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The Dark Knight

IMDB Rating: 9.10
291048 votes

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Right after taking out Ra's Al Ghul's plan and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow, Batman continues his seemingly-endless effort to bring justice to Gotham's crime and corrupt with the help of Lt. James Gordon and new appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent. But this time, The Dark Knight faces a rising psychopathic criminal called The Joker, who's eerie grin makes him more dangerous than what he has yet to unleash. It becomes an agenda to both enemies that only one of them remains and are willing to break every part of what they believe in to stop the other.
Actors
Bruce Wayne/BatmanChristian Bale
Alfred PennyworthMichael Caine
The JokerHeath Ledger
Also posted in 2008, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Carlito’s Way

IMDB Rating: 7.80
34866 votes

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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito's associates cannot seem to leave him in peace...his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for "favours" which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.
Actors
Carlito 'Charlie' BriganteAl Pacino
David KleinfeldSean Penn
GailPenelope Ann Miller
Also posted in 1993, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Untouchables

IMDB Rating: 7.90
62716 votes

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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's _The Battleship Potemkin_.
Actors
Eliot NessKevin Costner
Jim MaloneSean Connery
Agent Oscar WallaceCharles Martin Smith
Also posted in 1987, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Thriller | Comments (0)

A Bronx Tale

IMDB Rating: 7.60
20913 votes

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Gangster Sonny is the big man in Calogero's Bronx neighborhood. A shooting witnessed by Calogero is the starting point of a lasting bond between the gangster and the small boy. Father (bus driver Lorenzo), however, disap- proves. Calogero grows up under the wings of both men, torn between his own natural honesty and his fascination with Sonny. C's neighborhood cronies get involved in theft, use of guns, racial fights. When C meets girl, things don't become easier. C's leap to manhood is marked by tragedy, but also by his recognition of the many faces of love.
Actors
Lorenzo AnelloRobert De Niro
SonnyChazz Palminteri
Calogero 'C' Anello (age 17)Lillo Brancato
Also posted in 1993, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Ordinary Decent Criminal

IMDB Rating: 6.30
4722 votes

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Michael Lynch is Dublin's most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Gardaí and a hero to his fellow working class city Northsiders. When not playing happy families with his two wives - sisters Christine and Lisa - and his children, Lynch is busy plotting elaborate heists, thinking as much about the showmanship of it all as he is the loot involved. On his case is Garda Noel Quigley, his determination to convict Lynch slowly turning into an obsession. Inevitably, a showdown looms.
Actors
Linda Fiorentino
Patrick Malahide
Peter Mullan
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Sudden Impact

IMDB Rating: 6.30
6890 votes

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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer's own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer.
Actors
Harry CallahanClint Eastwood
Chief JanningsPat Hingle
Captain BriggsBradford Dillman
Also posted in 1983, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Fool’s Gold

IMDB Rating: 4.90
4244 votes

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A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure — and their estranged romance.
Actors
Benjamin FinneganMatthew McConaughey
Nigel HoneycuttDonald Sutherland
AlfonzEwen Bremner
Also posted in 2008, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Heist

IMDB Rating: 6.40
12854 votes

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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.
Actors
Sam Rockwell
Gene Hackman
Danny DeVito
Also posted in 2001, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Sexy Beast

IMDB Rating: 7.00
13261 votes

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Spain. Gal has retired from the gangster life, and is sunning himself placidly beside the pool at his villa when a boulder comes crashing by, barely missing him. Soon, he and his pal Aitch, together with their wives Deedee and Jackie, are being threatened by a human boulder, Don Logan. Logan wants Gal for a high stakes vault break-in in London (masterminded by the cool and suave Teddy Bass), and he will not take no for an answer. Nevertheless, that's exactly the answer Gal keeps giving him, even as Don gets more and more threatening. Meanwhile, Gal is plagued by dreams of a menacing, hairy beast. Just how far will Don (and Gal) go in this battle of wills? And what of Enrique, the pool boy?
Actors
Gary 'Gal' DoveRay Winstone
Don LoganBen Kingsley
Teddy BassIan McShane
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | 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, Crime, Drama | Comments (0)
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