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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Italiano
Description
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul's girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, Paul ends up killing more people. It isn't long before the entire police force...
2) Zero bridge
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Kashmiri
Description
A truly independent film of integrity and offhand grace, Zero bridge tells the deeply affecting tale of a student and small-time criminal in Kashmir who develops a crush on an older, college educated woman.
3) Hell's house
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Independently produced by Bennie Zeidman, Hell's house (1932) is a Pre-Code melodrama that captured Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien just before they were catapulted to superstardom at Warner Bros. An exposé of the American penal system (not unlike I am a fugitive from a Chain Gang and The mayor of hell), Hell's house stars Junior Durkin as a wholesome farmboy who moves to the city after the death of his mother. Dazzled by the smooth talk and beautiful...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Français
Description
Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel (Kim Rossi Stuart) is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Driven by passion, principle or insanity, Julien ultimately commits a crime that brings about his downfall. The red and the black also stars Carole Bouquet (Cesar Award, Best Actress - Too Beautiful For You) in an epic, satirical picture of the...
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jackie plays a bored and unsuccessful salesman who never thought his life would amount to anything. All that changes one day when he becomes an instant hero by foiling an attempted bank robbery! But this newfound fame uncovers an even bigger surprise: Jackie is actually the latest in a long line of professional spies! Then, as he travels to Turkey to meet the father he's never known, Jackie becomes entangleed in a web of mystery and deceit that only...
6) Chicago
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment/Dist. by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Edition
DVD 2003 Release
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
7) The boss
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Italiano
Description
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film- the final part of his Milieu Trilogy- is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi. Realizing that the instigator of the bomb attack is Daniello from another mafia family, Cocchi is determined to revenge. Lanzetta, a hired killed employed by Daniello...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Italiano
Description
A robbery goes terribly wrong for a hapless criminal when he goes to knock off a jewelry store. Upon entering the store, the steel shutters immediately slam down and lock him inside until the police arrive. He is later sent to jail, but it doesn't take long before he befriends a big time crime boss inside. The two execute a successful break out and we soon find out that we don't really know the true background of these criminals or what is really...
9) The spiders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
With this exotic adventure film, director Fritz Lang established himself as a master of epic storytelling, a talent that would reach its pinnacle in such monumental films as Metropolis and Die Nibelungen. Influenced by the French serials of Louis Feuillade (Fantômas) and infused with Lang's own fascination with Asian culture, The spiders follows international adventurer Kay Hoog (Carl de Vogt) in his quest for Incan gold and the precious "Buddha's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Español
Description
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva, Enzo and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith, to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring 'the German...
11) Payback
Series
Publisher
Maverick Entertainment Group Inc
Language
English
Description
Sean's partner is brutally murdered during a drug bust gone wrong. Traumatized by his friends death and disgusted by internal politics, Sean quits the force and moves with his wife and daughter to an isolated ranch. But things aren't peaceful for long. The psychotic killer behind his partner's murder escapes from prison with one things on his mind...revenge! Leaving a trail of dead bodies behind him the killer quickly closes in on Sean and his family....
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Russell Baz leads a dead-end life- he works a meaningless steel mill job all day, and cares for his terminally ill father at night. When Russell's brother Rodney returns home from Iraq, he is lured into one of the Northeast's most ruthless crime rings and mysteriously disappears. When the police fail to solve the case, Russell puts his life at risk in order to seek justice for his brother.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set during the London Blitz of 1940, here is a vibrant, original crime drama. This is a world where people live life in the moment. It is also a world where criminals can use the blackout and devastation to hide their darkest activities. As the Luftwaffe drop their bombs, below people are literally getting away with murder.
14) The big Lebowski
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife.
15) Date night
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ordinary couple is in the right place, on the wrong night. Phil and Claire Foster are a sensible, suburban husband and wife slogging through their daily lives and marriage. But a case of mistaken identity sets off an outrageous chain of events involving small-time thieves, big-city mobsters, corrupt cops and a crazed cabbie, as the Fosters' "date night" turns into a wild ride they'll never forget! --Container.
16) 15 minutes
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When two Eastern European criminals come to New York City, one of them steals a video camera and starts to film all of their activities. When they learn how the American media can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and in turn make them rich, they target a media-savvy NYPD homicide detective and a media-naive NYFD fire marshal (both happen to be the cops investigating their criminal activities). Along the way, they film everything they...
Language
English
Description
Tapping into the charter of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to mandate a special crime unit to investigate serialized crimes that cross over borders, hunt down criminals and bring them to justice, a global FBI is born. Carl Hickman is a wounded New York cop pulled from the edge by a group of unlikely saviors, Michael Dorn, an inspector in the ICC, and Louis Daniel, the head of an elite cross-border police unit charged with hunting down the...
18) Fast five
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Extended ed.
Language
English
Description
After Brian and Mia break Dom out of jail, they find themselves trapped in Rio de Janeiro and on the run from the law. Now one last job stands between them and freedom, but will they make it before the corrupt businessmen, or the feds, catch up to them? Contains both PG-13 Rated and unrated version.
19) Kajillionaire
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
20) The dirty dozen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve tough criminals will be offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Based on E.M. Nathanson's book.
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