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it...?
White Chicks [2004]
Genres: Comedy, Crime Actors: Wayans, Shawn | Wayans, Marlon | King, Jaime | Faison, Frankie | Munro, Lochlyn | Heard, John | Philipps, Busy | Crews, Terry | Daniel, Brittany | Velez, Eddie | Cauffiel, Jessica | Ward, Maitland | Dudek, Anne | Aytes, Rochelle | Carpenter, Jennifer Directors: Wayans, Keenen Ivory When brothers and fellow FBI agents Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans) accidentally ruin an otherwise painstakingly executed drug bust, getting back into the good graces of their boss becomes a high-priority assignment in itself. With this in mind, Marcus and Kevin take on a case far beneath their usual standards when they agree to escort socialite sisters Brittany (Maitland Ward) and Tiffany Wilton (Anne Dudek) from a private terminal at JFK Airport to their hotel room in the Hamptons. Once there, two considerably higher-ranking agents will take over the girls' protection. The extra security is no mere perk of wealth, however, as it appears that Brittany and Tiffany have been targeted by a serial kidnapper. The FBI hopes to apprehend the perpetrator by using the girls as bait, unbeknownst to them. The plan may have worked if it weren't for Kevin and Marcus, who manage to let the sisters in on the secret. Understandably, neither of them want any part in the process, so they force the brothers to come up with a radical solution: With the help of an FBI lab scientist, the very much African-American Kevin and Marcus will be transformed into two white women who could pass for Brittany and Tiffany. The agents must keep the charade up long enough to lure the kidnapper, but fooling everyone involved will be the job of their lives. Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, White Chicks also features James King and Lochlyn Munro.
Demolition Man [1993]
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Snipes, Wesley | Bullock, Sandra | Hawthorne, Nigel | Bratt, Benjamin | Gunton, Bob | Shadix, Glenn | Leary, Denis | Bush, Grand L. | Skipper, Pat | Kahan, Steve | Bollen, Paul | Colson, Mark | Gregory, Andre | Enos III, John Directors: Brambilla, Marco John Spartan and his nemisis Simon Phoenix are imprisoned in cryogenic stasis. While in deep freeze John's brain is filled with a love of knitting while Simon gains knowledge in computers, weapons and fighting techniques. The police force of the future is uncapable of apprehending Simon after he escapes and the department is forced to wake John. He must cut his way through the totally different world he has awoken in while at the same time trying to find and capture Simon once and for all.
City of God [2002]
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Rodrigues, Alexandre | Firmino, Leandro | Haagensen, Phellipe | Silva, Douglas | Haagensen, Jonathan | Nachtergaele, Matheus | Jorge, Seu | Suplino, Jefechander | Braga, Alice | Gomes, Emerson | Oliveira, Edson | de Souza, Michel | Rodrigues, Roberta | Otávio, Luis | Marques, Maurício Directors: Lund, Kátia | Meirelles, Fernando Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that—in the early 80's—became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pé soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he's been given an artist's point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pé is not the real protagonist of the film—only the narrator—he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pé's perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence.
007 Live and Let Die [1973] Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller Actors: Lee, Bernard | Moore, Roger | Kotto, Yaphet | Seymour, Jane | James, Clifton | Harris, Julius | Holder, Geoffrey | Hedison, David | Hendry, Gloria | Maxwell, Lois | Lane, Tommy | Brown, Earl Jolly | Stewart, Roy | Satton, Lon | | |||||