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

The Lovebirds

Initial release: April 24, 2020 (United Kingdom)
Director: Michael Showalter
Budget: $16 million
Screenplay: Aaron Abrams, Brendan Gall, Martin Gero
Producers: Brendan Gall, Tom Lassally, Jordana Mollick

On the brink of breaking up, a couple gets unintentionally embroiled in a bizarre murder mystery. As they get closer to clearing their names and solving the case, they need to figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.





Bad Boys for Life

Initial release: January 7, 2020 (Berlin)
Directors: Bilall Fallah, Adil El Arbi
Budget: 90 million USD
Based on: Characters; by George Gallo
Producers: Will Smith, Jerry Bruckheimer, Doug Belgrad

Old-school cops Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett team up to take down the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel. Newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department along with Mike and Marcus go up against the ruthless Armando Armas.

The Equalizer 2

Initial release: July 20, 2018 (USA)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Budget: $62–79 million
Box office: 190.4 million USD
Producers: Denzel Washington, Antoine Fuqua, Alex Siskin,

If you have a problem and there is nowhere else to turn, the mysterious and elusive Robert McCall will deliver the vigilante justice you seek. This time, however, McCall's past cuts especially close to home when thugs kill Susan Plummer -- his best friend and former colleague. Now out for revenge, McCall must take on a crew of highly trained assassins who'll stop at nothing to destroy him.

Mile 22

Initial release: August 16, 2018 (Singapore)
Director: Peter Berg
Budget: $35–60 million
Box office: 66.3 million USD
Languages: English, Indonesian, Russian

CIA operative James Silva leads a small but lethal paramilitary team on an urgent and dangerous mission. They must transport a foreign intelligence asset from an American embassy in Southeast Asia to an airfield for extraction -- a distance of 22 miles. Silva and the soldiers soon find themselves in a race against time as the city's military, police and street gangs close in to reclaim the asset.

John Wick: Chapter 2

Initial release: January 30, 2017 (Los Angeles)
Director: Chad Stahelski
Box office: 171.5 million USD
Budget: 40 million USD
Languages: English, Russian, Italian

Retired super-assassin John Wick's plans to resume a quiet civilian life are cut short when Italian gangster Santino D'Antonio shows up on his doorstep with a gold marker, compelling him to repay past favours. Ordered by Winston, the kingpin of secret assassin society The Continental, to respect the organisation's ancient code, Wick reluctantly accepts the assignment to travel to Rome to take out D'Antonio's sister, the ruthless capo atop the Italian Camorra crime syndicate.

Daddy's Girl

Director: Julian Richards
Writer: Timothy Hill
Stars: Jemma Dallender, Costas Mandylor, Jesse Moss |

A young woman held captive by her stepfather becomes the focus of a female vigilante.

The Magnificent Seven

Initial release: September 14, 2016 (South Korea)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Budget: $90–107 million
Box office: 162.4 million USD

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington) for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.

Survivor

Initial release: May 21, 2015 (Italy)
Director: James McTeigue
Budget: 20 million USD
Screenplay: Philip Shelby
Producers: Irwin Winkler, Charles Winkler, Matthew O'Toole


Framed for a terrorist bombing, a foreign service officer (Milla Jovovich) must dodge a top assassin (Pierce Brosnan), while racing against time to thwart a deadly plot.

Jigsaw

Initial release: October 26, 2017 (Germany)
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Film series: Saw
Box office: 103 million USD
Based on: Saw; by James Wan; Leigh Whannell

After a series of murders bearing all the markings of the Jigsaw killer, law enforcement officials find themselves chasing the ghost of a man who has been dead for over a decade, and they become embroiled in a new game that's only just begun. Is John Kramer back from the dead to remind the world to be grateful for the gift of life? Or is this a trap set by a killer with designs of his own?

2 Guns

Initial release: July 30, 2013 (New York City)
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Based on: 2 Guns; by Steven Grant; Mateus Santolouco
Box office: 131.9 million USD
Executive producers: Mark Damon, Remington Chase,

For the past year, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and U.S. Navy intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) have been working under cover as members of a narcotics syndicate. The twist: Neither man knows that the other is an undercover agent. When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire, the men are disavowed by their superiors. Trench and Stigman must go on the run lest they wind up in jail or in a grave.

Joker (2019)

Initial release: October 4, 2019 (USA)
Director: Todd Phillips
Budget: 55 million USD
Producers: Todd Phillips, Martin Scorsese, Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger
Screenplay: Todd Phillips, Scott Silver

Joker is an upcoming American crime film distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and based on the DC Comics character Joker. It is intended to be the first film in a series of DC-based films separate from the shared DC Extended Universe.

The Old Man & the Gun

Initial release: December 7, 2018 (United Kingdom)
Director: David Lowery
Based on: The Old Man and the Gun; by David Grann
Box office: 14.5 million USD
Production companies: Wildwood Enterprises, Inc, Identity Films

At the age of 70, Forrest Tucker makes an audacious escape from San Quentin, conducting an unprecedented string of heists that confound authorities and enchant the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt, who becomes captivated with Forrest's commitment to his craft, and a woman who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.