Category Archives: Crime

Now You See Me

Release 2013

Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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Director: Louis Leterrier
Writers: Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin, Edward Ricourt
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/

An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

Filth

Release 2013

Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama

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Director: Jon S. Baird
Writers: Jon S. Baird, Irvine Welsh
Stars: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots, Brian McCardie
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1450321/

A corrupt cop manipulates and hallucinates his way through a bid to secure a promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

The Last Stand

Release 2013

Genre Action, Crime, Thriller

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Director: Kim Jee-woon
Writers: Andrew Knauer
Stars: Arron Shiver, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Titos Menchaca, Richard Dillard
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549920/

The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff.

The Double

Release 2013

Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Director: Richard Ayoade
Writers: Richard Ayoade, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Avi Korine
Stars: Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor, James Fox, Cathy Moriarty, Phyllis Somerville
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825157/

A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and seductive with women.

Drive Hard

Release 2014

Genre Action, Comedy, Crime

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Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Writers: Chad Law, Evan Law, Brigitte Jean Allen
Stars: John Cusack, Thomas Jane, Zoe Ventoura, Damien Garvey, Christopher Morris
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2968804/

A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.