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List of criminal as protagonist movies

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Thick as Thieves (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.
Style: exciting, tricky, clever, absurd, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, con men, betrayal, police investigation, chase, creativity, one last job, organized crime, cons and scams, master criminal, gangster, government agency ...
Time: year 2009
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 534 min.
TV show
Story: Across more than a decade, 17 teen boys and young men were murdered by convicted killer Jeffrey Dahmer. How did he evade arrest for so long?
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, homosexual, killer, true crime, maniac, violence, brutality, lgbt, homosexuality, homicidal maniac ...
Time: 2020s, year 1996, year 1992, year 1989, year 1993 ...
Place: milwaukee wisconsin, usa
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The Widow Couderc (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow. She is happy because World War I is over and she is enjoying being in control of the farm. And then she hires the ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: breast feeding, father in law daughter in law relationship, farm, criminal, interwar period, love triangle, village, family relations, french countryside, unwed mother, female sexual predator, widow ...
Time: 1930s, 70s, 20th century, year 1934
Place: france
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 7.8
 248
The Charmer (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story: The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, the smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald ...
Plot: fraud, con man, interwar period, criminal as protagonist, male protagonist, murderer, execution, murder, womanizer, army, murder trial
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england
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 6.7
 3K
Chicuarotes (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician’s union, which could transform ...
Style: hispanic, realistic, crying, tragicomedy
Plot: teenage boy, teenager, theft, clown, kidnapping, robbery, youth, family relations, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, escapades, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico city, turkey
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 6.3
 4K
Blood Brides (1970)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
Style: slasher, surreal, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, homicidal maniac, serial murder, woman in danger, gory, wedding, whodunit, fashion, family life, criminal ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: europe, paris france, france
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 6.2
 6K
Immortality (1998)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.
Style: stylized, psychological, atmospheric, emotional, serious ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, passion, fatal attraction, asthmatic, asthma, dangerous attraction, civil engineer, womanizer, murder, seduction, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, asia, england, hong kong, europe ...
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Happy New Year (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Gangster (Lino Ventura) with his accomplice (Charles Gérard), prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized, clever ...
Plot: caper, robbery, new year, jewel theft, couples, unlikely couple, love and romance, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, on the run, dishonesty ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1973, year 1968, year 1972 ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
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 4.7
 396
Evil Eye (1975)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder...His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suffering from. Even the police are in danger as they ...
Style: detective, poliziottesco, crying, vintage, urban fantasy
Plot: playboy, nightmare, erotica, ghost, devil, sect, violence, sex, doctor, police, voyeurism, voyeur ...
Place: rome italy
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 5.7
 2K
4x4 (2019)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Buenos Aires, Argentina. A luxurious van is parked on the sidewalk. A man enters with the purpose of stealing whatever he can find, but when he wants to leave, he cannot. The doors do not open, the control panel does not respond: the van has become ...
Style: psychedelic, psychological, crying, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: trap, locked in, social problems, car, kidnapped, captive, retribution, thirst, limping man, irony of fate, vigilantism, overheard conversation ...
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 7.0
 3K
Stalin (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Style: political, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, communism, politician, josef stalin, dictatorship, propaganda, intrigue, paranoia, stroke, european history, world war, international relations ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, year 1917 ...
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
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Dead Presidents (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent ...
Style: realistic, suspense, disturbing, intense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vietnam war, heist, robbery, african american, violence, ghetto, redemption, gangster, caper, blaxploitation, black, brutality ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, bronx new york city, vietnam, usa, asia
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True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Set against the badlands of colonial Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels—an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising ...
Style: psychological, bleak, tense, cult classic, art house ...
Plot: raped woman, chase, criminal, fight, gang, criminal gang, murder, police officer, revenge, death, true crime, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
Place: australia, united kingdom, oceania
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The Seventh Juror (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually ...
Style: noir, neo noir, crying, psychological thriller, french noir
Plot: lawyer, bureaucracy, judge, witness, jury, repressed sexuality, judgment, narration, shakespeare's othello, trauma, voice over narration, dead body ...
Time: 60s
Place: france
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 6.4
 87
Caged Men (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Elliott was a loser who robbed the bank only to land in jail. In prison, he encounters homosexuality as every inmate wants to turn Elliott into a mate!
Style: poliziottesco, independent film, crying, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
Plot: prison rape, traumatized man, rape, prison, exploitation, male star appears nude, sex scene, gang rape, friendship between men, gay rape, corporal punishment, anal rape ...
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Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ultra-low-budget Florida cult film featuring a transvestite fugitive criminal and his homosexual (and mentally unstable) lover on the lam in a Miami suburb.
Style: slasher, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: drag queen, gay, cross dressing, killing spree, bare chested male, gay interest, dark humor, outlaw, shovel as weapon, villain as protagonist, dead body, nudity ...
Place: florida, miami
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Massacre at Central High (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student (Derrel Maury) engineers acts of revenge.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, cult horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, threesome, bullying, nudity, teenage murderer, murder of a nude woman, rape, revenge, murder, school bully, exploitation, teenager ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
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 5.4
 614
Loot (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately (?) one of them works in a funeral parlour and they have a coffin to spare.
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, semi serious, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: friendship between men, caper, robbery, loot, gay, farce, heist, hotel, homoerotic friendship, father son relationship, money, male star appears nude ...
Time: 60s
Place: brighton, london
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 7.7
 12K
The Finger Man (1962)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end ...
Style: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, betrayal, frame up, cons and scams, vengeance, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, friendship, crime gone awry, tough heroes, spy, criminal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, year 1962, 60s
Place: europe, france, paris france
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Killing of the Dolls (1975)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Paul is the son of a gardener who works in a big mansion that has returned home with his parents after failling in his medecin degree. He is emotionally unstable. He collect dolls because he was educated as a girl because his sister died. After his ...
Style: slasher, suspense, surreal, crying, psychotronic ...
Plot: mansion, nightmare, decapitation, dead sister, serial killer, sexual intercourse, gardener, split personality, multiple personality disorder, necrophilia, cycling, arthouse horror ...
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Kidnapping Stella (2019)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Snatched off the street and held for ransom, a bound and gagged woman uses her limited powers to derail her two masked abductors' carefully laid plans.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, twists and turns, van, ransom demand, kidnapped woman, love, wealthy family, couple relations, danger, ransom, locked door ...
Place: berlin germany, central europe
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 4.6
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May (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After success of Kytice, which is based on the famous collection of poems of K.J.Erben, one of the most well-known character of classic Czech literature, Mr. Brabec went for even more famous poem Máj of K.H. Mácha, which is considered the peak of ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: public nudity, love, rural setting, dead body, voice over narration, bare chested male, oral sex, dog, patricide, suicide, robbery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: central europe
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 6.4
 20K
The Occupant (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An unemployed executive is forced to sell his apartment. When he discovers that he still has the keys, he becomes obsessed with the family that now lives there and decides to recover the life he has lost, at any price.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: stalker, intruder, delivery, sociopath, blackmail, unemployed, suspicion, jealousy, couples, advertising, betrayal, money ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: spain
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 4.1
 12K
The Fanatic (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A rabid film fan stalks his favorite action hero and destroys the star's life.
Style: talky, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: hollywood, stalking, actor, obsessed fan, obsession, fanatic, home invasion, socially awkward, nothing goes right, mental illness, friendship, cinema ...
Time: future, 2010s
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Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from ...
Style: grindhouse, slasher, controversial, cult classic, disturbing ...
Plot: oedipus complex, kidnapped woman, exploitation, serial killer, mental institution, mental illness, home invasion, stepfather, dismemberment, violent, mental disorder, psychopath ...
Time: 70s
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 5.0
 1K
Horror High (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A nerdy high school super whiz experiments with a chemical which will transform his guinea pig "Mr. Mumps" from a gentle pet into a ravenous monster. In a fit of rage against his tormentors at the high school, Vernon Potts goes on a ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, scary, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, monster, murder, bullying, creature, revenge, transformation, experiment, disfigurement, potion, freak, occult ...
Time: 70s
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The Grissom Gang (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: hostage, gangster, stockholm syndrome, woman with a gun, private investigator, organized crime, nightclub singer, criminal gang, family relations, kidnapping, gang, survival ...
Time: year 1971, 1930s, 1920s, year 1931
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Gangster Ka: African (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague, Czech mobster Radim "Kácko" Kraviec flees first to Seychelles and then to South Africa where he continues with his criminal endeavours. However, his illicit activities cannot go unnoticed forever.
Style: detective
Plot: male pubic hair, true crime, gangster, criminal as protagonist, drone, criminal, escape, topless woman, exploding car, czech abroad
Place: south africa, johannesburg south africa
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Jonny's Sweet Revenge (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rick and Reni came to California in search of a new lease on life. Unfortunately, all they found was each other... In a last ditch effort to save their struggling relationship, the duo twist their couples' counseling therapy into a plot that ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: criminal, bullying, bully, relationships, heist, accidental killing, gay slur, co worker co worker relationship, delusion, drunkenness, violent man, money ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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The Good and the Bad (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: From 1935 to 1945, the happiness of a couple turns to sadness when their Traction Avant auto is used by the gang des Tractions Avant.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: police officer, resistance, world war two, occupied france, nazism, hooligan, wartime life, dishonesty, heist, on the run, politics, obsessive quest ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 1930s, year 1945, year 1940 ...
Place: paris france
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