Jessie is a woman with a turbulent past. She however settled for a normal and quiet life with Roy, but, sometimes, misses the thrill and adventure of her old past. When they meet Annie and Carlos she suspects something rather fishy about them. Annie is at least 10 years older than Carlos and the latter seems to have a more than friendly interest on Jessie.

When Roy is left behind accidentally at one train stop, Jessie realizes that Annie and Carlos are in fact drug smugglers and when another character, officer Grinko, comes into scene, she fears for the worst.

Release Date: July the 18^th, 2008

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Action

Cast: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega

Director: Brad Anderson

Ray, a mother of two boys, is in the desperate position of not being able to take proper care of her children.  That’s why when Annie, a Mohawk smuggler, gives her the opportunity to make seemingly easy money, she accepts. That’s how Ray and Annie begin their partnership in crime, transporting Chinese and Pakistani immigrants from the Mohawk reservation in Quebec to the Mohawk reservation in New York across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River.

Although they are literally walking on thin ice, the money they can make in one single night of smuggling is more than they could make in a month having a regular job. This makes crime an easy choice, but as expected, dirty money comes as a costly price.

Release Date: August 1st, 2008

Genre: Drama and Crime/Gangster

Cast: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott

Director: Courtney Hunt

When his friend Martine comes with a proposition, he just can’t say no. Martine, who works as a model, is dating a secret agent who told her about a bank that will be without alarms for a while, as the old alarms had to be replaced. Her plan is to plunder the safe deposit boxes, knowing that people won’t press charges.

This theory is based on the fact that people will, most likely, want to maintain secrecy regarding the belongings that they stored in those safe boxes. After the heist, the gang of robbers realize that some things are better left not stolen as they came across various incriminating photos and documents. This unleashes a whirlwind of pursuits that build the suspense and action of any heist movie.

Release date: March 7th, 2008

Cast: Jason Statham,

Director: Roger Donaldson

He never lets anything stand in the way of his jobs, neither buildings nor cars, roads or trains. He spares nothing and knows that the bills would be paid by the city. The problem is that the city has had enough and want either Hancock to stop his crime-fighting or move to another city.

His life is about to change when he rescues Ray Embrey from being hit by a train. Ray works as a public relations executive and feels in debt to Hancock who saved his life. He came up with a way to pay him back and decides to take up the difficult task of changing Hancock’s public image. His objective was to make the public love Hancock and cheer his successes. There is one person – Ray’s wife, Mary – who thinks Hancock can’t change and tries to keep Ray from getting hurt in the process.

Release date: July 2nd, 2008

Cast: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Galecki

Director: Peter Berg

‘Taking Lives’ is a captivating thriller, that focuses on the darker aspects of the human character. Make no mistake, this is a movie about a serial killer.

Our bad character here, Martin Asher, takes the identities of the people he kills, to a point where he actually lives their lives, until he moves on to the next victim.

All these, until he meets Illeana, whom he determines to fall in love with him.

Illeana is an FBI profiler and was summoned in Montreal to study the very case of a serial killer, who steals the identity of his victims.

Her instinct quickly tells her that there is more to Martin than he wants her to find out.

Release Date: March 16, 2004

Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Cast:

Angelina Jolie (Illeana)

Ethan Hawke (Costa)

Director: D.J. Caruso

It all takes place during one week, in the Los Angeles of 1983.

Graham is a young man with a very strong sense of morality, but incredibly passive; so he does nothing even when he suspects his girlfriend is cheating on him.Laura, his mother, is a sedative addict, has a relationship with a teenager and she can’t get passed William divorcing her.

After the divorce, William got remarried with Cheryl Laine, a young TV news broadcaster, only to leave her a couple of months later.

Tim Price is Graham’s friend; his father takes him on a country tour, because he suspects him of being gay and wants to bond with him as father and son. Contrary to his expectations, things go really bad.

Bryan Metro is a drug and alcohol addicted rock star, with violent sexual behavior and Peter is a heroin addicted psychopath who kidnaps a little boy (along with girlfriend Mary) in order to receive ransom money from his parents.

Release Date: 2009

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Jon Foster, Amber Heard, Rhys Ifans, Chris Isaak, Austin Nichols, Lou Taylor Pucci, Cameron Goodman

Director: Gregor Jordan

The movie is very intense, and shows us the sacrifices the “narcs”, the officers, have to make in order to successfully infiltrate in the front lines of the drug world.

The main character is Nick Tellis, a suspended “narc”, who has to find the truth behind the murder of a police officer.

As they solve the case, step by step, they find out things, not even they were prepared for.

Release Date: 2002

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cast:

Jason Patric (Nick Tellis)

Ray Liotta (Henry Oak)

Director: Joe Carnahan

They use all the methods they can thinks of and spare no means in order to obtain the information they want – the more dirt it contains, the better for them.Because of one of the paparazzi’s stalking, Bo and his family are involved in a car accident and they immediately take pictures of it, but don’t call for an ambulance.

Bo’s son goes in a coma and the man is at a crossroads in his life; he comes up with a very complicated revenge plan and starts hunting down the four paparazzi who have made his life a living hell.

Release Date: 3 September 2004

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina, Daniel Baldwin, Tom Hollander, Kevin Gage, Blake Michael Bryan, Tom Sizemore, Andrea Baker, Jordan Baker, Joe Basile, Lauren Birkell

Director: Paul Abascal

Given a choice, they decide to live in New York, in a luxurious house which happens to have a “panic room:, a hidden place that can totally isolate you from the rest of the building.

The room becomes a very good hiding place when the house is broken into by three thieves. Meg and Sarah manage to lock themselves inside the room before the thieves catch them, but Sarah is diabetic and her medicine is outside.

Moreover, the phone in the panic room has not been connected yet and the irony of it all is that what the thieves are looking for can be found in that room.

Release Date:  29 March 2002

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Cast: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Kristen Stewart, Patrick Bauchau, Ian Buchanan

Director: David Fincher

They rent a room in an old lady’s house that they use as an operations center, and they plan to disguise in the music band members; thus the demolitions expert, the ex-general and the other thieves will have to pretend to be musicians, despite their appearance.

Their plan seems to have no flaws, but they have not taken in consideration an important element: little old Mrs. Munson, the landlady……

Release Date: 26 March 2004

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Tom Hanks (Profesor G.H. Dorr), Irma P. Hall (Marva Munson), Marlon Wayans (Gawain McSam), J.K. Simmons (Garth Pancake), Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst (Lump), Diane Delano , George Wallace (Alguacil Wyner), John McConnell,  Jason Weaver (Weemack).

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

After his decision becomes known to his bosses, Chance is one of the most hunted- down persons in Bangkok.In order to protect himself and the ones dear to him, he will have to use his skills as a hit man and eliminate all those who attack them.

Release Date: 22 August 2008

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cast: Rick Yune, Keith David, Bokeem Woodbine, Dania Ramirez, Roger Yuan, Shaun Delaney.

Director: Jesse V. Johnson

Still, his other senses are very well developed; so developed that he becomes a famous hero known under the nickname of Daredevil.
During the day he looks and acts just like an ordinary person, going to his job. When night comes across town, he transforms into the fearless man, the masked hero that patrols around Hell’s Kitchen.

He fights off felons of all kinds and he never looses, but his real challenge is Bullseye, the killer who never misses his victims.

Release Date:  14 February 2003

Genre: Action, Crime,  Fantasy, Thriller

Cast: Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell, Jon Favreau, Jennifer Garner

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

On top of that, he has received so many complaints about the sloppy way he does his job that even his own mother threatens to fire him.
As he is not the type of man that would allow such insignificant details ruin his day, Leo prefers to relax by smoking some marijuana and not think about his problems.

His lack of attention will get him into a lot of trouble; he delivers a 10 kilo package of heroine to the wrong address, by mistake and his whole life turns upside down.

He is caught in the middle, between the very angry drug dealer and the rightful owners, who are now afraid of being accused of losing the merchandise; there are also the accidental receivers of the cocaine who are planning to sell it and get rich.

All Leo can do is pray that all goes well and he gets out of this alive.

Release Date: 8 May 2009

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Cast: Donald Faison, Lauren London, Mos Def, Wood Harris, Debbie Allen, Mike Epps, Darius McCrary

Director: Benny Boom

The movie goes beyond the murderer’s atrocious crimes, all the way to the impact they have caused on the victims, on their families and friends, and even on the communities they were a part of.

The police detective Matt Parish and his son Johnny, who is obsessed with the Zodiac’s crimes, are going back on the killer’s trace and are trying to find as many clues as possible related to his real identity.

What they seem to be ignoring is that, during this headhunt, they are not only jeopardizing their lives, but also the one of their relatives as well.

Will that stop their search?

Release Date: 17 March 2006

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery,Thriller

Cast: Justin Chambers, Robin Tunney, Rory Culkin, Philip Baker Hall, William Mapother, Brad William Henke, Rex Linn

Director: Alexander Bulkley

The movie follows the leads traced by the serial murderer known as The Zodiac Killer. He terrorized San Francisco area from 1966 to 1978, killing no less than 37 people.

This case was a peculiar one because the Zodiac Killer permanently sent letters to the police, as a way of taunting them while they were on his lead.

This case will become an obsession for 4 detectives, whose lives and careers will be built around the never ending clues. They will end up destroying their lives with this never solved case.

Release Date: March 2, 2007

Genre: Drama, Crime, History, Thriller

Cast:

Robert Downey Jr (Paul Avery)

Jake Gyllenhaal (Robert Graysmith)

Mark Ruffalo

Director: David Fincher

After many talks with his ex-wife, Bryan finally agrees to let Kim go on a vacation to Paris with her best friend, Amanda. Nothing out of the ordinary so far….except that, when they get to Paris, the two girls fall in the hands of an Albanese human trafficking network, who plans on drugging them and selling them to some Arabs as deluxe prostitutes.

Kim’s father has only 96 hours to save them from this tragic situation, and uses all his CIA agent skills as well as an Albanese translator; he also gets the help of an agent of the French Secret Services called Jean Claude. In a race against time, Bryan Mills has to ruin the plans of those dangerous human traffickers and take justice into his own hands.

Release Date: 30 January 2009

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama,  Thriller

Cast: Liam Neeson (Bryan), Maggie Grace (Kim), Famke Janssen (Lenore), Xander Berkeley (Stuart), Leland Orser (Sam), Jon Gries (Casey), David Warshosky (Bernie), Katie Cassidy (Amanda), Holly Valance (Diva), Nathan Rippy (Victor).

Director: Pierre Morel

The Salton Sea

After the death of his beloved wife, Tom – a trumpeter, leads a life of chaos, in which nothing is what it seems to be.

Val Kilmer plays the part of a man with double personality. As Tom, he wants to revenge the death of his wife.

As Danny, he helps two narcotic cops, to arrest a drug dealer. In his trip, he befriends a loser, named Jimmy the Fin, and saves his neighbor, Colette, from her own demons.

Release Date: April 23, 2002

Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Cast:

Val Kilmer (Tom/Danny)

Adam Goldberg (Kujo)

Luis Guzman (Quincy)

Director: D.J. Caruso

Ace is a young man who works for a dry cleaning. His friend, Mitch, has no money problem, because he is a drug dealer. His sister boyfriend, Calvin, is also a drug dealer.

One day, Ace meets Lulu, another drug dealer, but whose life seems perfect because he has no financial problems whatsoever.

Lulu forgets a cocaine package in a coat that he takes to Ace’s dry cleaning. Ace returns the drugs to Lulu and Lulu hires him.

Ace makes a lot of money out of drug dealing and he takes over the entire neighborhood together with his friend, Mitch.

Release Date: August 9, 2002

Genre: Action, Drama, Crime

Cast:

Wood Harris (Ace)

Mekhi Phifer (Mitch)

Kevin Carroll (Calvin)

Director: Charles Stone III

Gomorrah Poster

Power, hate and blood. These are the values that the inhabitants of Naples and Caserta have to face every day.

They almost never have the power to choose, and they always have to obey the rules of the system, of the Camorra; only some lucky few get the chance to have a ‘normal’ life.

Five stories which are intertwined on the background of a violent world, apparently far away from reality, but well connected with it at the same time.

Don Ciro is the ‘submarine’: he pays the families of the one who form part of his clan and are in jail; an intelligent and discrete man who does his work without ever getting involved.

Toto is 13 years old and he can’t wait to become a grown up; step by step, he goes around getting life experience, until one day, when he has to take a life-changing decision.

Different generations, different ages, different problems…..all under the domination of the Naples mob group the Camorra.

Release

Date: 19 December 2008

Genre: Crime, Drama, Foreign

Cast: Salvatore Abruzzese, Simone Sacchettino, Salvatore Ruocco, Vincenzo Fabricino, Gaetano Altamura, Italo Renda, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale, Salvatore Striano, Carlo Del Sorbo, Vincenzo Bombolo, Toni Servillo

Director: Matteo Garrone

Ocean’s Thirteen Poster

After a time of keeping away from all thing related to his ‘passion’, Danny Ocean decides to go back and this time, with an even bolder plan.

The objective is to take revenge, again; but this time, on Willy Bank, a hotel owner in Las Vegas who has betrayed Reuben Tishkoff, a personal friend of Danny’s.

The hit was scheduled to take place in the night of Bank’s big casino opening party, and this time, the ego is more important than the money.

The third part of this saga of theft has in distribution the same actors of the first two films. Along with Clooney, we see Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Andy Garcia playing Terry Benedict.

Release Date: 22 June 2007 (Romania)

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Elliott Gould, Shaobo Qin, Don Cheadle, Eddie Jemison, Andy García, Scott L. Schwartz, Carl Reiner, Michael Harney, James Martin Kelly, James DuMont, Noureen DeWulf

Director: Steven Soderbergh