Crime Movies (Page #39)

Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers – a woman and a little girl – hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe. Arriving in Paris, the ‘family’ moves from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs. He works to build a new life and a real home for his ‘wife’ and his ‘daughter’, but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan is forced to reconnect with his warrior’s instincts to protect the people he hopes will become his true family.

A bank robber from the 1800's with an anger management problem is accidentally transferred through time to the present day by a bumbling time traveler from the future who can't cope with stress well.

This movie tells two stories in three settings, going back and forth between each story as the film proceeds. One is the story of two cowboy brothers (Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham) who worked as mercenaries in Turkey around the turn of the century, and fall in love with the same woman (Anne Brochet). The other is set in contemporary New York, and is about a 90-year-old woman with a secret horde of Balkan gold and a thief (Adrian Lester), who surprisingly become friends. The third setting is the Ottoman Empire, circa 1913.

Follows family man Max Bornstein who was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry in 1968’s New York City. While running books and films to delivery points and mob headquarters around the east coast, Max had the Feds on his tail. But even in the wake of a federal investigation, Max's truest worry was his wife and two young children, a family kept in the dark about Max's reality and the walls of it caving in around him. As Max battles his consuming addiction, dissolving family unit and the growing suspicion about his drug use amongst his associates, Max watches helplessly as his well-crafted reality falls to pieces, leaving him searching for the spaces in between.

Lower-class business student JW (Joel Kinnaman from AMC's 'The Killing') falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with Stockholm's wealthy elite. To keep up the facade of his lifestyle, he's lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty fugitive on the run from both the police and Serbian mafia. He hopes that brokering a massive cocaine deal will allow him to escape for good. Mafia enforcer Mrado is on the hunt for Jorge, but his efforts are complicated when he's unexpectedly saddled with caring for his young daughter. As JW's journey ventures deeper into the dark world of organized crime, the fate of all three men becomes entangled and ends with a dramatic struggle for life and death.

When his sister goes missing in London, a young man sneaks into the city to find her and quickly uncovers a dark trade in immigrant sex slaves. He takes action to break it up, becoming an unexpected media star, but also a target of the criminal syndicate behind it all.

Set in Mexico, a wounded American plans to retire in Mexico with millions in cash.

An American outlaw shot in 1911, re-enters the public consciousness in the 1970s when a movie crew preparing to shoot in a funhouse in San Bernardino County tries to move a hideous neon-orange mummy. It falls to the ground, revealing a full set of bones that turn out to be Elmer McCurdy's. After the skeletal discovery, the outlaw is brought back to his hometown for a proper burial.

A professional escape expert is hired to break someone out of prison and is shocked to find out who he's liberated.

In Colombia, Pablo Escobar rises to become one of the most powerful drug lords of all time.

As the biggest shipment of MDMA (ecstasy) hits the U.S., a global mix of criminal opportunists scramble to leverage the chaos, eliminate their competition and make the big score.

A young refugee arrives from Russia and winds up in the clutches of Russian mobsters in Brighton Beach. The thugs arrange a marriage with one of their own. When she dies, the husband who'd never met her discovers letters she'd written him that show both her gratitude to him and how badly she was exploited. His remorse compels him to destroy her tormentors.

Based on the life of Chinese Martial Arts Master Huo Yuanjia (1869-1910), the founder and spiritual guru of the Jin Wu Sports Federation. Set during the late 1800's to early 1900's, a pivotal period in China's history, when the whole country is shrouded under increasing internal turmoil and the imminent threat of foreign invastion.

Follows an NYC police officer and his rookie partner Angela as they experience a 12-hour shift on the streets of New York City.

Two men execute a terrifying bank robbery. One guy holds the bank manager’s wife hostage and the other tells the manager she’ll be killed in five minutes unless he transfers money to an account of their choosing.

The story centers on a group of former 1960s radicals and their shenanigans in 1974 Los Angeles.

Many years after his criminal past, a kind, clear-headed man nearing his 60s, who is caring for his wife, kids and grandchildren, finds his past creeping back into his life when his long time friend/crime partner shows up.