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

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One day he goes to see some psychic woman and his whole life turns upside down. He decides to leave his family and goes on a journey all over the world, in an attempt to rediscover himself and redeem his soul.

He ends up in the underground world of New York, where he kills a pimp and an aspiring actress, which gets him arrested and in jail.

He is just a man who is longing for affection, safety and satisfaction, but he definitely will not get any of that in jail.

Release Date: 14 July 2006

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Cast: William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Denise Richards, Mena Suvari, Dylan Walsh, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon, Dule Hill, Bai Ling, Bokeem Woodbine, Debi Mazar, George Wendt, Lonnie Smith

Director: Stuart Gordon

They break into rich people houses, they move the furniture, they hang pictures on the walls and they leave messages like: “You have too much money!”

One night, when Jan together with Jule, Peter’s girlfriend, break into the house of manager Hardenberg (because Jule owes money to Hardenberg), something unpredictable happens. They are caught by Hardenberg. Something even more unpredictable happens next…

Release Date: July 22, 2005

Genre: Drama

Cast:

Daniel Bruhl (Jan)

Julia Jentsch (Jule)

Stipe Erceg (Peter)

Director: Hans Weingartner

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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

Ocean

Danny Ocean is a very good thief and his biggest hit, in the casino of the Bellaggio hotel, has brought him a nice 160 million dollars.

He manages to get back with his wife and decides it is better to stay low for a while somewhere in Connecticut.

His peaceful and quiet life is disturbed by an unexpected visitor: Terry Benedict, the owner of the Bellaggio hotel. He has managed to track down Danny along with the other 10 men who had helped him commit the robbery and he is forcing them to pay him back.

Since a lot of the money has already been spent, the eleven people start planning another hit. Danny discovers that an incredibly rare Faberge egg will be exhibited at an important museum in Rome.

They decide to steal it, but things don’t go totally according to plan, seeing that he was not the only one going after the egg.

Release Date: 17 December 2004 (Romania)

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Don Tiffany, Andy Garcia, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle

Director: Steven Soderbergh

“Jackpot” presents the story of Sunny Holiday, a man who thinks his success will come if he becomes a country-western singer.

For this success he abandons his beautiful wife, Bobbi, and their baby and starts a tour of nine months through some small western towns, along with his manager Lester “Les” Irving.

They head west to Jackpot, Nevada, singing in every possible place they can get money from.

To afford their current expenses they sell jugs of liquid soap out of the back of their car, most of the times to the ladies Sunny spends the night with after the shows.

Les tries to keep Sunny out of trouble, especially with the ladies… and when they think that they’re back on track… they are pulled over by the police…

Release Date:  27 April 2001 (USA)

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Cast: Jon Gries, Daryl Hannah, Garrett Morris, Patrick Bauchau, Adam Baldwin

Director: Michael Polish

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“Made” is an excellent, fun and unpredictable story about two close friends who see the world differently.

Bobby is an amateur boxer who spends his days working in construction and nights as a bodyguard of his girlfriend Jessica, who is a stripper.

Bobby refuses to give up his dreams of conquering the boxing ring, despite the desire of most of his good friend Ricky to occupy a high position in local mafia led by Max.

But when Ricky and Bobby still support a dangerous mission, the duo are flying first class to New York and hits upon the world full of money by Ruiz (Sean Combs), a gangster from Manhattan.

Bobby’s only wish is to meet the mission and to get home alive, but Ricky, believing that he is “made”, ignores the mobster protocol and throws himself into the world of limousines, women and nightclubs.

In just a few hours, the glorious illusions of Ricky reveal the entire mission and put the both friends’ lives in danger.

Release Date: 18 October 2001 (Singapore)

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cast: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Joe Goossen, Famke Janssen, Peter Falk

Director: Jon Favreau

Calendar Girls

The movie presents the story of Chris and Annie, two very good friends, both members of the Rylstone Institute, which deals with charitable acts.

After what Anne’s husband finds out that he has leukemia the women decide to do something to raise the money for him.

They realized that the best solution would be to … pose in a calendar … nude.

Being very convincing, they managed to make their friends to pose, too.

The director of the institute, Mary, did not agree with this idea, but she never thought that this could really be a success.

For a noble cause, they make sacrifices and, the person who comes with the idea justifies her acts with a touching speech.

“Calendar Girls” has that credible air that makes it likeable, but this is thanks to the actors like Helen Mirren and Julie Walters.

Release Date:  12 September 2003 (Norway)

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Cast: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, John Alderton

Director: Nigel Cole

Nacho Libre

The chef from a Mexico monastery realizes that he’s not made only for the kitchen. So, one day he finds a way of winning money in an unusual way: lucha libre (wrestling).

Nacho discovers that he has a special gift in this domain and he ends up fighting with the most famous wrestlers in Mexico.

As he works in a monastery and the nuns do not agree with this kind of activity, he has to wear a mask during the fights, to hide his face.

In this way, he tries to make the nun Encarnacion to like him and to help the little orphans from the monastery with the money he wins.

In this comedy, Jack Black plays one of the most eccentric characters from his entire career.

For this role the actor had to make considerable physical training.

This was the first time when he shot a sport’s movie and he felt like “recruit in a training camp”.

Release Date: 16 June 2006 (USA)

Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport

Cast: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez, Darius Rose, Moises Arias, Carla Jimenez

Director: Jared Hess

Mad Money

Callie Khouri, the Oscar winner for script of “Thelma and Louise”, directs her second movie, after the one in 2002, “Clan Ya-Ya”.

When Bridget Cardigan discovers that her husband lost his job, she decides to get a job as janitor in the Federal Reserve Bank.

There she’ll meet Nina, a single mother who makes juggleries  to be able to raise her children, and who, fate’s irony, destroys the bank’s battered money.

One day, Bridget plans to rob a small quantity from the banknotes that had to be destroyed and convinces Nina and Jackie too, a free spirit hard-working young girl.

This movie is based on a real story of three women who decided to steal a part of the money that had to be destroyed in the bank they are employed.

Release Date: 18 January 2008

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance

Cast: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Roger R. Cross, Adam Rothenberg

Director: Callie Khouri

The famous Alcatraz high security prison has started functioning again, and the most dangerous criminals of the United States have been sent to this location by the California Courts of Justice.

Tired of his work and of not getting the recognition he thinks he deserves, a prison official has come up with a very elaborate plan which is meant to provide access to the jail to a guerrilla commando.

The head of this commando is an ex felon; his purpose is to enter Alcatraz and get to a certain prisoner that knows where 200 million dollars are hidden.

What they didn’t take into account is Sascha, an FBI agent working undercover and who is supposedly serving time for theft; he is there to ruin any escape plans anyone may have.

The whole situation gets even more complicated, as the prisoner who knows where the money is, is about to get executed; moreover, the commando members are planning to kill the members of the Supreme Court of Justice that will attend the execution.

Will Sascha be able to save them?

Release Date: 15 November 2002

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Claudia Christian, Tony Plana, Nia Peeples, Ja Rule

Director: Don Michael Paul

Michael Zane is an ex-convict who has recently come out of prison.

As much as he would like to stay away from a life of crime, there is one last hit he could do and which would guarantee him the possibility to retire and own a boat.

His former cell mate, Thomas Murphy, comes with a proposal of a perfect plan that would get them 3 million dollars.

Taking advantage of the Elvis Presley International Week in Las Vegas, the two ex-cons and three people more disguised themselves as Elvis in order to walk freely, they entered in the Riviera casino-hotel and they assaulted the ones who were guarding the money safe.

After lots of gunshots and deadly victims, Michael and Murphy get to the terrace where they have a helicopter waiting. Will they make it? Will they manage to get out alive, seeing that Murphy is planning to kill all of them?

Release Date: 23 February 2001

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courtney Cox, Christian Slater, David Arquette

Director: Demian Lichtenstein

He ignored that it was surrounded by corpses, took the money ad left. Chasing him were his newly found enemies: the psychopath Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) and Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones).

Based on the novel with the same name, written by Cormac McCarthy, the film is a terrifying thriller directed by Ethan and Joel Coen. It has received two Golden Globes and 8 Oscar nominations for best film, best director, best script, best supporting actor (Javier Bardem), etc.

It is a movie about violence, temptation, survival, sacrifice, love and hope, filmed in the American West, so as to make the spectator remember that blood-spilling culture. The cast includes several other well-known actors, such as Tess Harper (as Loretta Bell), Kelly McDonald (as Carla Jean) and Garett Dillahunt (as Wendell).