Category Archives: Crime
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.
Charlie Says
Release 2018
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Director: Mary Harron
Writers: Guinevere Turner, Karlene Faith, Ed Sanders
Stars: Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon, Suki Waterhouse
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1759744/
The tragic tale of an all-American girl who was transformed into a cold-blooded killer in the summer of 1969.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Release 2019
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Director: Joe Berlinger
Writers: Elizabeth Kendall, Michael Werwie
Stars: Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2481498/
A courtroom frenzy ensues and sweeps 1970s America when a young single mother reluctantly tips the attention of a widespread manhunt toward her longtime boyfriend, Ted Bundy.
Cold Pursuit
Release 2019
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Director: Hans Petter Moland
Writers: Frank Baldwin, Kim Fupz Aakeson
Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Micheál Richardson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5719748/
A grieving snowplow driver seeks out revenge against the drug dealers who killed his son. Based on the 2014 Norwegian film 'In Order of Disappearance'.