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Action, Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
Arthur Banks (Kiefer Sutherland) is an Ivy League-educated hitman for Latin American drug cartels who picks up solitary women, uses them as cover for a hit, then kills them. His trademark is a bullet with a tungsten core. Over the years, he has become wary of the FBI's attempts to catch him, including by use of satellite and security cameras, which leads him to mostly stay in rural desert areas when he is not working.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Daffy Comedy, Heist
The film is partly narrated by Warden Streiger (known as "Bulldog" Streiger). A bank, temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. That is what Al Karp, the former partner of jailed criminal planner Walter Ballantine, thinks, so Karp arranges for Ballantine to escape from the Streiger Institute (a privately run penitentiary).
buddy film, Crime, Drama
Robbie, an orphaned seven-year-old boy, has been placed with harsh adoptive parents in London. Having accidentally set a small fire in the house, he fears he will receive severe punishment as he has in the past for misdemeanours, so flees into the London streets. Here, he literally runs into Chris Lloyd, who is himself on the run as he has, in the heat of passion, just killed his wife's employer, who Lloyd had discovered was having an affair with his wife.
Drama
Michelle Ramskill-Estey (Julie Benz), a single mother, is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to save her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
documentary film
The documentary is told from the eyes of Megumi's mother and father as they spend nearly thirty years searching for the grave truth about their daughter's abduction.
Noir
Victor Scott is a district attorney with a spectacular courtroom style. He acknowledges having risen from the slums and needing to win every case. He is assisted by attorney Ellen Miles, who is not quite as relentless, but is devoted to her D.A.
Drama
Marcia Green (Audrey Reid) is a single mom and street vendor barely scraping by even with a financial assist from the seemingly avuncular Larry (Carl Davis), a gun-toting strongman with a twisted desire for Marcia's teenage daughter Tanya (Cherine Anderson) who he then decides to pursue. Complicating things is Priest (Paul Campbell), a murderous hoodlum who killed Marcia's friend and now is terrorizing the defenseless woman. Facing three big problems (Larry, Priest, and without money), Marcia arrives at an inspired solution: develop an alter ego, a dancing celebrity called the Mystery Lady who can compete in a cash-prize contest and put…
Crime, Drama
Action, crime thriller film, thriller film
The plot is split into four intermingling non-linear narratives; "Monsters", "Fiends" "Thugs" and "Criminals". The following synopsis presents the events in a chronological order. In an unspecified poverty stricken neighborhood in Los Angeles, local crime lord Teddy "Bear" Haynes operates a taco shack as a front for a human trafficking ring.
Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film
A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to dump the stolen cash into a mailbox, which he then finds is locked until midnight, forcing him to wait until the mailman makes his late night pickup.
Crime
thriller film
The body of a murder victim is being exhumed from under a storage shed in 1950s small-town Wamego, Kansas. The story leading up to the murder is told. Handsome, sociopathic, David, the owner of a local garage, bullies his meek, sensitive piano-playing younger brother, the teenage Jimmy.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Charles Raynor, is the outwardly "perfect" doctor husband of Katherine. But Raynor is actually a psychopath, who is carefully plotting the murder of his wife. As the horrible truth slowly dawns upon Katherine, she must find some way to prevent her murder—and to alert disbelieving authorities of her husband's duplicity.
Drama, musical film
Hot-tempered singer Danny Wilson and his easygoing pianist friend Mike Ryan meet singer Joy Carroll. Danny slugs a cop and is thrown in jail, but Joy arranges his bail and a job at mobster Nick Driscoll's club. However, Nick demands 50% of all earnings, past and future, and he loves Joy.
Crime, Drama
Crime, Drama
Two elderly criminals spend their final night in Los Angeles, California at the Golden Eagle Hotel prior to their departure to Las Vegas, Nevada, to lead a life without crime. Unfortunately, on the hottest night of the summer, these two ex-criminals seemingly get caught in the malice of prostitutes, pimps, drunken bums, fighting monkeys, and young runaways.
Crime, Drama, hood film
Biography, Coming-of-age, Destiny, Drama, Drama Documentary, Social Drama
In the aftermath of a school shooting, several survivors have evacuated to the elementary school to wait for more survivors to arrive. A senior named Sean Ryan calls his friend Vicki at a coffee shop, who tells him that the shooter is Ben Harris, a friend of Sean's. Sean is left speechless.
Crime, Drama, Noir
After being wounded during a heist in the days after Christmas, bank robber Charlie Blake takes refuge in a remote farm house owned by his older brother Fred, who lives there with wife Elizabeth and 12-year-old son David. A weak and unhappy man nearly debilitated by respiratory issues, Fred is bullied and beaten into harboring the fugitive and his gang members, the brutal Benjie and moll Edna. Time passes and Charlie's accomplices are anxious to move on, but he needs rest to recover.
Crime, Superhero
After murdering an unnamed woman, the villainous "Chain Gang" targets Cee Bee Beaumont, the girlfriend of rock and roll star Lonnie Lord. The Chain Gang harasses, stalks, and eventually abducts Beaumont. In order to save his girlfriend, Lord takes on the identity of "Rat Pfink", and his friend, Titus Twimbly, assumes the role of Rat Pfink's sidekick, "Boo Boo".
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Eddie Schneider is a charismatic and successful creative director at a top advertising agency in New York. A master of communication, his pitching skills are legendary, and he never loses an account. Eddie is engaged to Judy Birk, the boss's daughter.
comedy television program, Crime, drama television series
Sante Kimes is a con artist and thief who has been preparing her son Kenny since childhood to be her accomplice. Sante is living with a rich man, Ken Kimes, who is unwilling to marry her and makes no provision for Kenny in his will. The boy's mother becomes involved in robberies, arson and the murder of an elderly woman to enrich herself, with her son as her partner in crime.
Comedy
Joe Loss and his Orchestra are playing at a dance. Joe Loss then introduces the Henrietta Jekyll Old Time Dance Team and her brother Henry Jekyll, who is a rather incompetent last-minute stand-in. They give a display of formation ballroom dancing with their brother Victor Jekyll taking over the conducting, but Henry turns it into a disaster, much to his sister's dismay.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Scott Barnes (Travolta) is a former ad executive turned social worker living in Miami. He is also a recovering alcoholic who stopped drinking after killing his son in a drunk-driving crash. One of his cases is Tommy (Joey Lawrence) a street kid who has been selling crack for an organization called the Youth Incentive Program (YIP).