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A Bronx Tale(1993)

R
| 2h 1min | Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 915 votes)

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

Colombiana(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 1,167 votes)

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

Sister Act(1992)

PG
| 1h 40min | Music, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 1,399 votes)

A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.

Cobra(1986)

R
| 1h 27min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 731 votes)

A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

Witness(1985)

3.5/5 (with 677 votes)

A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.

Green Room(2015)

R
| 1h 35min | Horror, Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,183 votes)

A punk rock band becomes trapped in a secluded venue after finding a scene of violence. For what they saw, the band themselves become targets of violence from a gang of white power skinheads, who want to eliminate all evidence of the crime.

The Interpreter(2005)

PG-13
| 2h 8min | Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 633 votes)

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

Domestic Disturbance(2001)

PG-13
| 1h 29min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 174 votes)

Frank Morrison is a divorced father with a 12-year-old son, Danny. His ex-wife Susan and son Danny now live with Rick Barnes, Susan's new husband. Danny, who has a reputation for telling lies, accuses his stepfather of committing a murder. Initially, no one believes his accusations, but then Frank becomes convinced and is the only one who believes him. Now, the father Danny trusts must protect him from the stepfather he fears.

Did You Hear About the Morgans?(2009)

PG-13
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 428 votes)

New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compared to the trouble they find themselves in after witnessing a murder. To protect them from an assassin, federal agents whisk away Paul and Meryl to a small town in Wyoming, where their marriage will crash and burn, or their passion will reignite.

Crying Freeman(1995)

1h 42min | Action, Crime
3.2/5 (with 135 votes)

A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader.

Surveillance(2008)

R
| 1h 37min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 136 votes)

An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

The Informant!(2009)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama, Comedy, Crime
3.1/5 (with 373 votes)

A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.

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At Close Range(1986)

R
| 1h 51min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 109 votes)

Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.

Married Life(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 62 votes)

A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.

No Rest for the Wicked(2011)

1h 54min | Thriller
2.9/5 (with 56 votes)

Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the triple murder, meticulously advances in the search for the murderer. Santos and Chacon soon discover that what seemed a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.

Crime Is Our Business(2008)

1h 49min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 37 votes)

Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.

The Sleeping Car Murder(1965)

NR
| 1h 35min | Crime
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

Seven Days… Seven Nights(1960)

1h 31min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye. After indirectly witnessing a murder in a café, she returns to the scene of the crime the next day and meets Chauvin, who informs her in more detail about the events that took place. Mentally unbalanced, Anne begins to believe that Chauvin intends to kill her.

The Dominici Affair(1973)

1h 45min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent….

Witness to Murder(1954)

NR
| 1h 23min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

Lady on a Train(1945)

3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.

Untamed Frontier(1952)

1h 18min | Western
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...

Eyewitness(2017)

1h 28min | Thriller, TV Movie, Drama
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Five years after sending a man to jail for the murder of her father and fiancé, Diana returns home to find that he has escaped from prison and has come to confront her. However, the man has not come for revenge, but rather wants her to understand that she put an innocent man away. Captive in her own home, Diana is resistant - she knows what she witnessed the night of the murder. But as time progresses, Diana starts to question what she saw that night as well as her own testimony.

Directed by Andrew C. Erin

Bruce Lee(2017)

1.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A cowardly youngster and his friend run for their lives with their lovers as they are being chased by a dreaded don.

Do Not Disturb(1999)

1h 34min | Thriller
2.4/5 (with 16 votes)

Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond takes his wife and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa , to the Netherlands -- where Melissa inadvertently witnesses a murder. Unable to tell anyone what she's seen, the frightened girl vanishes in an attempt to elude the killers. Meanwhile, her parents try desperately to piece together the puzzle leading to Melissa's disappearance.

The Silent Hour(2024)

While working a case as an interpreter, a hearing-impaired police detective must confront a group of criminals trying to eliminate a deaf murder witness in her apartment building.

Concrete Plans(2020)

1h 31min | Thriller
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

When their employer tries to cheat them out of a job, a rugged crew of workmen turn first on him then each other, leading to a bloody confrontation.

Warsaw Dark(2008)

1h 25min | Thriller
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Prominent cinematographer Christopher Doyle continues to hone his talents as a director with this thriller set in Eastern Europe and inspired by the as-yet-unsolved murder of a Polish politician in 2001. A young prostitute is spending the evening with a prominent Polish official when he's suddenly assassinated in Warsaw. In the aftermath of the hit, the triggerman takes the prostitute to an apartment and subjects her to a complex personality replacement program designed to wipe out any memories she may have retained about the evening's events.

Child in the Night(1990)

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A child psychologist, Hollis who's marriage collapsed after she learned she was barren, bonds with Luke Winfield, who witnessed his father's murder at the hands of rain-slicker wearing killer with a cargo hook. Along the way she befriends Detective Bass as he investigates a series of homicides, each with the same M.O. As Hollis gets closer to Luke she discovers some trouble family secrets ensuring she is next to be slain.

Bone in the Throat(2015)

1h 33min | Drama, Crime

A young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself trapped.

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