Category Archives: Crime
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.
The Old Man & the Gun
Release 2018
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Director: David Lowery
Writers: David Lowery, David Grann
Stars: Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2837574/
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
Yardie
Release 2018
Genre Crime
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Director: Idris Elba
Writers: Victor Headley, Brock Norman Brock, Martin Stellman
Stars: Antwayne Eccleston, Fraser James, Aml Ameen
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5862902/
Set in '70s Kingston and '80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary). D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd). Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne (Shantol Jackson), and his daughter who he's not seen since she was a baby. He also hooks up with a soundclash crew, called High Noon. But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow "the righteous path", he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier, and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution - a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham).
Replicas
Release 2018
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Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Writers: Chad St. John, Stephen Hamel
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154916/
A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
The Sisters Brothers
Release 2018
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Crime
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Director: Jacques Audiard
Writers: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Patrick DeWitt
Director: Jacques Audiard
Writers: Jacques Audiard (screenplay by), Thomas Bidegain (screenplay by) |
Stars: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4971344/
In 1850s Oregon, a gold prospector is chased by the infamous duo of assassins, the Sisters brothers.