Criminal
see all genres ›Elaborate, often stylized games of cat-and-mouse play out in the minimalist policier, the lavish gangster epic and everything in-between. Justice, in the conventional sense, may or may not be served. Crime movies regularly feature anti-heroes (though police protagonists are as common as criminal ones).
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Genres / Crime / Criminal
SUB-GENRES · Contract Killer · Gangster · Juvenile Delinquent · Sociopath/Supervillain
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Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
This all-time Japanese cult favorite inspired a series of sequels and remakes still extending today. It's a crazed mixture of “women in prison” and revenge-flick tropes that was a key inspiration for KILL BILL (which used some of its music as an homage). Gorgeous Meiko Kaji plays the girlfriend of an...Start your free trial to watch -
The Fiend
There's a sickness in the house on Burbott Road; a sickness not of the body, but of the soul! For several years the sinister Minister (Patrick Magee) and the religious fanatic, Birdy Wemys (Ann Todd) have warped the mind of her psychotic, sexually confused son, Kenny (Tony Beckley). But now Kenny has grown up into a big boy...Start your free trial to watch -
Fighter in the Wind
A young Korean Taekwondo competitor arrives in Japan near the end of World War II with hopes of being a fighter pilot, but ends up on the streets battling racism, organized crime, occupying American servicemen, and his own fear of failure as a martial artist. He retires to the wilderness for two years to...Start your free trial to watch
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Five
It's morning as five people (former flatmates and old friends) wake up in a remote tramping hut. Some of them are feeling the effects of the walk to the hut while others are feeling the effects of previous night's party. This weekend is a celebration of their friendship; it will be the last time they will go out on their...Start your free trial to watch -
The Flesh and the Fiends
The notorious Burke and Hare, a lowlife duo convicted of robbing graves and murdering sixteen people in 1828 Edinburgh, has inspired numerous film treatments. They've been portrayed by everyone from Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (in Robert Wise's THE BODY SNATCHERS released in 1945) to Simon Pegg and Andy...Start your free trial to watch -
Flickering Lights
Academy Award™ winner Anders Thomas Jensen, whose style has been described as a cross between Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, has pulled a stunner with FLICKERING LIGHTS, both shocking and funny, violent and gentle. It’s a brand new kind of gangster comedy about four childhood buddies whose...Start your free trial to watch
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Flirting with Fate
Douglas Fairbanks' eighth film, FLIRTING WITH FATE is an intriguing dark comedy about a starving artist determined to end his life. Fairbanks plays August "Augy" Holliday, described in an intertitle as an artist "long on temperament and short on funds. He can draw everything except a salary." His inability...Start your free trial to watch -
Funny Games
A succession of sadistic games between victims and perpetrators (and between auteur and spectator) FUNNY GAMES opens with an aerial shot of an SUV maneuvering through an idyllic landscape. Inside the vehicle, Anna (Susanne Lothar, THE PIANO TEACHER), Georg (Ulrich Mühe, THE LIVES OF OTHERS) and their son Georgie play a...Start your free trial to watch -
The Gambler and the Lady
A gambling kingpin's goal is to be accepted by high society. He leaves his girlfriend for a socialite, is swindled in a scam, then strong-armed by gangsters and ends up as a hood ornament on his jilted lover's sedan! Peter Jenkins directed THE GAMBLER AND THE LADY for Hammer Films (though it was rumored...Start your free trial to watch
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Gozu
A horror thriller from the director of ICHI THE KILLER and AUDITION. Prepare for a delirious descent into a nightmare world, courtesy of Japan's most untamed filmmaker, Takashi Miike. What starts out as a gangster film spirals rapidly out of control when a young yakuza is ordered to assassinate his own superior, who also...Start your free trial to watch -
The Great Jesse James Raid
Jesse James (Willard Parker), retired and living under a differnet name in St. Joseph, Missouri, agrees over the protests of his wife Zee (Barbara Woodell) to join Bob Ford (Jim Bannon) and Sam Wells (Richard Cutting) in a Colorado gold raid. Jesse rounds up gunman Arch Clements (Tom Neal) and demolition...Start your free trial to watch
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Gunfire
Bank, train and stagecoach heists, plus plenty of ridin' and shootin', pepper this sagebrush saga of a reorganized Jesse James gang terrorizing the Old West, now under the leadership of a man (Donald Barry) impersonating Jesse's brother Frank James. Can sheriff Robert Lowery pierce Barry's disguise and put the renegades...Start your free trial to watch -
Guyana: Crime of the Century
Nearly 1,000 people -even tiny babies and children- lay dead and rotting in the morning sun in the South American country of Guyana. All victims of cult leader Jim Jones, who had ordered the mass execution of his followers in the 1978 incident called by many "the crime of the century". A horrific...Start your free trial to watch -
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Shuji is a good-looking lad, one of the up-and-coming assassins for the Daito mob of the yakuza, Japan's answer to the mafia. Despite his pretense of toughness, he frequently has overwhelming longings to return to his childhood and the innocent games he played then with his best friend's younger sister....Start your free trial to watch
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Hell's Bloody Devils
Advertised as being about "a wild psycho gang always looking for trouble," HELL'S BLOODY DEVILS sits in the annals of Al Adamson biker flicks between the notorious SATAN'S SADISTS and she-devil opuses THE FEMALE BUNCH and ANGELS' WILD WOMEN. But in fact it was originally a non-biker film shot before any of...Start your free trial to watch -
The Hellcats
A battle weary soldier comes back from the war and goes undercover to avenge the death of his cop brother. His link to the murder is the fiancée of his brother who wants vengeance too, and knows he was an infiltrated cop with a scum drug-dealing biker gang, The Hellcats, who are employed by the mob to move the drugs from...Start your free trial to watch



