Foxfire (2012)
Crime, Drama
Set in the 1950s, a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.
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Crime, Drama
Set in the 1950s, a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.
Crime, Drama
Judge Leland Hoffman and district attorney Dan Callahan take a weekend hunting trip. However, Callahan is summoned back to the city when socialite Paula Thornwall is found murdered in her posh estate. Because of the high-profile nature of the case, Callahan decides to handle the prosecution himself, thus boosting his political ambitions.
Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, Heist
Sidney Lord Jones is a convicted felon who is granted an early release by the parole board in San Quentin. While imprisoned, he learns about the underworld diamond trade from reading and studying trade magazines. It motivates him to plan a heist to steal $3 million worth of diamonds from the largest diamond brokerage on the Pacific Coast.
Action, Crime, Drama, Heist, thriller film
Master thief Thomas Taylor (Slater) is released on parole. Later, he uses his job as a Paramedic to rob an off-track betting office, inadvertently stealing cash that a corrupt FBI agent named 'Cornell' (Kilmer) had planned to steal himself. Cornell retaliates by kidnapping Taylor's daughter and forcing him and his crew to steal a large shipment of cash.
Detective, mystery film
The great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion Dr. John Watson travel to New York City to investigate a recent threat made by Professor James Moriarty. During their investigation, Holmes and Watson are reunited with their old acquaintance Irene Adler, now a popular music-hall singer, who reveals that Moriarty has kidnapped her young son Scott.
Action, Crime
Two assassin sisters Tatiana (Winter Ave Zoli) and Mina (Maria Rogers), disguised as Russian sex workers, arrive in New Orleans working under Cordray (Dan Bilzerian) in a strip club. The pair are hired by U.S. military soldiers for a "sex party" where they infiltrate the base and attempt to steal military secrets by storing it in a USB drive.
Crime, Detective, Horror, Mysterie
In 1870s France, a string of strange murders occur on the Rue Morgue, a fictional street in Paris. The authorities are baffled, but they do know of one man who may have the answers - a professor named Dupin. Dupin agrees to help the police.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Clem Morgan, demobilised from the Royal Air Force and unemployed after the war, helps in the stealing and transporting of black market goods in coffins to crime boss Narcy's (short for Narcissus) headquarters in a funeral parlour. Clem finds the activity harmless enough, until one day he finds drugs in the latest coffin. Clem objects and tells his girlfriend, Ellie, that he will quit after one last job that night, the looting of a warehouse.
Crime, Detective, mystery film
Sherlock Holmes is visited by Mr. Chalmers, an insurance agent with a strange tale. Seven single men, calling themselves the "Good Comrades", live together in the remote Scottish castle of Drearcliffe House, near the village of Inverneill.
Detective, mystery film, spy film
Alfred Pettibone, a British secret agent carrying a vital secret document, is murdered on his way to deliver it in the U.S. The British government turns to Sherlock Holmes for help. He deduces that Pettibone converted the document to microfilm.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime Comedy, Heist
The Byzantine Fire, a sacred ruby on loan from Turkey to the United States for exhibition, no sooner arrives in Los Angeles than it is stolen by Eastern religious extremists and hidden inside the safe of a local jewelry store. When professional burglar and jewel thief Gus Cardinale (Christopher Lambert) breaks into the store and inadvertently steals the Byzantine Fire, he finds himself being chased around Los Angeles by the LAPD, the entire Los Angeles criminal element (whom the police have been mercilessly harassing to find the thief), two less-than-competent CIA agents, Turkish government agents and a not-too-tightly wrapped female…
Action, Crime, thriller film
In Athens, Azad, Ralph, Renzi, and Helen execute a heist, pilfering a suitcase of emeralds from a wealthy Greek citizen, M. Tasco, during his absence. Breaking into the house, they crack the safe and abscond with the jewels.
Action, Drama
During the rage of Hurricane Katrina, Detective Andy Devereaux (Val Kilmer) discovers the body of his former partner in a warehouse. Quickly forgetting about his discovery, he joins a newly transferred detective named Stan Johnson (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) trying to end a conflict involving looters. Post-Katrina, Andy and Stan are now partners.
mystery film
When aspiring mystery writer Mickey Raymond travels to Malta to research her first novel, she finds herself falling in love with Terry, a handsome, mysterious American. She also finds herself falling into a conspiracy of events, apparently fuelled as much by her vivid author's imagination as real-life events. A local police official is seemingly one step behind these events.
Crime, Drama
The film follows Louis, a young man with an intellectual disability, who is wrongfully convicted of the brutal murder of his older sister, Delia. The primary evidence against him is his own coerced confession, which he doesn't fully understand due to his condition. After spending five years in a psychiatric prison, Louis is released on parole.
Crime
Hot Money tells the story of three workers at the Bank of England incinerating plant in Essex. The trio, led by Bridget (Caroline Quentin), hatch a plan to steal thousands of pounds by stashing the notes in their underwear.
Crime Comedy, independent film
Hoping to pay back some gambling debt he owes to local mobster Mad Dog Flynn, Jim robs the local fishmongers, only to discover that it's actually a front for the mobster's business. Now on the run and pursued by police detective Weller, Jim is cornered in an antique shop where he takes hostage a collection of colourful characters, including American Joe Maguire, the owner who may be his illegitimate father, and his girlfriend Sophie. Caught between the mobster's gang and the police, the unfortunate young Jim must find a way out of this tricky situation with help from his hostages
Crime, Drama, Noir, romance film
Pete Ritchie runs a narcotics smuggling operation to the U.S. from Mexico that the Los Angeles Police Department and the federal government have unsuccessfully tried to stop. Because of Ritchie's careful operating procedures, federal authorities have not determined the identities of his sources or customers and are desperate for a breakthrough.
Action, Adventure, Crime, documentary film, Drama, mystery film
The plot of Dangerous Men is nigh incomprehensible, and changes abruptly towards the middle of the film. Mina (Melody Wiggins) and her fiancé, Daniel (Coti Cook) are walking on a beach when two bikers, named Tiger and Leo, set upon them. They kill the fiancé and attempt to rape Mina.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Beneath his likable exterior, Lou Ford, a deputy in a small Montana town, is a sadistic sociopath with violent sexual tastes. When Lou gets involved with a local prostitute's blackmail schemes, the carefully crafted facade he maintains begins to unravel into a killing spree.
Crime
In their bedroom asleep one night, Bonnie and Lieth Von Stein are violently attacked and stabbed by home intruders. Bonnie barely survives, but her husband does not. The investigation into who could do such a thing, and for what purpose, takes an unexpected twist when Bonnie's son Chris Pritchard becomes a prime suspect in the case.
Crime, Mysterie, thriller film
A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.
Action, Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, thriller film
A mysterious stranger (Steve Austin) cannot remember his past or what has brought him to the places he finds himself in. Broken and confused, he will slowly find what happened to his loving family and his promising career. But with the determined FBI Agent Mason Reese (Adam Beach) on his trail, it will not be easy.
Crime, Forensic, trial film
Four young Teddy boys are on trial for the murder of a garage night watchman in the course of a burglary on the night of 15 January. Much of the storyline revolves around the Three Aces, a pub opposite the Lantern Garage where the murder occurred. Witnesses and the accused give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime during a dispiriting and frustrating evening out in London.