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A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman's house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.
Subgenre: | caper comedycaperheistblack comedy |
Themes: | racismrobberymoneymurder |
Locations: | tunnelchurch |
Characters: | religious fundamentalistsheriffprofessorafrican american |
Story: | garbage bargedigging a tunnelfalling from a bridgedumb criminalattempted robberycat in a treeremake of european filmremake of british filmmoney falling through the airstolen moneypit bull dogreal tv show shown in fictional situationdrawing strawsstring ensemblegospel singer β¦vietnamese americancompostcoffee makergospel choirriver boatirony of fatedeep southriverboatbargefreak accidentreference to martin luther king jr.gospel musicfalse teethc4 explosivesmusical instrumentrocking chairconcussionmississippidonutfootball teamdrilltenantgarbageaccidental shootinglandladydeputyfast foodcellarfootball playersculpturebribesevered fingerrap musicexplosivegas maskaccidental deathamerican footballhammerrace relationscasinoscene during end creditsattempted murderracial slurbridgestrangulationcriminalislandliepaintingcatremakeshot to deathexplosionflashbackdoggun (See All) |
Danny Ocean wants to score the biggest heist in history. He combines an eleven member team, including Frank Catton, Rusty Ryan and Linus Caldwell. Their target? The Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand. All casinos owned by Terry Benedict. It's not going to be easy, as they plan to get in secretly β¦ and out with $150 million. (Read More)
Subgenre: | caper comedycaperheist |
Themes: | racismrobbery |
Story: | money falling through the airexplosivecasinoremakeshot to deathexplosionflashback |
Charlie's got a 'Job' to do. Having just left prison, he finds one of his friends has attempted a high risk job in Italy right under the nose of the Mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far so Charlie takes over the 'Job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars and a bus, he hopes to brin β¦g Torino to a standstill, steal the Gold and escape. (Read More)
Subgenre: | caper comedycaperheistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Locations: | tunnel |
Characters: | professor |
Story: | explosivebridgecriminalcatexplosion |
A fine art auctioneer mixed up with a gang joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster than anyone could have anticipated.
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Locations: | church |
Story: | attempted robberygas maskstrangulationcriminalpaintingremakeshot to deathflashback |
In 1848, a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico, so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita, Durango, and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The bank's henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women, Maria, the tough but uneducated daughter of a fa β¦rmer, and Sara, the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the now landless people and to seek revenge, Maria and Sara become bank robbers, veritable Robin Hoods. But Jackson and his hired guns are after them. What are the women's options? (Read More)
Subgenre: | caperheistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Locations: | church |
Story: | attempted robberymoney falling through the airattempted murdershot to deathexplosiongundog |
When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a (unbeknownst to him) young married wo β¦man, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Characters: | sheriff |
Story: | money falling through the airsevered fingerstrangulationcatshot to deathflashback |
Former criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off, they start to uncover a deeper conspiracy they both β¦ need to solve in order to survive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Locations: | tunnel |
Story: | gas maskcriminalshot to deathexplosionflashback |
When a man (Robbins) believes he has discovered that his wife is having an affair with his boss, it sets off a chain reaction of events. First he wanders into a ghetto where a robber (Lawrence) tries to take his money at gunpoint, but instead sets a wild ride from California to Arizona. The two even β¦tually become reluctant friends. Discussing robbery techniques, they decide to get back at the boss by robbing an office safe containing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Life is further complicated by another pair of robbers who chase the first two for infringing on their territory. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymoney |
Story: | attempted robberyrap musicrace relationsracial slurcriminalflashback |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston β¦police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a speβ¦ (Read More)
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | racismrobberymoneymurder |
Locations: | tunnelchurch |
Characters: | sheriff |
Story: | race relationscasinoattempted murderracial slurbridgecriminalpaintingshot to deathexplosion |
Nicky Spurgeon is an extremely accomplished con man who takes an amateur con artist, Jess, under his wing. Nicky and Jess become romantically involved, and with Nicky's profession of being a liar and a cheater for a living, he realizes that deception and love are things that don't go together. They β¦split, only to see each other three years later... And things get messy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | caperheistblack comedy |
Themes: | money |
Story: | attempted robberyamerican footballcasinoracial slurstrangulationflashback |
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.
Themes: | racismmurder |
Characters: | sheriffafrican american |
Story: | deep southmississippirace relationsracial slur |
David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVit β¦o). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected. (Read More)
Subgenre: | caperheistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Story: | criminalshot to deathexplosiongun |
Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the racial tension of the US South when he is arrested after the murder of a prominent businessman. Tibbs was simply waiting for his next train at the station in Sparta, Mississippi and the confusion is soon resolved but when local police chief Gillespie learns β¦ that Tibbs is the Philadelphia PD's number one homicide expert, he reluctantly asks for his assistance. The murdered man, Mr. Colbert, had come to Sparta from the North to build a new factory and his wife and business associates immediately point the finger at Endicott, the most powerful man in the county and the one who had the most to lose if a major new employer comes to the area. Tibbs' life is clearly in danger but he perseveres in a highly charged and racially explosive environment until the killer is found. (Read More)
Themes: | racismmurder |
Characters: | sheriffafrican american |
Story: | deep southmississippiexplosiverace relationsracial slurbridgeshot to death |
This is the story of a mild-mannered man, named Tom Stall, who becomes a local hero through an act of violence, he lives a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana. But one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vic β¦ious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action and saves his customers and friends in the self-defense killings of two-sought-after criminals. Heralded as a hero, Tom's life is changed overnight, attracting a national media circus, which forces him into the spotlight. Uncomfortable with his newfound celebrity, Tom tries to return to the normalcy of his ordinary life only to be confronted by a mysterious and threatening man who arrives in town believing Tom is the man who wronged him in the past. As Tom and his family fight back against this case of mistaken identity and struggle to cope with their changed reality, they are forced to confront their relationships and the divisive issues which surface as a result. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | sheriff |
Story: | attempted robberyamerican footballattempted murderstrangulationlieshot to deathgun |
Rocky, a young woman wanting to start a better life for her and her sister, agrees to take part in the robbery of a house owned by a wealthy blind man with her boyfriend Money and their friend Alex. But when the blind man turns out to be a more ruthless adversary than he seems, the group must find a β¦ way to escape his home before they become his latest victims. (Read More)
Themes: | robberymurder |
Story: | attempted robberycellarhammerstrangulationshot to deathflashbackdog |
A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. Deep undercover, and with his life in danger, he strives to prove these athletes are the architects of the mind-boggling crimes that β¦are devastating the world's financial markets. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Story: | money falling through the airc4 explosivesexplosivecriminalremakeshot to deathexplosion |
In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) in the past, working as an English antiques dealer. Simon (Miller) is a vampire hunter in training under his apprenticeship. Van Helsing and Simon travel from Lon β¦don to New Orleans to rescue Van Helsing's daughter Mary (Waddell) from the family's life long nemesis - Dracula. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | professor |
Story: | explosiveattempted murderracial slurstrangulationpaintingshot to deathexplosiongunflashback |
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an L.A.P.D. detecti β¦ve... (Read More)
Subgenre: | caperheist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | donutcriminallieshot to deathexplosiondog |
After an experimental bio-nerve gas is accidentally released at a remote U.S. military base in Texas, those exposed to the gas turn into flesh-eating, mutating zombies out to kill. An assortment of various people who include stripper Cherry, her shady mechanic ex-boyfriend Wray, a strong-willed doct β¦or, the local sheriff, and an assortment of various people must join forces to survive the night as the so-called "sickos" threaten to take over the whole town and the world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | sheriff |
Story: | garbageaccidental shootingsevered fingergas maskhammershot to deathexplosiondog |
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue. After they recover the box, they discover that it has the β¦ capability to decode all existing encryption systems around the world, and that the agents who hired them didn't work for the Government after all... (Read More)
Subgenre: | caperheistblack comedy |
Themes: | moneymurder |
Locations: | tunnel |
Characters: | professor |
Story: | attempted murderracial slurbridgeshot to deathdogflashback |
Corky, a lesbian ex con hired to work in an apartment as a plumber, meets neighbors Caesar, who launders money for the Mafia, and his girlfriend Violet. The two women have a love affair and decide to steal $2,000,000 that Caesar has in custody before he gives them back to Mafia boss Gino Marzone. Ca β¦esar is set up by the two scheming women as a scapegoat but things start to go wrong when he reacts in an unexpected way... (Read More)
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Story: | stolen moneysevered fingerstrangulationcriminalpaintingshot to deathgunflashback |
Turkish and his close friend/accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets badly beaten by Pitt, a 'pikey' ( slang for an Irish Gypsy)- who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxin β¦g promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including 'Cousin Avi', 'Boris The Blade', 'Franky Four Fingers' and 'Bullet Tooth Tony'. Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog! (Read More)
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Story: | accidental shootingsevered fingerstrangulationshot to deathflashbackdog |
Two Irish brothers accidentally kill mafia thugs. They turn themselves in and are released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and start knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he comes to catching the β¦ Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | accidental shootingsevered fingerscene during end creditsracial slurbridgecatshot to deathgunflashback |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate β¦ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Story: | explosiveattempted murderracial slurbridgecriminalislandshot to deathexplosionflashbackdog |
In New Orleans, the notorious bank thief and family man Will Montgomery steals $10m with his partners Vincent, Riley Jeffers and Hoyt. However, he has an argument with Vincent in the runaway and Hoyt leaves Will behind. He tries to flee but the FBI agent Tim Harlend organizes a manhunt and Will is c β¦aptured, but he burns the stolen money to get rid of the evidence against him. Eight years later, Will leaves the prison and he goes to the house of his teenage daughter Alison Loeb, who has issues against him. Alison leaves Will alone in a coffee shop and takes a cab to go to a session with her shrink. However, a couple of minutes later, Will receives a phone call from Vincent, who is presumed dead, telling that he has abducted Alison and will kill her unless he receives the $10m of the last robbery. Now Will has twelve hours to find a way to rescue his daughter from the hands of the psychopath Vincent. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Story: | stolen moneysevered fingerstrangulationcriminalshot to deathexplosionflashbackdog |
Porter is bad, but his neighbours are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie wife. He survives and returns, looking to recover his share from the robbery of an Asian crime gang. The money has passed into the hands of "the β¦Outfit", a slick gangster organisation that runs the city. He has to make his way through a world populated by heroin dealers, prostitutes, sado-masochists, gunmen and crooked cops, a place where torture is a way of life. His only friend is a former employer, a prostitute, and her loyalty is in question, given she now works for the Outfit. He makes good early progress, but then falls into the hands of Fairfax, the crime boss. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymoney |
Story: | criminallieremakeshot to deathexplosiongunflashbackdog |
In Seattle, detective Quentin Conners is unfairly suspended and his partner Jason York leaves the police force after a tragic shooting on Pearl Street Bridge, when the hostage and the criminal die. During a bank heist with a hostage situation, Conners is assigned in charge of the operation with the β¦rookie Shane Dekker as his partner. The thieves, lead by Lorenz, apparently do not steal a penny from the bank. While chasing the gangsters, the police team disclose that they planted a virus in the system, stealing one billion dollars from the different accounts, using the principle of the Chaos Theory. Further, they find that Lorenz is killing his accomplices. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | moneymurder |
Story: | c4 explosivesgas maskbridgecriminalshot to deathexplosionflashback |
Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey ('Will Smith (I)' (qv)) and Marcus Burnett ('Martin Lawrence (I)' (qv)) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin Johnny Tapia ('Jordi Molla' (qv)), whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched β¦ off an underground war. Meanwhile, things get sexy between Mike and Syd ('Gabrielle Union' (qv)), Marcus's sister. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | racismmoneymurder |
Story: | accidental shootingsevered fingerscene during end creditsracial slurshot to deathexplosiongun |
John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Rick β¦y is the 'All-American' athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while 'Dough' succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre, who is lucky to have a father, 'Furious' Styles, to teach him to have the strength of character to do what is right and to always take responsibility for his actions. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | racismmoneymurder |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | attempted robberyrap musicamerican footballattempted murderracial slurshot to deathgun |
When their attempt to rob a casino owned by the feared gangster Pope goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn and Cox are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take the passengers hostage.
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymoney |
Story: | riverboatcasinocriminal |
From a cell, a man tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but half his mind is occupied with the corru β¦ption charges he is facing. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in Madeleine White, a high-power broker with a hidden agenda. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane, if they are so competent and they know they won't get one? Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is the thieves' leader in a cell? (Read More)
Subgenre: | caperheistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymoney |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | explosiverace relationscriminallieexplosiongun |
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along β¦Lola's run. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | robberymoney |
Story: | stolen moneyaccidental shootingcasinocriminalgunflashbackdog |
In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas M β¦idlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | racismrobberymoneymurder |
Story: | stolen moneycasinoracial slurcriminalshot to deathexplosiongundog |
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs in β¦to the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | stolen moneyreference to martin luther king jr.rap musicrace relationsattempted murderracial slurcriminalshot to deathflashback |
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a β¦murder, they have to pretend to be each other. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | money falling through the airattempted murdershot to deathexplosiongundog |
Benjamin Finnegan is a deep-sea treasure hunter certain he's onto the find of the century in waters near an island close to Key West owned by a murderous rap star to whom Ben is in debt. Ben's flat broke and recently divorced from Tess, his long-time research and diving partner whom he still loves. β¦She's nearby, working as a steward aboard the yacht of Nigel Honeycutt, a multimillionaire. The rapper has hired a rival treasurer hunter. Can Ben convince Nigel to bankroll his search, convince Tess to work with him, keep the rapper and his thugs at bay, and find a Spanish treasure hidden for centuries and rich beyond imagination? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | church |
Story: | freak accidentexplosiveattempted murderislandpaintingshot to deathexplosiongun |
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case. His intention is to β¦give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton to work with Clouseau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery. (Read More)
Subgenre: | caperheist |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Story: | football playergas maskcasinobridgepaintingshot to deathflashbackdoggun |
Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn't follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it's very di β¦fficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | rap musicexplosivescene during end creditsattempted murderracial slurbridgecriminalshot to deathexplosion |
NYPD cop John McClane goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly in Los Angeles where she works for the Nakatomi Corporation. While they are at the Nakatomi headquarters for a Christmas party, a group of bank robbers led by Hans Gruber take control of the building and hold everyone hostage β¦, with the exception of John, while they plan to perform a lucrative heist. Unable to escape and with no immediate police response, John is forced to take matters into his own hands. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Story: | c4 explosivesdonutstrangulationcriminalshot to deathexplosiongun |
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influenc β¦e of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heist |
Themes: | racismrobberymoneymurder |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | briberacial slurstrangulationpaintingexplosionflashbackgun |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | attempted robberyracial slurcriminalshot to deathgunflashbackdog |
London based hit men Ray and Ken are told by their boss Harry Waters to lie low in Bruges, Belgium for up to two weeks following their latest hit, which resulted in the death of an innocent bystander. Harry will be in touch with further instructions. While they wait for Harry's call, Ken, following β¦Harry's advice, takes in the sights of the medieval city with great appreciation. But the charms of Bruges are lost on the simpler Ray, who is already despondent over the innocent death, especially as it was his first job. Things change for Ray when he meets Chloe, part of a film crew shooting a movie starring an American dwarf named Jimmy. When Harry's instructions arrive, Ken, for whom the job is directed, isn't sure if he can carry out the new job, especially as he has gained a new appreciation of life from his stay in the fairytale Bruges. While Ken waits for the inevitable arrival into Bruges of an angry Harry, who feels he must clean up matters on his own, Ray is dealing with his own problems, not only with Harry, but with a Canadian couple and a half-blind thief named Eirik. Ray hopes he can count on both Chloe and Ken to help him carve out a new life for himself. In the end, Harry, involved in an incident with Jimmy, may have to keep to his own principles. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | racismrobberymoneymurder |
Locations: | church |
Story: | attempted robberybargebridgecriminalliepaintingshot to deathexplosionflashbackgundog |
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 β¦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: | caperblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Locations: | church |
Story: | dumb criminalattempted murderracial slurcriminaldogflashback |
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 β¦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: | racismrobberymoneymurder |
Locations: | tunnelchurch |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | racial slurbridgestrangulationcriminallieremakeshot to deathexplosionflashbackgun |
Set in the 1970s in a metropolis called "Bay City," this is the tale of two police detective partners, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson, and Dave Starsky, who always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey, rely on omniscient street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes β¦ in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod, telling the story of their first big case (as a prequel to the TV show), which involved a former college campus drug dealer who went on to become a white collar criminal. (Read More)
Themes: | robberymurder |
Story: | donutscene during end creditsracial slurbridgecriminalremakeexplosiondog |
John McClane is now almost a full-blown alcoholic and is suspended from the NYPD. But when a bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller Department Store the police go insane trying to figure out what's going on. Soon, a man named Simon calls and asks for McClane. Simon tells Inspector Walter Cobb that McCla β¦ne is going to play a game called "Simon Says". He says that McClane is going to do the tasks he assigns him. If not, he'll set off another bomb. With the help of a Harlem electrician, John McClane must race all over New York trying to figure out the frustrating puzzles that the crafty terrorist gives him. But when a bomb goes off in a subway station right by the Federal Reserve (the biggest gold storage in the world) things start to get heated. (Read More)
Subgenre: | heistblack comedy |
Themes: | racismrobberymurder |
Locations: | tunnel |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | race relationsattempted murderracial slurcriminalshot to deathexplosionflashback |
In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss ('Josh Brolin' (qv)) discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himse β¦lf. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh ('Javier Bardem' (qv)), on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sheriff Ed Tom Bell ('Tommy Lee Jones' (qv)) blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart. (Read More)
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | moneymurder |
Characters: | sheriff |
Story: | stolen moneydeputystrangulationcatshot to deathexplosiondog |
Frank Martin, played by newcomer Ed Skrein, a former special-ops mercenary, is now living a less perilous life - or so he thinks - transporting classified packages for questionable people. When Frank's father (Ray Stevenson) pays him a visit in the south of France, their father-son bonding weekend t β¦akes a turn for the worse when Frank is engaged by a cunning femme-fatale, Anna (Loan Chabanol), and her three seductive sidekicks to orchestrate the bank heist of the century. Frank must use his covert expertise and knowledge of fast cars, fast driving and fast women to outrun a sinister Russian kingpin, and worse than that, he is thrust into a dangerous game of chess with a team of gorgeous women out for revenge. From the producers of LUCY and the TAKEN trilogy, THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED is a fresh personification of the iconic role of Frank Martin, that launches the high-octane franchise into the present-day and introduces it to the next generation of thrill-seekers. (Read More)
Subgenre: | caperheist |
Themes: | robberymoneymurder |
Locations: | tunnel |
Story: | attempted robberygas maskstrangulationshot to deathflashback |
In the 1960s with the Cold War in play, CIA agent Napoleon Solo successfully helps Gaby Teller defect to West Germany despite the intimidating opposition of KGB agent Illya Kuryakin. Later, all three unexpectedly find themselves working together in a joint mission to stop a private criminal organiza β¦tion from using Gaby's father's scientific expertise to construct their own nuclear bomb. Through clenched teeth and stylish poise, all three must find a way to cooperate for the sake of world peace, even as they each pursue their own agendas. (Read More)
Subgenre: | caperblack comedy |
Themes: | robberymurder |
Locations: | tunnel |
Characters: | professor |
Story: | attempted murderbridgecriminalislandremakeshot to deathexplosionflashbackdog |
A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.
Subgenre: | black comedy |
Themes: | moneymurder |
Characters: | african american |
Story: | c4 explosivesfootball teamfootball playerexplosiveamerican footballshot to deathexplosiongundogflashback |