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Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake - being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal price-fixing … activities of his company, Whitacre gradually adopts the idea that he's a true secret agent. But as his incessant lies keep piling up, his world begins crashing down around him. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | mental illnessinsanitytravelinvestigation |
| Characters: | police surveillancepsychiatristhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 19942000s1990s |
| Story: | secret informantpolice informantinternal monologuecorporate scandalgolf cartcompulsive liarfbi agentspringfield illinoisforged signaturedual livesambitious mancriminally insanedextrosesubtly humorouskickback …mentally impairedfollowing a dreamphone tapsuicide thoughtswearing a sound wirehawaiian shirtvoice over inner thoughtsbipolar disorderduplicitydaydreamingcornwhistleblowertiemolerepeated linemoney launderingforgeryporschecompanydouble lifeinformantmeetingspyinghawaiiplot twisttokyo japanambitionscamfraudmonologuewhat happened to epiloguegolfscandalamerican flagexclamation point in titleundercoverpay phonecharacter repeating someone else's dialogueliarfbiman with glassestrialspyliepunctuation in titlevoice over narrationbased on true storybased on novel (See All) |
In February, 2001, Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is arrested for spying. Jump back two months: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Hanssen and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation … of Hanssen's sexual habits. Within weeks, the crusty Hanssen, a devout Catholic, has warmed to O'Neill, who grows to respect Hanssen. O'Neill's wife resents Hanssen's intrusiveness; the personal and professional stakes get higher. How they catch Hanssen and why he spies become the film's story. Can O'Neill help catch red-handed "the worst spy in history" and hold onto his personal life? (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 2000s |
| Story: | fbi agentspyingwhat happened to epilogueamerican flagliarfbispyliebased on true story |
Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | golf cartfbi agentphone tapmoney launderingforgeryscamfraudgolfamerican flagpay phonecharacter repeating someone else's dialoguefbilievoice over narrationbased on true story |
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld ('Christian Bale' (qv)), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser ('Amy Adams (III)' (qv)) …is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso ('Bradley Cooper (I)' (qv)). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. 'Jeremy Renner' (qv) is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn ('Jennifer Lawrence (III)' (qv)) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | fbi agentwearing a sound wireforgeryscamfraudwhat happened to epiloguescandalundercovercharacter repeating someone else's dialoguefbiman with glassesvoice over narrationbased on true story |
Based on a true story of James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather and FBI informant who had a "secret trading" deal with his brother, William "Billy" Bulger, a state senator and a Boston public figure, and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down the Italian mob and mafia in Bosto …n, which went awry and things turned massively violent. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders, and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI's Boston office to confirm that Whitey Bulger was one of the most notorious criminals in US history and also one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List criminals. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | fbi agentwhistleblowermoney launderinginformantwhat happened to epiloguepay phonecharacter repeating someone else's dialoguefbivoice over narrationbased on true story |
In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal wh …o has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy - and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. But is either willing to turn on their friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover? (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | police surveillancepsychiatrist |
| Story: | fbi agentsuicide thoughtsmoledouble lifeinformantgolfundercoverliarfbiman with glassesspylie |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra …cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | travelinvestigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | fbi agentforgeryscamfraudwhat happened to epiloguepay phonecharacter repeating someone else's dialoguefbilievoice over narrationbased on true story |
In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the co …mpany of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | fbi agentcompanyspyingwhat happened to epilogueamerican flagundercoverfbitrialspybased on true story |
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murde …red. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan... (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | fbi agentwearing a sound wiremoney launderingcompanyfraudpay phonecharacter repeating someone else's dialoguefbibased on novel |
Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm's fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling hab …its have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel. (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illnessinsanityinvestigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 2000s |
| Story: | corporate scandalphone tapbipolar disorderwhistleblowerambitiongolfscandal |
Christian Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, star …ting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | psychiatristhusband wife relationship |
| Period: | 2000s |
| Story: | fbi agentmoney launderingcompanyinformantplot twistamerican flagcharacter repeating someone else's dialoguefbiman with glasses |
Writer Peter Morgan's legendary battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the story of the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after being forced from office …, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans (as well as a $600,000 fee). Likewise, Frost's team harbored doubts about their boss' ability to hold his own. But as cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | golf cartwhat happened to epiloguegolfscandalpay phoneliarfbiman with glasseslievoice over narration |
Two friends in their early 20s (Hill and Teller) living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in ov …er their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military - a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government. Based on true events. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 2000s |
| Story: | fbi agentwearing a sound wirefraudwhat happened to epiloguefbiman with glasseslievoice over narrationbased on true story |
This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at "The New Republic" for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or co …mpletely made up. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down... (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | ambitionscandalamerican flagliarman with glasseslievoice over narrationbased on true story |
This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction led by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for 'th …e bosses'. Eventually, the group become big-time when Black himself becomes a boss; all the while, Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart, and to top it off, the mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows if he walks away from the mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished. (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | fbi agentmoleporscheamerican flagundercoverfbibased on true story |
In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children wit …h big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings. (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illnessinsanity |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | hawaiiscamfraudwhat happened to epiloguescandalpay phoneliartriallievoice over narrationbased on true story |
Harry Tasker ('Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv)) leads a double life. At work he is a government agent with a license to do just about anything, while at home he pretends to be a dull computer salesman. He is on the trail of stolen nuclear weapons that are in the hands of fanatic terrorists when somethin …g more important comes up. Harry finds his wife is seeing another man ('Bill Paxton' (qv)) because she needs some adventure in her life. Harry decides to give it to her, juggling pursuit of terrorists on one hand and an adventure for his wife on the other while showing he can Tango all at once. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Period: | year 19941990s |
| Story: | double lifespyingundercoverliarcharacter repeating someone else's dialoguespylie |
Rudy Baylor is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woma …n. Will he be up to the task? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | companyamerican flagpay phonevoice over narrationbased on novel |
Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby are drugged out geniuses with lots of ideas but they can never seem to get their act together. But when they come up with the idea to create a porn site - and charge for it (the first ever site to do so), their idea may be too lucrative for them to handle. Straight-laced … business man, Jack Harris, is brought in to team up with them and turn their profitable idea into a legit business. Making money in the pornography industry is pretty easy, but staying true to yourself when surrounded by that much wealth, luxury, sex, crime and temptations, is much harder. (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 2000s1990s |
| Story: | fbi agentwhat happened to epiloguecharacter repeating someone else's dialogueman with glassesvoice over narrationbased on true story |
The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs and lows; promises of fortunes and deliveries of dross. Red-leads and dead-leads are to blame for life's outcomes. Living with "Objection, Rebuttal, Cl …ose". (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | meetingscampay phoneliarman with glasseslie |
David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. He is an uncomplicated man stuck in a monotonous life. Day in and day out he drives an armored vehicle, transporting millions of other people's money with no escape in sight. The only glimmer of excitement is his fli …rtatious work crush Kelly Campbell who soon lures him into the scheme of a lifetime. Along with a group of half-brained criminals led by Steve Chambers and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $17 million in cash...only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall. With the bandits blowing the millions on lavish and ridiculous luxuries, they leave behind a glaring trail of evidence. Now on the lam and in over his head, David must dodge the authorities, evade a hilarious hit man, Mike McKinney, and try to turn the tables on the ones he trusted most. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 2000s1990s |
| Story: | fbi agentwearing a sound wirewhat happened to epiloguepay phonefbivoice over narrationbased on true story |
Based on the true story of Daniel Lugo ('Mark Wahlberg (I)' (qv)) a Miami bodybuilder who wants to live the American dream. He would like to have the money that other people have. So he enlists the help of fellow bodybuilder Adrian Doorbal ('Anthony Mackie' (qv)) and ex-convict, Christian bodybuilde …r Paul Doyle ('Dwayne Johnson (I)' (qv)). Their kidnapping and extortion scheme goes terribly wrong since they have muscles for brains and they're left to haphazardly try to hold onto the elusive American dream. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | year 19941990s |
| Story: | what happened to epilogueamerican flagcharacter repeating someone else's dialoguetrialpunctuation in titlevoice over narrationbased on true story |
In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Archor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begi …ns to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | investigation |
| Story: | double lifeinformantamerican flagundercoverman with glassesvoice over narrationbased on novel |
A nameless first person narrator ('Edward Norton (I)' (qv)) attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. When he meets Marla ('Helena Bonham Carter' (qv)), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable. Ho …wever when he associates himself with Tyler ('Brad Pitt' (qv)) he is dragged into an underground fight club and soap making scheme. Together the two men spiral out of control and engage in competitive rivalry for love and power. When the narrator is exposed to the hidden agenda of Tyler's fight club, he must accept the awful truth that Tyler may not be who he says he is. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | mental illnessinsanitytravel |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | hawaiian shirttieplot twistpay phonecharacter repeating someone else's dialogueman with glassesvoice over narrationbased on novel |
Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 2000s |
| Story: | forgeryfraudscandalamerican flagliarfbispyliebased on true story |
Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hots …hot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | porscheambitionpay phoneliartriallie |
In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of … one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon's execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same "modus-operandi" and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of associate Shelly Barnes, an FBI agent, his friend Frank Parks, and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigates some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | psychiatrist |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | fbi agentforgeryporscheamerican flagfbitrial |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's … not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illnessinsanityinvestigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | what happened to epilogueamerican flagliartriallievoice over narrationbased on true story |
William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, … and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. (Read More)
| Characters: | police surveillance |
| Story: | fbi agentinformantwhat happened to epilogueundercoverfbibased on true storybased on novel |
Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he … is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. (Read More)
| Period: | 2000s |
| Story: | fbi agentmolemoney launderinginformantundercoverfbi |
Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by … the alias L. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Story: | fbi agentrepeated lineplot twisttokyo japanamerican flagfbi |
CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA's top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free Bi …shop. As he embarks on his mission to free Bishop, Muir recalls how he recruited and trained the young rookie, at that time a sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as operatives and the woman who threatened their friendship. (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | forgeryporschespyingamerican flagspyvoice over narration |
In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control, resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent - a mole - and the Hungary operation was an a …ttempt to identify which of them it was. Smiley had been forced into retirement by the departure of Control, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a story told to him by a rogue agent, Ricky Tarr, that there was a mole. Smiley considers that the failure of the Hungary operation and the continuing success of Operation Witchcraft (an apparent source of significant Soviet intelligence) confirms this, and takes up the task of finding him. (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | molespyingman with glassesspybased on novel |
Emily Taylor, despite being reunited with her husband from prison, becomes severely depressed with emotional episodes and suicide attempts. Her psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks, after conferring with her previous doctor, eventually prescribes an experimental new medication called Ablixa. The plot thicke …ns when the side effects of the drug lead to Emily killing her husband in a "sleepwalking" state. With Emily plea-bargained into mental hospital confinement and Dr. Banks' practice crumbling around him, the case seems closed. However, Dr. Banks cannot accept full responsibility and investigates to clear his name. What follows is a dark quest that threatens to tear what's left of his life apart even as he discovers the diabolical truth of this tragedy. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | psychiatristhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | fbi agentwearing a sound wirescamfraudcharacter repeating someone else's dialoguetrialvoice over narration |
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea. In and out of prison, Ronni …e's unpredictable tendencies and the slow disintegration of Reggie's marriage threaten to bring the brothers' empire tumbling to the ground. (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illnessinsanityinvestigation |
| Characters: | psychiatristhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | scamfraudwhat happened to epiloguescandalman with glasseslievoice over narrationbased on true story |
Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven becomes open about his homosexuality and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lif …estyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another. (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | scamfraudwhat happened to epiloguegolfliarlievoice over narrationbased on true story |
Ben Sobol, Psychiatrist, has a few problems: His son spies on his patients when they open up their heart, his parents don't want to attend his upcoming wedding and his patients' problems don't challenge him at all. Paul Vitti, Godfather, has a few problems as well: Sudden anxiety attacks in public, …a certain disability to kill people and his best part ceasing service when needed. One day, Ben unfortunately crashes into one of Vitti's cars. The exchange of Ben's business card is followed by a business visit of Don Paul Vitti himself, who wants to be free of inner conflict within two weeks, before all the Mafia Dons meet. Now, Ben Sobol feels somewhat challenged, as his wedding is soon, his only patient keeps him busy by regarding Ben's duty as a 24 hour standby and the feds keep forcing him to spy on Paul Vitti. And how do you treat a patient who usually solves problems with a gun? (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illness |
| Characters: | psychiatrist |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | fbi agentmeetingundercoverfbispy |
A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite the best efforts of CIA Agent Stansfield ('Tommy Lee Jones' (qv)) to keep them in line, Fred Manzoni ('Robert De Niro' (qv)), his wife Maggie ('Michelle Pfeif …fer' (qv)) and their children Belle ('Dianna Agron' (qv)) and Warren ('John D'Leo' (qv)) can't help but revert to old habits and blow their cover by handling their problems the "family" way, enabling their former mafia cronies to track them down. Chaos ensues as old scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | fbi agentphone tapinformantpay phonecharacter repeating someone else's dialoguefbivoice over narrationbased on novel |
Rango is a pet chameleon always on the lookout for action and adventure, except the fake kind, where he directs it and acts in it. After a car accident, he winds up in an old western town called Dirt. What this town needs the most is water, but they also need a hero and a sheriff. The thirsty Rango …instantly takes on the role of both and selfishly agrees to take on the case of their missing water. (Read More)
| Story: | golf carthawaiian shirtmolegolfliarlie |
The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Ita …ly, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancee, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own. (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Story: | forged signatureforgeryliarman with glassesliebased on novel |
SNOWDEN stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is written and directed by Oliver Stone. The script is based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 2000s |
| Story: | whistleblowerhawaiitokyo japanwhat happened to epilogueamerican flagfbitrialspyliebased on true story |
On April 15, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, Police Sgt, Tommy Saunders is pulling security duty on the annual Boston Marathon when the Tsarnaev brothers strike with their homemade bombs in an act of terrorism. In the resulting chaos as the wounded are cared for, Saunders and his comrades join forces wi …th the FBI to get to the bottom of this attack. As the investigation continues, the Tsarnaev brothers realize that the authorities are close to identifying them and attempt to flee the city to continue their fanatical mayhem. To stop them, a police manhunt is performed that would have bloody confrontations and a massive dragnet shutting down the City of Boston to make sure there is no escape from the law. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | fbi agentwhat happened to epilogueamerican flagfbiman with glassesbased on true story |
Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-wor …kers and a feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes. (Read More)
| Story: | hawaiian shirtplot twistscamwhat happened to epiloguefbivoice over narration |
Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. Almost before he can draw a breath in his new position, one of the president's closest friends and his family are m …urdered in their sleep by what appears to by drug cartels. Ryan is called in to investigate, but unknown to him the CIA has already sent a secret field operative to lead an illegal paramilitary force in Colombia against cartels. Things get even more complicated when his team is set up and he loses an agent in the field and a friend of his wife's, who was the murdered agent's secretary, is murdered that same day. Ryan must then risk not only his career, but his life to expose the truth behind the mystery. (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 1990s |
| Story: | fbi agentmoney launderingamerican flagundercoverfbiman with glassesspybased on novel |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b …ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | travel |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Period: | 2000s |
| Story: | golf cartcompanyamerican flagvoice over narration |
Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, h …e goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court. Westinghouse is negotiating to buy CBS, so CBS attorneys advise CBS News to shelve the interview and avoid a lawsuit. "60 Minutes" and CBS News bosses cave, Wigand is hung out to dry, Bergman is compromised, and the CEOs of Big Tobacco may get away with perjury. Will the truth come out? (Read More)
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | whistleblowercompanygolfamerican flagpay phoneliarfbilie |
Grady Tripp is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor pregnant. In the meantime, he and a college student, James Leer are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by Marilyn Monroe, and a college girl, Ha …nnah Green boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him. (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | compulsive liarwhat happened to epilogueman with glasseslievoice over narrationbased on novel |
Johnny Knoxville and his crazy friends appear on the big screen for the very first time in Jackass: The Movie. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf court, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators, and so on. While Johnny Knoxvile and his pals put their … life at risk, they are entertaining people at the same time. Get ready for Jackass: The Movie!! (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Story: | golf carttokyo japangolfamerican flag |
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within t …heir midst. (Read More)
| Period: | 2000s |
| Story: | moleundercoverspy |
During the psychedelic 60s and 70s Larry "Doc" Sportello is surprised by his former girlfriend and her plot for her billionaire boyfriend, his wife, and her boyfriend. A plan for kidnapping gets shaken up by the oddball characters entangled in this groovy kidnapping romp based upon the novel by Thom …as Pynchon. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | investigation |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | fbi agenttieinformantliarfbispylievoice over narrationbased on novel |
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