Archive for the ‘Crime’ Category
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: UK
Runtime: 111 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: The true story of a heist gone wrong… in all the right ways.
Cast: Jason Statham … Terry Leather
Saffron Burrows … Martine Love
Stephen Campbell Moore … Kevin Swain
Daniel Mays … Dave Shilling
James Faulkner … Guy Singer
Alki David … Bambas
Michael Jibson … Eddie Burton
Georgia Taylor … Ingrid Burton
Richard Lintern … Tim Everett
Peter Bowles … Miles Urquart
Alistair Petrie … Philip Lisle
Hattie Morahan … Gale Benson
Julian Lewis Jones … Snow
Andrew Brooke … Quinn
Rupert Frazer … Lord Drysdale
Plot: Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London’s Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don’t realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets – secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal. add synopsis
Awards: 1 nomination
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
All Genres:
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 90 min
Languages: English | Spanish
Director:
Tagline: 8 Strangers. 8 Points of View. 1 Truth.
Cast: Dennis Quaid … Thomas Barnes
Matthew Fox … Kent Taylor
Forest Whitaker … Howard Lewis
Bruce McGill … Phil McCullough
Édgar Ramírez … Javier (as Edgar Ramirez)
Saïd Taghmaoui … Suarez
Ayelet Zurer … Veronica
Zoe Saldana … Angie Jones (as Zoë Saldana)
Sigourney Weaver … Rex Brooks
William Hurt … President Ashton
James LeGros … Ted Heinkin (as James Le Gros)
Eduardo Noriega … Enrique
Richard T. Jones … Holden
Holt McCallany … Ron Matthews
Leonardo Nam … Kevin Cross
Plot: The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
All Genres:
Documentary, Crime, War
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 116 min | Germany:118 min (Berlin International Film Festival)
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: I wouldn't recommend a vacation to Iraq anytime soon
Cast: Christopher Bradley … Military Police (as Chris Bradley)
Sarah Denning … Military Police
Robin Dill … OGA
Joshua Feinman … Military Police (as Josh Feinman)
Jeff L. Green … Military Police (as Jeff Green)
Roy Halo … Detainee
Cyrus King … Military Intelligence
Alim Kouliev … OGA / Interrogator
Daniel Novy … Military Police
Zhubin Rahbar … Detainee
Shaun Russell … Military Police
Kami Shahab … Detainee
Charity Sills … Military Intelligence
Plot: Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Awards: 1 win & 5 nominations
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA | Germany
Runtime: 97 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline:
Writers: Kent Harper (writer) Jennifer Chambers Lynch (writer)
Cast: Caroline Aaron … Janet
Hugh Dillon … Dad
David Gane … Grocery Man
Gill Gayle … Officer Degrasso
Kent Harper … Officer Jack Bennett
Michael Ironside … Captain Billings
Pell James … Bobbi Prescott
Daryl Haney … Drug Dealer (as D.R. Haney)
Shannon Jardine … Elaine Meyer
Angela Lamarsh … Maid
Gerald Lenton-Young … Coroner
Jennifer Miles … TV Reporter
Mac Miller … Johnny
Charlie Newmark … Officer Wright
Julia Ormond … Elizabeth Anderson
Plot: Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell.
Awards: 3 wins
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
All Genres:
Documentary, Crime
Release Year: 2008
Country: UK | USA
Runtime: USA:94 min | USA:90 min (Sundance Film Festival)
Languages: English | French
Director:
Tagline: 1974. 1350 feet up. The artistic crime of the century.
Cast: Philippe Petit … Himself
Jean François Heckel … Himself (as Jean-François Heckel)
Jean-Louis Blondeau … Himself
Annie Allix … Herself
David Forman … Himself
Alan Welner … Himself
Mark Lewis … Himself
Barry Greenhouse … Himself (as N. Barry Greenhouse)
Jim Moore … Himself
Guy F. Tozzoli … Himself (as Guy Tozzoli)
Paul McGill … Philippe – Drama Reconstructions
David Demato … Jean-Louis – Drama Reconstructions
Ardis Campbell … Annie – Drama Reconstructions
Aaron Haskell … Jean-François – Drama Reconstructions
Shawn Dempewolff-Barrett … David – Drama Reconstructions (as Shawn Dempewolff)
Plot: A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century.”
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 27 wins & 7 nominations
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 101 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: A cyber killer has finally found the perfect accomplice: You.
Cast: Diane Lane … Jennifer Marsh
Billy Burke … Detective Eric Box
Colin Hanks … Griffin Dowd
Joseph Cross … Owen Reilly
Mary Beth Hurt … Stella Marsh
Peter Lewis … Richard Brooks
Tyrone Giordano … Tim Wilks
Perla Haney-Jardine … Annie Haskins
Tim De Zarn … Herbert Miller (as Tim deZarn)
Christopher Cousins … David Williams (as Chris Cousins)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson … Arthur James Elmer
Trina Adams … Female Cop #3
Brynn Baron … Mrs. Miller
John Breen … Richard Weymouth
Dan Callahan … Trey Restom
Plot: FBI agent Jennifer Marsh is tasked with hunting down a seemingly untraceable serial killer who posts live videos of his victims on the Internet. As time runs out, the cat and mouse chase becomes personal.
Awards: 1 win
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: UK | Ireland
Runtime: 102 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: 5 Men. 4 Walls. 1 Plan.
Writers: Daniel Hardy (writer) Rupert Wyatt (writer)
Cast: Brian Cox … Frank Perry
Damian Lewis … Rizza
Joseph Fiennes … Lenny Drake
Seu Jorge … Viv Batista
Liam Cunningham … Brodie
Dominic Cooper … Lacey
Steven Mackintosh … Tony
Ned Dennehy … Jumpy Con
Vinnie McCabe … Sam (as Vincent McCabe)
Jack Walsh … Sikes
Frank O'Sullivan … Hedges
Stephen Farrelly … Two Ton
Domhnall O'Donoghue … Mary
George Seremba … Stan
Eleanor McLynn … Frank's Daughter
Plot: Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict fourteen years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill…
Awards: 2 wins & 4 nominations
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
All Genres:
Crime, Drama
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 97 min
Languages: English | French | Chinese | Urdu
Director:
Tagline: Desperation knows no borders.
Cast: Melissa Leo … Ray Eddy
Misty Upham … Lila Littlewolf
Charlie McDermott … Troy J. 'T.J.' Eddy
Michael O'Keefe … Trooper Finnerty
Mark Boone Junior … Jacques Bruno
James Reilly … Ricky Eddy
Jay Klaitz … Guy Versailles
John Canoe … Bernie Littlewolf
Dylan Carusona … Jimmy
Michael Sky … Billy Three Rivers
Gargi Shinde … Pakistani Mother
Rajesh Bose … Pakistani Father
Azin Jahanbakhsh … Pakistani Dealer
Jack Phillips … Pakistani Baby
James Phillips … Pakistani Baby
Plot: Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec… add synopsis
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 14 nominations
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: Spain | Germany | UK | Lithuania
Runtime: 111 min
Languages: English | Russian | Spanish | Chinese | French
Director:
Tagline: Arrive on time.
Cast: Woody Harrelson … Roy
Emily Mortimer … Jessie
Ben Kingsley … Grinko
Kate Mara … Abby
Eduardo Noriega … Carlos
Thomas Kretschmann … Kolzak
Etienne Chicot … Frenchman
Mac McDonald … Minister
Colin Stinton … Embassy Official
Perlis Vaisieta … Manager Hotel Pushkin
Mindaugas Papinigis … Young Detective
Mindaugas Capas … Military Officer
Visockaite Sonata … Female Train Attendant #1 (as Sonata Visockaite)
Larisa Kalpokaite … Female Train Attendant #2
Valentinas Krulikovskis … Young Waiter
Plot: A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
Awards: 2 wins & 11 nominations
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: UK | USA
Runtime: 107 min
Languages: English | German
Director:
Tagline: Shoot first. Sightsee later.
Cast: Elizabeth Berrington … Natalie
Rudy Blomme … Ticket Seller
Olivier Bonjour … Film Director
Mark Donovan … Overweight Man
Ann Elsley … Overweight Woman #2
Colin Farrell … Ray
Jean-Marc Favorin … Policeman
Ralph Fiennes … Harry Walters
Brendan Gleeson … Ken
Eric Godon … Yuri
Zeljko Ivanek … Canadian Guy
Sachi Kimura … Imamoto
Anna Madeley … Denise
Louis Nummy … Harry's child #3
Clémence Poésy … Chloë Villette
Plot: Holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, two hit men begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs.
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 13 wins & 32 nominations
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
All Genres:
Comedy, Crime, Romance
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 104 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: They're having the crime of their lives…
Cast: Diane Keaton … Bridget Cardigan
Ted Danson … Don Cardigan
Katie Holmes … Jackie Truman
Adam Rothenberg … Bob Truman
Queen Latifah … Nina Brewster
Peyton 'Alex' Smith … Older Dante (as Peyton Smith)
Charlie Caldwell … Cop #1
Richard F Law … Cop #2 (as Richard Law)
Meagen Fay … Mindy Arbogast
Christopher McDonald … Bryce Arbogast (as Chris McDonald)
Denise Lee … Counselor
Sylvia Castro Galan … Selina
Morgana Shaw … Molly
Roger R. Cross … Barry (as Roger Cross)
Stephen Root … Glover
Plot: Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
All Genres:
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: USA:96 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: Keep the faith. Steal the rest.
Cast: Ice Cube … Durell
Katt Williams … Rickey
Tracy Morgan … LeeJohn
Loretta Devine … Sister Doris
Michael Beach … Deacon
Keith David … Judge B. Bennet Galloway
Regina Hall … Omunique
Malinda Williams … Tianna
Chi McBride … Pastor Arthur Mitchell
Clifton Powell … Officer Eddie King
Nicholas Turturro … Officer D'Agostino
Olivia Cole … Momma T
Red Grant … Harold
C.J. Sanders … Durell Jr.
Rickey Smiley … Bernice Jenkins
Plot: Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much than they bargained for. add synopsis
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
All Genres:
Crime, Thriller
Release Year: 2007
Country: USA
Runtime: 84 min
Languages: English | Japanese
Director:
Tagline: Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one.
Cast: Hayden Christensen … Clay Beresford
Jessica Alba … Sam Lockwood
Terrence Howard … Dr. Jack Harper
Lena Olin … Lilith Beresford
Christopher McDonald … Dr. Larry Lupin
Sam Robards … Clayton Beresford Sr.
Arliss Howard … Dr. Jonathan Neyer
Fisher Stevens … Dr. Puttnam
Georgina Chapman … Penny Carver
David Harbour … Dracula
Steven Hinkle … Young Clay (as Stephen Hinkle)
Denis O'Hare … Financial News Analyst
Charlie Hewson … Brian the Orderly
Court Young … Officer Doherty
Joseph Costa … Dr. Elbogen
Plot: The story focuses on a man who suffers “anesthetic awareness” and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His mother must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them, while trying to unfold the story hidden behind her son’s young wife.
Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
All Genres:
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2007
Country: France | USA
Runtime: 89 min | 90 min (unrated version)
Languages: English | Russian | Serbo-Croatian
Director:
Tagline:
Cast: Timothy Olyphant … Agent 47
Dougray Scott … Mike Whittier
Olga Kurylenko … Nika Boronina
Robert Knepper … Yuri Marklov
Ulrich Thomsen … Mikhail Belicoff
Henry Ian Cusick … Udre Belicoff
Michael Offei … Jenkins
Christian Erickson … General Kormarov
Eriq Ebouaney … Bwana Ovie
Joe Sheridan … Captain Gudnayev
James Faulkner … Smith Jamison
Jean-Marc Bellu … Hitman #2
Nicky Naude … Hitman #3
Abdou Sagna … Hitman #4
Ilya Nikitenko … Hitman #5
Plot: A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as ‘The Organization’ is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Europe.
Awards: 1 win
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
All Genres:
Crime, Horror, Thriller
Release Year: 2007
Country: USA | Canada
Runtime: 93 min | 96 min (unrated director's cut)
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: It's a Trap
Writers: Patrick Melton (screenplay) & Marcus Dunstan (screenplay) …
Cast: Tobin Bell … Jigsaw / John
Costas Mandylor … Hoffman
Scott Patterson … Agent Strahm
Betsy Russell … Jill
Lyriq Bent … Rigg
Athena Karkanis … Agent Perez
Justin Louis … Art
Simon Reynolds … Lamanna
Donnie Wahlberg … Eric Matthews
Angus Macfadyen … Jeff
Shawnee Smith … Amanda (archive footage)
Bahar Soomekh … Lynn
Dina Meyer … Kerry
Mike Realba … Fisk
Marty Adams … Ivan
Plot: Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry’s murder, two seasoned FBI profilers…
Awards: 1 win & 5 nominations
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
All Genres:
Crime, Drama
Release Year: 2007
Country: USA
Runtime: 157 min | USA:176 min (unrated version)
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: There are two sides to the American dream.
Cast: Denzel Washington … Frank Lucas
Russell Crowe … Richie Roberts
Chiwetel Ejiofor … Huey Lucas
Josh Brolin … Detective Trupo
Lymari Nadal … Eva
Ted Levine … Lou Toback
Roger Guenveur Smith … Nate
John Hawkes … Freddie Spearman
RZA … Moses Jones
Yul Vazquez … Alfonso Abruzzo
Malcolm Goodwin … Jimmy Zee
Ruby Dee … Mama Lucas
Ruben Santiago-Hudson … Doc
Carla Gugino … Laurie Roberts
Skyler Fortgang … Michael Roberts
Plot: In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 28 nominations
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 2007
Country: USA | Canada
Runtime: 91 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep?
Cast: Chris Cooper … Harry Allen
Annabel Kershaw … Miss Jones
Pierce Brosnan … Richard Langley
Patricia Clarkson … Pat Allen
Rachel McAdams … Kay Nesbitt
Sheila Paterson … Mrs. Walsh
David Richmond-Peck … Tom
Erin Boyes … Becky
Elijah St. Germain … Little Charlie
Terence Kelly … Dr. Anderson
Timothy Webber … Alvin Walters
Rebecca Codling … Photo Store Clerk
David Wenham … John O'Brien
Dolores Drake … Cinema Cashier
Malcolm Boddington … Well-Tailored Man
Plot: A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife’s death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce. add synopsis
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 2007
Country: UK
Runtime: 106 min
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: Who Decides Who Gets A Second Chance?
Writers: Jonathan Trigell (novel) Mark O'Rowe (screenplay)
Cast: Andrew Garfield … Jack Burridge
Peter Mullan … Terry
Siobhan Finneran … Kelly
Alfie Owen … Eric Wilson
Victoria Brazier … Teacher
Skye Bennett … Angela
Madeleine Rakic-Platt … Schoolgirl
Josef Altin … Bully
Dudley Brewis … 2nd Bully
Leigh Symonds … Eric's Dad
Maria Gough … Eric's Mum
Taylor Doherty … Philip Craig
Jeremy Swift … Dave
Shaun Evans … Chris
Carlene Hanson … Waitress
Plot: The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child.
Awards: 10 wins & 8 nominations
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 2007
Country: UK | Canada | USA
Runtime: 100 min | Canada:96 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Languages: English | Russian | Turkish | Ukrainian | Urdu
Director:
Tagline: Every sin leaves a mark.
Cast: Josef Altin … Ekrem
Mina E. Mina … Azim
Aleksander Mikic … Soyka
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse … Tatiana (as Sarah Jeanne Labrosse)
Lalita Ahmed … Customer
Badi Uzzaman … Chemist
Naomi Watts … Anna
Doña Croll … Nurse (as Dona Croll)
Raza Jaffrey … Doctor Aziz
Sinéad Cusack … Helen (as Sinead Cusack)
Jerzy Skolimowski … Stepan
Tatiana Maslany … Tatiana (voice)
Viggo Mortensen … Nikolai
Vincent Cassel … Kirill
Armin Mueller-Stahl … Semyon
Plot: A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 24 wins & 35 nominations
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
All Genres:
Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Release Year: 2007
Country: Russia
Runtime: 159 min
Languages: Russian | Chechen
Director:
Tagline:
Writers: Nikita Mikhalkov (writer) & Aleksandr Novototsky (writer) …
Cast: Sergei Makovetsky … Juror #1
Nikita Mikhalkov … Juror #2
Sergey Garmash … Juror #3
Valentin Gaft … Juror #4
Aleksei Petrenko … Juror #5
Yuriy Stoyanov … Juror #6
Sergey Gazarov … Juror #7
Mikhail Efremov … Juror #8
Aleksey Gorbunov … Juror #9
Sergei Artsybashev … Juror #10
Viktor Verzhbitskiy … Juror #11
Roman Madyanov … Juror #12
Aleksandr Adabashyan … Bailiff
Apti Magamaev … The Boy
Abdi Magamayev … Little Chechen
Plot: 12 jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather.
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination
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