2005 Movies : Crime

With Brendan Fraser • Matt Dillon • William Fichtner • Don Cheadle • Jennifer Esposito • Ludacris • Ryan Phillippe • Terrence Dashon Howard • Larenz Tate • Paul Haggis • Nona Gaye • Bobby Moresco • Paul Hagis

A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. A black television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged Korean couple... They all live in Los Angeles. And in the next 36 hours, they will all collide... A provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial conflict in America, "Crash" is that rare cinematic event—film that challenges audiences to question their own prejudices. Diving headlong into the diverse melting pot of post-9/11 Los Angeles, this compelling urban drama tracks the volatile intersections of a multi-ethnic cast, examining fear and bigotry from multiple perspectives as characters careen in and out of one another's lives. No one is safe in the battle zones of intolerance. And no one is immune to the simmering rage that sparks violence—and changes lives...

With Tom Hardy • Daniel Craig • Matthew Vaughn • Sienna Miller • Sally Hawkins • Colm Meaney • Dexter Fletcher • Jamie Foreman • Burn Gorman • James O'Donnell • Michael Gambon • Kenneth Cranham • Tamer Hassan • Darren Healy • Nathalie Lunghi • Peter Rnic • Garry Tubbs • J.J. Connolly

Based upon JJ Connelly's London crime novel, "Layer Cake" is about a successful cocaine dealer (Daniel Craig) who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title "Layer Cake" refers to the layers or levels the dealer has to go through as he painstakingly plots his own escape. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his 'savvy', 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy and an international drugs ring, threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime.

With Christian Slater • Renny Harlin • Val Kilmer • Kathryn Morris • Will Kemp • Wayne Kramer • Eion Bailey • LL Cool J • Clifton Collins • Johnny Lee Miller • Patricia Velazquez • Kevin Brodbin

Hiding inside a group of eight young FBI profilers learning to hunt serial killers is a killer attempting to hunt them. As one by one the agents begin to disappear, none can be trusted. Each one is under suspicion. And they are all in mortal danger until, in the ultimate test of their crime-solving skills, they uncover the mysterious predator lurking in their midst.