Category Archives: Crime
Pain & Gain
Release 2013
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Pete Collins
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub, Ed Harris
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209/
A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.
Seven Psychopaths
Release 2012
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Director: Martin McDonagh
Stars: Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sam Rockwell, Colin Farrell, Abbie Cornish
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Jack Reacher
Release 2012
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Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Lee Child
Stars: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo, Werner Herzog
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.
Looper
Release 2012
Genre Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Savages
Release 2012
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Director: Oliver Stone
Writers: Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Oliver Stone
Stars: Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jana Banker, Candra Docherty
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615065/
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Man on a Ledge
Release 2012
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Director: Asger Leth
Writers: Pablo F. Fenjves
Stars: Sam Worthington, Mandy Gonzalez, William Sadler, Barbara Marineau, J. Smith-Cameron
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568338/
As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion.
21 Jump Street
Release 2012
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Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Writers: Michael Bacall, Jonah Hill, Patrick Hasburgh, Stephen J. Cannell
Stars: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232829/
A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.
The Usual Suspects
Release 1995
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Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie
Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/
A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.
Hummingbird
Release 2013
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Steven Knight
Stars: Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure, Benedict Wong, Ger Ryan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1893256/
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity -- transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
Parker
Release 2013
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Director: Taylor Hackford
Writers: John J. McLaughlin, Donald E. Westlake
Stars: Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Wendell Pierce, Clifton Collins Jr.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1904996/
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.