Crime Movies (Page #52)

A Manhattan emergency room doctor whose life becomes complicated when a mobster recognizes the doctor from his former life as a hitman who went into the witness protection program.

A newsman intentionally frames himself for a murder he didn't commit in order to point out the dangers of circumstantial evidence and to expose an overzealous district attorney who has manipulated evidence in the past to gain convictions. Everything is going as planned until his friend, the one person who can exonerate him, is killed.

Three men (Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall) in a small Western town travel to New York City to exact revenge on a Wall Street swindler who has stolen money from them.

Described as a young-skewing buddy caper movie that has a bit of Dirty Dozen and Ocean’s Eleven mixed in together.

Set in early 1940s Nazi Germany in the heart of the Third Reich, a relentless detective must confront his own murderous regime in order to catch a serial killer. With Berlin firmly in the grip of panic as British bombers raid the city by night, the government implements a blackout at night with the only light coming from the phosphorous paint on every street corner, bus and commuter train.

An L.A. homicide detective goes up against a vigilante who's knocking off the top 10 fugitives on the FBI's most wanted list. The public loves the crime spree, but the cops are concerned that the killer and his co-conspirators pose a larger threat than the fugitives they are killing.

An undercover agent discovers the crime-ridden, seedy underbelly of Brooklyn in "Blood on a Happy Face". When the woman he loves double-crosses him as part of an elaborate scheme to steal a large sum of money, he's left wondering whom he can trust.

Set during the troubled times of the late 60’s and early 70’s, Joan Rosen Klein, against all odds, triumphs against her mobbed-up and politically connected foes to avenge her lost loved ones. In the process, she alters the course of history as well as the lives of the three men (a goon, an ex-cop & a private eye) who follow her.

A FBI agent discovers an opportunity to infiltrate a cartel that has taken to launder its drug money through American quarter horse racing.

Inspired by true events, Blue Caprice investigates the notorious and horrific Beltway sniper attacks from the point of view of the two perpetrators, whose distorted father-son relationship facilitated their long and bloody journey across America. Blue Caprice documents the mechanisms that lead its subjects to embrace physical violence. Blue Caprice paints a riveting portrait of 21st-century America and a haunting depiction of two cold-blooded killers that endures long after the lights come up.

In BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, a former boxer named Bradley (Vince Vaughn) loses his job as an auto mechanic, and his troubled marriage is about to end. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work for an old buddy as a drug courier. This improves his situation until the terrible day that he finds himself in a gunfight between a group of police officers and his own ruthless allies. When the smoke clears, Bradley is badly hurt and thrown in prison, where his enemies force him to commit acts of violence that turn the place into a savage battleground.

A French car thief kills a policeman and then travels to Italy with his American girlfriend.

Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are expected to return as mismatched colleagues, a veteran cop and his partner, an Orc, respectively.

Set on an American Army Base in 1989, as the Berlin Wall is about to fall, "Buffalo Soldiers" takes a satiric look as these men steal, drink, fight, and make, take, and sell drugs. Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) is the brains behind the operation, easily duping his superior (Ed Harris) and sleeping with his wife (Elizabeth McGovern). But with the arrival of the new Sergeant (Scott Glenn), everything changes. The Sergeant cracks down; Elwood retaliates by dating his daughter (Anna Paquin) and attempting a big "weapons for drugs" deal, with the Sergeant in closer pursuit.

Follows a journalist who, in his life-long quest for a Pulitzer Prize, fabricates the truth to create a compelling murder story.

The project centers on law enforcement turning to a jailed mobster to help prevent a possible terrorist attack.

We come to know the rapist Gilson, tried and sentenced by the Law Behind Bars; Zico and Deusdete, inseparable half brothers who, in jail, become each other's assassins; Highness and his shrewd balancing act between women and heists; Old Chico, a Zen master in the ways of the dungeon, at last on the brink of his long-awaited freedom; Warden Pires, who oversees the prison with the perspicacity of a tightrope walker; Ebony, the true leader of the inmate community and the arbiter of all its contentions; the religious conversion of the assasin, Dagger, the rise and fall of the surfer Ezequiel; Antonio Carlos, Claudiomiro and, coming between them like a knife, and depraved Dina; the existentialist philosopher No Way and his love affair with the divine lady Di. The narrative of the film is crafted like a puzzle with one story giving way to another for of surrealist, uniquely Brazilian collage of tragedy.

An undercover agent gets caught in a complex plot and must elude drug dealers and international agents if he hopes to survive.