Lion's Den (2008), Terribly Happy (2008), Nayakan (1987), Diabolique (1955), The Gentlemen (2020), Kaun? (1999), Johnny Gaddaar (2007), The Sicilian Clan (1969) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Crime Drama movies.
Storyline: An Argentine woman (Martina Gusmán) struggles to raise her newborn from behind the walls of a prison-ward nursery.
Plot Keywords: prison, mother, legal, argentina, women, maternal love, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following a nervous breakdown, a police officer (Jakob Cedergren) from Copenhagen pulls duty in a small town, where his big-city attitude clashes with the residents' bizarre behavior.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, black comedy, mystery, psychological thriller, drama, danish film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small boy (Ratnavelu) from Tamilnadu sees his father, a labor leader, killed in cold blood by a policeman. He kills the policeman and runs away to the city of Bombay. From there, the story traces his ascent to become a mafia chief (Velu Naicker).
Plot Keywords: indian cinema, crime drama, classic film, violence, revenge, corruption, power struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'killers' (and the audience) up the wall with almost unbearable suspense...
Plot Keywords: suspense, thriller, crime, film noir, psychological thriller, murder, french film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A talented American graduate of Oxford, using his unique skills, and audacity, creates a marijuana empire using the estates of impoverished British aristocrats. However, when he tries to sell his empire to a fellow American billionaire, a chain of events unfolds, involving blackmail, deception, mayhem and murder between street thugs, Russian oligarchs, Triad gangsters and gutter journalists.—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)
Plot Keywords: action, crime, comedy, gangster, british, drug trade, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On a stormy rainy night a women is watching a news on television of a killer being around suddenly her bell rings.She is hesitant to open the door after hearing the news of killer.Man claims himself as Sameer A. Purnavale looking for Mr Malhotra and frequently rings the bell.The women tells him that the house belongs to Mr Gupta.In order to scare him she tells that her husband is sleeping upstairs.But she hears a sudden noise and runs outside to Puranavale who tells her that he is here to protect her.When she finds nobody around asks him to leave but another man is standing at the door with a gun claiming to be Inspector Qureshi.The women is left confused among both the men suspecting that they are not who they claim to be as one of them could also be the killer.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, psychological thriller, indian cinema, independent film, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Plain-clothed police officers, on patrol in a police van in Mumbai's Khar Danda area, recount the story of five crooks: Sheshadari, Shiva, Prakash, Vikram, Shardul, and their Police Inspector friend, Kalyan. The tale revolves around a bag containing 2.5 Crore Rupees that goes missing - resulting in lies, deception, betrayal, and death.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, noir, indian cinema, drama, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, action, drama, gangster, french, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Small-time crook Nick Bianco gets caught in a jewel heist and despite urgings from well-meaning district attorney D'Angelo, refuses to rat on his partners and goes to jail, assured that his wife and children will be taken care of. Learning that his depressed wife has killed herself, Nick informs on his ex-pals and is paroled. Nick remarries, gets a job and begins leading a happy life when he learns one of the men he informed on, psychopathic killer Tommy Udo, has been released from custody and is out for revenge against Nick and his family.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, drama, thriller, 1940s, classic, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vijay Singh Rajput (Amitabh Bachchan) is a quirky manager of Vilasrao Jefferson Bank. He is extremely strict at work and believes in pushing his workers to the limit. This means that his superiors hold him in high regard for his unblemished reputation and excellent track record. But things go terribly wrong for the honest bank manager when he finds one of his own employees trying to con the customers. At this, he loses his temper and gets physical with the employee. This doesn't go down well with his superiors and they decide that Rajput is now a liability to the bank and they sack him. Amitabh can't believe the Board of Directors and his mind is filled with revenge and what better revenge than robbing the bank himself, ironic as it may sound. He decides that he must think of a plan that will hit the bank where it hurts the most - in its safe where all the money is kept. Rajput blackmails Neha (Sushmita Sen) to use her professional skills to help his plan, to train three blind men to ...
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, heist, suspense, drama, action, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Joe "Tom" Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to start working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. It's an aggressive company, where speed is everything. Doing too few runs in a day? You're out. Red is the most experienced trucker. He can do eighteen runs in a day. Tom soon makes friends with Lucy, the secretary, and Gino, a driver. But the record of Red intrigues him and he wants to break it. Gino advises against it, but he helps Tom when he wants to go through with it. Soon trouble begins when Red and the other drivers form a united front against Tom. Just when Tom has enough and decides to pack his bags, Lucy tells him Gino had a terrible accident. She also tells about the corruption of Hawlett Trucking.—Arnoud Tiele (zelva@tiele.nl)
Plot Keywords: action, crime, drama, thriller, british film, film noir, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rene is a "ripou", a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail. When his partner retires, he must team up with Francois, a young police school graduate with a righteous attitude. He is hard to break and Rene has to trick him. He introduces Francois to a charming girl and forgets to mention she's a prostitute. Now Rene has something against Francois he can use in case his partner should want to reveal Rene's little commerce with the underworld. The partners ultimately become friends, get one another out of a tough situation, and manage to gather enough money to buy Rene his lifelong dream: a small café near the horse tracks.—Khandoma
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, french film, police, partners, corruption, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, who seems to have no past, and has now disappeared. In flashback, we see the woman's anonymous roots; her poor working-class marriage, which ends in tragedy and her determination to find "better things." Soon finding that sex appeal is her only salable commodity, she climbs from man to man toward the center of a nationwide crime syndicate...a very perilous position.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime drama, femme fatale, gangster, melodrama, classic hollywood, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution's case and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title.
Plot Keywords: legal drama, biography, courtroom drama, true story, crime, mystery, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money. Rose Byrne co-stars as a country girl with whom Ledger starts a romance on his trip.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: crime, australian film, gangster, black comedy, thriller, action, mystery ...
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