Category Archives: Crime
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Release 2020
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime
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Director: Cathy Yan
Writers: Christina Hodson, Paul Dini, Bruce Timm
Stars: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Ewan McGregor
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7713068/
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Villain
Release 2020
Genre Crime
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Director: Philip Barantini
Writers: Greg Hall, George Russo
Stars: Craig Fairbrass, Robert Glenister, Nicholas Aaron, Tomi May, Izuka Hoyle
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9820352/
Eddie Franks is a former criminal who attempts to help his family by reconnecting with his daughter and clearing his brother's debt. Despite his efforts, he is drawn back into a criminal way of life, with devastating consequences.
The Last Thing He Wanted
Release 2020
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Director: Dee Rees
Writers: Joan Didion, Dee Rees, Marco Villalobos
Stars: Rosie Perez, Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Willem Dafoe, Edi Gathegi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7456312/
A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.
Parasite
Release 2019
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Director: Bong Joon Ho
Writers: Bong Joon Ho (story), Bong Joon Ho (screenplay)
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/
All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident.
21 Bridges
Release 2019
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Director: Brian Kirk
Writers: Adam Mervis (screenplay), Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay)
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller, J.K. Simmons
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8688634/
An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.
The Good Liar
Release 2019
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Director: Bill Condon
Writers: Jeffrey Hatcher, Nicholas Searle
Stars: Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5563334/
Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes.
Richard Jewell
Release 2019
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Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Marie Brenner, Billy Ray
Stars: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Brandon Stanley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3513548/
American security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely reported that he was a terrorist.
Motherless Brooklyn
Release 2019
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Director: Edward Norton
Writers: Jonathan Lethem, Edward Norton
Stars: Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385887/
In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
Inherit the Viper
Release 2019
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Director: Anthony Jerjen
Writers: Andrew Crabtree
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Dern, Margarita Levieva
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7349896/
Crime thriller about three siblings in Appalachia getting by as local opioid dealers, trying not to get caught in the spiral of violence that comes with the territory.
Black and Blue
Release 2019
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Director: Deon Taylor
Writers: Peter A. Dowling
Stars: Naomie Harris, Frank Grillo, Mike Colter
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7390646/
A rookie New Orleans police officer is forced to balance her identity as a black woman after she witnesses two corrupt cops committing murder.