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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 192.

Street Smart (1987)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

Jonathan Fisher, a struggling magazine reporter in New York City, is having difficulty pitching a story to his editor, Ted Avery. Frustrated and worried about his career prospects, he finally pitches a profile on a real-life street pimp, which Ted finds intriguing but gives him a very narrow deadline to meet. Jonathan pays a prostitute for her time, an upbeat former beautician nicknamed Punchy, but finds himself stonewalled by her fear-based loyalty to her pimp, Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr.

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Cherry Crush (2007)

Drama, thriller film

Photographer Jordan Wells (Jonathan Tucker) is the son of a very wealthy family which have high expectations for him to take over his father's company. Instead, he has an infatuation with the natural beauty of a woman's naked body and engages in it by taking photos of nude models but excluding their faces for the sake of privacy, with their names known as the name of their favorite shade of lipstick. Unfortunately, the dean of his prep school finds out about his hobby and expels him.

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American Violence (2017)

Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Justice Drama

Fascinated by the root causes of violent behavior, globally renowned psychologist Dr. Amanda Tyler has an opportunity to interview and analyze death row inmate Jackson Shea. As the interview commences with Jackson's fate hanging in the balance, Amanda must determine whether or not a stay of execution should be granted.

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The Job (2003)

Action, Crime, Drama

A hit woman is contracted to perform one final job before she leaves her life of cold-blooded killing behind forever. She is now faced with the challenge of dealing with carrying out the contract she accepted and her own moral values.

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The Severed Arm (1973)

Horror, Slasher, thriller film

Jeff Ashton is at home when a mail carrier delivers a strange package. Upon opening the wrapped item, Ashton is horrified to see it contains a severed human arm. He immediately contacts his friend, Doctor Ray Sanders, and the two discuss an incident five years before when, as part of a group of cave explorers, they were trapped by a cave-in.

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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008)

Comedy horror

Mike Wilson is a nice, charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating people. Determined to spread his message about the joy of serial murder, Mike recruits a lost soul named Bart to be his pupil and leads his charge through the ethics of murder, as well as teaching him various lessons in disposing of corpses, balancing work and play, methods of killing, and many more. Mike and Bart's curriculum is interrupted when Mike's girlfriend Abigail discovers what's beneath her boyfriend's charming exterior and Mike and Bart must kill their way out of being discovered by the cops.

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Massacre Mafia Style (1974)

Crime, Drama

Mimi Miceli (Duke Mitchell) is the son of an established Italian-American mafia family, headed by don Mimi nicknamed "The Padrone" (Lorenzo Dardado), who has been exiled for his crimes in the United States to Sicily. Mimi, having been affected by the death of his wife shortly after conceiving a son, seeks to make ends meet by intending to resume the family business in Los Angeles and get the "pimps and bookmakers". Mimi heads to the Hollywood area in Los Angeles, where he seeks the help of his longtime friend and mafioso, Jolly Rizzo (Vic Caesar), who works as a bartender.

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Mr. Ricco (1975)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

A murder charge is dropped against San Francisco black militant Frankie Steele, who is represented by liberal attorney Joe Ricco. Two police officers are then gunned down. An eyewitness, the young son of a friend of Ricco's, identifies Steele as the man he saw leaving the scene of the crime.

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The Fuller Brush Man (1948)

Comedy, Crime Comedy

Success does not exactly stare the unfortunate street cleaner Red Jones (Red Skelton) in the eye, and when he decides to propose to his sweetheart Ann Elliot (Janet Blair), who is a secretary at the Fuller Brush company, she demands that he makes something more of himself before she can accept the offer. She suggests he should follow the example of a salesman and friend of hers, Keenan Wallick (Don McGuire), who works at her company. Red gets a chance to prove himself worthy sooner than he had expected when he is fired from his job as a cleaner by his boss, Gordon Trist (Nicholas Joy), because he accidentally sets a trash can on fire in…

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Circus (2000)

Crime, crime thriller film, Drama, neo-noir, thriller film

Con artists Leo and Lily are partners both in work and in life. Lily wants to get out of the racket and settle down in a nice place somewhere far away. Leo agrees, saying that within a week they should have enough to leave for good.

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My Brother's Keeper (1948)

Crime, thriller film

Handcuffed together, George Martin and Willie Stannard are two prisoners being transported to prison. Martin is a hardened, cynical career criminal, while Stannard is a naïve, rather dull-witted youth who has never previously been in trouble with the law, maintains his innocence of the rape of which he has been accused and is terrified by the prospect of prison. During the journey the pair manage to escape.

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Leslie, My Name Is Evil (2009)

Drama, trial film

Leslie is a troubled 1960s teenager who eventually becomes a follower of Charles Manson and is charged, convicted, and sentenced to death in August 1969 for the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. The story revolves around how a young juror, Perry, becomes infatuated with Leslie during her trial.

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When Strangers Marry (1944)

Crime, Noir

A rich drunk man is murdered in a hotel in Philadelphia. Millie Baxter, a naïve woman, comes to New York City from her hometown in Ohio to be with her salesman husband Paul Baxter, whom she had met only months before. Before she can find him, she learns that the police think he is the murderer.

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Home Room (2002)

Drama

A school shooting leaves seven students and the shooter's parents dead and one student named Deanna Cartwright seriously injured. The shooter himself is dead, shot by police during the confrontation after the actual shooting, and the only witness (and possible suspect) is Alicia Browning, a goth student who is now under the attention of the detective in charge of the case, Det. Martin Van Zandt.

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Strictly Sinatra (2001)

A young Glaswegian-Italian lounge singer, Toni Cocozza (Ian Hart), has a passion for Frank Sinatra and the dream of becoming a famous musician. He grows weary of playing to elderly crowds in third-rate bars and decides to accept career help from mob enforcer Chisholm (Brian Cox) and his boss Connolly (Iain Cuthbertson) whose wife (Una McLean) has taken a liking to Toni. In exchange for assisting the organization with its illegal activities, Chisholm pays for new clothes for Toni and pressures the producer of a talent show to allow Toni to compete in the contest.

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Bad Girls from Mars (1990)

Comedy, Crime, Erotic Film, Science fiction

Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production of Bad Girls from Mars. The producers feel they should try to finish the film, even though they're making a lucrative amount from insurance payoffs, so they fly in European sex bomb Emanuelle as the new lead. Emanuelle immediately begins embarrassing the producers by leading a wild party life around town.

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Robin of Locksley (1996)

Adventure, Drama, family film

Robin McAllister (Devon Sawa) and his family win the lottery and they end up moving from Kansas City to Seattle where Robin attends Locksley Academy, a wealthy private school. While there Robin comes up with a plan to help one of his friends who was hurt and needs money for an operation by robbing from John Prince Sr., the head of a very wealthy corporation. Robin becomes friends with a couple of misfits at school named Will Scarlett (Billy O'Sullivan) and Little John (Tyler Labine) and also falls for a girl named Marian (Sarah Chalke) who helps train the horses that Robin's family has.

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Two O'Clock Courage (1945)

Crime, Drama, Noir

An amnesiac man stops at a street corner where he stumbles onto the road and is nearly ran over by a taxi driven by Patty Mitchell. Noticing the man is bleeding in the head, she offers him a cab drive to a nearby hospital. Along the way, Patty parks the cab, where the clues to his identity are a hatband emblazoned with the initials "RD" or "DR", tickets to the Imperial Theater, and a matchbook from the Blue Room at the Regency Hotel.

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