Category Archives: Crime
Holmes & Watson
Release 2018
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Crime
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Director: Etan Cohen
Writers: Etan Cohen, Arthur Conan Doyle
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Will Ferrell, Kelly Macdonald
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255919/
A humorous take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
London Fields
Release 2018
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Mathew Cullen
Writers: Roberta Hanley, Martin Amis
Stars: Amber Heard, Gemma Chan, Cara Delevingne
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1273221/
Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.
Destroyer
Release 2018
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Director: Karyn Kusama
Writers: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7137380/
A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Release 2018
Genre Biography, Comedy, Crime
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Director: Marielle Heller
Writers: Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty
Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4595882/
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
If Beale Street Could Talk
Release 2018
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Director: Barry Jenkins
Writers: Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin
Stars: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7125860/
A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.
Widows
Release 2018
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Director: Steve McQueen
Writers: Gillian Flynn, Steve McQueen, Lynda La Plante
Stars: Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Jon Bernthal
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4218572/
Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Polar
Release 2019
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Director: Jonas Åkerlund
Writers: Jayson Rothwell, Víctor Santos
Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4139588/
The world's top assassin, Duncan Vizla, is settling into retirement when his former employer marks him as a liability to the firm. Against his will, he finds himself back in the game going head to head with an army of younger killers.
The Girl in the Spider's Web
Release 2018
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Director: Fede Alvarez
Writers: David Lagercrantz, Stieg Larsson, Jay Basu, Fede Alvarez, Steven Knight
Stars: Claire Foy, Beau Gadsdon, Sverrir Gudnason
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5177088/
Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.
King of Thieves
Release 2018
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Director: James Marsh
Writers: Joe Penhall, Mark Seal
Stars: Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, Charlie Cox
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5789976/
A true crime film about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed. Based on infamous true events.
The Hate U Give
Release 2018
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Director: George Tillman Jr.
Writers: Audrey Wells, Angie Thomas
Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580266/
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.