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David Fincher, who helms this gritty crime drama about a missing wife and a husband who looks guilty.

An underrated, unjustly neglected crime drama about a gangster (Barry Sullivan) at twilight.

A delicious if unexamined subtext that recalls the underbelly denouement of Tod Browning's Freaks is the only real selling point of the picture, a crime drama about a robbery gone awry that leads to an encounter at a circus led by a hooded lion tamer (Lee).

«Dead Man Down» wants to be a single - minded crime drama about vengeance, but it gets bogged down with a lack of chemistry between the leads, says Kit Bowen.

Entertainment to release SERPICO, Sidney Lumet's crime drama about police corruption on the streets of New York, in Blu - ray and Limited Edition Blu - ray SteelBook editions, as part of their award - winning The Masters of Cinema Series on 24 February 2014.

Damon Dash directed and stars in this crime drama about an OG trying to protect his family after a shootout in Harlem.

«The Place Beyond the Pines» «Blue Valentine» director Derek Cianfrance reunites with his star Ryan Gosling for this crime drama about a motorcycle stunt driver who considers a life of crime.

For his feature debut, Rainer Werner Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic, unorthodox crime drama about a love triangle involving the small - time pimp Franz (Fassbinder), his prostitute girlfriend, Joanna (future Fassbinder mainstay Hanna Schygulla), and his gangster friend Bruno (Ulli Lommel).

Inside Out (PG - 13 for violence and profanity) Crime drama about a recently - paroled ex-con (Triple H) forced to protect his best friend's (Michael Rapaport) family from a crime boss (Bruce Dern) bent on revenge for an accidental shooting.

Entertainment to release SERPICO, Sidney Lumet's crime drama about police corruption on the streets of New York, in Blu - ray and Limited...

With Franklin's 1992 directorial debut, One False Move, a taut crime drama about a trio of violent criminals on the run.

Oliver Stone crime drama about two pot growers who tear through the drug cartel that kidnap their shared girlfriend.

Thursday, June 16 «Aquarius» (NBC) at 9 p.m. / 8c David Duchovny returns for Season 2 of period crime drama about a detective who goes undercover with infamous the Manson Family.

(Mexico) Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan — I've never really understood the cinephile adoration — it's a crime drama about the search for a missing body (Turkey) The Student, directed by Santiago Mitre, a political thriller about a student who falls for a radical organizer (Argentina)

Motherland (Unrated) Crime drama about an Asian - American lesbian (Francoise Yip) who returns to the U.S. for the first time in years following the murder of her estranged mother (Shoyi Chang) only to find herself drawn into a web of deception being spun by her stepfather (Kenneth Tsang) and his best friend (Byron Mann) while trying to come to grips with her grief.

Finally, Twilight Time has five releases this week: Robert Rossen's «Alexander the Great,» the sword - and - sandal epic about the titular hero; Anatole Litvak's «Anastasia,» a historical epic about a Russian businessman who tries to pass of an imposter as the Grand Duchess Anastasia; Otto Preminger's «Exodus,» about the founding of the state of Israel; Ralph Nelson's «Lilies of the Field,» about an African American traveling handyman who encounters a group of nuns who think he's been sent by God to build their chapel; and finally Richard Fleischer's «10 Rillington Place,» a crime drama about the serial killer John Christie.

-- that seem better suited to a routine family sitcom than to a grim crime drama about cancer and crystal meth.

His third film, Mean Streets, is surely his first, as the director teams up with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro for a fiery crime drama about a small - time gambler who enlists the help of a friend, who's a rising star in the New York mafia, to help him get out of debt.

Billy Drago, John Savage, and Nick Mancuso star in this violent crime drama about a pair of crime bosses battling over the same turf, which they both want to use to sell drugs.

«Justified» may have wrapped its run earlier this year, but the FX crime drama about a maverick lawman (Timothy Olyphant) just got a nice send - off from the Critics» Choice Television Awards.

Gritty and uber - dark crime drama about a detective (Liam Neeson) on the hunt for a vicious group of kidnappers.

Forget the cheapo title, «Badsville» is a powerful, deeply felt crime drama about letting go of the past and getting out of Dodge - before it's too late.

Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Amy Adams star in director David O. Russell's fictional period crime drama about a reckless FBI agent who recruits a con man and his alluring partner into a scheme to ensnare corrupt politicians and gangsters.

Johnnie To is most famous for his «Election» films, gripping crime dramas about rival gangs and who controls them, but before he made those, he directed a film (with Wai Ka - Fai) that oozes charm, a clever narrative structure and excellent action sequences.

There are crime dramas about smart people who only do smart things, and crime comedies about dumb people who only do dumb things.

Not exact matches

DVD of the week: McMafia Crime drama McMafia is a rollicing adventure that makes some good points about the extent to which dirty money has corrupted governments around the world.

Rachel Decker writes a column for RELEVANT about crime dramas, and wonders how they expose both feelings of vengeance and unease about losing a sense of humanity about every person.

I enjoyed reading Amber Elliott's interview with Caroline Flint (TP, June), although I must confess that I now know more about Caroline's views on Swedish crime drama than I do about Labour's energy policy.

The John Singleton drama series about the rise of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s follows a young street dealer named Franklin Saint (Damson Idris); Mexican wrestler Gustavo «El Oso» Zapata (Sergio Peris - Mencheta); CIA operative Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson); and Lucia Villanueva (Emily Rios), the daughter of a Mexican crime lord.

JAG (military - speak for Judge Advocate General) is an adventure drama about this elite legal wing of officers trained as lawyers who investigate, prosecute and defend those accused of crimes in the military, including murder, treason and terrorism.

St. Louis crime reporter Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) returns to her small Missouri hometown for a story about a murder of a young girl and the disappearance of another only to experience reminders of her past in this eight - part drama based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.

From early on Sleeping Dogs encourages (and requires) a suspension of disbelief to just enjoy a well told crime drama and try not think too hard about what would happen to an undercover officer who kills approximately 90 % of Hong Kong's gangster population (and a significant number of innocent pedestrians) in the space of a few months.

Sidney Lumet's crime drama fictionalized a basically true story about a man who attempts to rob a bank in order to pay for a sex change operation for his male lover.

The Emmy - winning drama about a Nazi war - crime trial, which was American television's first miniseries in 1974, will be accompanied by a discussion led by its legendary producer, Douglas S. Cramer, and one of its stars, Juliet Mills.

Time for the TV portion of the HECG and TV doesn't get much better than Starz's first essential drama, a piece about the ripple effect of the unimaginable more than the crime itself.

But the gritty Rust Belt tale about two brothers who become ensnared in a violent crime ring, now has another texture to add to the drama its cooking up.

Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Jeff Bridges star in the Texas - set crime drama «Hell or High Water,» about two brothers who hatch a risky plan to save their family's farm.

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

Despite no previous acting experience, Katie Jarvis is the heart and troubled soul of Fish Tank, the gripping coming - of - age drama from Andrea Arnold and the most exciting new release in a week also highlighted by the arrival of Storm, Hans - Christian Schmid's thriller about crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s, and the on - screen return of Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness.

The last time Nicolas Winding Refn was in Asia — for bloody crime drama Only God Forgives - it changed the way we'd think about Kristin Scott Thomas forever.

ABC has you covered with the Kyra Sedgwick crime drama Ten Days in the Valley, a comedy about a rapper - turned - mayor starring Lea Michele that's aptly titled The Mayor, the Jenna Fischer - Oliver Hudson rom - com Splitting Up Together and so much more.

A poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming action drama Dog Eat Dog, which is is directed by Paul Schrader, who also stars alongside Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe; take a look below... DOG EAT DOG is a gritty contemporary crime thriller about a trio of ex-cons, deep in the underbelly of Cleveland, -LSB-...]

Spoken Word (Unrated) Prodigal Son drama about a San Francisco poetry slam artist (Kuno Becker) who returns to his New Mexico roots to care for his terminally - ill father (Ruben Blades) only to develop rapper's block when he starts hanging out on his hometown's crime - infested streets again with the gangstas he thought he'd left behind fr good.

Drama - Jim Carrey commands the screen in this spellbinding thriller about an unsolved murder and a crime outlined in a novel.

In this way the film is also a neatly symmetrical morality drama about crime, punishment and redemption, where it is left ultimately to the viewer to decide whether Roy has turned out the winner or the loser.

Errol Morris, whose «Tabloid» showed in 2010, and «The B - Side» only last year, returns with «Wormwood,» a mysterious six - part Netflix series about a true crime, part documentary, part drama, starring Bob Balaban and Christian Camargo.

Still, if Vaughn REALLY wanted to avoid such comparisons, he could always have brought out something other than a crime - drama about a bunch of inter-twined Londoners who deal drugs, carry «shooters», and jam each others» heads in sunbed lids.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse Ronan).

And you have two movies about race relations, each starring Sidney Poitier, but coming at the issue from different angles — the social comedy - drama «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» and the crime drama «In the Heat of the Night.»

Gyllenhaal certainly likes the guy, as the two have decided to team up on the crime drama The Man Who Made It Snow about the Medellin Cartel.