The Seven Five (2014), Little Caesar (1931), Two Hands (1999), The Super Cops (1974), Mr. Untouchable (2007), La Balance (1982), Harry in Your Pocket (1973), Last Stop 174 (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Street Crime movies.
Storyline: Former NYPD officer Michael Dowd tells how he and his partner committed a long list of crimes, including running their own cocaine ring, while on the job in the 1980s and early '90s.
Plot Keywords: documentary, crime, corruption, police, new york, scandal, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rico is a small-time hood who knocks off gas stations for whatever he can take. He heads east and signs up with Sam Vettori's mob. A New Year's Eve robbery at Little Arnie Lorch's casino results in the death of the new crime commissioner Alvin McClure. Rico's good friend Joe Massara, who works at the club as a professional dancer, works as the gang's lookout man and wants out of the gang. Rico is ambitious and eventually takes over Vettori's gang; he then moves up to the next echelon pushing out Diamond Pete Montana. When he orders Joe to dump his girlfriend Olga and re-join the gang, Olga decides there's only one way out for them.
Plot Keywords: crime, classic, american film, 1930s, violence, power struggle, underworld ...
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 ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dave and Rob, fresh from the Police Academy, enrage their captain because they want to do more than controlling the traffic. As penalty they are sent to Brooklyn. However they don't give up, but develop their own methods to fight against dealers, criminals and corrupt colleagues.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, crime, drama, biography, police, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching national infamy in 1977 when the New York Times put him on the front cover of their magazine with the headline "Mr. Untouchable". Soon after, it all came crumbling down, and facing a life sentence without parole, Barnes started naming names. With the first hand testimony from "the black Godfather" himself, this documentary tells an epic story of business, excess, greed and revenge.—Magnolia Films
Plot Keywords: documentary, crime, drugs, gangster, true story, biography, law enforcement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the cops have to scramble for a replacement. Deciding on Dede, they begin to put a nasty squeeze on him and Nicole.—Paul Berk <pbnyc@compuserve.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, french film, police, film noir, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Seattle, aspiring pickpocket Ray is not very adept at his chosen profession. He thinks he's made it to the big time when he learns that a "cannon" - a pickpocket - is looking for an apprentice. The cannon is Harry, recently arrived in Seattle, with his older associate, Casey, a man with a penchant for cocaine. What Harry and Casey are really looking for is a "stall" - someone to act as the distractor. Harry thinks Sandy, Ray's girlfriend (and one of his former marks), is better suited to the job, but, Sandy will not do it unless Ray's included, as well. Ray appreciates what Harry can and does teach him and Sandy, but, Ray doesn't much like the romantic and sexual interest Harry' starts showing in Sandy. Harry's number one rule; Harry never holds, and after relocating their operation to stay one step ahead of the law, Ray's tired of being the 4th musketeer in the group, and itches to become a world-class cannon himself. This doesn't fit within Harry's grand scheme, and allegiances between each of the individuals within the foursome are tested.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, theft, american film, criminal duo, street crime, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A harrowing standoff with authorities unfolds when Brazilian delinquents (Michel Gomes, Marcello Melo Jr.) hijack a bus in Rio de Janeiro.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, based on true events, kidnapping, social issues, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick Chen is one of New York City's most martial police officers and the first Chinese-born immigrant on the force. Chen's job is to keep the peace in Chinatown from a turf war that has broken out between the Triads and the ruthless, and dangerous Fukienese Dragons. Chen teams up with Danny Wallace, who is terribly unaware of this situation. When the Tongs boldly attempt to bribe Wallace, Chen is forced to keep his faithfulness.
Plot Keywords: crime, action, thriller, corruption, new york, undercover, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two brothers who are forced to leave Reno after being involved in a hit-and-run accident. Based on the novel by Willy Vlautin, this moody thriller is a searing and profound examination of brotherhood set in the timeless Sierra Nevadan frontier.—Polsky Films
Plot Keywords: crime, drugs, gang, british film, independent film, thriller, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a suspended New York City cop's ex-partner is murdered, he vows to clean up the streets.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, action, thriller, police, corruption, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.—Scott Lane <rslane@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: action, crime, revenge, martial arts, 1980s, american film, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash. He soon realises he's walked into twelve hours of hell where survival is the name of the game.—Independent
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, action, british film, gangster, mystery, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paul Kersey, the soft-spoken family man with the knack for wasting street scum, hoped that, after cleaning an entire neighbourhood in Death Wish 3 (1985), he would hang up his guns, and lead a peaceful life. Nevertheless, more than ever, chaos, panic, and disaster are rampant on the mean streets of Los Angeles, as the unscrupulous drug dealers, Ed Zacharias and Jack Romero, whose rival gangs supply 90% of the narcotics in Los Angeles, exploit the helpless, terrorising everyone with their brutal methods. But, their reign of terror is about to end violently when the innocent teenage daughter of Kersey's girlfriend dies of an overdose. Now, once again, the guns, and, in particular, Paul's stainless-steel Ruger Mini-14 GB-F semi-automatic rifle, have the final say. Who can stand in the way of an angry, terribly dangerous, and armed-to-the-teeth Paul Kersey?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, revenge, violence, urban, gunfight ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young neighborhood hoodlum Viccent Coll is attracted to music student Elizabeth. Their paths cross several times as the tries to climb to the top of the reckets on the bodies of his murder victims. Because of the pleasure he takes in killing, everybody but his mob and his moll, ex-stripper Clio, calls him "Mad Dog." He is hunted by both the police and gang leader Dutch Schultz on whom he has declared war.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: gangster, crime, biography, new york, 1930s, true story, violence ...
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