Sentences with phrase «crime saga»
A "crime saga" refers to a story or series of events that revolves around criminal activities. It often includes multiple interconnected crimes, characters involved in the criminal underworld, and a complex plot that spans over a long period of time. Full definition
Let us get this out of the way first: Anurag Kashyap's generation spanning story set in the coal capital of India and spanning almost 70 years comfortably, nay confidently, belongs alongside the great crime sagas of the cinema: The Godfather Trilogy, City of God, Bertolucci's 1900, Heimat and Election.
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Pride and Glory (R for pervasive profanity, graphic violence and brief drug use) New York City crime saga about a detective (Edward Norton) investigating the murders of four police officers in a routine drug bust gone bad who opens a Pandora's Box when the trail leads to a couple of cops close to him: his brother (Noah Emmerich) and brother - in - law (Colin Farrell).
Sprawling across the wee hours of a neon metropolis, Terminal is a dingy vague crime saga with Robbie's waitress and / or stripper Annie threading its dangerous crosshairs.
Created and executive produced by El Rey Network founder and chairman Robert Rodriguez, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series is a 10 - episode supernatural crime saga centered around bank robber, Seth Gecko (D.J. Cotrona) and his violent, unpredictable brother, Richard «Richie» Gecko (Zane Holtz), who are wanted by the FBI after a bank heist leaves several people dead.
Synopsis: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Created and executive produced by El Rey Network founder and chairman Robert Rodriguez, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series is a 10 - episode supernatural crime saga centered around bank robber, Seth Gecko (D.J. Cotrona) and his violent, unpredictable brother, Richard «Richie»...
The book is a darkly comic crime saga set in 1970s Southern California, and will also star Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Maya Rudolph, Josh Brolin and Owen Wilson.
The missing years from the greatest crime saga of all time... it's 1955 and Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York's crime families but now he must consolidate his power, save his marriage and take his family into legitimate business.
Based on the James Sallis best - seller of the same name, Drive is an alternately atmospheric and grisly crime saga which devotes as much attention to character development as to gruesome action sequences.
The ensemble film is a «comic crime saga,» and an adaptation of the George V. Higgins novel about a heist that takes place during a mob - run high stakes poker game.
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».
Freelancers (R for nudity, violence, drug use, graphic sexuality and pervasive profanity) Crime saga starring 50 Cent as the revenge - minded son of a slain police officer who joins the NYPD and teams with his father's former partner (Robert De Niro) in search of justice.
Action - A Los Angeles crime saga in the vein of «Heat», Den of Thieves follows the intersecting and often personally...
If you're a fan of epic crime sagas such as Serial, The People vs. O.J. Simpson, and Broadchurch, then you won't want to miss this 10 - part gem.
«Birds of Passage» Review: A Violent Crime Saga in the Desert from the Director of «Embrace of the Serpent» — Cannes 2018
A sprawling crime saga running two and a half hours and until recently the highest - grossing comic - book movie of all time (since surpassed by «The Avengers «-RRB-, Nolan's «The Dark Knight» is still arguably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
In that sense, Evil Genius has much more in common with something like Twin Peaks than it does with Netflix's wildly popular true crime saga The Making of a Murderer.
Few games manage to maintain the kind of lasting power that the latest chapter in SEGA's open world crime saga has.
Jarecki and his screenwriters start with romance, move to a family crime saga, and end with something out of «Dressed to Kill.»
Taken as a whole, they stand as compelling proof that the series» creator and executive producer, David Chase, still is in complete control of the brilliantly constructed crime saga.
Dancing on the Edge, a new five - part miniseries debuting on Starz, is an intriguing crime saga, a great celebration of jazz in the 1930s, and a sly study of mid-war British society.
Echoes of HBO crime sagas abound, from the title sequence that feels like a True Detective sequel, to an Oz - like portrait of brutality within Riker's Island, to the presence of a very beloved The Wire alum in the cast.
Bullhead bears some similarities to the recent stylish crime sagas Bronson (in that it's essentially a character study, driven by a volatile lead performance) and Animal Kingdom (in that it's about a macho world in which everyone's watching everyone else, trying to suss out weakness).
Screenwriter Tyger Williams reflects on the legacy of the Hughes Brothers» controversial crime saga, which turns 25 this year.
The writer / director has recruited grime artist Stormzy for the final instalment in his urban crime saga.
Michael Mann delivers another long - winded crime saga, apparently stuck in the same groove as his previous feature, Miami Vice.
New York City had featured prominently in each director's best - known work, unsurprisingly considering Scorsese and Allen were natives and Coppola was drawn to an organized crime saga.
Rourke's next trip, on the other hand, was to Chinatown (or the soundstage equivalent thereof) in the epic crime saga Year Of The Dragon, his second film for director Michael Cimino after playing a small role in Heaven's Gate.
Years after «Hearts in Atlantis,» Yelchin had another major film role in Nick Cassavetes» «Alpha Dog,» a feverish true - crime saga inspired by the misdeeds of the notorious L.A. drug dealer Jesse James Hollywood, presently serving time for the 2000 kidnapping and murder of 15 - year - old Nicholas Markowitz.
(In French with subtitles) Spinning into Butter (R for profanity) Hate crime saga, set on the verdant campus of a college in Vermony, finds the school's dean (Sarah Jessica Parker) reexamining her feelings about prejudice when racial epithets threatening lynching are plastered to the dorm room door of a black student (Paul James).
DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Latino - American Gangster Drama Released on DVD American Gangster might have had a $ 100 million budget, but otherwise that overblown costume drama really doesn't have much over this Latino version of the quintessential crime saga.
Creator Noah Hawley is in high demand these days, and for good reason, because he's once again crafted a funny, engaging and richly developed crime saga that works both as a prequel to the previous season as well as its own standalone story.
«A Most Violent Year,» written and directed by J.C. Chandor, stars Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac in an explosive story of a couple struggling to grow their heating oil business that is part crime saga, part domestic drama.
Lion's Den (Unrated) Argentine crime saga about a pregnant, 25 year - old college student (Martina Gusman) who ends up raising her baby (Tomas Plotinsky) behind bars and falling in love with a fellow inmate (Laura Garcia) after murdering the father of her child and his gay lover (Rodrigo Santoro) in a jealous rage.
A sexy, fast - paced crime saga, it stars Joel Kinnaman, who was subsequently cast in the US version of The Killing, thanks to being half American and rather good.
His landmark A Tale of Two Sisters is lush and at times unbearably frightening; his A Bittersweet Life is an elegiac crime saga with the best, most innovative knife - fight in a movie until the naked scuffle in Eastern Promises; his The Good, the Bad, the Weird (which his latest most resembles) is a dizzy, hilarious take on the Spaghetti Western; and his I Saw the Devil is the slickest, and stickiest, exploitation serial - killer / torture flick I've ever seen.
Hardly anyone could possibly find this true story of Lowell, Mass., boxer Micky Ward (here played by Mark Wahlberg) inspirational because it so seeps with the same disdain for the underclass found in that Australian coming - of - age crime saga.
Other titles in the future include Luc Besson's No Limit, crime saga Penoza, Line of Separation (from the producers of The Lives of Others) and Hotel Adlon.
The screenplay by director Attila Till unfolds in mostly contrived fashion, yet capably juggles tones between dark crime saga and lighthearted poignancy.
Though Black Mass did not end up being the next classic crime saga, the film appeals with its compelling portrayal of unsavory characters.
Last time the Danish director shot a movie in Los Angeles, he made dream - pop noir from the minimalist crime sagas of Michael Mann and Walter Hill.
Every bubble will eventually burst, so it stands to reason that the meticulously detailed crime saga, which was...
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But just like Frenzy and Match Point, Lumet's crime saga pulsates with a sense of its creator's pure joy of filmmaking.
WHY: It would have been all too easy for Gareth Evans to deliver a rinse - and - repeat sequel to his 2012 cult classic, so it's refreshing to see the filmmaker take a risk with such a strikingly ambitious follow - up like «The Raid 2,» a slower, operatic crime saga with a lot more moving parts than its predecessor.