Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Kill the Irishman Trailer [2011]


Kill the Irishman is a crime drama film starring Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio,Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer. The film is inspired by the book To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia by Rick Porrello. The film is based on a biopic of Irish-American mob boss and FBI informant Danny Greene, who tried to shoot his way to the top of Cleveland's criminal underworld during the late 1970s.
Release date: March 11, 2011

Fast Five Trailer [2011]


Fast Five (also known as The Fast and the Furious 5) is the upcoming fifth installment of The Fast and the Furious film series. It stars Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Walker, and Jordana Brewster. Chronologically, Fast Five comes after Fast & Furious and before The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. After Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) is freed by Brian O'Conner (Walker) and Mia Toretto (Brewster), they flee the country and assemble a team of their friends and fellow elite drivers to confront a corrupt businessman who wants them dead, while at the same time avoiding capture by a relentless federal agent (Johnson).
Release date: April 29, 2011

Wild Target [2010]


Wild Target is a 2010 comedy film based on the 1993 French film Cible Emouvante and stars Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett, and Eileen Atkins. The film is a comedy about uptight Victor Maynard (Nighy), a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother Louisa (Eileen Atkins), despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose (Blunt).
Release date: October 29, 2010 (limited)

London Boulevard Trailer [2010]


London Boulevard is a crime/drama/romance film starring Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, David Thewlis, Anna Friel and Ray Winstone. It is based on a novel by Ken Bruen about a man newly released from prison who falls in love with a reclusive young movie star and finds himself in a duel with a vicious gangster.
Release date: November 26, 2010 (UK)

I Spit on Your Grave [2010]


I Spit on Your Grave is an American rape and revenge horror film, and a remake of the 1978 film of the same name. A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead. It stars Chad Lindberg, Daniel Franzese, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson and Andrew Howard.
Release date: October 8, 2010

The Next Three Days [2010]


The Next Three Days is a thriller film directed by Paul Haggis and starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks and Brian Dennehy. A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife (Banks) is accused of a murder. Her husband (Crowe), a professor, takes extreme actions in an attempt to free her from prison.
Release date: November 19, 2010

Middle Men [2010]


Middle Men is a drama film starring Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Kelsey Grammer, and James Caan. The film revolves around straight-and-narrow businessman Jack Harris (Wilson), who back in 1995 builds the first online billing company dealing exclusively with adult entertainment. He finds himself in the middle of a whirlwind filled with starlets, con men, Russian mobsters, federal agents and international terrorists. Caught between a porn star and the FBI, Harris learns that even becoming one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs of his generation may not be enough to keep him out of trouble.
Release date: August 6, 2010

The Oxford Murders [2008]


The Oxford Murders is a French/British/Belgium/Spanish 2008 thriller film, adapted from the novel of the same name by the Argentine mathematician and writer Guillermo Martínez. The film stars Elijah Wood, John Hurt and Leonor Watling. At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols. Released since April 2008 in the UK, the film was only released to US theatres on 6 August 2010.
Release date: August 6, 2010

Machete [2010]


Machete is an action thriller film, directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. The film stars an ensemble cast including Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Don Johnson, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Robert De Niro, and Rose McGowan. The film centers around the character of Machete Cortez who after being betrayed by the organization who hired him, launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
Release date: September 3, 2010

The Town [2010]


The Town is an upcoming crime drama directed by and starring Ben Affleck based on Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves. The film follows the action of four Charlestown, Massachusetts bank robbers as they are pursued by law enforcement. Affleck plays a professional thief who falls for a bank manager (Rebecca Hall) after a dangerous heist. He struggles with this newfound relationship whilst evading a tenacious FBI agent (Jon Hamm) looking to catch him and his crew before they rob another bank.
Release date: September 10, 2010

The Green Hornet [2011]


The Green Hornet is an upcoming 2011 superhero action film directed by Michel Gondry and starring Cameron Diaz, Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, and Tom Wilkinson. The film was originally scheduled to be directed by Stephen Chow, who had planned to direct the film as a comedy. It is an adaptation of the radio and television character The Green Hornet (Rogen), a debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid who fights crime as a masked superhero. At his side is martial arts expert Kato (Chou).
Release date: January 14, 2011

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [2010]


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor) is a 2009 Swedish film based on the bestselling novel of the same name by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. The film tells of the unlikely alliance between an investigative journalist and a young female hacker as they dig into the sinister past of the powerful Vanger family.
Release date: March 19, 2010

Ca$h [2010]


Ca$h is a crime and thriller movie starring Chris Hemsworth and Sean Bean. Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie are facing financial problems to pay their mortgage after a period of unemployment. A stroke of good luck, when more than six hundred thousand dollars drop into their possession, turns lethal when the rightful owner of the money shows up at their doorstep. Sam and Leslie are taken on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago in order to refund the money that they have spent.
Release date: April 9, 2010

Brooklyn's Finest [2010]


Brooklyn's Finest is an upcoming American crime film directed by Antoine Fuquaand starring Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, and Wesley Snipes. In the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three conflicted New York City police officers are dramatically transformed by their involvement in a massive drug operation. The film first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. The total budget for the film was in the $25 million range, as many of the actors took large pay cuts to make the movie.
Release date: March 5, 2010