Category Archives: Crime
30 Minutes or Less
Release 2011
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Director: Ruben Fleischer
Writers: Michael Diliberti, Matthew Sullivan
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, Nick Swardson, Dilshad Vadsaria
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1622547/
Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else...
Machine Gun Preacher
Release 2011
Genre Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
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Director: Marc Forster
Writers: Jason Keller
Stars: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Kathy Baker, Michael Shannon, Ryann Campos
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586752/
Red State
Release 2011
Genre Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
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Director: Kevin Smith
Stars: Michael Angarano, Deborah Aquila, Nicholas Braun, Ronnie Connell, Kaylee DeFer
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0873886/
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
Colombiana
Release 2011
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Olivier Megaton
Writers: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Zoe Saldana, Jordi Mollà, Lennie James, Amandla Stenberg, Michael Vartan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1657507/
A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.
Edge of Darkness
Release 2010
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Martin Campbell
Writers: William Monahan, Andrew Bovell, Troy Kennedy-Martin
Stars: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic, Shawn Roberts
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226273/
As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.
Takers
Release 2010
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Director: John Luessenhop
Writers: Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus, John Luessenhop, Avery Duff
Stars: Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy, Idris Elba
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135084/
A group of bank robbers find their multi-million dollar plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.
RED
Release 2010
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
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Director: Robert Schwentke
Writers: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Warren Ellis, Cully Hamner
Stars: Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Heidi von Palleske, Karl Urban, Chris Owens
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245526/
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Undisputed III: Redemption
Release 2010
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
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Director: Isaac Florentine
Writers: David N. White
Stars: Scott Adkins, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Mark Ivanir, Hristo Shopov, Marko Zaror
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156466/
Boyka is back. This time he is fighting in the first ever inter-prison tournament with one knee.
The Town
Release 2010
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Director: Ben Affleck
Writers: Peter Craig, Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard, Chuck Hogan
Stars: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840361/
As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down.
Salt
Release 2010
Genre Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Phillip Noyce
Writers: Kurt Wimmer
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944835/
A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.