Sentences with phrase «crime film directed»

An American crime film directed by Scott Cooper («Out Of the Furnace»), «Black Mass» centers on the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who turned FBI Informant.

The black comedy crime film directed, written and produced by the siblings won Joel the Best Director Award for the festival.

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the The Occupy movement is an international socio - political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of real democracy around the world.

Not exact matches

He also starred in and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for HBO's dramatic film about the Lindberg baby kidnapping, «Crime of the Century» directed by Mark Rydell.

Acclaimed Swedish film - maker is to direct the seventh book in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole crime detective series

After completing the second and third films in his Pusher crime saga, and before embarking on the production of his 2008 biopic Bronson, Nicolas Winding Refn directed a feature - length episode of the British ITV television show Agatha Christie's Marple (also known as Marple) entitled «Nemesis».

After penning the adaptation of «L.A. Confidental,» one of the finest films of the 1990s, and directing the exceedingly cool, nasty little throwback «Payback,» writer / director Brian Helgeland marks his return to the crime genre with «Legend.»

Infernal Affairs, a 2002 gangster film from the directing team of Andrew Lau (aka Lau Wai - keung) and Alan Mak, was less a return to form than a new direction: an ingeniously scripted tale of cop and gangsters featuring the top talent of the Hong Kong film industry and directed with a dramatic intensity and gritty realism that had been absent from most recent Hong Kong crime films.

When Quentin Tarantino writes or directs a film, one can rest assured in the knowledge that it will involve hard - hearted characters living in a dangerous world most likely fueled by drugs, hard - core violence, crime syndicates, and good music.

Gudegast, making his feature directing debut after writing «A Man Apart» and «London Has Fallen,» seems to understand just enough about that element of Mann's film to recreate some of its conflicts — both in terms of crime scenarios and the characters» civilian lives — but lacks the discipline, or maybe skill, to lend them real emotional weight, much less originality.

A film about a man who is always last to the scene of the crime is a solid starting point, but no amount of flashy directing can make up for a weak story.

Anyway, Open Road is on a roll — they already shared great success on The Grey, End of Watch, Chef and recently Nightcrawler, and their upcoming slate is looking good too, with Triple Nine, the upcoming crime - drama heist film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Matt Cook.

On one level, the film, written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), trots out a very familiar sort of action - hero origin story: Victimized by violent crime in a cyberpunk future, main character Grey Trace (Logan Marshall - Green) vows to hunt down the men who killed his wife.

He directed the funniest film in the Marvel franchise, Iron Man 3, and the criminally underrated crime comedy The Nice Guys, so a big - budget R - rated sci - fi horror like The Predator doesn't scream «next career step», but here we are.

In fact, it so desperately wants to capture that beatnik - y place and tone where crime films and swinging London met that it just seems to try too hard, slathering the movie with music, trippy visuals and other elements that just can't make up for the deficit of a weak and blandly told story about a ex-con (Colin Farrell) hired to look after a reclusive young actress (Keira Knightley) who finds himself falling in love, which of course puts himself in direct confrontation with one of London's most vicious gangsters.

Although this decision might make the film more accessible to a wider audience, as it is easier to understand what Amin does when it seems to be a direct result of information that cuts to his very core, it does weaken the larger political story overall by making the focus more about crimes of passion than it is about crimes against humanity.

Low budget crime movies were never going to capture the Academy's attention, but the one and only film directed by Leonard Kastle now stands as a shining example of the brash, bold wave of filmmakers that changed the game at the turn of this decade.

Martin is a playwright, who wrote and directed the popular crime films In Bruges (which co-starred Brendan Gleeson) and Seven Psychopaths.

Dial M for Murder premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London in 1952, only for it to be made into an expert crime mystery thriller by Alfred Hitchcock two years later, while Wait Until Dark, another complex and dark play in the vein of Hitchcock's interests directed by Arthur Penn (who would helm Bonnie and Clyde the very next year), saw the light of day in early 1966 on Broadway, where it instantly attracted the attention of both the audience and Warner Brothers, determined to turn it into a feature film starring none other than Hollywood's sweetheart Audrey Hepburn in a much darker, insidious story than her filmography had ever witnessed.

Written and directed by Dean Fleischer - Camp («Marcel the Shell with Shoes On»), and produced by Riel Roch - Decter and Sebastian Pardo of MEMORY, the film features a family's home movies that document a crime spree and the bid to outrun the consequences.

That this moody drama is the last film of James Gandolfini should not overshadow coverage of what looks like a terrific crime thriller, written by Dennis Lehane and directed by Michaël R Roskam, whose Bullhead was a very sturdy Belgian Oscar nominee a few years back.

Over the last few weeks, widespread industry reports have suggested the studio is simultaneously pursing three Joker projects: a Suicide Squad sequel, a standalone film focusing on the villain's relationship with his partner in crime Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), and, mostly bizarrely, a Joker «origin film,» to be directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover) and produced by Martin Scorsese.

Written and directed by Edgar Wright, the film follows a young getaway driver who faces a new world of danger when he's forced to work for a crime boss.

Before he went a bit silly, John Milius did direct a couple of fine films - the taut crime drama Dillinger, and then the sweeping historical adventure The Wind and the Lion, which tells the story of President Roosevelt (the first) sending in troops to rescue an American family taken hostage by a Moroccan chieftain played by Sean Connery.

Written and directed by Gareth Evans, the action sequel picks up right where the first film left off and follows Rama (Iko Uwais) as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and uncover the corruption in his own police force.

A Brooklyn crime drama with this cast, directed by Roskam and written by Lehane in his first feature screenplay (he's written some for HBO shows The Wire and Boardwalk Empire) should have been an event film for me, but The Drop ultimately remains a little too undercooked and over-familiar to amount to more than the sum of its parts.

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.

The film is being directed by Crazy, Stupid, Love duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who worked with Margot on upcoming crime drama Focus, starring her as a confidence trickster who teams up with another conman, played by Will Smith.

But whereas In Cold Blood (the movie from 1967) deals with the direct aftermath of the crime, the film Capote simply depicts how Truman wrote his book in the first place.

And he has two promising films scheduled for this year: a satire written and directed by Alexander Payne (Nebraska, Sideways) and a crime mystery that George Clooney wrote with the Coen Brothers.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss (Unrated) WWII documentary examining Jew Suss, an anti-Semitic feature film produced by Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels in 1940 and directed by Veit Harlan who was later tried for crimes against humanity but exonerated after raising the «I only followed orders» defense.

Among a clutch of films receiving their world premiere in the competition section of the festival are The Dinner, which features Gere alongside Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall in a thriller about two married couples who meet to discuss what to do about a crime apparently committed by their children; and political fable The Party, written and directed by Sally Potter, whose cast includes Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer and Cillian Murphy.

The Hitch - Hiker is a tense crime thriller, directed by Ida Lupino — the first female filmmaker to break into the American mainstream with a film noir.

Earlier this month, Crime Scene Pictures announced they are producing Suspiria, based on Dario Argento's 1977 film of the same name with David Gordon Green attached to direct.

He gained fame during the Japanese film boom directing horror films like The Cure and Pulse and crime thrillers such as Serpent's Path and Eyes of the Spider.

The movie is set to be directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover), with Martin Scorsese producing, and is said to be «a gritty and grounded hard - boiled crime film set in early -»80s Gotham City that isn't meant to feel like a DC movie as much as one of Scorsese's films from that era, like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or The King Of Comedy.»

A War: Tobias Lindholm, co-writer of the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film nominee The Hunt, directed this Danish film about an army captain charged with a war crime.

In the hands of a better director (say maybe Nicholas Winding Refn who directed Bronson), Legend could have been organized into a fascinating crime film, all the ingredients are there but Brian Helgeland (Paycheck, A Knights Tale) can not seem to get everything in order.

Given Ayer's work directing crime films like Harsh Times, Street Kings and End of Watch, there's no doubt he possesses the «edginess» fans would hope for.

Furthermore, Gangster Squad is aware of the legacy of crime, gangster and action films to have come since so there are also moments that seem to be direct references to films such as Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971), Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983) The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987) and Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, 1987).

Wheatley, who also directed the 2009 crime comedy «Down Terrace,» has a penchant for»70s films.

Villeneuve, who directed the fascinating 2010 film Incendies, plays with echoes of many of the better crime films of the past two decades, including The Vanishing, Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, and, most notably, David Fincher's multiple contributions to the genre.

His superiors send him off to solve a crime in the country after he's pummeled one suspect too many, where he meets a blind girl (Ida Lupino, who may have directed some of the film while Ray was ill) who humanizes him.

After establishing himself as one of America's best playwrights with «American Buffalo» and «Glengarry Glen Ross,» and writing the screenplays for «The Verdict» and «The Untouchables,» David Mamet made his film directing debut with the carefully constructed crime thriller «House of Games.»

Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his own short story, and directed by Michael R. Roskam, who first gained attention in 2011 with his Oscar - nominated film «Bullhead,» «The Drop» also boasts an excellent international cast led by Tom Hardy.

CIRCUS OF FEAR Beginning with a non-Fu Manchu title, Circus of Fear, the oldest film of the four, is a rather static crime - drama directed with a workmanlike lack of spark by John Moxey.

It was directed by Paul McGuigan, who mostly specializes in crime films and TV shows; this is his gentlest work.

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken is a 2015 British - Dutch crime drama film directed by Daniel Alfredson based on the 1983 kidnapping of Freddy Heineken.

It is thought that the tone of the movie — which will be directed by The Hangover «s Todd Phillips — will be «a gritty and grounded hard - boiled crime film» in the style of Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and will be set in Gotham City.

Robin Write looks at the César Awards - winning film Divines, directed by Houda Benyamina, about two best friends dabbling in crime in Paris.