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Crime
 | | Ash Wednesday | |  | | Plot Summary
Hell's Kitchen on Ash Wednesday, 1983. Rumors are flying that Francis Sullivan's younger brother Sean, dead for three years, has reappeared. If he wasn't killed by rivals, then old scores still need settling, putting Fran and Sean in danger. An upstart is pressuring the local mob boss, who's Fran's protector; Sean's wife, who thinks she's a widow, has gotten on with her life, but Sean has come back for her. The parish priest, part of the initial deception, is frightened. Bad guys with guns are closing in. Can Fran get Sean and his wife out of the city, avoid a war between rival factions, and hold onto new-found morality? Will the cross of ashes on his forehead protect him? |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Edward Burns | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Elijah Wood, Edward Burns |
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|  | | Capote | | | | In 1959, Truman Capote, a popular writer for the New Yorker, learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Holcomb, Kanas. Inspired by the story material, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, In Cold Blood. To that end, he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners, especially Perry Smith, a quiet and articulate man with a troubled history. As he works on his book, Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in parts prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree. However, that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for his book which only an execution can provide. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce an literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Bennett Miller | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper |
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|  | | Gangster No. 1 | | | | Plot outline
Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Paul McGuigan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Malcolm McDowell , David Thewlis, Paul Bettany , Saffron Burrows |
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|  | | Get Rich Or Die Tryin' | | | | Plot outline
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Jim Sheridan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Terrence Howard, Bill Duke, Joy Bryant |
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|  | | Heist | | | | David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | David Mamet | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Gene Hackman, Danny Devito, Sam Rockwell |
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|  | | Hillside Strangler | | | |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Chuck Parello | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Italian Job | | | | Plot Summary
Charlies' got a 'Job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of friends has attempted a high risk job in Italy, right under the nose of the Mafia. Charlies friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'Job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of jaguars and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal the Gold and escape.
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| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Peter Collinson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Michael Caine, Noël Coward |
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|  | | Jackie Brown | | | | Plot Summary
Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss' gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don't even know. Here's when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you're talking about him, you're dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That's when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max's help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff... |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Quentin Tarantino | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Pam Grier , Samuel L. Jackson , Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro , Chris Tucker , Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Jr. |
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|  | | Mean Streets | | | | The future is set for Tony and MIchael - owning a heighbourhood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle, making collections and reclaiming bad debts. He's probley too nice to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of(because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble- making threatens them all - he cant reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Martin Scorsese | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Daivd Carradine |
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|  | | Rififi | | | | Plot Summary
Tony Stephanois, just out of prison and angry at his girl Mado's infidelity, decides to join his pals Jo and Mario in an ambitious crime. With Italian safe expert Cesar, they meticulously plan the burglary of a large jewelry establishment. Not a word is spoken as the crime is carried out. And then things begin to go wrong... |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Jules Dassin | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Roberto Succo | | | | Plot Summary
'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of France he meets Léa, age 16. Between his increasingly strange dates with Léa, Kurt engages in a number of armed robberies, some successful, some not... The police are perplexed by a series of crimes including disappearances and a murder. They conclude that they are dealing with a madman... After he proposes, Léa breaks up with Kurt. The attempt to find a new girlfriend leads to a shooting by Kurt, now calling himself André. Léa's information identifies Kurt/André as Roberto Succo, psychiatric patient and parental murderer. The police hunt for Roberto covers three countries. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Cédric Kahn | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Score | | | | Plot Summary
Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. Soon Max, his good friend and financial partner in the illegal affairs, comes along with an offer Nick can't refuse: A historical and priceless French sceptre has been discovered while being smuggled into the country. It is now under massive surveillance in the Montreal Customs House, and soon to be returned to France. Nick has to team up with Max' man inside, the young, talented and aggressive thief Jackie Teller to get the precious item, and suffer no more financial problems ever. Only one question remains: Who will trick whom out of their share?
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| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Frank Oz | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Statement | | | | Tale of a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hit men and Police investigators. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Norman Jewison | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Ciarán Hinds |
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|  | | Studs | | | |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Paul Mercier | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Brendan Gleeson |
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|  | | Syriana | | | | A missle disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an empire gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that prompty fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firmn that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects brbery and hires an outside firm to find a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir - apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his sont into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Stephen Gaghan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | George Clooney, Christopher Plummer, Mat Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper |
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|  | | Training Day | | | | Plot Summary
In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Antoine Fuqua | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Untouchables | | | | Plot Summary
Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's _The Battleship Potemkin_. |
| Genre: | Crime | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Brian De Palma | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Kevin Costner , Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Patricia Clarkson |
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