Sholay (1975), Pickpocket (1959), Nil by Mouth (1997), Going Places (1974), The Troops of St. Tropez (1964), In the Soup (1992), Sally of the Sawdust (1925), Quicksand (1950) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Petty Crime movies.
Storyline: Sholay means embers in Hindi. In this particular movie, a Police Officer, who's family was killed by a bandit named Gabbar Singh, decides to fight fire with fire and recruits two convicts, Jai and Veeru to capture Gabbar. He approaches them in jail, puts the proposal in front of them, and they agree to bring in Gabbar Singh alive - for a hefty price. After their discharge from jail, they travel by train to the village where the Police Officer lives - now with only his widowed daughter-in-law. The three band together to fight one of the most elusive and dreaded bandits of all time. Will the two ex-cons be able to bring Gabbar alive to the Police Officer?
Plot Keywords: bandit, thief, police chief, daughter-in-law, villager, gutsy, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Michel takes up picking pockets as a hobby, and is arrested almost immediately, giving him the chance to reflect on the morality of crime. After his release, though, his mother dies, and he rejects the support of friends Jeanne and Jacques in favour of returning to pickpocketing (after taking lessons from an expert), because he realises that it's the only way he can express himself...
Plot Keywords: pickpocket, mother, police detective, neighbor, friend, striking, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.—Gustaf Molin <gustaf.molin@usa.net>
Plot Keywords: husband, drug addict, wife, pregnant woman, alcoholic, factory worker, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: thug, partner, ex-convict, beautiful woman, stranger, son, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with persistent nude swimmers, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor. He gets drawn into it when he tries to cover for her when a friend 'lends' the car of her assumed father. It turns out that the real owners of the yacht aren't exactly what they pretend to be either...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: police captain, daughter, police officer, friend, airy, amusing, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A neurotic nebbish lives in 2 worlds: the fantasy of winning his dream-girl via a hit movie, and the meager existence he scrapes out from very odd jobs, such as thesping in an arty no-budget flick. His beautiful object is his next-door neighbor Angelica, who's understandably preoccupied with her own life, as an illegal immigrant and single mom. Aldolpho Rollo's writing his unending masterpiece screenplay from a walk-up NYC flat, in-between peering at debtors through his peephole. AR's hopes to win her love take wing via another angel, a shady high-roller who definitely has the self-confidence, and promises the cash Aldolpho craves, to produce the auteur's vision.—David Stevens
Plot Keywords: writer, neighbor, con artist, producer, actor, director, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: young girl, con artist, judge, young man, father figure, wife, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Motor mechanic Dan Brady lacks funds for a heavy date with new restaurant cashier Vera, the type whose life's ambition is a mink coat; so he embezzles twenty dollars from his employer with plans to repay it the next day. To make up the shortage, he goes in debt for a hundred. Thereafter, every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets him deeper into financial difficulties that lead to bigger crimes as everyone he meets is out for themselves.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: mechanic, waitress, friend, boss, police officer, ex-girlfriend, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bobbie is an addict and small-time thief. When one of his jobs goes bad, Mel is called in to patch him up. Mel offers him a chance at a bigger score. Over time, Mel and his girlfriend Sid become almost like parents to Bobbie and his girlfriend Rosie, but this can't last.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: teen boy, girlfriend, criminal, lover, drug dealer, junkie, hedonistic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Henry Wrigley (Richard Hearne) is happy writing stories for a children's' comic. Then he meets Miss Honey (Dame Margaret Rutherford), who encourages him to go into minor crime.
Plot Keywords: writer, eccentric, safecracker, orphanage director, small-time crook, lord, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.—Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: con artist, friend, factory owner, beautiful woman, businessman, thug, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel of the famed English adventuress Moll Flanders (Kim Novak). Moll is first engaged as a maid by an eighteenth-century English family chiefly composed of sex-starved males. She marries the imbecilic second son, who prefers booze to copulation. Too embarrassed to speak the truth of him, she demurely tells friends, "Modesty forbids me to reveal the secrets of the marriage bed." She then meets a rich banker (George Sanders), becomes maid-companion to a Count (Vittorio De Sica) and his Lady, and finally weds the banker, but leaves him on their first night together. She then joins a group of thieves, falls in love with James "Jemmy" Seagrave (Richard Johnson), and becomes their number one asset before she is sent to prison. After she is released, she finds Jemmy, and, in the end, everyone is on an America-bound boat except the banker, who fortuitously dies of a heart attack before he has had an opportunity to alter his will.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: orphan, young woman, mayor, son, lady, husband, banker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Scotty White (age 19) must stop 'going steady' with Janice Wilson (age 16) when Janice's parents intervene. Frustrated, idle and without Janice's restraining influence, Scotty encounters Cholly and his band of disorganized, fun-loving delinquents. Soon he has Janice (who seems considerably the more mature of the two) mixed up in their doings, which begin to seem less and less like harmless fun...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: teen boy, girlfriend, father, mother, friend, gang leader, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A dedicated single mother who, on an unusual night on the town, is charmed by a handsome yet troubled stranger.
Plot Keywords: single mother, friend, daughter, young man, amusing, charming, emotional ...
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