Category Archives: Crime
Contraband
Release 2012
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Writers: Aaron Guzikowski, Arnaldur Indriðason, Óskar Jónasson
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1524137/
To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.
Transporter 2
Release 2005
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Director: Louis Leterrier
Writers: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, Matthew Modine
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388482/
Mercenary Frank Martin, who specializes moving goods of all kinds, surfaces again this time in Miami, Florida when he's implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.
Transporter 3
Release 2008
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
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Director: Olivier Megaton
Writers: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, François Berléand, Robert Knepper, Jeroen Krabbé
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129442/
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
Pain & Gain
Release 2013
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Pete Collins
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub, Ed Harris
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209/
A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.
Seven Psychopaths
Release 2012
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Director: Martin McDonagh
Stars: Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sam Rockwell, Colin Farrell, Abbie Cornish
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Jack Reacher
Release 2012
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Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Lee Child
Stars: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo, Werner Herzog
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.
Looper
Release 2012
Genre Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Savages
Release 2012
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Director: Oliver Stone
Writers: Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Oliver Stone
Stars: Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jana Banker, Candra Docherty
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615065/
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Man on a Ledge
Release 2012
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Director: Asger Leth
Writers: Pablo F. Fenjves
Stars: Sam Worthington, Mandy Gonzalez, William Sadler, Barbara Marineau, J. Smith-Cameron
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568338/
As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion.
21 Jump Street
Release 2012
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Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Writers: Michael Bacall, Jonah Hill, Patrick Hasburgh, Stephen J. Cannell
Stars: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Rob Riggle
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232829/
A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.