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1) Breathless
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French new wave and ensured that cinema would...
2) Ajami
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
עברית
Description
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Ajami is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets of Ajami itself, the film deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrowing violence.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul's girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, Paul ends up killing more people. It isn't long before the entire police force...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Eleanor's catch is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this two-reeler, she stars as a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne'er-do-well suitor. A terrific surprise ending gives Eleanor and Cleo an early claim to promoting women's equality in the workforce. Rousing Melodrama.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
A robbery goes terribly wrong for a hapless criminal when he goes to knock off a jewelry store. Upon entering the store, the steel shutters immediately slam down and lock him inside until the police arrive. He is later sent to jail, but it doesn't take long before he befriends a big time crime boss inside. The two execute a successful break out and we soon find out that we don't really know the true background of these criminals or what is really...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Director Francesco Barilli's hallucinatory giallo horror-thriller stars Mimsy Farmer who portrays Sylvia, a chemist who begins to suffer from strange visions; a mysterious woman in black applying perfume in a mirror appears to her and strangers follow her everywhere she goes. Barilli's psychological investigation into the workings of the mind becomes apparent when it is revealed that as a child, Sylvia committed a horrible crime. The slow progression...
8) D.O.A
Series
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When he is slipped a dose of slow-acting poison, a man sets out to find his own murderer.
9) Date night
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a married couple out on a date are mistaken for two other people, they find themselves targeted by criminals and spend the evening trying to get away from people who want to kill them.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A "parody of the old New Wave crime eroticism movies" (The New York Times), Trans-Europ-Express is a self- referential, neo-noir thriller, with heavy doses of sado-masochism, from the mind of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last year at Marienbad). On the train from Paris to Antwerp, a director (Robbe-Grillet) and his production team hash out the plot of a crime movie. Their story is enacted by Jean Louis-Trintignant (Amour), who plays Elias, a cocaine smuggler...
11) Getting Gotti
Series
Publisher
Hollywood Entertainment DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
They grew up in the same New York neighborhood. Now she is an assistant U.S. attorney going after the Godfather. Based on true events.
12) Junction
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A burglary suddenly becomes a hostage crisis when a group of meth addicts enter a family's home and discover their dangerous plot.
13) Tower heist
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When employees of an exclusive apartment building lose their retirement funds in a Ponzi scheme they enlist the help of criminals to steal it back.
14) True romance
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two lovers skip town after an accidental murder and hit the road to L.A. with the mob in pursuit.
15) The hustle
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
16) Double indemnity
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, 1944.
Language
English
Description
An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock will forever be regarded as one of the most successful and prolific directors of all time and as a pioneer in the terror and suspense genres. This incredible collection showcases Hitchcock's early films that launched his astonishing career." --container.
18) The system
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a drug bust, a former marine (Tyrese Gibson) is recruited by authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous private prison. After discovering an underground fight ring, he must fight to stay alive and take down the corrupt system.
19) Room
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Follows twenty-year-old Joy and her five-year-old son Jack as they live in a single room underground, captives of a man they call Old Nick.
20) Suburbicon
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a crumbling 1950s suburban community, a home invasion wreaks havoc for one seemingly normal family.
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