Crime movies
A deep dive into the underworld of gangsters, detectives, and heists where the line between right and wrong blurs.
Subgenres include: Organized Crime, Heist, Con Artist Crime.
811. Max Manus: Man of War
History War Action Crime Biographical History2008•1h 58min
Norway, Denmark
Director: Joachim Rønning
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Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
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812. The Burning Plain
Drama Romance Crime Relationship Drama Dark Romance2008•1h 51min
Argentina, United States
Director: Guillermo Arriaga
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A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?
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813. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Documentary Crime True Crime Documentary2008•1h 33min
United States
Director: Kurt Kuenne
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In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.
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814. Changeling
Crime Drama Mystery Narcotics Crime Psychological Drama2008•2h 21min
United States
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.
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Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of 12th June 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corroborate the victim’s ex-wife’s alibi she discovers the mysterious neighbor and only a few small clues to help her disprove a seemingly "airtight" alibi...
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When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
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A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.
819. Appaloosa
Drama Western Crime Revisionist Western Police Procedural2008•1h 55min
United States
Director: Ed Harris
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Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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820. RocknRolla
Action Crime Thriller Organized Crime2008•1h 54min
France, United Kingdom
Director: Guy Ritchie
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A Russian gangster pulls off a shady real-estate scam, and suddenly millions of dollars are within easy reach—supposedly up for grabs by anyone. It drags practically the entire London underworld into a criminal race for the money.
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