Category Archives: Crime

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

IMDB Rating: 6.70
9129 votes

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CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs makes his first robbery, and when he wakes up in the morning he has no memory of it. Things get really complicated when he starts investigating the case. Will he be able to uncover... himself?
Actors
SamJohn Tormey
MizeJohn Schuck
C.W. BriggsWoody Allen
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (6)

Exit Wounds

IMDB Rating: 5.10
8289 votes

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Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn't follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it's very difficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust.
Actors
Latrell WalkerDMX
Orin BoydSteven Seagal
George ClarkIsaiah Washington
Also posted in 2001, Action, Drama, Thriller | Comments (9)

The 51st State

IMDB Rating: 6.10
11282 votes

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Elmo McElroy (Jackson) is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort (Carlyle) and his ex-girlfriend (Mortimer) and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.
Actors
Rhys Ifans
Sean Pertwee
Ricky Tomlinson
Also posted in 2001, Action, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Fast and the Furious

IMDB Rating: 5.70
33914 votes

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The Fast & The Furious is loosely based on an article in a magazine about street clubs that race Japanese cars late at night. The film stars Vin Diesel as Domenic Toretto, the leader of a street gang that is under suspicion of stealing expensive electronic equipment. Paul Walker plays an undercover police officer that attempts to find out who exactly is stealing the equipment, while falling for Domenic's younger sister played by Jordana Brewster.
Actors
Brian O'ConnerPaul Walker
Dominic TorettoVin Diesel
LettyMichelle Rodriguez
Also posted in 2001, Action, Thriller | Comments (0)

Gosford Park

IMDB Rating: 7.20
24002 votes

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Set in the 1930's the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. The story centers around the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on and secrets are revealed, it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it...?
Actors
Constance TrenthamMaggie Smith
William McCordleMichael Gambon
Sylvia McCordleKristin Scott Thomas
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (12)

Training Day

IMDB Rating: 7.40
38152 votes

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In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.
Actors
Detective Alonzo HarrisDenzel Washington
Jake HoytEthan Hawke
RogerScott Glenn
Also posted in 2001, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (10)

Heartbreakers

IMDB Rating: 6.10
12191 votes

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Max (Weaver) and Page (Hewitt) are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.
Actors
Max Conners/AngelaSigourney Weaver
Page Conners/Jane HelstromJennifer Love Hewitt
Dean Cumanno/Vinny StagglianoRay Liotta
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (11)

Osmosis Jones

IMDB Rating: 6.10
5512 votes

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Frank Detomello catches a cold. The inside of his body is known as the "City of Frank" to its inhabitants, two of which - white blood cell cop Osmosis Jones, and cold tablet Drixorial - team up to fight the invading viruses intent on taking over the City.
Actors
Molly Shannon
Bill Murray
Ben Stein
Also posted in 2001, Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (6)
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