Crime
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A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Cottage on Dartmoor
director: Anthony Asquith actor: Norah Baring / Uno Henning …
other title: Un cottage dans le Dartmoor
A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.
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Second Wind (1966) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Le Deuxième Souffle
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Lino Ventura / Paul Meurisse …
other title: Tutte le ore feriscono... l'ultima uccide / O Segundo Fôlego …
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
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Black Lizard (1962) WikiData IMDb TMDB
黒蜥蜴
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Machiko Kyō / Minoru Ōki …
other title: Le Lézard Noir / 黒蜥蜴 …
The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
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Class of 1984 (1982) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Class of 1984
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Perry King / Tim Van Patten …
other title: Os Donos do Amanhã / Classe 1984 …
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Kim Stanley / Richard Attenborough …
other title: Ventimila sterline per Amanda / An einem trüben Nachmittag …
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
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Cairo Station (1958) TMDB IMDb
باب الحديد
director: Youssef Chahine actor: Farid Shawqy / Hind Rostom …
other title: Stazione centrale / Estação Central do Cairo …
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
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Himizu (2012) Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
ヒミズ
director: Sion Sono actor: Shōta Sometani / Fumi Nikaido …
other title: Himizu - Dein Schicksal ist vorbestimmt / ヒミズ
Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support.
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King of Robbery (1996) WikiData IMDb TMDB
悍匪
director: Billy Chung Siu-Hung actor: Simon Yam / Roy Cheung Yiu-Yeung …
other title: 悍匪
After robbing countless Hong Kong jewelery shops, Ye Kuan (Simon Yam) sets out on a murderous rampage killing everything in his path. Police informants, criminals and members of the public — nobody is safe from the Hong Kong Thug.
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Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban Skybridge WikiData
Gone in Sixty Seconds
5.8 (5 ratings) director: Dominic Sena actor: Nicolas Cage / Angelina Jolie …
other title: Fuori in 60 secondi / 60 sekunder …
Ex-car thief Randall Raines is forced out of retirement to save his brother Kip after a boost gone wrong. With the help of allies old and new, they race to meet the demands of notorious crime boss Raymond Calitri as the police are in hot pursuit.
May 2, 2026 watched
With this cast & budget, how did they make something so limp?

Watched in the 00s, rewatched in #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
Crime Thriller USA Heist 2000s
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Rififi (1955) WikiData TMDB Skybridge IMDb NeoDB Douban
Du rififi chez les hommes
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Jules Dassin actor: Jean Servais / Carl Möhner …
other title: Guld På Gaden / Du rififi chez les hommes
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
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Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
I soliti ignoti
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio Gassman / Renato Salvatori …
other title: I soliti ignoti / Os Eternos Desconhecidos …
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
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Puerto Escondido (1992) IMDb WikiData
Puerto Escondido
director: Gabriele Salvatores actor: Diego Abatantuono / Valeria Golino …
Mario works in a Milan bank. His daily routine is shattered when he witnesses a murder committed by a deranged police commissioner. To save his life, he flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico. When he runs out of money he teams up with Alex and Anita, a couple of Italians that will lead him on to a series of adventures and encounters with drug dealers, corrupt police officers and other weird characters.
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Luger (2025) TMDB IMDb
Luger
director: Bruno Martín actor: David Sainz / Mario Mayo …
Rafa and Toni are two hustlers who work for Angela, a lawyer with flexible morals who offers her clients quick solutions outside the law. The story unfolds over the course of a frantic day in a labyrinthine industrial park, when they are tasked with recovering a stolen car belonging to one of those clients. In the trunk, they find a mysterious safe containing a relic from World War II: a Luger P08, highly coveted by dangerous figures in the underworld.
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Hard Boiled (1992) IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Skybridge Douban
辣手神探
7.9 (11 ratings) director: John Woo actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Tony Leung Chiu-wai …
other title: Fervura Máxima / À toute épreuve …
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
April 18, 2026 watched
Realism is overrated. Insane action all the way!

Rewatched for the umpteenth time a day after the 34th anniversary of its release (16 April 1992).
Police PhilipKwok PhilipChan Crime HongKong
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The Outfit (1973) IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Outfit
director: John Flynn actor: Robert Duvall / Karen Black …
other title: Organizzazione crimini / Revolte in der Unterwelt …
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
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City of God (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB Skybridge WikiData
Cidade de Deus
8.9 (16 ratings) director: Fernando Meirelles actor: Alexandre Rodrigues / Leandro Firmino …
other title: Cidade de Deus / La Cité de Dieu …
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
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Tokyo Dragon Chef (2020) IMDb TMDB
TOKYOドラゴン飯店
director: Yoshihiro Nishimura actor: Yasukaze Motomiya / Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi …
other title: TOKYOドラゴン飯店
Retired Yakuzas open a ramen restaurant and become an overnight sensation, thanks to their recipe developed in prison. But a mysterious upstart gang is taking down every Yakuza family one by one, drawing the chefs back into the gangland underworld once more!