Movies in Development (Page #3)

Arlyne Brickman grows up among racketeers on the Lower East Side of New York City where she’s drawn to the glamorous and flashy lifestyle of New York mobsters. Soon after, she begins dating "wiseguys" and running errands for them, before getting in on the action herself — eventually becoming a police informant and a major witness in the government's case against the Colombo crime family.

Set in the early 1900s, Joe Petrosino, a NYPD cop, goes after a ruthless gang (with the calling card black hand) that migrated from Italy to America. The thugs kidnap people and then extort money from their families. They are loathed by law-abiding Italian families who are frightened, but nevertheless help Petrosino behind the scenes. He arrests and deports as many of these criminals as he can, for the sake of his own heritage.

In the early 1970s, the Doodler serial killer targets homosexual men living in San Francisco and is never caught. Nearly thirty years later, the SFPD releases an updated sketch of the killer, believed to be alive and living in the area, along with a $100,000 reward.

A man is falsely accused of committing a crime, so he must go on the run to clear his name.

A young man gets swept into the seedy underbelly of the scrapping industry. A limo driver acts as a fence for stolen copper.

A bank robber teams up with his sidekick to reunite their old crew for a bold new heist.

A lawyer is tasked with defending Darius McCollum, a criminal (and Internet celebrity) known for impersonating public transit authorities in order to drive away subway trains and Greyhound buses. McCollum, who is diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, is arrested more than 25 times for such crimes.

Set in the world of New York criminal syndicates.

More adventures of a fake family used to smuggle drugs.

A food critic travels to Las Vegas to check out the culinary action, and when a chef is found murdered in the same way his signature dish is prepared, the critic becomes a suspect.

A lawyer represents a man accused of murdering a rich widow who had become enamored with him and made him the main beneficiary of her will.

Two police detectives heading a plainclothes division try to solve a series of armored car robberies with a promotion going to whoever catches the perpetrators.

In the early 70's, Jon Roberts, an injured Vietnam veteran by the age of 20, ends up involved in gangland takeovers of NYC nightclubs. He goes to Miami where he deals billions of dollars of cocaine for the Medellin drug cartel and ultimately spends 10 years in prison.

A FBI agent discovers an opportunity to infiltrate a cartel that has taken to launder its drug money through American quarter horse racing.

A detective goes undercover to crack a series of casino heists in which the prime suspects are a troupe of Australian male erotic dancers. He’s partnered with a lone wolf who does things her own way. Together they team up to solve the crime.

Two men execute a terrifying bank robbery. One guy holds the bank manager’s wife hostage and the other tells the manager she’ll be killed in five minutes unless he transfers money to an account of their choosing.

A black teen from the projects becomes a drug kingpin and then turns his life around.

Mads Brodersen has finally landed his dream job at Nordisk Bank in Denmark with all the perks and fat cat trimmings. When he is moved to the bank's branch in Estonia, the banker learns that his predecessor died under mysterious circumstances. He naively investigates the death only to discover that there is a far bigger cover-up at large, involving several countries and political forces.

Samuel Millar is a member of the Irish Republican Army and spends eight years in tough Irish prisons during the late 1970s and 1980s, where he takes part in the blanket protest in which political prisoners refuse to wear prison garb and are severely punished for it. He then comes to America under a different identity, reinvents himself as a family man and comic book shop owner. But then he helps pull off an armored truck heist, stealing more than $7 million from a Brink's truck and thus executing one of the most successful heists in U.S. history. Millar is eventually pardoned by President Bill Clinton and sent back to Ireland, where he reinvents himself once again, this time as a best-selling author of crime books.

Sequel to 1998's Rounders, which followed a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.