Crime

Exposed

(2016)
23
22 Jan 2016
? R
102 min
Gee Malik Linton (screenplay)
N/A
A police detective investigates the truth behind his partner's death. The mysterious case reveals disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.

Face/Off

(1997)
82
27 Jun 1997
? R
138 min
Mike Werb, Michael Colleary
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 21 nominations.
Sean Archer, a very tough, rugged FBI Agent. Who is still grieving for his dead son Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is his sworn enemy, a very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. One day, Archer has finally cornered Castor, however, their fight has knocked out Troy cold. As Archer finally breathes easy over the capture of his enemy, he finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. Unfortunately the only other person who knows its location is Castor's brother Pollux, and he refuses to talk. The solution, a special operation doctor that can cut off people's faces, and can place a person's face onto another person. Archer undergoes one of those surgeries to talk to Pollux. However, Castor Troy somehow regains consciousness and now wants revenge on Archer for taking his face. Not only is Troy ruining Archer's mission, but his personal life as well. Archer must stop Troy again. This time, it's personal.

Falling Down

(1993)
56
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26 Feb 1993
? R
113 min
Ebbe Roe Smith
1 win & 2 nominations.
On the day of his daughter's (Joey Hope Singer) birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster (Michael Douglas) is trying to get to his estranged ex-wife's (Barbara Hershey) house to see his daughter. He has a breakdown and leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. Along the way he stops at a convenience store and tries to get some change for a phone call but the owner, Mister Lee (Michael Paul Chan), does not give him change. This destabilizes William who then breaks apart the shop with a baseball bat and goes to an isolated place to drink a coke. Two gangsters (Agustin Rodriguez & Eddie Frias) threaten him and he reacts by hitting them with the bat. D-FENS continues walking and stops at a phone booth. The gangsters hunt him down with their gang and shoot at him but crash their car. William goes nuts and takes their gym bag with weapons proceeding in his journey of rage against injustice. Meanwhile Sergeant Martin Prendergast (Robert Duvall), who is working on his last day before retirement, is following the wave of crimes and believes that the same man is responsible but the other detectives do not pay attention to him.

Fargo

(1996)
85
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05 Apr 1996
? R
98 min
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Won 2 Oscars. Another 73 wins & 53 nominations.
Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the bloodshed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from Brainerd, MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.

Filth

(2013)
56
24 Apr 2014
? R
97 min
Jon S. Baird, Irvine Welsh (novel)
9 wins & 12 nominations.
A corrupt, junkie cop with Borderline Personality Disorder attempts to manipulate his way through a promotion in order to win back his wife and daughter while also fighting his own borderline-fueled inner demons.

Firewall

(2006)
45
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10 Feb 2006
? PG-13
105 min
Joe Forte
3 nominations
As a bid to pay off his family's ransom a security specialist named Jack Stanfield is forced into robbing a bank that he is protecting! His family gets kidnapped and taken to the middle of nowhere and it's up to Jack Stanfield to rescue his family and get the money back!

Four Brothers

(2005)
49
12 Aug 2005
? R
109 min
David Elliot, Paul Lovett
5 wins & 9 nominations.
Four brothers look to avenge their mother's death.

From Dusk Till Dawn

(1996)
52
19 Jan 1996
? R
108 min
Robert Kurtzman (story), Quentin Tarantino (screenplay)
4 wins & 8 nominations.
Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires, with chaotic results.

Fulltime Killer

(2001)
54
03 Aug 2001
? R
102 min
Ho-Cheung Pang (novel), Ka-Fai Wai (screenplay), Joey O'Bryan (screenplay)
2 nominations.
For many years professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness, which only becomes worse after the death of his love, Nancy. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin. Chin, hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission--to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.

Gangs of New York

(2002)
72
20 Dec 2002
? R
167 min
Jay Cocks (story), Jay Cocks (screenplay), Steven Zaillian (screenplay), Kenneth Lonergan (screenplay)
Nominated for 10 Oscars. Another 44 wins & 93 nominations.
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.

Gangster No. 1

(2000)
60
09 Jun 2000
? R
103 min
Johnny Ferguson (screenplay), Louis Mellis (original screenplay), David Scinto (original screenplay)
1 win & 9 nominations.
Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.

Gangster Squad

(2013)
40
11 Jan 2013
? R
113 min
Will Beall, Paul Lieberman (book)
4 nominations.
It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Seargant John O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, whose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it's the cops.

Get Carter

(1971)
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18 Mar 1971
? R
112 min
Mike Hodges (screenplay), Ted Lewis (novel)
N/A
A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld, leading, he hopes, to the man who ordered his brother killed. Because of his ruthlessness Carter exhibits all the unstopability of the android in Terminator, or Walker in Point Blank, and he and the other characters in the film are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

(1999)
67
24 Mar 2000
? R
116 min
Jim Jarmusch
1 win & 7 nominations.
An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

Ghost in the Shell

(2017)
52
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31 Mar 2017
? PG-13
107 min
Shirow Masamune, Jamie Moss, William Wheeler
3 wins & 6 nominations
In the near future, human organs are enhanced by the cybernetics technology developed by the powerful Hanka Robotics Corporation owned by Cutter. Dr. Ouelet is responsible for the development of the secret project 2571 of a full mechanical body to be connected to a human brain. She uses the brain of a young woman that lost her parents in a cyber attack as subject of a prototype. One year later, the woman is ranked Major and has joined Section 9, an anti-terrorist division commanded by Chief Daisuke Aramaki, working with agents Batou and Togusa. She needs to use a medicine to help the integration of her brain with the mechanical body and has no recollections of her previous life. When Section 9 hunts down the terrorist Kuze, Major learns the secrets about Hanka Robotics and the experiment she was subjected. Now she faces her ultimate enemy: Kuze, a criminal who has managed to hack into the brains of androids and control them.

Gomorrah

(2008)
87
10 Apr 2009
? NOT RATED
137 min
Roberto Saviano (book), Maurizio Braucci (screenplay), Ugo Chiti (screenplay), Gianni Di Gregorio (screenplay), Matteo Garrone (screenplay), Massimo Gaudioso (screenplay), Roberto Saviano (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 30 wins & 32 nominations.
"Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.

Gone Baby Gone

(2007)
72
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19 Oct 2007
? R
114 min
Ben Affleck (screenplay), Aaron Stockard (screenplay), Dennis Lehane (novel)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 32 wins & 28 nominations.
Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.

Gone Girl

(2014)
79
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03 Oct 2014
? R
149 min
Gillian Flynn (screenplay), Gillian Flynn (novel)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 65 wins & 177 nominations.
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

Gone in Sixty Seconds

(2000)
35
09 Jun 2000
? PG-13
118 min
H.B. Halicki, Scott Rosenberg (screenplay)
6 wins & 5 nominations.
Car theft in Long Beach went down 47% when Randall "Memphis" Raines walked away from the life. He gets dragged back into it by assuming the job his brother Kip screwed up for stolen-car broker Raymond Calitri: steal 50 exotic cars and have them on a container ship by 8 AM Friday morning, and he got this news on a Monday. With Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip, and the police GRAB unit breathing down his neck, Memphis reassembles his old crew and attempts to pull off the logistically impossible.

Goodfellas

(1990)
89
21 Sep 1990
? R
146 min
Nicholas Pileggi (book), Nicholas Pileggi (screenplay), Martin Scorsese (screenplay)
Won 1 Oscar. Another 37 wins & 31 nominations.
Henry Hill is a small time gangster, who takes part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, is badly affected by his partners' success, but will he stoop low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy?