Category Archives: Crime
48 Hours to Live
Release 2016
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Director: Benny Boom
Writers: Gregory Ramon Anderson, Rashad El Amin, Hannah Macpherson
Stars: Tommy Flanagan, Jade Tailor, Danielle Savre, Bianca A. Santos, Emilio Rivera
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948530/
A 3D hybrid merging the genres of film noir, dance, and mystery. A loner fresh out of rehab and hunted by both sides of the law returns home to solve the murder of his sister, and finds himself entangled in a game of revenge on the LA club circuit.
Fallen
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Scott Hicks
Writers: Michael Arlen Ross, Kathryn Price, Nichole Millard, Lauren Kate
Stars: Hermione Corfield, Joely Richardson, Daisy Head, Lola Kirke, Addison Timlin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1564777/
A young girl finds herself in a reform school after therapy since she was blamed for the death of a young boy. At the school she finds herself drawn to a fellow student, unaware that he is an angel, and has loved her for thousands of years.
Headshot
Release 2016
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto
Writers: Timo Tjahjanto
Stars: Julie Estelle, David Hendrawan, Chelsea Islan, Epy Kusnandar, Zack Lee
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5147214/
Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.
The Assignment
Release 2016
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Director: Walter Hill
Writers: Denis Hamill, Walter Hill
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Caitlin Gerard
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5034474/
After waking up and discovering that he has undergone gender reassignment surgery, an assassin seeks to find the doctor responsible.
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Release 2017
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Director: Macon Blair
Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, David Yow, Jane Levy, Devon Graye
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5710514/
When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
Check Point
Release 2017
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
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Director: Thomas J. Churchill
Writers: Thomas J. Churchill, AJ Perez
Stars: Kenny Johnson, Mindy Robinson, Tyler Mane, William Forsythe, Kane Hodder
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4519400/
Port City North Carolina: During a routine camp out, a local vagrant discovers plans for an invasion in America. When he tries to notify the local Sheriff about his discovery, the Sheriff dismisses his claims and has him locked up for loitering. When the Sheriff notices odd interactions with other towns folk he begins to look into the vagrants' claim of a sleeper cell living amongst the locals within this small town. After evidence of a beheading is exposed, others begin to fear that the insurgents attack on hometown USA. Questions and tempers begin to rise. Why this little beach community with it's Norman Rockwell way of life? A town where everyone knows one another... or so they thought. When the truth is blind and justice seems lost, It will take an army of five unlikely heroes banding together to infiltrate the insurgents and foil their invasion plans. War is Hell and Hell comes home at the Check Point.
King Cobra
Release 2016
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Director: Justin Kelly
Writers: Justin Kelly, D. Madison Savage, Andrew E. Stoner, Peter A. Conway
Stars: Garrett Clayton, Christian Slater, Molly Ringwald, James Kelley, Keegan Allen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5129682/
This ripped-from-the-headlines drama covers the early rise of gay porn headliner Sean Paul Lockhart a.k.a. Brent Corrigan, before his falling out with the producer who made him famous. When Sean decides he'd be better off a free agent, a cash-strapped pair of rival producers aim to cash in by any means possible.
American Violence
Release 2017
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Director: Timothy Woodward Jr.
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Stars: Bruce Dern, Denise Richards, Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau, Columbus Short, Rob Gronkowski
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5848714/
Fascinated by the root causes of violent behavior, world renowned psychologist, Dr. Amanda Tyler, has an opportunity to interview and analyze death row inmate Jackson Shea. As the interview commences, and Jack's fate hangs in the balance, Amanda must determine whether or not a stay of execution should be granted.
Get the Girl
Release 2017
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
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Director: Eric England
Writers: Graham Denman, Eric England
Stars: Justin Dobies, Elizabeth Whitson, Noah Segan, Adi Shankar, Daniel Quinn
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4045894/
A wealthy young man is conned into staging a fake kidnapping in order to be a hero and win the affection of a girl he's madly in love with. But when one of the hired kidnappers is accidentally killed during the charade, he's forced to actually save her life while not revealing that it's been a ruse all along.
Live by Night
Release 2016
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Director: Ben Affleck
Writers: Ben Affleck, Dennis Lehane
Stars: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Remo Girone, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Glenister
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361317/
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.