Posts Tagged ‘criminal’

Blow (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Cruz, Penélope | Potente, Franka | Griffiths, Rachel | Reubens, Paul | Mollà, Jordi | Curtis, Cliff | Sandoval, Miguel | Suplee, Ethan | Liotta, Ray | Gage, Kevin | Perlich, Max | James, Jesse | Pérez, Miguel | Ferro, Dan
Directors: Demme, Ted
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970’s. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.

Don’t Say a Word (2001)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Bean, Sean | Murphy, Brittany | McCole Bartusiak, Skye | Torry, Guy | Esposito, Jennifer | Shawn Doyle | Argo, Victor | Goode, Conrad | Schulze, Paul | Reddick, Lance | Janssen, Famke | Platt, Oliver | Devine, Aidan | Campbell, Alex
Directors: Gary Fleder
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A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick (Sean Bean), and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy). Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan’s daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him.

Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fisher, Frances | Cage, Nicolas | Ribisi, Giovanni | Jolie, Angelina | Cross, T.J. | Scott, William Lee | Caan, Scott | Duval, James | Patton, Will | Lindo, Delroy | Olyphant, Timothy | McBride, Chi | Duvall, Robert | Eccleston, Christopher | Jones, Vinnie | Zabriskie, Grace
Directors: Sena, Dominic
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Car theft in Long Beach went down 47% when Randall “Memphis” Raines walked away from the life. He gets dragged back into it by assuming the job his brother Kip screwed up for stolen-car broker Raymond Calitri: steal 50 exotic cars and have them on a container ship by 8 AM Friday morning, and he got this news on a Monday. With Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip, and the police GRAB unit breathing down his neck, Memphis reassembles his old crew and attempts to pull off the logistically impossible.

Die Hard (1988)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | VelJohnson, Reginald | Johnson, Reginald | Bedelia, Bonnie | Godunov, Alexander | Gleason, Paul | Atherton, William | White, De'voreaux | Bochner, Hart | Rickman, Alan | Hayden, Dennis | Gilyard Jr., Clarence | Doyon, Bruno | Wisniewski, Andreas | Shigeta, James | Davi, Robert
Directors: McTiernan, John
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New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John’s wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40 story building. John stayed in New York because he didn’t think Holly would make it out in Los Angeles, and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug-snorting co-worker Harry Ellis because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While John is by himself in the office, John is wishing that the argument hadn’t happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don’t even know that John is in the building. John heads to the upper floors, which are still under construction. Hans takes Holly’s boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office, where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building’s safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and Theo thinks it’ll take a couple of hours to do it. John frantically tries to find a way to alert the LAPD, realizing that the main phone lines in the building have been cut. Once the police do arrive, they prove to be incompetent under the command of arrogant deputy chief Dwayne T. Robinson, so it’s up to John to rescue the hostages.

Empire (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leguizamo, John | Sarsgaard, Peter | Richards, Denise | Laresca, Vincent | Rossellini, Isabella | Braga, Sonia | Cotto, Delilah | Serrano, Nestor | Criss, Anthony 'Treach' | Báez, Rafael | Joe, Fat | Leon, Carlos | Solis, Félix | Pastran, Omar | Campbell, Rob B.
Directors: Reyes, Franc.
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Victor (Leguizamo), is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack (Sarsgaard), a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor’s name (and money) written all over it.

Usual Suspects, The (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Baldwin, Stephen | Byrne, Gabriel | Del Toro, Benicio | Pollak, Kevin | Spacey, Kevin | Palminteri, Chazz | Postlethwaite, Pete | Esposito, Giancarlo | Hedaya, Dan | Amis, Suzy | Bartel, Paul | Bressler, Carl | Simon, Phillip | Shearer, Jack | Estabrook, Christine
Directors: Singer, Bryan
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After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won’t leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent “Keyser Soze” is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot.

Hard Word, The (2002)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Pearce, Guy | Griffiths, Rachel | Taylor, Robert | Edgerton, Joel | Richardson, Damien | Findleton, Rhondda | Atkinson, Kate | Colosimo, Vince | Sonkkila, Paul | Gyngell, Kym | Nkono, Dorian | Whittaker, Stephen | Neilson, Torquil | Bridges, Don | Bowles, Doug
Directors: Roberts, Scott
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Dick Tracy (1990)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Korsmo, Charlie | O'Donnell, Michael Donovan | Wilkey, Jim | Eldred, Stig | Summers, Neil | Hicks, Chuck | Meyers, Lawrence Steven | Forsythe, William | O'Ross, Ed | Headly, Glenne | Cariaga, Marvelee | Gallup, Michael | Cassel, Seymour | Keane, James
Directors: Beatty, Warren
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All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there’s something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistable Breathless Mahoney.

Wonderland (2003)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Kilmer, Val | Bosworth, Kate | Kudrow, Lisa | Lucas, Josh | Nelson, Tim Blake | McDermott, Dylan | Applegate, Christina | Bogosian, Eric | Fisher, Carrie | G, Franky | Gainey, M.C. | Garofalo, Janeane | Levine, Ted | Love, Faizon | Gregson Wagner, Natasha
Directors: Cox, James
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John Holmes (Val Kilmer) was a legend of the porn industry and revered in circles as a stud. But in 1981, years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. He’s estranged from his wife (Lisa Kudrow), holding onto a relationship with his teenage mistress (Kate Bosworth), and living as a junkie in search of his next fix. But one fateful night left four people dead and John as a key suspect in one of the most grisly murders in Los Angeles. Was he partly responsible for what happened at Wonderland Avenue?