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Crime movies
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Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) is a successful defense attorney - she has the perfect career, happy marriage... But once she gets to know something about her husband Tom's (Jim Caviezel) past - he turned out to be a government secret agent who is now arrested for a military high crime: somebody has killed seven civil people during the mission in the 1980s and Tom is apparently a scapegoat. She is to defend him in the top-secret military court, encountering lots of unfamiliar rules and strict directions. But what is more difficult is to risk her career, at the same time being uncertain about her husband's guilty... |
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A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case. |
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Bewitching intrigante Maxine Conners (Sigourney Weaver) and her bright student, Paige (Jennifer Love Hewitt), are a mother and daughter con team. They know that God wants us to share with others. And there is no disgrace in fleecing a new wealthy hubby! Therefore they start a family business: Max seeks rich men to fall into her web and marry her, and then Page seduces them so that Max can win a great deal of money in divorce settlements. The main thing is to know when to stop because not only millionaires can take an interest in the gorgeous girls but cool-headed cops can do as well. Moreover, Max and Paige should be careful not to fall victim to the arrows of Eros... |
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Femme fatale Jewel Valentine (Liv Tyler) knows how to use her beauty and body to twist men round her little finger. One night at a bar called McCool's, bartender Randy (Matt Dillon), Detective Dehling (John Goodman), and lawyer Carl Harding (Paul Reiser) meet the seductive Jewel who turns their heads and ruins each of their lives by making them break the law. |
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Carl Rudolph Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio) is a schizophrenic serial killer who abducts young attractive women and encloses them in a glass cell hidden in the basement of an abandoned facility. Then he turns on a shower and videotapes how the cell is being filled with water for 40 hours and his victims are slowly going mad and drowning. The maniac attaches chains to steel rings that pierce his flesh and views the footage while hanging under the ceiling. It's a tough task for the police to bring the killer to justice. After the most recent abduction the police finally track him down. Unfortunately, Carl suffers a seizure and falls into an irreversible coma. Time is short and the location of his latest victim is unknown. When FBI Agent Peter Novak hears about Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez), a psychotherapist experimenting with a unique way of entering the mind of comatose patients, he decides to enlist her help to get the information he needs. Using her incredible skills, Catherine travels into the killer's mind and finds it to be a bizarre, abstract, violent and scary world. It's easy to enter this world but it's almost impossible to get out of it... |
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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. |
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Drug chemist Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson) has invented a new powerful drug that takes you to ‘the 51st state’. Hoping to score big, McElroy leaves for Liverpool. However, Elmo’s former employer, The Lizard (Meat Loaf), assigns his assistant Dakota Parker (Emily Mortimer) to kill McElroy for his drug formula. Dakota knows Liverpool well because it is a hometown of her ex-boyfriend Felix De Souza (Robert Carlyle), McElroy’s reluctant partner. To make matters worse, a nightclub owner and mobster named Iki (Rhys Ifans), Detective Virgil Kane (Sean Pertwee), small-time gangsters and skinheads want to line their pockets with Elmo’s money. Meanwhile, McElroy and De Souza try hard to find a buyer willing to pay $ 20 million. But there is only one question: will Felix remain true to Elmo or betray him? |
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Harvard Medical School graduate Dr. Ted Grey arrives at one of the nations most prestigious Pathology programs and is quickly noticed by the program's privileged and elite band of pathology interns who invite him into their crowd. It is also here, where he is introduced to Dr. Jake Gallo, who brings him to a secluded wing, where he and four other indulge in there after-hours, extra-curricular activities...finding ways to commit the perfect murder! |
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Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino), a university professor and forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, suffers the unenviable fate of having received an anonymous phone call saying that he has only 88 minutes to live. Keeping his head right, Jack endeavours to use all his skills and know-how so as to figure out a killer before he manages to execute his nefarious plan. Among the possible suspects are Jon Forster (Neal McDonough), a serial killer on death row, Sara Pollard (Leah Cairns), a woman he had one night stand with, and some problematic students having a grudge against him.
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This movie became the real classic superhit between the other action-style films. John Spartan (Stallone) has the deadly foe: his name is Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), and Spartan hunts him down for two years. When Simon takes 30 persons hostage, the building gets blown up during the all-out battle between the cop and the offender. Due to the fact that his efforts was taken for carelessness and the people were killed, Spartan gets accused and sentenced to serve 70 long years in a cryogenic camera. After the penitentiary period (already in the future) Spartan should acquire some peaceful skills such as knitting and cooking, but accidentally he gets to know that Simon is still alive and dangerous. More, Spartan is the only man who can stop this recidivist because all serious crimes and criminals are eradicated in the described future and there is no cop who can struggle against the offender. |
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Once upon a time in Mexico, there lived a legendary gun-toting guitar player, El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), whose name resounded throughout the country. Now the Avenger in Black no longer wishes to fight and leads a quiet solitary life in an obscure country village. But there comes a day when he is recruited by a corrupt CIA agent, Sands (Johnny Depp), to thwart drug lord Armando Barillo (Willem Dafoe) and General Marquez (Gerardo Vigil) to assassinate the Mexican President. Mariachi agrees to come out of retirement for the reason that he wants to wreak vengeance upon his archenemy Marquez who killed his wife, Carolina (Salma Hayek), and his beloved daughter. With a guitar in his hand and blood revenge in his heart, El Mariachi sets out on a warpath for the last time... |
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A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick (Sean Bean), and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy). Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. |
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Set in Wichita, Kansas, the black comedy centers on mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and his associate Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) who decide to give themselves a Christmas present and embezzle $2 million in cash from Charlie's crime boss, Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). The lawyer is impatient to slip out of town with the alluring strip club owner Renata (Connie Nielsen). But you never know what surprises are in store for you. For Charlie, Christmas Eve proves to be a great surprise... |
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After Kenny accidentaly kills a cop's diabetic horse by feeding it the food he purchased from a munchie run, he is put in jail and is given a 1 million dollar bail. The rest of the group must bail Kenny out before Nasty Nate gets to him. The group decides to sell marijuana that Thurgood gets through his job as a janitor at a pharmaceutical lab. They become pals with rap star Sir Smoke-A-Lot and the rivals of dealer Samson Simpson. On the side, Thurgood seeks the love of Mary Jane, an anti-pot daughter of a dealer. What follows is typical pothead behaviour with a ton of cameos. Look carefully. |
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Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John (played by Ben Chaplin) should have known. Having never been lucky in the game of love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia online. At first, things seem perfect: his new bride Nadia (Nicole Kidman) is a gorgeous woman, and although she may not speak much English, her skills in the bedroom more than make up for any communication problems. When Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption and crime. |
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Eddie Flemming (Robert DeNiro) used to be an ordinary NYC homicide detective. But his purposefulness, persistence and tenacious mind while investigating the most sophisticated crimes allowed Eddie to attain celebrity status among the citizenry. Therefore his face appears on the most famous magazine covers from time to time. Meanwhile, two fellow criminals - Emil Slovak (Karel Roden) from Czechoslovakia and Oleg Razgul (Oleg Taktarov) from Russia – come to New York to make it big at any cost. When they happen on People magazine with Eddy on the cover, they come up with the brilliant idea of murdering him and filming the crime. They hope to evade crime penalty due to pretended insanity (videotaping their murders is incontestable proof of their irresponsibility). Then they plan to become famous and rich by selling the movie to the popular tabloid TV show "Top Story". |
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Based on true events, the movie follows the ghastly story of a group of friends, Erin (Jessica Biel), her boy-friend Kemper (Eric Balfour), Andy (Mike Vogel) and Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), who decide to have a good time and take a journey before they are recruited to serve in Vietnam. On their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas, the ill-starred youths pick up a shocked girl who has been pursued by a stranger. Under stress, the girl commits suicide in their van. Looking for the local authorities, they find themselves in a gloomy house with an atrocious clan of Texas cannibals. The youths’ lives are threatened by a chainsaw-wielding madman, Thomas Hewitt (Andrew Bryniarski), known as Leatherface. Is there hope that they will find a way to stay alive? |
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A man is murdered. Two men witness it. A blind man who hears the killer, and a deaf man who sees her. The police don't think they're credible witnesses, but the killers don't want to take any chances. The two men must now work together to save themselves and bring the killers to justice. |
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After graduating from Stanford, Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe), a young computer programming genius, is offered a dream job at NURV (Never Underestimate Radical Vision), a multi-billion dollar software corporation, run by Gary Winston (Tim Robbins). Milo expects to make a brilliant career when he suddenly sees Winston and his flourishing company in their true colors. The company is an evil, all-devouring monster that will stop at nothing to win. Milo realizes too late that he is merely a small cog in a cruel machine, a pawn in the game of the cunning billionaire. Will the pawn venture to challenge the Player who can easily flick the piece off the board with his little finger?
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Joe Hickley thinks he's got a great scheme: kidnap the child of rich parents, hold it for 24 hours, keeping the mother under his control while an accomplice gets the ransom from the father, who is on a trip. But things go very wrong when he tries this scheme on the Jennings family, in part because their daughter Abby is asthmatic, and in part because the Jennings' find out more than Hickley wants them to know. |
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