Category Archives: Crime
Boneyard
Release 2024
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Director: Asif Akbar
Writers: Asif Akbar, Hank Byrd, Vincent E. McDaniel
Stars: Mel Gibson, Nora Zehetner, Gabrielle Haugh, 50 Cent, Brian Van Holt
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10993078/
Inspired by the true events of a serial killer that may still be out there today.
Hit Man
Release 2023
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Director: Richard Linklater
Writers: Richard Linklater, Glen Powell, Skip Hollandsworth
Stars: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta, Austin Amelio, Molly Bernard
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20215968/
A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services.
Boy Kills World
Release 2023
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Director: Moritz Mohr
Writers: Tyler Burton Smith, Arend Remmers, Moritz Mohr
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13923084/
A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
End of the Rope
Release 2023
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Director: Charlie Griak
Writers: Daniel Bielinski, Dennis Johnson, Charlie Griak
Stars: Joseph Gray, Chris Bylsma, Nick Saxton, Joseph Bezenek, Tiffany Cornwell
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12909420/
When a family mysteriously disappears from the town of Schafer, North Dakota, suspicion lands on a sociopathic farmhand. Based on the true story of the infamous Charles Bannon case of 1931.
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Release 2023
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Director: Francis Galluppi
Writer: Francis Galluppi
Stars: Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Nicholas Logan, Faizon Love
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11674730/
While stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop, a traveling salesman is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.
Love Lies Bleeding
Release 2024
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Rose Glass
Writers: Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska
Stars: Anna Baryshnikov, Kristen Stewart, Dave Franco, Katy O'Brian, Jena Malone
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19637052/
Gym manager Lou falls for Jackie, a bodybuilder who is passing through town en route to a competition in Las Vegas.
LaRoy, Texas
Release 2023
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Director: Shane Atkinson
Stars: Steve Zahn, John Magaro, Galadriel Stineman
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20102596/
A man named Ray discovers his wife is cheating on him and decides to kill himself. Before he can pull the trigger, he is mistaken for a low-rent hired killer. Desperate for a little respect, and with nothing else to live for, Ray decides to take the job — and soon begins to question whether he made the right choice.
Damaged
Release 2024
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Director: Terry McDonough
Writers: Paul Aniello, Gianni Capaldi, Koji Steven Sakai
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Vincent Cassel, Gianni Capaldi, Laura Haddock, John Hannah
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27304026/
Dan Lawson (Jackson), a Chicago detective, travels to Scotland to link up with Scottish Det. Boyd (Capaldi), following the resurgence of a serial killer who's crimes match an unsolved case that he looked into 5 years previous in Chicago.
Sleeping Dogs
Release 2024
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Adam Cooper
Writers: Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, E.O. Chirovici
Stars: Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Marton Csokas, Tommy Flanagan, Kelly Greyson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8542964/
An ex-homicide detective with memory loss is forced to solve a brutal murder, only to uncover chilling secrets from his forgotten past.
Strictly Confidential
Release 2024
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Director: Damian Hurley
Writer: Damian Hurley
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley, Lauren McQueen, Genevieve Gaunt, Georgia Lock, Freddie Thorp
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22805652/
A haunted young woman finds herself drawn into a world of seduction, duplicity and betrayal as she desperately tries to uncover the mystery surrounding her best friend's suicide.