The Imposter (2012)
Biographical picture, Documentation, biographical film, crime film, documentary film
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
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In Cold Blood (1967)
Thriller, crime film, docudrama, drama film
Told through flashback, ex-convicts Perry Smith and Richard "Dick" Hickock meet in rural Kansas in late 1959. They concoct a plan to invade the farm home of the wealthy Clutter family, as patriarch Herbert Clutter supposedly keeps a large …
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Man on Fire (1987)
Action, crime film, thriller film
In Italy, wealthy families often hire bodyguards to protect family members from the threat of kidnapping. A wealthy family that needs a bodyguard hires Christian Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA agent turned mercenary, to protect their daughter…
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My Blue Heaven (1990)
Crime Comedy, Komödie, comedy film
Vinnie Antonelli is a former mobster recently inducted into the Witness Protection Program with his wife Linda in the suburbs near San Diego. The two are under the eye of federal agent Barney Coopersmith. As he is trying to adjust to subur…
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The Infiltrator (2016)
Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
During the 1980s, U.S. Customs Service special agent Robert Mazur uses his undercover alias "Bob Musella" to become a pivotal player for drug lords laundering their dirty cash. Later, he infiltrates the world's largest cartel, and helps ex…
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Ca$h (2010)
Thriller, action film, crime thriller film
When a suitcase is thrown out of a car that is involved in a car chase and lands on the car of Sam Phelan (Chris Hemsworth), he initially curses his luck. But then he finds the suitcase is loaded with money. After bringing the suitcase to …
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Running Scared (2006)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir
A large drug deal between New Jersey mobsters and a Jamaican gang goes awry, leading to a shootout that kills two corrupt police officers who were attempting to rob the gangs. Mobster Tommy Perello orders his subordinate, Joey Gazelle, to …
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Before and After (1996)
Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, trial film
In a small Western Massachusetts town, Dr. Carolyn Ryan and her sculptor husband Ben live with their two children Jacob and Judith. Their world is shattered when Sheriff Fran Conklin tells them that Martha Taverner has been killed and witn…
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The Big Hit (1998)
Action, action film, comedy film, heist film, thriller film
Melvin Smiley has a good life thanks to his talents as a contract-killer, but has a very working class mentality going about his life, in combination with his constant struggles to maintain two romantic relationships. One is with the deman…
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The Amazing Spider-Man (1977)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film
Peter Parker, a freelance photographer for the Daily Bugle, is bitten by a radioactive spider and discovers he has gained superpowers, such as super-strength, agility and the ability to climb sheer walls and ceilings. When a mysterious Gur…
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Outland (1981)
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Federal Marshal William O'Niel is assigned to a tour of duty at the titanium ore mining outpost Con-Am 27, operated by the company Con-Amalgamated on the Jovian moon of Io. Conditions on Io are difficult; gravity is 1/6 that of Earth's wit…
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Centurion (2010)
Adventure, Drama, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Swords and Sandals, War Film, action film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
The Roman Empire has been unable to fully conquer Britain, reaching a harsh stalemate in the North. The Picts engage in guerrilla warfare against the Romans along the Glenblocker forts and the Gask Ridge at the southern border of the Scott…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Drama, Fantasy, Horror, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, period drama film
thumb|Hurd Hatfield plays Dorian Gray. thumb|Angela Lansbury plays Sibyl Vane. thumb|Peter Lawford plays David Stone.
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Let's Go to Prison (2006)
Crime, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, parody film, prison film
After serving three prison sentences, repeat offender John Lyshitski plots revenge on Judge Nelson Biederman III, a tough judge who presided over each of his trials, passing him stiff sentences. John calls the courthouse to determine when …
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La migliore offerta (2013)
Romance Film, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller, romance film
Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) is an esteemed but eccentric managing director of a preeminent auction house. A lifelong bachelor who avoids physical contact and refuses to use a mobile phone, he wears gloves at all times except when handlin…
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Brooklyn's Finest (2010)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Detective Sal Procida shoots someone named Carlo Powers, grabs a bag of money and flees. Sal confesses the murder to a priest, asking for help with his financial situation: his wife is pregnant with twins, and they live in a moldy house to…
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Ava (2020)
Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, girls with guns
Ava Faulkner is a recovering addict and former soldier turned assassin. In France, she kidnaps her new target, an English businessman. Before she kills him, she questions him on why someone wants him dead.
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'71 (2014)
Drama, War Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, war film
Gary Hook, a new recruit to the British Army, is sent to Belfast in 1971 during the early years of the Troubles. Under the leadership of the inexperienced Second Lieutenant Armitage, his platoon is deployed without protective gear to a vol…
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Balls of Fury (2007)
Komödie, comedy film, martial arts film
Eleven-year-old Randy Daytona becomes anxious when he learns that his father Peter has bet on his performance in the 1988 Summer Olympics table tennis tournament finals. During his semi-final game against Karl Wolfschtagg of the German Dem…
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Fresh Kills (2023)
Drama, crime film, drama film
The Larusso family—father Joe, mother Fran, and sisters Connie and Rose—move from Brooklyn to a new house in Staten Island. The adjustment is difficult: the neighborhood is bleak, Fran is unhappy, and the sisters miss their old life. Tensi…
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Caper-Movie, Crime, Film Noir, drama film, film noir, heist film
Criminal mastermind "Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider, freshly released from prison, visits a bookie named Cobby in an unnamed Midwestern river city to plan a jewel robbery. He seeks $50,000 to hire three men—a safecracker, a driver and a hoolig…
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Vantage Point (2008)
Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, political thriller film, thriller film
In Salamanca, Spain, an assassination attempt on U.S. President Henry Ashton (William Hurt) unfolds from several different vantage points. GNN producer Rex Brooks directs news coverage from a mobile television studio as the president arriv…
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Loving Vincent (2017)
Animation, Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, drama film, historical film
One year after Vincent van Gogh's suicide, postman Joseph Roulin asks his son Armand to deliver Van Gogh's last letter to his brother, Theo. Roulin finds the death suspicious, as merely weeks earlier Van Gogh claimed through letters that h…
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Bringing Down the House (2003)
Daffy Comedy, Komödie, romantic comedy film
Peter Sanderson is a workaholic tax attorney, separated from his wife Kate and often too busy for their children, Sarah and Georgie. Peter arranges a blind date at his home with Charlene Morton, a woman he has been chatting with online. Mi…
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