Criminal
see all genres ›Elaborate, often stylized games of cat-and-mouse play out in the minimalist policier, the lavish gangster epic and everything in-between. Justice, in the conventional sense, may or may not be served. Crime movies regularly feature anti-heroes (though police protagonists are as common as criminal ones).
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Genres / Crime / Criminal
SUB-GENRES · Gangster · Contract Killer · Sociopath · Juvenile Delinquent · Fugitive
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Sun Don't Shine
Written and directed by actress/filmmaker Amy Seimetz , SUN DON'T SHINE follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audley) on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida. From the outset, the purpose of their...Watch Movie
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The Harder They Come
Lauded by critics and the cannabis-enhanced audiences that made it a midnight-movie hit, Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff stars as an aspiring young singer who records a song for an unscrupulous music mogul. When the song becomes a hit, and he is cut out of his share, the singer...Watch Movie
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT introduces us to Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), a loyal son and dedicated soldier back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents....Watch Movie
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The Tracker
The year is 1922. The Tracker has the job of pursuing the Fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen: the Fanatic, the Follower and also the Veteran across the outback. The Tracker, a mysterious and enigmatic figure whose true character...Watch Movie
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The Big Combo
A gripping gangster movie starring Cornel Wilde as the tenacious cop determined to bring down a ruthless and sadistic mobster played by Richard Conte. Often overlooked, this movie is a fine example of the evocative film noir style that became so popular during the 40s and 50s. John Alton's...Watch Movie
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Bullhead
BULLHEAD is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille, constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic...Watch Movie
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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number 1 and is eventually condemned to a maximum-security prison where he writes his...Watch Movie
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Referenced in Tarantino’s KILL BILL VOL. 2, UOMINI SI NASCE POLIZIOTTI SI MUORE (LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN, 1976) opens with an insane motorcycle chase that was filmed in rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission from the local authorities. To top it off, this is one...Watch Movie
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Ruined Heart
What happens when you take one of the most punk rock filmmakers on the planet, Khavn de la Cruz (a filipino lo-fi maestro who elevates shambolic to an art form) and put him together with acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle and Japanese acting icon Asano Tadanobu? RUINED HEART is what...Watch Movie
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Metropolis
Incorporating more than twenty-five minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score, the film’s dazzling visual design and special effects...Watch Movie
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Miami Connection
Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida's narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multi-national martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice. When not...Watch Movie
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG is the story of a young hustler whose aimless pleasure seeking turns to radicalism after witnessing the beating of a black revolutionary by two white cops. Sweetback, driven to a state of blind rage, takes brutal revenge on the cops, forcing...Watch Movie
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Junk Food
Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest, most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. JUNK FOOD depicts the hitherto unseen world of aberrant sexuality and savage violence that emerges when the sun goes down...Watch Movie
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Uninvited
In a Florida research lab, a seemingly harmless orange cat has developed the ability to transform itself into a hideous mutant creature. A group of gangsters and criminals unknowingly bring the furry monster aboard a yacht in the Caribbean. The heinous feline begins terrorizing the passengers and...Watch Movie
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Caliber 9
In the first time of the Tirology, small-time gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture, that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes that he...Watch Movie
