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Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany |
Duration | 02:25 |
Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.
Mark | imdb: 3.9 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the dark arts of assassination and learns the true meaning of friendship, honor and respect.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Norway, China, Canada, USA, France |
Duration | 01:59 |
The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:37 |
Sons and daughters of international billionaires are sent to an boot camp where they are taught basic survival skills in hopes it will teach them responsibility. When they are taken hostage and taken for ransom by kidnappers, they will need to utilize every skill they learned to survive.
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:09 |
Jacob, a bank manager haunted by a violent heist that took the life of a coworker, teams up with his ex-cop neighbor, James, to bring down the assailant. While the two men work together to figure out the thief’s next move, Gabriel, the highly-trained criminal, is one step ahead. When Gabriel kidnaps Jacob’s wife and daughter, Jacob barrels down a path of bloodshed that initiates an explosive counterattack and brings all three men to the breaking point.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Canada, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:39 |
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Japan |
Duration | 01:46 |
A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars are driven through shop windows to aid large-scale looting before the police arrive. For Tommy, it's a business, but for Billy and Jo, it's a labour of love. As the competition between Tommy and Billy grows more fierce, the stakes become higher and the "shopping" trips increasingly risky.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, Australia |
Duration | 01:37 |
Get swept up in the action as an armored car driver (Christian Slater) tries to elude a gang of thieves (led by Morgan Freeman) while a flood ravages the countryside. Hard Rain is "a wild, thrilling, chilling action ride" filled with close calls, uncertain loyalties and heart-stopping heroics.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | action, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
A policeman in New Mexico takes payoff money but still manages to go after a racketeer.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | South Africa, United Kingdom |
A young gymnast battles a group of bank robbers at the home of her boyfriend.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:09 |
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:28 |
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:52 |
Based on the '70s UK TV show, The Sweeney is an action-packed British police thriller from the director of Football Factory. Jack Regan (Ray Winstone), a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter (Ben Drew aka Plan B) they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.
Mark | imdb: 5 |
Genre | action, drama, crime |
Country | Czech Republic, United Kingdom, France, Spain |
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl's wealthy father. Holding her prisoner in an isolated beach house, the gang's scheme runs perfectly until their personal demons surface and lead to a series of betrayals.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | action, drama, crime, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Notorious gangster, Pat Tate, rises through the ranks of Essex's criminal underworld. A prequel to the 'Rise of the Footsoldier' franchise.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison...
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, western, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Italy, Norway |
Duration | 01:28 |
Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantage of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:49 |
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago – smuggling – to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:43 |
London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.