Category Archives: Crime

Hit Man

Release 2023

Genre Action, Comedy, Crime

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Director: Richard Linklater
Writers: Richard Linklater, Glen Powell, Skip Hollandsworth
Stars: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta, Austin Amelio, Molly Bernard
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20215968/

A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services.

Boy Kills World

Release 2023

Genre Action, Crime, Thriller

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Director: Moritz Mohr
Writers: Tyler Burton Smith, Arend Remmers, Moritz Mohr
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13923084/

A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.

End of the Rope

Release 2023

Genre Crime, Mystery

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Director: Charlie Griak
Writers: Daniel Bielinski, Dennis Johnson, Charlie Griak
Stars: Joseph Gray, Chris Bylsma, Nick Saxton, Joseph Bezenek, Tiffany Cornwell
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12909420/

When a family mysteriously disappears from the town of Schafer, North Dakota, suspicion lands on a sociopathic farmhand. Based on the true story of the infamous Charles Bannon case of 1931.

The Last Stop in Yuma County

Release 2023

Genre Crime, Thriller

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Director: Francis Galluppi
Writer: Francis Galluppi
Stars: Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Nicholas Logan, Faizon Love
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11674730/

While stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop, a traveling salesman is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.

Love Lies Bleeding

Release 2024

Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

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Director: Rose Glass
Writers: Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska
Stars: Anna Baryshnikov, Kristen Stewart, Dave Franco, Katy O'Brian, Jena Malone
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19637052/

Gym manager Lou falls for Jackie, a bodybuilder who is passing through town en route to a competition in Las Vegas.

LaRoy, Texas

Release 2023

Genre Comedy, Crime, Thriller

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Director: Shane Atkinson
Stars: Steve Zahn, John Magaro, Galadriel Stineman
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20102596/

A man named Ray discovers his wife is cheating on him and decides to kill himself. Before he can pull the trigger, he is mistaken for a low-rent hired killer. Desperate for a little respect, and with nothing else to live for, Ray decides to take the job — and soon begins to question whether he made the right choice.

Damaged

Release 2024

Genre Action, Crime, Drama

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Director: Terry McDonough
Writers: Paul Aniello, Gianni Capaldi, Koji Steven Sakai
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Vincent Cassel, Gianni Capaldi, Laura Haddock, John Hannah
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27304026/

Dan Lawson (Jackson), a Chicago detective, travels to Scotland to link up with Scottish Det. Boyd (Capaldi), following the resurgence of a serial killer who's crimes match an unsolved case that he looked into 5 years previous in Chicago.

Sleeping Dogs

Release 2024

Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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Director: Adam Cooper
Writers: Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, E.O. Chirovici
Stars: Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Marton Csokas, Tommy Flanagan, Kelly Greyson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8542964/

An ex-homicide detective with memory loss is forced to solve a brutal murder, only to uncover chilling secrets from his forgotten past.

Strictly Confidential

Release 2024

Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Damian Hurley
Writer: Damian Hurley
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley, Lauren McQueen, Genevieve Gaunt, Georgia Lock, Freddie Thorp
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22805652/

A haunted young woman finds herself drawn into a world of seduction, duplicity and betrayal as she desperately tries to uncover the mystery surrounding her best friend's suicide.

5lbs of Pressure

Release 2024

Genre Crime, Romance, Thriller

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Director: Phil Allocco
Writer: Phil Allocco
Stars: Luke Evans, Rory Culkin, Alex Pettyfer, Stephanie Leonidas, Rudy Pankow
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1524515/

Trying to start over, Adam (Evans) searches for redemption as he returns to his old neighborhood to put to rest his demons while the brother of the man he killed seeks revenge.