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Live by Night (film)
Live by Night (2016) is Ben Affleck's Prohibition-era crime drama, adapted from Dennis Lehane's 2012 novel, starring Affleck as gangster Joe Coughlin; it grossed $22.7M against a $90M budget and scored 34% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Marauders (2016 film)
Marauders is a 2016 American heist action thriller directed by Steven C. Miller, starring Bruce Willis, Christopher Meloni, Dave Bautista, and Adrian Grenier; shot in Cincinnati, released by Lionsgate Premiere July 1, 2016.
Mr. Six (老炮儿)
Mr. Six (老炮儿, Fading Wave) is Guan Hu's 2015 Chinese action-drama starring director Feng Xiaogang as an aging Beijing gangster rescuing his kidnapped son; it won him the Golden Horse Best Actor and earned over 900 million RMB.
Nocturama (2016 film)
Nocturama, originally titled Paris est une fête, is Bertrand Bonello's 2016 French-German-Belgian thriller about young people bombing Paris and hiding overnight in a department store; released 31 August 2016, 130 minutes, starring Finnegan Oldfield.
Precious Cargo (film)
Precious Cargo (2016) is an American action thriller, Max Adams's directorial debut, starring Bruce Willis, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Claire Forlani in a diamond-heist betrayal plot. Released by Lionsgate Premiere April 22, 2016; grossed about $567,064 worldwide against a $10.5 million budget and holds 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Rage (2016 film)
Rage (怒り, Ikari) is Lee Sang-il's 2016 Japanese drama-mystery adapted from Yoshida Shuichi's novel: a plastic-surgery-altered murderer and three suspects in Chiba, Tokyo, and Okinawa, starring Ken Watanabe, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Saving Zoë (film)
Saving Zoë (2019) is an American mystery thriller directed by Jeffrey G. Hunt, adapted from Alyson Noël's 2007 YA novel, starring real-life sisters Laura and Vanessa Marano as Echo and murdered Zoë; released July 12, 2019 by Blue Fox Entertainment.
Shot Caller (film)
Shot Caller (2017) is an American prison crime drama written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as stockbroker Jacob "Money" Harlon, who joins a white supremacist gang after a DUI manslaughter sentence and is later forced to arrange an arms deal; Saban Films released it August 18, 2017.
Sicario (2015 film)
Sicario (2015) is a Denis Villeneuve crime thriller written by Taylor Sheridan, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin as an FBI agent drawn into a covert US task force against Mexican cartels; 121 minutes, Metascore 82, followed by Day of the Soldado (2018).
Suburra (film)
Suburra (2015) is Stefano Sollima's Italian crime film, adapted from the De Cataldo–Bonini novel, about gangster Samurai's plan to turn Rome's coast into a gambling resort; it spawned Netflix's first Italian original series.
Summer of Changsha
Summer of Changsha (Liu Yu Tian, 六欲天) is a 2019 Chinese crime drama, the directorial debut of actor Zu Feng, who stars as a depressed detective investigating a dismemberment case; it premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2019 amid censorship controversy.
Superfly (2018 film)
Superfly (2018) is Director X's remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly, starring Trevor Jackson as Atlanta cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest, produced by Joel Silver and Future, released by Columbia Pictures June 15, 2018.
The Blood of Wolves (孤狼の血)
The Blood of Wolves (孤狼の血, Korō no Chi) is a 2018 Toei yakuza thriller directed by Kazuya Shiraishi, adapted from Yuko Yuzuki's Mystery Writers of Japan Award-winning novel, starring Koji Yakusho as a dirty-cop detective in 1988 Hiroshima; it won 12 Japan Academy Prize categories and spawned the 2021 sequel LEVEL2.
The Classified File (극비수사)
The Classified File (극비수사) is a 2015 South Korean crime drama film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek, starring Kim Yun-seok and Yoo Hae-jin in a real 1978 Busan kidnapping case.
The Dead End (烈日灼心)
The Dead End (烈日灼心), also known as Sunspots, is a 2015 Chinese crime-suspense film by Cao Baoping, adapted from Xu Yigua's novel, about three fugitives raising an orphan; it won three shared Best Actor awards at the Shanghai festival.
The Drug King (마약왕)
The Drug King (마약왕, Mayakwang) is a 2018 South Korean crime drama by Woo Min-ho, based on real 1970s Busan drug lord Lee Doo-sam, starring Song Kang-ho, Cho Jung-seok, and Bae Doo-na; released December 19, 2018, streamed on Netflix.
The Forest of Love
The Forest of Love (愛なき森で叫べ) is Sion Sono's 2019 Netflix Japanese crime thriller, 151 minutes, starring Kippei Shiina as con man Joe Murata; inspired by the Futoshi Matsunaga murders, released October 11, 2019, with sequel series Deep Cut in 2020.
The Fury of a Patient Man
The Fury of a Patient Man (Tarde para la ira) is Raúl Arévalo's 2016 Spanish revenge-thriller debut, starring Antonio de la Torre, Luis Callejo, and Ruth Díaz; it won four Goyas including Best Film and Venice Orizzonti Best Actress.
The Highwaymen (film)
The Highwaymen (2019) is a Netflix crime drama directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as Texas Rangers Frank Hamer and Maney Gault hunting Bonnie and Clyde; 58% Tomatometer, SXSW premiere, March 29, 2019 streaming debut.
The Irishman
The Irishman is Martin Scorsese's 2019 Netflix crime epic starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, adapted from Charles Brandt's I Heard You Paint Houses about Frank Sheeran's disputed confession to killing Jimmy Hoffa.
The Kitchen (2019 film)
The Kitchen is a 2019 American crime drama in which three mob wives run the Irish mafia rackets of their imprisoned husbands in 1978 Hell's Kitchen, New York City.
The Merciless (불한당: 나쁜 놈들의 세상)
The Merciless (불한당: 나쁜 놈들의 세상) is a 2017 South Korean crime-action film by Byun Sung-hyun starring Sul Kyung-gu and Yim Si-wan as a gangster and undercover cop who bond in prison; it premiered at Cannes Midnight Screenings.
The Mule (2018 film)
The Mule is a 2018 American crime film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, about an elderly horticulturist who becomes a drug courier for a Mexican cartel.
The Wasted Times (ワンス・アポン・ア・タイム・イン・上海)
The Wasted Times (羅曼蒂克消亡史, Japan title ワンス・アポン・ア・タイム・イン・上海) is Cheng Er's 2016 Chinese crime drama set in 1937 Shanghai, starring Ge You, Zhang Ziyi, and Tadanobu Asano in a nonlinear wartime gangster story; distinct from the 2014 film Once Upon a Time in Shanghai.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is Martin McDonagh's 2017 dark comedy-drama starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell, about a mother renting three billboards to pressure police over her daughter's unsolved murder; it won four Golden Globes and a Best Actress Oscar.
Trespass Against Us
Trespass Against Us is a 2016 British crime drama, Adam Smith's feature debut, starring Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson as outlaw father and son in the Cutler family, loosely based on the Johnson clan, scored by The Chemical Brothers.
Trivisa (树大招风)
Trivisa (樹大招風) is a 2016 Hong Kong crime film by Frank Hui, Jevons Au, and Vicky Wong, produced by Johnnie To, about three real 1990s criminals on the eve of the handover; it won five Hong Kong Film Awards and was banned in mainland China.
Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems: 2019 American crime thriller by Josh and Benny Safdie with Ronald Bronstein, released by A24 on December 13, 2019. Adam Sandler plays Diamond District jeweler and gambler Howard Ratner betting on a rare Ethiopian black opal; Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, and Julia Fox co-star.
When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story
When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story (2017 TV One film, also called Hit a Lick), directed by Tasha Smith, stars Lil Mama as Falicia Blakely, an Atlanta teen mother led by pimp Michael "Dino" Berry into the 2002 triple murders for which she got life without parole; TV One's #1 original premiere.
Wind River (film)
Wind River is a 2017 American crime thriller written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, about a wildlife officer and FBI agent investigating a Native American woman's death on a Wyoming reservation.