Archive for the ‘Crime’ Category

UNTHINKABLE: AN AIRLINE CAPTAIN’S STORY

Thursday, April 10th, 2014

Genre: Crime

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 149

Language: English

Director: Eric G. Stacey

Plot: An investigative journalist explores the “murder-suicide” of Marshall Philips and his two children days after Philips announced a new book to include “sensational new evidence” of those behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

 

Blood Ties

Friday, March 21st, 2014

Genre: Crime

Release Year: 2014

Runtime: 86

Language: English

Director: Guillaume Canet

Plot: New York, 1974. Fifty-year-old Chris (Clive Owen) has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Reluctantly waiting for him outside the gates is his younger brother, Frank (Billy Crudup), a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, and their father, Leon (James Caan), who raised them alone, seems to favor Chris despite all his troubles. Yet blood ties are the ones that bind, and Frank, hoping that his brother has changed, is willing to give him a chance — he shares his home, finds him a job, and helps him reconnect with his children and his ex-wife, Monica (Marion Cotillard). But Chris’ inevitable descent back into a life of crime proves to be the last in a long line of betrayals, and after his brother’s latest transgressions, Frank banishes him from his life. But it’s already too late, as the brothers’ destiny is bound together, forever.

 

Satya 2

Friday, October 25th, 2013

Genre: Crime

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 100

Language: Hindi

Director: Ram Gopal Varma

Plot: The Blockbuster Film ‘Satya’ was a story of a man who in 1998 shaped the then existing underworld. In 2013, ‘Satya 2’ sequel (Puneet Singh Ratn), a man without a past comes to the city to reinvent the Company (code for underworld). He studies the mistakes of all the earlier Don’s and develops techniques to deal with the modern day policing methods ‘Satya 2’ is about a man whose thinking starts where the earlier Don’s thinking ended and where the police cannot even begin to think.

 

Alex Cross

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Genre: Crime

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Rob Cohen

Plot: Alex Cross follows the young homicide detective/psychologist (Tyler Perry), from the worldwide best-selling novels by James Patterson, as he meet his match in serial killer (Matthew Fox). The two face off in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the endge of his moral and psychological limits in this taut and exciting action thriller.

 

Sinister

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Genre: Crime

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Scott Derrickson

Plot: A true crime novelist (Ethan Hawke) struggling to find his next big story, moves his family into a house where the horrific murder of an entire family took place. But after finding a box of home videos in which other families are also brutally murdered, his investigation leads him to a supernatural entity that may be placing his own family in harm’s way.

 

Takers

Friday, August 20th, 2010

All Genres:
Action, Crime, Thriller See  »

Release Year: 2010

Country: USA

Runtime:

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Everyone's after something See »

 

Cast: Zoe Saldana
Paul Walker … John Rahway
Hayden Christensen … A.J.
Idris Elba … Gordon Jennings
Matt Dillon … Det. Jack Welles
Johnathon Schaech
Jay Hernandez … Eddie Hatcher
Michael Ealy … Jake Attica
T.I. (as Tip 'T.I'. Harris)
Chris Brown … Jesse Attica
Steve Harris
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Gaius Charles … Max
Gideon Emery … Sergei
Karina Michel … Subway Girl
Andrew Fiscella … Security Chief
Troy Brenna … Sweatpants
Nancy Young … Bank Customer
Nancy Wetzel … News Chopper 14 Reporter
Lanny Joon … Vice Cop
Sterling Cooper … Vince Ward
Trae Ireland … Mercury
Ary Katz … J.D.
Gino Anthony Pesi … Paulie Jr.
Roger Stoneburner … Junkie
Richard Schimmelpfenneg … LAPD Officer #1 with shotgun
Lala Khanian … Cop
Tony Donno … Bellman
Isa Briones … Sunday Welles
Will McFadden … Haitian's Lawyer
Daniel Stevens … Slick
Dale Pavinski … LAPD Sergeant
Michael Duisenberg … News Reporter Channel 8
Joe DiGiandomenico … News Reporter
Noelle Smith … Officer Watson
Andrei Runtso … Konstantin
Harrison S. Miller … Eddie

 

Plot: A group of bank robbers find their $20 million plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective. Add synopsis »

 

Awards: 1 win See »

Cop Out

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

All Genres:
Action, Comedy, Crime

Release Year: 2010

Country: USA

Runtime:

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Rock out with your Glock out

 

Cast: Bruce Willis … Jimmy Monroe
Seann William Scott
Rashida Jones
Michelle Trachtenberg
Jason Lee
Adam Brody
Tracy Morgan
Susie Essman
Kevin Pollak
Fred Armisen
Guillermo Díaz
Ana de la Reguera
Mark Consuelos … Manuel
Jim Norton … Hoodlum
Adrian Martinez … Tino
Eddie J. Fernandez … Junior
Sean Cullen … Captain Jack Romans
Jordan Carlos … Eric
Stracy Diaz … Bruja
Eliezer Meyer … Elli the Gyro Vendor
Harry L. Seddon … N.Y.C. Police E.S.U. – SWAT
Guillermo Diaz … Po Boy
Marshall Factora … Neighbor
Joe Mancini … Precision Driver
Aristedes Philip DuVal … Pizza Parlor Patron

 

Plot: A comedy about two cops whose adventures include locating a stolen baseball card, rescuing a woman, and dealing with gangsters and their laundered money. add synopsis

From Paris with Love

Friday, February 5th, 2010

All Genres:
Action, Crime, Thriller

Release Year: 2010

Country: France

Runtime: 92 min

Languages: English | French

Director:

Tagline: Two agents. One city. No merci.

 

Cast: John Travolta … Charlie Wax
Jonathan Rhys Meyers … James Reece
Kasia Smutniak … Caroline
Richard Durden … Ambassador Bennington
Yin Bing … M. Wong
Amber Rose Revah … Nichole
Eric Gordon … Foreign Minister
François Bredon … The Thug
Chems Dahmani … Rashid (as Chems Eddine Dahmani)
Sami Darr … The Pimp
Julien Hagnery … Chinese Punk
Mostéfa Stiti … Dir Yasin
Rebecca Dayan … Foreign Minister's Aide
Michaël Vander-Meiren … Airport Security Official
Didier Constant … Customs Official

 

Plot: In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city.

Holy Rollers

Monday, January 25th, 2010

All Genres:
Crime, Drama

Release Year: 2010

Country: USA

Runtime: 89 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline:

 

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg … Sam Gold
Justin Bartha … Yosef Zimmerman
Danny A. Abeckaser … Jackie Solomon
Ari Graynor … Rachel Apfel
Jason Fuchs … Leon Zimmerman
Q-Tip … Ephraim
Bern Cohen … Rebbe Horowitz
Mark Ivanir … Mendel Gold
Charlie Hewson … Andrew
Elizabeth Marvel … Elka Gold
Hallie Kate Eisenberg … Ruth Gold
Andrew Levitas … David
Marc Rose … Josh
Omer Barnea … Elijah
Stella Keitel … Zeldy Lazar

 

Plot: In Brooklyn, a youth from an Orthodox Jewish community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by his pal who has ties to an Israel drug cartel. Full summary » Add synopsis »

 

Awards: 1 nomination See »

The Killer Inside Me

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western See  »

Release Year: 2010

Country: USA

Runtime: 109 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline:

 

Writers: John Curran (screenplay) Jim Thompson (novel) See »

 

Cast: Casey Affleck … Lou Ford
Kate Hudson … Amy Stanton
Jessica Alba … Joyce Lakeland
Ned Beatty … Chester Conway
Elias Koteas … Joe Rothman
Tom Bower … Sheriff Bob Maples
Simon Baker … Howard Hendricks
Bill Pullman … Billy Boy Walker
Brent Briscoe … Bum / The Stranger / Visitor
Matthew Maher … Deputy Jeff Plummer
Liam Aiken … Johnnie Pappas
Jay R. Ferguson … Elmer Conway rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Blake Brigham … Young Lou Ford
Noah Crawford … Young Mike
Michael Gibbons … Turnkey
Zach Josse … 14 year old Lou Ford
Blake Lindsley … Max's Diner Waitress
Rosa Pasquarella … Nurse

 

Plot: A West Texas deputy sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer. Add synopsis »

 

Awards: 1 nomination See »

Sherlock Holmes

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

All Genres:
Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Release Year: 2009

Country: USA | Germany

Runtime: 128 min

Languages: English | French

Director:

Tagline: Nothing Escapes Him

 

Cast: Robert Downey Jr. … Sherlock Holmes
Jude Law … Dr. John Watson
Rachel McAdams … Irene Adler
Mark Strong … Lord Blackwood
Eddie Marsan … Inspector Lestrade
Robert Maillet … Dredger
Geraldine James … Mrs. Hudson
Kelly Reilly … Mary Morstan
William Houston … Constable Clark
Hans Matheson … Lord Coward
James Fox … Sir Thomas
William Hope … Ambassador Standish
Clive Russell … Captain Tanner
Oran Gurel … Reordan
David Garrick … McMurdo

 

Plot: Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. add synopsis

 

Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 4 nominations

Saw VI

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

All Genres:
Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Release Year: 2009

Country: Canada | USA | UK | Australia

Runtime: 90 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: The Game Comes Full Circle

 

Writers: Marcus Dunstan (screenplay) Patrick Melton (screenplay)

 

Cast: Tobin Bell … Jigsaw / John
Costas Mandylor … Mark Hoffman
Mark Rolston … Dan Erickson
Betsy Russell … Jill Tuck
Shawnee Smith … Amanda Young
Peter Outerbridge … William Easton
Athena Karkanis … Agent Lindsey Perez
Samantha Lemole … Pamela Jenkins
Tanedra Howard … Simone
Marty Moreau … Eddie
Shawn Ahmed … Allen
Janelle Hutchison … Addy
Gerry Mendicino … Janitor
Caroline Cave … Debbie
George Newbern … Harold Abbott

 

Plot: Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy…

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Monday, October 19th, 2009

All Genres:
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Release Year: 2009

Country: USA

Runtime: 118 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline:

 

Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery … Connor MacManus
Norman Reedus … Murphy MacManus
Billy Connolly … Il Duce
Clifton Collins Jr. … Romeo
Julie Benz … Eunice Bloom
Peter Fonda … The Roman
Paul Johansson … Rick
Judd Nelson … Concezio Yakavetta
David Della Rocco … Rocco
Bob Marley … Detective Greenly
Brian Mahoney … Detective Duffy
David Ferry … Detective Dolly
Gerard Parkes … Doc
Richard Fitzpatrick … The Chief
Robert Mauriell … Louie

 

Plot: The MacManus brothers are living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, but when they learn their beloved priest has been killed by mob forces, the duo return to Boston to bring justice to those responsible. add synopsis

Ninja Assassin

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

All Genres:
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Release Year: 2009

Country: USA | Germany

Runtime: 99 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline:

 

Cast: Sung Kang … Hollywood
Randall Duk Kim … Tattoo Master
Jonathan Chan-Pensley … Yakuza Henchman
Yuki Iwamoto … Yakuza Couch
Ill-Young Kim … Yakuza Mohawk
Ben Miles … Maslow
Naomie Harris … Mika
Rain … Raizo
Stephen Marcus … Kingpin
Linh Dan Pham … Pretty Ninja
Fang Yu … Laundromat Manager
Adriana Altaras … Landlady
Shô Kosugi … Ozunu
Kylie Goldstein … Young Kiriko (as Kylie Liya Goldstein)
Yoon Sungwoong … Young Raizo

 

Plot: A young ninja turns his back on orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan.

Law Abiding Citizen

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Thriller

Release Year: 2009

Country: USA

Runtime: 108 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: The System Must Pay

 

Cast: Jamie Foxx … Nick Rice
Gerard Butler … Clyde Shelton
Colm Meaney … Detective Dunnigan
Bruce McGill … Jonas Cantrell
Leslie Bibb … Sarah Lowell
Michael Irby … Detective Garza
Gregory Itzin … Warden Iger
Regina Hall … Kelly Rice
Emerald-Angel Young … Denise Rice
Christian Stolte … Clarence Darby
Annie Corley … Judge Laura Burch
Richard Portnow … Bill Reynolds
Viola Davis … Mayor
Michael Kelly … Bray
Josh Stewart … Rupert Ames

 

Plot: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family’s killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

 

Awards: 2 nominations

Leaves of Grass

Monday, September 14th, 2009

All Genres:
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Release Year: 2009

Country: USA

Runtime: Canada:105 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline:

 

Cast: Edward Norton … Bill Kincaid / Brady Kincaid
Melanie Lynskey … Colleen
Susan Sarandon … Daisy Kincaid
Keri Russell … Janet
Richard Dreyfuss … Pug Rothbaum
Ty Burrell
Tim Blake Nelson
Maggie Siff … Rabbi Zimmerman
Lucy DeVito
Randal Reeder … Shaver
Josh Pais … Ken Feinman
Krystal Mayo … Bacchanalian
Steve Earle … Buddy Fuller
Ken Cheeseman … Jimmy Fuller
Lisa Benavides … Suzie Feinman
Naima Imani Lett … Sally
Lee Wilkof … Levy
Tim Ware … Minister Davies
Alyssia Dujmovich … Jilly
Chris Freihofer … Doctor
Tina Parker … Sharon
Jim Henry … Policeman
Leo Fabian … Wadell
Robin McGee … Salesman
Jenna Podell … Staci Feinman
Thomas Wallace … Professor
Henry Max Nelson … Gabe Feinman

 

Plot: An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord. add synopsis

Harry Brown

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Thriller See  »

Release Year: 2009

Country: UK

Runtime: 103 min | Canada:97 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Every man has a breaking point.

 

Cast: Michael Caine … Harry Brown
Emily Mortimer … D.I. Alice Frampton
Charlie Creed-Miles … D.S. Terry Hicock
David Bradley … Leonard Attwell
Iain Glen … S.I. Childs
Sean Harris … Stretch
Ben Drew … Noel Winters
Jack O'Connell … Marky
Jamal Downey … Carl
Lee Oakes … Dean
Joseph Gilgun … Kenny
Liam Cunningham … Sid Rourke
Marva Alexander … Nurse #1
Forbes KB … Troy Martindale
Liz Daniels … Kath

 

Plot: An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend’s murder by doling out his own form of justice. Add synopsis »

 

Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations See »

Whiteout

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

All Genres:
Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Release Year: 2009

Country: USA | Canada | France

Runtime: 101 min

Languages: English | Russian

Director:

Tagline: See Your Last Breath.

 

Writers: Jon Hoeber (screenplay) & Erich Hoeber (screenplay) …

 

Cast: Kate Beckinsale … Carrie Stetko
Gabriel Macht … Robert Pryce
Tom Skerritt … Dr. John Fury
Columbus Short … Delfy
Alex O'Loughlin … Russell Haden
Shawn Doyle … Sam Murphy
Joel S. Keller … Jack (as Joel Keller)
Jesse Todd … Rubin
Arthur Holden … McGuire
Erin Hickock … Rhonda (as Erin Hicock)
Bashar Rahal … Russian Pilot
Julian Cain … Russian Co-pilot
Dennis Keiffer … Russian Guard #1
Andrei Runtso … Russian Guard #2
Roman Varshavsky … Russian Guard #3

 

Plot: U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months.

The Informant!

Monday, September 7th, 2009

All Genres:
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Release Year: 2009

Country: USA

Runtime: 108 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Based on a tattle-tale

 

Cast: Matt Damon … Mark Whitacre
Lucas McHugh Carroll … Alexander Whitacre (as Lucas Carroll)
Eddie Jemison … Kirk Schmidt
Rusty Schwimmer … Liz Taylor
Craig Ricci Shaynak … Discouraged Foreman
Tom Papa … Mick Andreas
Rick Overton … Terry Wilson
Melanie Lynskey … Ginger Whitacre
Thomas F. Wilson … Mark Cheviron (as Tom Wilson)
Scott Bakula … Brian Shepard
Scott Adsit … Sid Hulse
Ann Dowd … FBI Special Agent Kate Medford
Allan Havey … FBI Special Agent Dean Paisley
Howie Johnson … Rusty Williams
Joel McHale … FBI Special Agent Bob Herndon

 

Plot: The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre.

 

Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 9 nominations

Extract

Friday, September 4th, 2009

All Genres:
Comedy, Crime, Romance

Release Year: 2009

Country: USA

Runtime: USA:92 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: This Labor Day, the creator of OFFICE SPACE heads back to work.

 

Cast: Jason Bateman … Joel Reynolds
Mila Kunis … Cindy
Kristen Wiig … Suzie
Ben Affleck … Dean
J.K. Simmons … Brian
Clifton Collins Jr. … Step
Dustin Milligan … Brad
David Koechner … Nathan
Beth Grant … Mary
T.J. Miller … Rory
Javier Gutiérrez … Hector
Lidia Porto … Gabriella
Gene Simmons … Joe Adler
Matt Schulze … Willie
Lamberto Gutierrez … Victor

 

Plot: Joel, the owner of an Extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.