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Blood Diamond(2006)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 23min | Drama, Thriller, Action
3.8/5 (with 3,348 votes)

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Arnold Vosloo, Michael Sheen, Ato Essandoh, ...
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Night Nurse(1931)

1h 12min | Crime, Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, Blanche Friderici, Charles Winninger, ...

Baby Boy(2001)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 10min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 128 votes)

The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.

Directed by John Singleton - With Tyrese Gibson, Omar Gooding, Taraji P. Henson, Adrienne-Joi Johnson, Snoop Dogg, Ving Rhames, ...
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Raees(2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 23min | Thriller, Action, Crime
3.4/5 (with 91 votes)

Set in the early ’80s and ’90s in Gujarat, India, ‘Raees’ is a fictitious story of a crime lord named Raees, who builds an entire empire from scratch, and a police officer who is determined to bring him down.

Directed by Rahul Dholakia - With Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Mahira Khan, Sheeba Chaddha, Vivek Vaswani, Atul Kulkarni, ...
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Thunder Road(1958)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 32min | Drama, Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), but won't let his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum) join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett (Gene Barry), who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.

Directed by Arthur Ripley - With Gene Barry, Robert Mitchum, Keely Smith, Jacques Aubuchon, Trevor Bardette

I Walk Alone(1947)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 37min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

Bootleggers on the lamb Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.

Directed by Byron Haskin - With Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey, George Rigaud, Marc Lawrence, ...

I Cover the Waterfront(1933)

1h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

Directed by James Cruze - With Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, Wilfred Lucas, Hobart Cavanaugh, Harry Beresford, ...

The Boob(1926)

1h 1min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With Gertrude Olmstead, George K. Arthur, Joan Crawford, Charles Murray, Edythe Chapman, Hank Mann, ...

Hell's House(1932)

1h 12min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

Directed by Howard Higgin - With Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Emma Dunn, Charley Grapewin, Junior Durkin, Morgan Wallace, ...

The Little Giant(1933)

1h 16min | Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

Directed by Roy Del Ruth

The Story of Temple Drake(1933)

1h 11min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

Directed by Stephen Roberts - With Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue, William Gargan, Irving Pichel, Elizabeth Patterson, Florence Eldridge, ...

City Streets(1931)

1h 23min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian - With Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, Guy Kibbee, Stanley Fields, Bill Elliott, ...
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A Slight Case of Murder(1938)

1h 25min | Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon - With Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Willard Parker, John Litel, ...

The Girls from Thunder Strip(1970)

1h 20min | Action
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.

Directed by David L. Hewitt - With Jody McCrea

Corsair(1931)

1h 15min | Adventure
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

Directed by Roland West - With Chester Morris

Dance, Fools, Dance(1931)

1h 18min | Drama, Crime, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.

Directed by Harry Beaumont - With Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Clark Gable, Earle Foxe, Purnell Pratt, William Bakewell, ...

Sanctuary(1961)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 30min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.

Directed by Tony Richardson - With Lee Remick, Bradford Dillman, Howard St. John, Linden Chiles, Marge Redmond, Odetta, ...

Moonshine County Express(1977)

1h 36min | Action, Crime, Drama
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local crime syndicate.

Directed by Gus Trikonis - With John Saxon, Claudia Jennings, Candice Rialson, Maureen McCormick, William Conrad, Dub Taylor, ...

Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone(2009)

53min | Documentary, History, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underworld with brute force and corrupting many touchable individuals. Until the day the head of the Untouchables Brigade, Eliot Ness, entered the scene. Since then, a cruel battle between the two of them began, a battle that ended in trial, conviction, disease, insanity and death.

The Guilty Generation(1931)

1h 22min | Drama, Crime
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

Directed by Rowland V. Lee - With Leo Carrillo, Constance Cummings, Robert Young, Boris Karloff, Emma Dunn, Glenn Strange, ...

The Racket(1928)

1h 24min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.

Directed by Lewis Milestone - With Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, Thomas Meighan, G. Pat Collins, George E. Stone, Sam De Grasse, ...

Spring Tonic(1935)

58min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman - With Lew Ayres, Claire Trevor, Jack Haley, ZaSu Pitts, Tala Birell, Sig Ruman, ...

Our Hearts Were Growing Up(1946)

1h 23min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.

Directed by William D. Russell - With Gail Russell

Gangster's Boy(1938)

1h 20min | Drama

A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.

Directed by William Nigh

Pirated Copy(2004)

1h 30min | Drama, Crime, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Set against the backdrop of the contemporary black market for pirated DVDs in Beijing, Pirated Copy is a character-driven drama about the passion two couples have for each other and for film.

Broadway(1942)

1h 31min | Crime, Drama
2.6/5 (with 1 vote)

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

Directed by William A. Seiter - With George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, Broderick Crawford, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Gwynne, ...

Roadhouse Nights(1930)

1h 8min | Drama

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.

Directed by Hobart Henley - With Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante, Harry C. Bradley, Hal K. Dawson, ...

Gal Young 'Un(1979)

1h 45min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Mattie, a widow living in the backwoods of Florida during Prohibition, meets Trax, a charming man much younger that herself. Trax is a womanizing, lying bootlegger who needs money and he sets his sights on Mattie who can support him. After energetically courting her, Mattie marries Trax, who before long brings home a young woman to be their housekeeper, but it is obvious that she is to be his mistress. When Trax leaves on business, the two women each contemplate how they are being exploited and Mattie comes up with a plan of her own.

Directed by Victor Nuñez

My Buddy(1944)

1h 7min | Drama, Crime

A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.

Directed by Steve Sekely - With Don "Red" Barry

Of One Blood(1944)

1h 4min | Drama, Crime
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working with a local newspaper owner to help rid the city of bootlegging gangsters.

Directed by Spencer Williams
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