Top Crime Movies 2008
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December 5 • December 12 • December 19 • November 26 • October 17 • October 24 • October 31 • September 12 • September 26 • August 1 • August 8 • July 2 • July 18 • June 27 • April 11 • April 18 • March 7 • March 28 • February 6 • January 11
64%
Ratings
- 3.5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(28)
Punisher: War Zone
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.
Art Marcum, Kurt Sutter, Matt Holloway, Avi Arad, Nick Santora, Ray Stevenson, Colin Salmon, Dominic West
R
73%
Ratings
- 2.7 / 5
out of 5 stars
(3)
What Doesn't Kill You
Brian and Paulie are two young punks running loose on the hard streets of South Boston. Coming from separate but equally broken homes, the boys bond of friendship makes them brothers. They do whatever it takes to survive, living by the code of their dog eat dog neighborhood.
As Brian (Mark Ruffalo) and Paulie (Ethan Hawke) get older, petty crimes and misdemeanors grow into more serious offenses. Eventually, they fall under sway to the organized crime boss Pat Kelly (Brian Goodman) who runs the felonious backroom businesses and illicit trades in Southie. They also find themselves the targets of unwanted attention from Detective Moran (Donnie Wahlberg) one of Boston’s finest. And Brian in particular becomes lost in haze of drugs and rebellion. Even the love he has for his wife Stacy (Amanda Peet) and his children isn't enough to redeem him.
In time, the friends find themselves in jail – just a part of doing business on the mean streets they call home. Although not gone away forever Brian and Paulie are incarcerated long enough to learn a few lessons, but will they lead to changed lives on the outside? A storm of trouble is brewing: Paulie has big plans to liberate them from their life of crime – just one more job – one last heist – a bold and potentially violent daylight robbery. But Brian has used his time in jail to make amends to his family and get clean. When Paulie comes to him for help, Brian must face the biggest challenge to his code of honor that he could ever imagine: stand by his friend or salvage his family … he cannot do both!
"What Doesn't Kill You" reveals the true life drama that writer/director Brian Goodman underwent in his struggle to honor the people he loved – on both sides of the law.
Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Rod Lurie, Bob Yari, Brad Jenkel, Amanda Peet, Marc Frydman, Donnie Whalberg
R
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84%
Ratings
- 4.2 / 5
out of 5 stars
(37)
Transporter 3
Frank Martin has been pressured into transporting Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Ukraine, from Marseilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea. Along the way, with the help of Inspector Tarconi, Frank has to contend with the people who strong armed him to take the job, agents sent by Vasilev to intercept him, and the general non-cooperation of his passenger. Despite Valentina’s cynical disposition and his resistance to get involved, Frank and Valentina fall for each other, while escaping from one life-threatening situation after another.
Jason Statham, Robert Knepper, Steve Chasman, Olivier Megaton, Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen, Justin Rodgers Hall, Eriq Ebouaney
PG-13
70%
Ratings
- 3.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(26)
Max Payne
Maverick cop Max Payne (Wahlberg) is hell-bent on revenge against those responsible for the brutal murder of his family and partner. His obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmarish journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.
Beau Bridges, John Moore, Mark Wahlberg, Olga Kurylenko, Mila Kunis, Scott Faye, Julie Yorn, Beau Thorne
PG-13
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50%
Ratings
- 4.4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(18)
Changeling
A mother prays for the return of her kidnapped son. When her prayers are answered, however, she begins to suspect the boy who comes back is not her child. Inspired by true events that took place in Los Angeles in the 1920s.
Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Ron Howard, Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, J. Michael Straczynski, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore
R
59%
Ratings
- 3.3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(6)
Pride and Glory
An authentic, gritty and emotional study of the New York City Police Department, "Pride & Glory" looks deeply into the professional and personal lives of the people who inhabit it. Told through the interwoven lives of a three-generation family of cops whose moral codes are tested when Ray Farrell, one of three sons on the job, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother. When Ray is falsely implicated in a brutal crime related to the scandal, he and his family must choose among their loyalties to each other, the department, and the revelation of the truth that will atone them.
Colin Farrell, Gavin O'Connor, Edward Norton, Jennifer Ehle, Joe Carnahan, John Ortiz, Paula Weinstein, Jon Voight
R
50%
Ratings
- 4.4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(18)
Changeling
A mother prays for the return of her kidnapped son. When her prayers are answered, however, she begins to suspect the boy who comes back is not her child. Inspired by true events that took place in Los Angeles in the 1920s.
Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Ron Howard, Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, J. Michael Straczynski, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore
R
50%
Ratings
- 4.3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(12)
Righteous Kill
A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own--take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Carla Gugino, Jon Avnet, Russell Gewirtz, 50 Cent, Danny Dimbort, Avi Lerner
R
10%
Ratings
- 4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(1)
Choke
Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with "Choke", a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks. Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who "save" him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father's identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny (Henke) and his mother's beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.
Sam Rockwell, Gillian Jacobs, Derrick Tseng, Clark Gregg, Mike S. Ryan, Anjelica Huston, Joel Grey, Gary Ventimiglia
R
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44%
Ratings
- 3.3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(3)
Frozen River
Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.
Melissa Leo, Mark Boone Junior, Charlie McDermott, Heather Rae, Chip Hourihan, Courtney Hunt, Misty Upham
R
56%
Ratings
- 4.3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(28)
The Pineapple Express
Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco): to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city's most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they're not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard "The Pineapple Express".
James Franco, James Remar, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Seth Rogen, David Gordon Green, Evan Goldberg, Amber Heard
R
38%
Ne Le Dis à Personne
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Alex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive.
Guillaume Canet, Kristin Scott Thomas, François Cluzet, Philippe Lefebvre
89%
Ratings
- 4.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(301)
The Dark Knight
Batman (Christian Bale) raises the stakes in his war on crime in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight." With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker (Heath Ledger).
Christopher Nolan, Morgan Freeman, Christian Bale, Charles Roven, David S. Goyer, Eric Roberts, Jonah Nolan, Heath Ledger
PG-13
75%
Ratings
- 4.2 / 5
out of 5 stars
(54)
Wanted
25-year-old Wes was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in his slow, clock-punching rut. Until he met a woman named Fox. After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad's death by unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself. With wickedly brilliant tutors--including the Fraternity's enigmatic leader, Sloan--Wes grows to enjoy all the strength he ever wanted. But, slowly, he begins to realize there is more to his dangerous associates than meets the eye. And as he wavers between newfound heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one could ever teach him: he alone controls his destiny.
Angelina Jolie, Marc Platt, Morgan Freeman, Timur Bekmambetov, Marc Silvestri, Jim Lemley, James McAvoy, Terence Stamp
R
79%
Ratings
- 2.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(5)
Street Kings
A Los Angeles police officer has always done what was needed to solve homicides and crack down on gang violence, but he gets a wakeup call and decides he can no longer play the game that made him so effective.
David Ayer, Chris Evans, Keanu Reeves, Lucas Foster, James Ellroy, Erwin Stoff, Hugh Laurie, John Ridley
R
33%
Anamorph
Willem Dafoe will play Stan Aubrey, a veteran cop investigating a serial killer who may be a copycat killer based on a famous murderer Stan allegedly disposed of five years ago. As the killings go on, his partner Carl Unger begins to suspect that Stan didn't do his due dilligence five years ago when he pronounced the killer dead.
Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare, Clea DuVall, Henry S. Miller
54%
Ratings
- 3.2 / 5
out of 5 stars
(11)
The Bank Job
Inspired by an extraordinary true event, "The Bank Job" is a highly-charged thriller which interweaves a heady combination of intrigue, danger and scandal in early ‘70s London. In September 1971, thieves tunneled into the vault of a bank in London's Baker Street and looted safe deposit boxes of cash and jewelry worth millions and millions of pounds. None of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then suddenly disappeared - the result of a UK Government ‘D' Notice, gagging the press. This film reveals what was hidden in those boxes, involving murder, corruption and a sex scandal with links to the Royal Family - a story in which the thieves were the most innocent people involved.
Jason Statham, Craig Fairbrass, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, Keeley Hawes, Colin Salmon, Peter De Jersey, James Faulkner
R
88%
Ratings
- 4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(13)
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In this film based on a true story, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor (Kevin Spacey) teaches a group of students to use mathematics to count cards and increase their odds of winning at Las Vegas casinos. The students are able to bring home millions as a result.
Laurence Fishburne, Jim Sturgess, Dana Brunetti, Peter Steinfeld, Liza Lapira, Robert Luketic, Kevin Spacey, Allan Loeb
PG-13
50%
Ratings
- 5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(2)
How to Rob a Bank
The story centers on a twentysomething slacker and a bank employee who get caught in the middle of a bank heist and are forced to arbitrate between the robbers and the police.
Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, Gavin Rossdale, Arthur Sarkissian, Rick Lashbrook, Darby Parker, Tim O'Hair, Andrews Jenkins
54%
Ratings
- 3.8 / 5
out of 5 stars
(10)
First Sunday
Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When Durell learns that his ex-girlfriend plans to move to another state with their son--unless they can get her $17,000 to pay off a debt--they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. But when the duo fumbles their way through the break-in, they discover someone has beaten them to the punch. In order to get their hands on the money, Durell and LeeJohn are forced to spend the night in the presence of the Lord and his followers--and end up getting a lot more than they bargained for.
Ice Cube, David E. Talbert, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Loretta Devine, Matt Alvarez, David McIlvain, Regina Hall
PG-13
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My Sunshine
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Stranger Eyes
changed release date from TBA to August 29, 2025
Relay
changed release date from TBA 2025 to August 22, 2025
The Sparrow in the Chimney
changed release date from TBA to August 1, 2025
Magic Farm
changed release date from TBA to April 25, 2025
Sister Mignight
changed release date from TBA to May 16, 2025
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