Archive for the 'Crime movies' Category
Street Kings
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| Taglines: | 1: Their City. Their Rules. No Prisoners. |
| Plot Summary: | Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. |
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Jump Out Boys aka Lords Of The Street
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Oxford Murders, The
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| Plot Summary: | At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols. |
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Bonnie and Clyde
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| Taglines: | 1: “The strangest damned gang you ever heard of. They’re young. They’re in love. They rob banks.” 2: A brilliantly made, groundbreaking film that chronicles the short lives of America’s most infamous criminals. 3: They met in 1930. She was stark naked, yelling at him out the window while he tried to steal her mother’s car. In a matter of minutes they robbed a store, fired a few shots and then stole somebody else’s car. At that point they had not yet been introduced. 4: They’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people. |
| Plot Summary: | A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Mid-West in this take on the legendary crime spree of these archetypal lovers on the run. |
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Batman Returns
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| Taglines: | 1: Returns June 19 2: The Bat, the Cat, the Penguin |
| Plot Summary: | Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max’s secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman. |
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No Country for Old Men
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| Taglines: | 1: One discovery can change your life. One mistake can destroy it. 2: There Are No Clean Getaways |
| Plot Summary: | Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande. |
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Serial Mom
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| Taglines: | 1: At least she meant well 2: Every Mom Wants to Be Wanted, But Not For Murder One! 3: She’s a fabulous, loving, caring mother, who er… …happens to be a serial killer! |
| Plot Summary: | A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family’s picture perfect world. |
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Drowning Mona
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| Taglines: | 1: 1 murder. 460 prime suspects. Not so much of a ‘who done it’ as a ‘who didn’t’. 2: The death of Mona Dearly wasn’t so much a whodunnit, as a who didn’t. 3: Who wanted to see Mona Dearly dead? Take a number. |
| Plot Summary: | When Mona’s key won’t fit in her Yugo, she tries it in her son’s; when it works, she borrows his car. The brakes fail; she goes through the guard rail, into the river, and drowns. When police chief Rash learns that the brake lines were cut, he looks for a murderer. Suspect one: Mona’s dim son Jeff, whom she constantly denigrated. Suspect two: her husband Phil, whom she constantly belittled and who’s having an affair with Rona, a waitress with a secret of her own. Suspect three: Jeff’s landscape partner Bobby, who wants Jeff out, has yelled at Mona that he’d like to rip out her ovaries, and who is soon to be Rash’s son-in-law. Can Rash find the killer and keep Bobby out of jail? |
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Summer of Sam
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| Taglines: | 1: It Was A Time They’d Never Forget 2: No one is safe from son of sam 3: The summer of ‘77 was a killer…….. |
| Plot Summary: | Spike Lee’s take on the “Son of Sam” murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. |
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Matchstick Men
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| Taglines: | 1: lie cheat steal rinse repeat |
| Plot Summary: | Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious prot’eg’e, are swindling these days are “water filtration systems,” bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations—which they never collect. These scams net the flim-flam men a few hundred here, another thousand there, which eventually adds up to a lucrative partnership. Roy’s private life, however, is not so successful. An obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe with no personal relationships to call his own, Roy is barely hanging on to his wits, and when his idiosyncrasies begin to threaten his criminal productivity he’s forced to seek the help of a psychoanalyst just to keep him in working order. While Roy is looking for a quick fix, his therapy begets more than he bargained for: the revelation that he has a teenage daughter—a child whose existence he suspected but never dared confirm. What’s more troubling, 14-year-old Angela wants to meet the father she never knew. At first, Angela’s appearance disrupts her neurotic father’s carefully ordered routine. Soon, however, with his own unique spin on parenthood, Roy begins to enjoy a relationship he never dreamed of having with his daughter. But while he develops paternal feelings for the 14-year-old, she’s developing a fascination with Daddy’s questionable career. |
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