Posts Tagged ‘robbery-gone-awry’

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Cazale, John | Durning, Charles | Sarandon, Chris | Boyar, Sully | Broderick, James | Marriott, John | Springer, Gary | Henriksen, Lance | Chianese, Dominic | Levine, Floyd | Foresta, Carmine | Bogert, William | Cummins, Ron | Gerber, Jay
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Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with the robbery, Sonny finds that there’s actually nothing much to steal, as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city’s entire police force. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, demanding safe escort to the airport and a plane out of the country in return for the bank employees’ safety.

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Hawke, Ethan | Finney, Albert | Tomei, Marisa | Harris, Rosemary | Palladino, Aleksa | Shannon, Michael | Ryan, Amy | O'Byrne, Brian F. | Horton, Blaine | Bareikis, Arija | Cimino, Leonardo | Wilkof, Lee | Gupton, Damon | Martinez, Adrian
Directors: Lumet, Sidney
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Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.

Lookout, The (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | Daniels, Jeff | Goode, Matthew | Fisher, Isla | Gugino, Carla | McGill, Bruce | Watson, Alberta | Borstein, Alex | Di Zio, Sergio | Huband, David | Vandervoort, Laura | Dunham, Greg | Kelly, Morgan | Berg, Aaron | Korey, Tinsel
Directors: Frank, Scott
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An admired high school hockey player (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend (Jeff Daniels) who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader (Matthew Goode) befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman (Isla Fisher) who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. Bruce McGill and Alberta Watson also co-star as the young man’s parents, who still search for the person that was there before the tragic crash.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Kilmer, Val | Monaghan, Michelle | Bernsen, Corbin | Mihok, Dash | Miller, Larry | Dunbar, Rockmond | Sossamon, Shannyn | Lindvall, Angela | Downey, Indio Falconer | Winter, Ariel | Carnahan, Duane | Richman, Josh | Hackett, Martha | Fish, Nancy
Directors: Black, Shane
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A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who’s been training him for his upcoming role…

Panic Room (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Stewart, Kristen | Whitaker, Forest | Yoakam, Dwight | Leto, Jared | Bauchau, Patrick | Magnuson, Ann | Buchanan, Ian | Walker, Andrew Kevin | Schulze, Paul | Rodriguez, Mel | Conant, Richard | Simon, Paul | Thrash, Victor | Turner, Ken
Directors: Fincher, David
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After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a “panic room” which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room’s hotline to the police hasn’t been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn’t contain any sugar…