Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), The Virgin Spring (1960), Atonement (2007), Calvary (2014), The Collini Case (2019), Crime and Punishment (1983), The Little Devil (1988), Make Mine Mink (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Crime And Punishment movies.
Storyline: Scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll (John Barrymore) is intelligent and diligent, but also uptight and extremely serious about his work. When his friend, Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst), takes him to a show featuring the sensual Miss Gina (Nita Naldi), an aroused Jekyll sets out on a quest to separate man's saintly and sinful sides. His experiments succeed, and his evil alter ego, Mr. Hyde, is created. As the doctor uncontrollably alternates between Jekyll and Hyde, danger looms.
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, psychological thriller, dual identity, classic adaptation, black and white film, moral dilemma, scientific experiment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of wealthy land-owning parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who, discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, mystery, thriller, historical, medieval, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: SPOILER: When Briony Tallis, 13 years old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for his time at Cambridge and now he plans on going to medical school. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When her cousin Lola is raped, she tells the police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, war, historical, british, literary adaptation, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Father James is a small-town priest in Ireland whose Sunday confessionals suddenly include a threat to kill him in a week's time as a matter of principle. Deeply troubled and conflicted about how to respond, Father James tries to go on with his calling through that week. However, that proves impossible as he is confronted with a troubling variety of spiritual challenges from both his estranged daughter and his own parishioners. In those dispiriting struggles, Father James' life begins to fall apart as time runs out towards a confrontation that seems to crystallize his values and what he wants his life to be.
Plot Keywords: drama, black comedy, religion, moral dilemma, ireland, redemption, crisis of faith ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 2001, Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero), a retired Italian worker, who had been living in Germany for 35 years, kills an elderly wealthy industrialist well known throughout the country. Collini's defense has been assigned to a public defender, the young lawyer Caspar Leinen (Elayas M'Barek), at his first major trial. However, Caspar had been a protegee of the murdered person, who he considered as a kind of father.—Ferruccio
Plot Keywords: legal drama, courtroom drama, crime thriller, murder mystery, german film, historical drama, justice system ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: crime, psychological, drama, suspense, literary adaptation, moral dilemma, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.—Stefano "SWEEVO" Pavone
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, religion, humor, supernatural, hell, heaven ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Zany collection of misfits led by aging military man (Terry-Thomas) go on a spree of robbing mink coats. An unlikely trio of women (Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, and Elspeth Duxbury) find new reasons to live ... until their housekeeper (Billie Whitelaw), an ex-con is suspected of the robberies.—Ed Lorusso <elorusso@techreps.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, british film, black and white, 1960s, theft, high society ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cocote is the story of Alberto, a garden worker who returns to his native town to attend the funeral of his father, murdered by a police. He finds himself attending religious services against his will. The story takes viewers to experience AfroAntillean spirituality and Dominican religious syncretism, bringing about reflects of intrinsic aspects of Dominican culture. In the film, the starring roles are by: Vicente Santos, Judith Rodríguez, Yuberbi de la Rosa, Pepe Sierra, José Miguel Fernández, Ricardo Ariel Toribio, Isabel Spencer and Enerolisa Núñez (Salve singer).—edi gamson
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social, cultural conflict, religion, tradition, death ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A former U.S. special prosecutor, Major Robert Lawson, begins to suspect that a Nazi war criminal on death row, General Otto Stiegman, has been wrongfully convicted of leveling a French village along with all of its inhabitants in WWII.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, crime, drama, mystery, film noir, legal, trial ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser thinks.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, biography, drama, history, true story, prison, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Philadelphia, Detective Bowden is still grieving for his wife and son, killed in a hit-and-run five years ago. When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. Meanwhile, five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the building where the jumper committed suicide. The communication radio in the elevator is broken but the guards, Lustig and Ramirez, observe the individuals via CCTV as events unfold. Tensions run high among those trapped, so Lustig calls the police and Detective Bowden assumes the case. Without being able to contact the individuals, he tries to work out who they are, but he can only account for four of them. Time is running out for the occupants of the elevator, as Bowden realizes he has to get them out quickly.
Plot Keywords: horror, suspense, thriller, supernatural, psychological, confined space, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.—Jiilo_Kim
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, french film, courtroom, mystery, legal, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pat Sullivan has committed a murder and told his priest, Father Loma, about it watches in agony when an innocent man, Michal O'Keefe, is accused of the crime and sentenced to the electric chair on circumstantial evidence. The priest, bound by inviolable sanctity of the confessional, also struggles with the issue of how to save O'Keefe, and keep his religious vows.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, suspense, courtroom, murder, confession ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Released from a Moscow prison, ex-convict Hamro (Maruf Pulodzoda) returns to the Tajikistani village of his birth to care for his frail mother, Halima (Uktamoi Miyasarova). There, Hamro reacquaints himself with old debts -- both financial and emotional -- to the corrupt mayor and to the son he has never met, Yatim (Kova Tilavpur). Hamro faces the judgment of his mother's neighbors, who know all too well about his criminal past, and worries that his days of staying straight may be numbered.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, family, independent film, social issues, father-son relationship, redemption ...
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