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Blood In Blood Out (also known as Bound by Honor and Blood In Blood Out: Bound By Honor) is a 1993 American epic crime drama film directed by Taylor Hackford that has become a cult classic film among ...
Release date: 16 April 1993
Genre:
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.
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Baby Boy
2001 film directed by John Singleton
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Baby Boy is a 2001 American coming-of-age hood drama film directed, written and produced by John Singleton, and starring Tyrese Gibson, Snoop Dogg, Ving Rhames, Omar Gooding, A.J. Johnson and Taraji P ...
Release date: 21 June 2001
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
In South Central L.A., a misguided 20-year-old African-American man, a "baby boy", faces the commitments of real life.
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham, with Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, James A ...
Release date: 25 December 1962
Genre:
Crime, Drama
Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
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The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy crime drama film written, directed and co-produced by Frank Darabont and based on the 1996 novel by Stephen King. It stars Tom Hanks as a death row prison guard ...
Release date: 6 December 1999
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
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Scarface
1983 crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma
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Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, and starring Al Pacino. It is a remake of the 1932 film of the same name, in turn based on the novel of ...
Release date: 1 December 1983
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
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Road House
1989 American action film by Rowdy Herrington
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Road House is a 1989 American action film directed by Rowdy Herrington and produced by Joel Silver. The film stars Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch and Sam Elliott. In the film, a bouncer at a ...
Release date: 19 May 1989
Genre:
Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
A bouncer hired to clean up the baddest honkytonk in a Missouri town. Armed with a black belt in karate and a Ph.D. in philosophy, Patrick Swayze sets ...
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Paid in Full is a 2002 American crime drama film directed by Charles Stone III. The characters Ace (Wood Harris), Mitch (Mekhi Phifer), and Rico (Cam'ron), are fictionally based on the 1980s Harlem drug ...
Genre:
Drama, Action, Crime
A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.
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Original Sin is a 2001 American erotic romantic thriller film starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. It is based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, and is a remake of the 1969 ...
Release date: 11 July 2001
Genre:
Romance, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp ...
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Belly
1998 film directed by Hype Williams
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Belly is a 1998 American crime drama film written and directed by music video director Hype Williams, in his feature film directing debut. Filmed in New York City, the film stars rappers Nas and DMX in ...
Release date: 4 November 1998
Genre:
Crime, Drama
Two young friends involved in organized crime and drug dealing find that their priorities differ.
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A Time to Kill is a 1996 American legal drama film based on John Grisham's 1989 novel of the same name. Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, and Kevin Spacey star, with Donald and Kiefer ...
Release date: 24 July 1996
Genre:
Crime, Thriller, Drama
In Clanton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old da ...
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A Bronx Tale is a 1993 American coming-of-age crime drama film directed by and starring Robert De Niro in his directorial debut and produced by Jane Rosenthal, adapted from Chazz Palminteri's 1989 play ...
Release date: 14 September 1993
Genre:
Crime, Drama
A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s.
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American Hustle is a 2013 American black comedy crime film directed by David O. Russell. It was written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell and inspired by the FBI Abscam operation of the late 1970s and ...
Release date: 13 December 2013
Genre:
Drama, History, Thriller, Crime
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them ...
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End of Watch
2012 action thriller film directed by David Ayer
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End of Watch is a 2012 American action thriller film written and directed by David Ayer. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala, two Los Angeles Police Department officers ...
Release date: 21 September 2012
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Action
Shot documentary-style, this film follows the daily grind of two young police officers in LA who are partners and friends, and what happens when they meet ...
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Lawless
2012 American crime drama film
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Lawless is a 2012 American crime drama film directed by John Hillcoat. The screenplay, by Australian singer-screenwriter Nick Cave, is based on Matt Bondurant's historical novel The Wettest County in the ...
Release date: 29 August 2012
Genre:
Drama, Crime, Western
Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for ...
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Wild Things is a 1998 American erotic thriller film directed by John McNaughton and starring Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Theresa Russell, Robert Wagner, and Bill Murray. It ...
Release date: 20 March 1998
Genre:
Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
A police detective uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a high-school guidance counselor when accusations of rape are made against him by two ...
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Unfaithful
2002 American erotic thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne
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Unfaithful is a 2002 American erotic thriller drama film directed and produced by Adrian Lyne and written by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr., adapted from the Claude Chabrol film The Unfaithful Wife ...
Release date: 10 May 2002
Genre:
Drama, Thriller, Romance
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Training Day is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer. It stars Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, two LAPD narcotics officers ...
Release date: 5 October 2001
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
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The Untouchables is a 1987 American crime film directed by Brian De Palma, produced by Art Linson, and written by David Mamet. It stars Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García, Robert De Niro ...
Release date: 2 June 1987
Genre:
Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant ...
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The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel. It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice ...
Release date: 30 January 1991
Genre:
Crime, Thriller, Drama
A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims ...
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The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film tells the story ...
Release date: 10 September 1994
Genre:
Crime, Drama
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
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