Category Archives: Crime
Saving Zoë
Release 2019
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Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writers: Brian J. Adams, LeeAnne H. Adams, Alyson Noel
Stars: Laura Marano, Christopher Brophy, Nathaniel Buzolic
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7319822/
It's been a year since her older sister's murder, and Echo is still far from being completely all right. Echo has been trying her hardest to be the strong one, while her mother takes too many antidepressants and her father works too much. Now, at the start of her freshman year of high school, Echo receives an unlikely gift from Zoe's old boyfriend: her diary. Echo is hesitant to read it but can't put it down after she gets caught up in Zoe's secret life.
Killers Anonymous
Release 2019
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Director: Martin Owen
Writers: Seth Johnson, Elizabeth Morris, Martin Owen
Stars: Gary Oldman, Jessica Alba, David Alexander
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8400758/
A support group of killers is held regularly, the participants sit in a circle of trust and share their transgressions.
Shaft
Release 2019
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Director: Tim Story
Writers: Kenya Barris, Alex Barnow, Ernest Tidyman
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Richard Roundtree
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4463894/
John Shaft Jr., a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, enlists his family's help to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death.
City of Lies
Release 2018
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Director: Brad Furman
Writers: Randall Sullivan, Christian Contreras
Stars: Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Toby Huss
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2677722/
Russell Poole and Jack Jackson investigate the murders of rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
Vault
Release 2019
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Director: Tom DeNucci
Writers: Tom DeNucci, B. Dolan
Stars: Theo Rossi, Clive Standen, Samira Wiley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6838918/
Vault tells a story about a group of small time criminals in 1975 who attempt to pull off the biggest heist in American history; stealing over $30 million from the Mafia in the smallest state in the union, Rhode Island.
Stockholm
Release 2018
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Director: Robert Budreau
Writer: Robert Budreau
Stars: Mark Strong, Noomi Rapace, Ethan Hawke
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6474040/
Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.
Avengement
Release 2019
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Director: Jesse V. Johnson
Writers: Jesse V. Johnson, Stu Small
Stars: Scott Adkins, Craig Fairbrass, Thomas Turgoose
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8836988/
While released on furlough from prison, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old haunts to take revenge on the people that made him a cold-hearted killer. It's an epic, bloody battle to search for the soul he lost years ago on the streets of an unforgiving city.
A Violent Separation
Release 2019
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Director: Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz
Writers: Michael Arkof
Stars: Alycia Debnam-Carey, Brenton Thwaites, Ted Levine
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3170458/
Two brothers struggle with a terrible truth behind a tragedy that aims to tear three generations of a family apart.