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Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 160.

Identity Theft (2004)

Crime, Drama

Michelle Brown (Paisley) is a young woman who buys her first house and has an excellent credit history. As she submits the paperwork to the mortgage lender, one of the employees, Connie Volkos (Sciorra), uses Michelle's credit card number, social security number and address to purchase numerous items, including electronics and other luxuries. Eventually, this gets out of hand to the point that Michelle begins to suspect her identity has been stolen after receiving bills for items she had not paid for.

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Customs Frontline (2024)

Action, Crime

In the White Elephant Bay in East Africa, a fishing vessel belonging to fishermen from the Republic of Loklamoa becomes embroiled in a territorial dispute with a vessel from the Federal Republic of Hoyana. After Hoyanan customs forces open fire and kill all Loklamoan fishermen aboard, General Casa, commander of the Loklamoan military, vows retaliation and prepares for war. To strengthen his position, Casa secretly collaborates with Dr.

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Swoon (1992)

Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, trial film

A dramatization of the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder of 1924. Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty crimes, until the calculating Nathan ups the ante by kidnapping, and murdering, a young boy.

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Cat Run (2011)

Action, Comedy, Crime, crime thriller film, Criminal Comedy Film, thriller film

Andorran prostitute and single mother Catalina "Cat" Rona is hired to participate in an orgy in Montenegro along with other escorts, for powerful men including former U.S. Senator William Krebb. When the senator kills one of the women, security is ordered to murder the others present to avoid witnesses.

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13 game sayawng 13 เกมสยอง (2006)

Comedy horror, Crime, Drama, thriller film

A Boy Scout is standing at the crosswalk of a busy intersection in Bangkok and sees an elderly woman carrying some bags, struggling to make her way across the street. The woman drops some of her belongings, and as the lights are about to change, the boy runs out to assist the woman. In the confusion, he drops his mobile phone, and leaves it in the street while he helps the woman to safety.

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Shadow of Doubt (1998)

mystery film, thriller film, trial film

After the daughter of a prominent businessman is brutally murdered, high profile defense attorney Kitt Devereux takes the case of the accused murderer, rapper Bobby Medina. With a history of drugs and violence, Medina is a likely suspect, but Devereux suspects there's more to the case as she locks horns with her ex-husband, D.A. Jack Campioni, and a wealthy woman whose son is a presidential candidate.

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The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)

Comedy

In London, a gang of three Australian criminals impersonate policemen to carry out robberies by stealing stolen cash and jewels from the crooks who had taken it. Local gang leader "Pearly" Gates – who operates with the front of an effete French couturier called Charles Jules in a London fashion house, Maison Jules – finds his criminal takings are being cut severely. Pearly does not realise his girlfriend and model, Valerie, is secretly in league with the Australians, feeding them details of the crimes being arranged by Pearly and his associates.

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Fathers & Sons (1992)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

Max Fish is a failed, reclusive film director who has moved to the small New Jersey seaside town of Belmar from New York City with his wife and son, Ed. When his wife dies, he is left to raise his son on his own. Max opens up a bookstore and becomes involved in marathon running.

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995)

Drama

Antonia Dyer is a well-to-do Englishwoman with a serious drug habit. Her heroin supply is delivered by an American motorcycle courier named Mike Stone, and before long the two of them also develop a romantic attachment. Not only does Antonia risk her life with drug use, but she is physically assaulted by a deranged police inspector named Stringer who has a particular distaste for high-society addicts.

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Cancel My Reservation (1972)

Comedy

Television personality Dan Bartlett, having difficulties with his wife and TV co-star Sheila, retreats to his Arizona ranch. When the body of Mary Little Cloud is found in the back seat of his car, Dan is placed under arrest. Freed for lack of evidence, Dan returns home to find attractive, scantily clad Crazy Hollister there.

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Nobody Runs Forever (1968)

Crime, Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, spy film

Sergeant Scobie Malone of the New South Wales Police (NSW Police) is summoned to Sydney by the gruff Premier of New South Wales, Mr Flannery, who asks Malone to travel to London and arrest the senior Australian diplomat in Britain, Sir James Quentin, High Commissioner to the UK. Sir James, a political rival of the Premier, has become the only suspect in a 17-year-old murder case. Upon his arrival at the Australian High Commission in London, Malone meets Lady Quentin and her husband, as well as Sir James's secretary.

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Julia (2008)

Crime, Drama, Road Movie, Social Drama

In California, an alcoholic named Julia is out of control, partying every night and waking up in unknown homes with no memory of the previous night. Her reckless behavior costs her her job, and she begins to go broke. She soon meets Elena at an AA meeting.

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Red Heat (1985)

thriller film

Christine Carlson, an American college student, travels to West Germany to visit her fiancé Mike, a US Army soldier. She tries to convince him to marry her promptly, but he chooses to delay marriage in order to re-enlist. Distraught by Mike's decision, Christine takes a late-night walk where she witnesses a kidnapping by the East German Stasi and gets kidnapped herself as well.

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Moon of the Wolf (1972)

Horror, monster film, Werewolf

In the Louisiana Bayou town of Marsh Island, two farmers (Royal Dano and John Davis Chandler) discover the mauled, dead body of a local young woman. Sheriff Aaron Whitaker (David Janssen) is called. The victim's temperamental brother, Lawrence Burrifors (Geoffrey Lewis), arrives at the crime scene.

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Border Incident (1949)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Set along the All-American Canal, Mexican farm workers, known as "braceros," camp near the California–Mexico border to receive their work permits so they can enter legally into the United States, while others cross the border illegally. These illegal migrant workers are usually robbed and beaten by bandits as they cross the desert. To combat this problem, two agents, Pablo Rodriguez, a Mexican PJF, and Jack Bearnes, an American Border Patrol agent, are assigned by their respective countries to investigate the gang of bandits.

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Flaxy Martin (1949)

Crime, mystery film, Noir

A murder occurs, and a witness tells the police that she will never forget the killer’s face. Mob attorney Walter Colby (Scott) is called by crime boss Hap Richie (Douglas Kennedy) in the middle of the night to arrange bail for his hood Caesar (Jack Overman). After doing so Colby tells his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin (Virginia Mayo), that he wants to quit the organization and become respectable.

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Disco Godfather (1979)

Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Horror, thriller film

Tucker Williams, dressed in shiny, chest-exposing clothing, spins platters as the "Disco Godfather" at his "Blueberry Hill" discotheque during the late-1970's height of the disco era. In the audience is his nephew Bucky, a basketball star, who ignores the entreaties of his girlfriend and goes outside to score some angel dust. Bucky's girlfriend comes screaming back inside, telling Tucker that Bucky has taken drugs.

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By Hook or by Crook (2001)

buddy film, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Shy, a transgender man, leaves his small town in Kansas for San Francisco after the death of his father. Along the way, he encounters Valentine, a quirky adoptee in search of his birth mother. An immediate kinship is sparked between the two men and they become partners in crime with Val's lover Billie to stay financially afloat.

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The Rise (2012)

Crime, thriller film

The film opens with DI West (Spall) interviewing Harvey Miller (Treadaway) who had been framed by a gangster called Roper. In flashback we are shown how Harvey, 6 weeks earlier, had been released from prison where he had used information heard in prison to plan his revenge on Roper. Harvey tells how he has planned and executed his revenge using his friends.

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Heaven's Burning (1997)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Japanese bride Midori Takada (Youki Kudoh) arrives in Sydney with her new husband Yukio (Kenji Isomura). She believes her marriage is a mistake and uses the honeymoon as a means to escape. Colin O'Brien (Russell Crowe) is an experienced getaway driver.

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The Object of Beauty (1991)

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Tragicomedy

Jake and Tina have taken up residence in a London hotel, living way beyond their means. He is a commodities broker whose shipment of cocoa beans is tied up by a Third World country's revolution. She is a woman with extravagant tastes who is still technically married to Larry, her first husband.

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