Category Archives: Crime
The Gentlemen
Release 2019
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Director: Guy Ritchie
Writers: Guy Ritchie, Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Lyne Renee
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8367814/
An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Human Capital
Release 2019
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Director: Marc Meyers
Writers: Stephen Amidon, Oren Moverman
Stars: Marisa Tomei, Peter Sarsgaard, Maya Hawke, Alex Wolff, Liev Schreiber
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9185066/
The lives of two different families collide when their children begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.
Above Suspicion
Release 2019
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Director: Phillip Noyce
Writers: Chris Gerolmo, Joe Sharkey
Stars: Thora Birch, Emilia Clarke, Karl Glusman, Jack Huston, Johnny Knoxville
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5688068/
The story that lead to the first conviction for murder of an FBI agent.
The Postcard Killings
Release 2020
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Director: Danis Tanovic
Writers: Liza Marklund, Liza Marklund, James Patterson
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Famke Janssen, Naomi Battrick, Ruairi O'Connor, Cush Jumbo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4106514/
A New York detective investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London; he recruits the help of a Scandinavian journalist when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate.
Abstruse
Release 2019
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Director: Harley Wallen
Writer: Harley Wallen
Stars: Tom Sizemore, Dennis Haskins, Harley Wallen, Calhoun Koenig, Kaiti Wallen
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6271432/
Two young women get themselves into a very compromising situation that proves life changing, the aftermath is almost worse as all trails of the event has been wiped out and all of a sudden the tables turn and Amanda goes from being the victim to the accused. Amanda's father decides to look into it only to realize it's much bigger than they first anticipated. The story heads to a Good Vs. Evil showdown to settle the score.
Spenser Confidential
Release 2020
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Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Sean O'Keefe, Brian Helgeland, Ace Atkins
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Colleen Camp, Iliza Shlesinger, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8629748/
When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate, Hawk, to take down criminals.
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Release 2020
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime
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Director: Cathy Yan
Writers: Christina Hodson, Paul Dini, Bruce Timm
Stars: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Ewan McGregor
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7713068/
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Villain
Release 2020
Genre Crime
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Director: Philip Barantini
Writers: Greg Hall, George Russo
Stars: Craig Fairbrass, Robert Glenister, Nicholas Aaron, Tomi May, Izuka Hoyle
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9820352/
Eddie Franks is a former criminal who attempts to help his family by reconnecting with his daughter and clearing his brother's debt. Despite his efforts, he is drawn back into a criminal way of life, with devastating consequences.
The Last Thing He Wanted
Release 2020
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Director: Dee Rees
Writers: Joan Didion, Dee Rees, Marco Villalobos
Stars: Rosie Perez, Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Willem Dafoe, Edi Gathegi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7456312/
A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.
Parasite
Release 2019
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Director: Bong Joon Ho
Writers: Bong Joon Ho (story), Bong Joon Ho (screenplay)
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/
All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident.