Tag Archives: Crime

Miami Vice

IMDB Rating: 6.10
24813 votes

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Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.
Actors
Sonny CrockettColin Farrell
Ricardo TubbsJamie Foxx
IsabellaLi Gong
Also posted in 2006, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Nailed

IMDB Rating: 4.60
309 votes

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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.
Actors
KellerCharles Porter
AdamWilson Jermaine Heredia
Scott ScottSam Sarpong
Also posted in 2006, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Walk All Over Me

IMDB Rating: 6.30
51 votes

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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.
Actors
ReneLothaire Bluteau
AaronMichael Eklund
PaulJacob Tierney
Also posted in 2007, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Identity Theft

IMDB Rating: 3.10
38 votes

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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.
Actors
Francisco/Diego de RobertisAntonio Chávez
AA SpeakerCristobal Tapia-Montt
Diego De RobertisRaul Villarreal
Also posted in 2007, Drama | Comments (0)

New Jack City

IMDB Rating: 6.10
6572 votes

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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.
Actors
Nino BrownWesley Snipes
Scotty AppletonIce-T
Gee MoneyAllen Payne
Also posted in 1991, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Basketball Diaries

IMDB Rating: 6.90
12964 votes

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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.
Actors
Jim CarrollLeonardo DiCaprio
Jim's MotherLorraine Bracco
Chanting WomanMarilyn Sokol
Also posted in 1995, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Crime Fiction

IMDB Rating: 6.20
14 votes

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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.
Actors
James CooperJonathan Eliot
Don Lee BooneChristian Stolte
HilaryAmy Sloan
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Scream

IMDB Rating: 7.10
64281 votes

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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.
Actors
Deputy Dwight 'Dewey' RileyDavid Arquette
Sidney PrescottNeve Campbell
Gale WeathersCourteney Cox
Also posted in 1996, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Office Space

IMDB Rating: 7.80
52664 votes

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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.
Actors
Peter GibbonsRon Livingston
JoannaJennifer Aniston
Michael BoltonDavid Herman
Also posted in 1999, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Catwoman

IMDB Rating: 3.20
20802 votes

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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.
Actors
Patience Phillips/CatwomanHalle Berry
Tom LoneBenjamin Bratt
Laurel HedareSharon Stone
Also posted in 2004, Action, Fantasy | Comments (2)
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