The Shooter (1995)
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
A federal marshal gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
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'R Xmas (2001)
Christmas film, Crime, Drama
An unnamed married couple outwardly lives as affluent socialites - sending their daughter to a private school, living in a high-rise with doormen - but earn their money commuting to a drab Flushing apartment where, with their relatives, they package and sell heroin. Before Christmas, one of the husband's regular associates asks him to hold a large quantity of heroin for him over the holiday. On Christmas Eve, the husband takes an ostensibly routine meeting while the wife visits an illicit pawnshop hoping to obtain a popular sold-out "Party Girl" doll for their daughter.
Scandal Sheet (1952)
Crime, Drama, Noir
Mark Chapman, editor of the New York Express, has made the newspaper a success by pursuing sensationalism and yellow journalism. His protégé is ace reporter Steve McCleary, while successful feature writer Julie Allison is frustrated by the paper's drift towards muckraking. One night, during a lonely hearts dance organized by the Express, Chapman's estranged wife, Charlotte Grant, who is coincidentally at the dance, see him.
Rent-a-Cop (1987)
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Crime
Chicago cop Tony Church and his team are completing a drug bust. Just as the cops make the arrest a masked thief called Adam "Dancer" Booth intervenes and executes all of the officers. Church attempts to apprehend Dancer but Dancer outwits him and takes a hostage Della Roberts.
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Crime, Drama, thriller film
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were murdered by shotgun fire, whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining their empire with fear and violence.
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Following their flight from Turks and Caicos, Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) and Margot Tyrrell (Helena Bonham Carter) hopscotch around Europe to evade capture by MI5. After spotting an MI5 agent he had recruited, disguised as a passing jogger, Worricker relocates once again and instructs former colleague Rollo Maverley (Ewen Bremner) to leak news of Prime Minister Alec Beasley's (Ralph Fiennes) corrupt dealings with Stirling Rogers (Rupert Graves) and his Bridge Foundation. Tyrrell covertly keeps in touch with Worricker's pregnant daughter Julianne (Felicity Jones).
The Night Stalker (2016)
Crime
In Texas, a drifter faces the death penalty in just a few days. His only hope is that his lawyers can persuade the serial killer Richard Ramirez to confess to the crime instead. His legal team includes Kit, who is tasked with traveling to California, and visiting Ramirez in San Quentin State Prison in an attempt to persuade him to confess.
Chattahoochee (1989)
Biography, Drama
Emmett Foley is an American hero of the Korean War who attempts to commit suicide, first by provoking local police and then by shooting himself in the chest. After his recovery, he is sent to the Florida State Hospital, an institution in Chattahoochee, Florida, where he fights against doctors and staff who are terrorizing and torturing their patients. His efforts eventually led to sweeping reforms in the Florida mental health system.
Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
disaster film
TOA airlines flight 502 takes off from New York City to London. At the airport, a bomb threat in the airline's first-class passenger lounge turns out to be an elaborate prank. Safety official Davenport receives a letter explaining that a series of murders will take place on Flight 502 before it lands.
A Fine Mess (1986)
Action, Comedy, Crime, slapstick
While filming on location at a race track, womanizing bit actor Spencer Holden, who lives life on one scam after another, overhears a couple of inept thugs named Maurice "Binky" Drundza and Wayne "Turnip" Parragella while they dope a race horse Sorry Sue with a supposed undetectable super stimulant. The thugs find out that Spence overheard them and will do anything to catch him to prevent him from going to the authorities with the information. Spence, however, enlists the help of his best friend, drive-in carhop and aspiring restaurateur Dennis Powell, to bet on the race with that horse so that they can make some guaranteed money.
Oxygen (1999)
Crime, crime thriller film, thriller film
Harry Houdini has kidnapped and buried alive a rich businessman's wife, Frances. He demands $1 million in cash from the woman's husband, Clark Hannon, in return for the release of the location of her burial site before she runs out of oxygen. He also states that if police involvement is initiated, he will ensure she is never found alive.
I Walk Alone (1948)
Crime, Drama, Noir
Frankie Madison and Noll "Dink" Turner were bootlegging partners during Prohibition. They were involved in a shootout with thieves attempting to hijack their liquor, attracting the attention of the police. Frankie and Noll parted ways with an agreement that if one of them should be caught he will still receive an equal share of their combined business after serving his prison sentence.
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Crime, Drama, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller
After poisoning and killing his wife, the master of the house, Stephen Lowry, is blackmailed by his Cockney maid, Lily Watkins, who demands promotion. As she steadily takes the place of his dead wife, Lowry attempts to murder her as well. While attempting to murder Lily, by following someone who looks like her through the fog, he mistakenly kills Constable Burke's wife and gets chased by an angry mob, which he evades.
Gun (2010)
Action, Crime, thriller film
Angel (Kilmer) is released from prison only to get involved in the gun-running ring of his old friend, Rich (Jackson). They raid a club, which results in the killing of a rival arms dealer called Ali Tyrell. A police officer is assigned to investigate and calls a meeting, but two ATF agents come in disrupting the meeting.
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
Biography, Biographical documentary, documentary film, Drama
Using film made at American prisons, Leuchter talks about his upbringing where his father was a corrections officer. Through his family associations, young Leuchter claimed he was able to witness an execution performed in an electric chair. Leuchter's impression of the event was that the electric chairs used by American prisons were unsafe and often ineffective.
Hunt to Kill (2010)
Action
The film begins with US Border Patrol Agents Jim Rhodes and Lee Davis exploring a seemingly abandoned trailer in Texas. Before entering the trailer, Lee gives Jim a watch made from climbing rope that can be used as emergency gear. They find a meth lab and are promptly attacked by men who shoot Lee and set the trailer on fire.
Uncovered (1995)
Crime, thriller film
Julia, an art restorer living in Barcelona, Spain, discovers a painted-over message on a 1471 Flemish masterpiece called La partida de ajedrez (The Chess Game) reading "Qvis Necavit Eqvitem", written in Latin (English: "Who killed the knight?"). With the help of her old friend and father-figure, the flamboyantly homosexual César, who lives at Casa Batlló, and Domenec, a local chess genius Julia found in Park Güell, Julia works to uncover the mystery of a 500-year-old murder. At the same time, however, Julia faces danger of her own, as several people helping her along her search are also murdered.
Inserts (1974)
Comedy, Drama
Before the opening titles, in the present day, an audience of men and women are watching a 1930s black-and-white stag film. After it ends, a man complains that there was no "cum shot". In Hollywood in the early 1930s, shortly after the start of the talkie period, a young Hollywood director known as Boy Wonder has fallen out of favour with the studios, ostensibly due to his reluctance to lower his standards or abandon his experimental style, such as using a hand-held camera.
The Convincer (2011)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Wisconsin insurance salesman Mickey Prohaska is in desperate financial straits. His wife JoAnn has thrown him out of the house, and he is willing to do or say practically anything to sell anybody a policy. Mickey accompanies another insurance agent he has just met, Bob Egan, to the farm of an elderly man named Gorvy Hauer.
Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
Crime, Drama, Noir, Psychological Thriller, Romantic drama
New York heiress Celia Barrett and her lawyer Bob Dwight are on the verge of marriage, but he wants her to be sure so convinces her to vacation in Mexico with her friend Edith Potter. While there, Celia falls in love with and marries American architect Mark Lamphere. On their honeymoon, after she playfully locks him out of their hotel room, he turns cold towards her and abruptly leaves, claiming that he has urgent business at home and will make arrangements for her to follow.
Witness Protection (1999)
Crime, Drama
Forty Winks (2022)
Crime
Captives (1994)
Crime, Drama, prison film, romance film
After the break-up of her marriage to Simon (Peter Capaldi), dentist Rachel Clifford (Julia Ormond) throws herself into work by taking an extra assignment at a local British prison. One of her patients is Philip (Tim Roth), a man nearing the end of a ten-year sentence for a crime he refuses to reveal. She later sees him on the street when he is released to attend his college class.
Born to Win (1971)
Comedy drama, Crime, Dark Comedy
J, a former hair dresser, has broken up with his wife and become an aimless drug addict frequenting Times Square. He lives his new life by dealing drugs from time to time for Vivian, a successful and intimidating drug dealer. J thinks that his life is about love and peace, yet he and his fellow friend and junkie Billy Dynamite try to steal a safe behind the back of a cashier.