Posts Tagged ‘Crime’

Nailed (2006)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Porter, Charles | Heredia, Wilson Jermaine | Sarpong, Sam | LePorte, George | Stoney, Ray | Hilton, Marshal | Maguire, Henry | Salahuddin, Bashir | Zacher, Rory | Casey, Patrick | Donea, Marcel | Shaheen, Steve | Dours, Jed | Dunlop, Christian | Webb, Gerald
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“Nailed” is a thriller about two men who break into a house looking for valuables, and find instead a man lying on a bed, covered in bandages, whose caretaker may have intentions that are less than honorable. All is not as it seems as things begin to go wrong for the thieves and the plot takes a turn for the worse, bringing the supernatural into play.

Basketball Diaries, The (1995)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Bracco, Lorraine | Sokol, Marilyn | Madio, James | McGaw, Patrick | Wahlberg, Mark | Cooper, Roy | Kirby, Bruno | Papiris, Jimmy | Gaetani, Nick | Chaplin, Alexander | Jorgensen, Ben | Mostel, Josh | Lewis, Juliette | Imperioli, Michael
Directors: Kalvert, Scott
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (”Swifty”) who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim’s dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s mounting concern for her son. He can’t go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.

Walk All Over Me (2007)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Bluteau, Lothaire | Eklund, Michael | Tierney, Jacob | Adamthwaite, Michael | McMillan, Ross | Wall, Darren | Bell, Mike | Cassidy, Cory | Fehr, Darcy | Khan, Omar | Ouellette, Nick | Skene, Rick | Woytowich, Will
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A small town girl runs into big time trouble as she takes on her roommates identity as a dominatrix to pay the bills.

Identity Theft (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Chávez, Antonio | Tapia-Montt, Cristobal | Villarreal, Raul | Gros, Sam
Directors: Rates, Alfredo
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When a drug deal turns into a bloodbath, a junkie-gangster crosses paths with an illegal alien. The illegal alien ends up with the gangster’s ID and uses it to create a new successful life as a US citizen. A near death experience causes the gangster to re-evaluate his life, and when he leaves prison three years later, he is clean, sober, and ready to put his life back together. But both men are haunted by their pasts and they are soon set on a collision course that may destroy them and the women they love.

New Jack City (1991)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Ice-T | Payne, Allen | Rock, Chris | Michele, Michael | Nunn, Bill | Wong, Russell | Cobbs, Bill | Williams, Christopher | Nelson, Judd | Williams, Vanessa | Johns, Tracy Camilla | DeSando, Anthony | Ashford, Nick
Directors: Van Peebles, Mario
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In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie’s mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well.

Crime Fiction (2007)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Eliot, Jonathan | Stolte, Christian | Sloan, Amy | Peyankov, Yasen | Lenk, Katrina | Bakkedahl, Dan | Leydig, Deborah | Ho, Tonray | Liebow, Franette | Boettcher, David | Dichter, Paul | Castro, Ramiro | Tamburri, Jack | Reed, Courtney | Warren, Darryl
Directors: Slocombe, Will
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Will you kill for a good story? If you are James Cooper, a 28 year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom, you will. After all, your girlfriend was just crowned the “voice of a new America” by the New York literati, and you waste your days editing third-rate textbooks in a dreary Chicago basement. Your first book got panned. Your agent just dumped you. You have no future. But when your girlfriend’s corpse ends up sprawled beneath your bedroom window, you finally know what to write about. Crime Fiction is the story of murder, betrayal and outrageous artistic fortune.

Scream (1996)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, David | Campbell, Neve | Cox, Courteney | Ulrich, Skeet | McGowan, Rose | Lillard, Matthew | Kennedy, Jamie | Brown, W. Earl | Barrymore, Drew | Whipp, Joseph | Hecht, Lawrence | Jackson, Roger | Booth, David | Schreiber, Liev | Walls, Kevin Patrick
Directors: Craven, Wes
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A teenage girl (Neve Campbell) becomes the target of a killer who has stalked and killed one of her classmates. A tabloid news reporter (Courtney Cox) is determined to uncover the truth, insisting that the man who raped and killed Campbell’s mother one year earlier is the same man who is terrorizing her now. Campbell’s boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) becomes the prime suspect.

One Night at McCool’s (2001)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Dillon, Matt | Smith, Mary Jo | Douglas, Michael | Reiser, Paul | McEntire, Reba | Goodman, John | Jenkins, Richard | Martin, Sandy | Tyler, Liv | Clay, Andrew Dice | Sarabia, Ric | De Zarn, Tim | Leo Rossi | Neukirch, Rob | Bendewald, Andrea
Directors: Zwart, Harald
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After another hard night at McCool’s, bartender Randy runs into Jewel. The seductive lady seems to have evaded a rape pretty closely, and when the man comes back, she puts a bullet in his head. After all these events (and others), Randy takes Jewel home, and the two become a couple. Yet Jewel begins to develop into a very demanding girlfriend and drives Randy into committing crimes for her and her elaborate lifestyle. Randy’s cousin Carl is driven crazy by Randy’s incredibly sexy girl as well as the investigating officer, Detective Dehling.

Office Space (1999)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Livingston, Ron | Aniston, Jennifer | Herman, David | Naidu, Ajay | Bader, Diedrich | Root, Stephen | Cole, Gary | Riehle, Richard | Wentworth, Alexandra | Bays, Joe | McGinley, John C. | Willson, Paul | McInroe, Kinna | Duffey, Todd | Pitts, Greg
Directors: Judge, Mike
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Peter Gibbons just can’t seem to catch a break. His girlfriend is cheating on him, he has an obnoxious neighbor, and he’s completely miserable with his job as a small cog in a company called Initech. Then he visits a hypnotherapist, who dies just after putting Peter into a state of complete bliss. Free of worrying about making a living, he no longer feels the need to keep his job, just as the company is going through a massive downsizing. However, his new attitude only makes him more valuable in the company’s eyes, and his friends Michael and Samir are fired instead. Together, they scheme to plant a virus inside Initech’s computer system that will pull money into their own account.

Catwoman (2004)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Berry, Halle | Bratt, Benjamin | Stone, Sharon | Wilson, Lambert | Conroy, Frances | Borstein, Alex | Massee, Michael | Mann, Byron | Smith, Kim | Heyerdahl, Christopher | Wingfield, Peter | McKenzie, Berend | Nelson-Murray, Chase | Petruzzelli, Manny | Reiner, Harley
Directors: Pitof
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Catwoman is the story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips (Halle Berry), a woman who can’t seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she’s dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.