Crime gone awry movies and TV shows – page 5

List of crime gone awry movies

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The Mighty Quinn (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, neo noir ...
Plot: whodunit, murder, childhood friend, police investigation, partners against crime, investigation, justice, crime gone awry, resort hotel, cia agent, frame up, false accusation ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, future
Place: jamaica, caribbean, nicaragua, west indies
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 7.0
 46K
American Honey (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Style: road movie, disturbing, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: road trip, teenage girl, first love, teenage boy, on the road, adolescence, coming of age, van, jealousy, naked in public, white trash, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2016, year 2017, 90s, 2010s
Place: kansas city, america, oklahoma, nebraska
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 5.7
 5K
Homegrown (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: weed, marijuana, drug abuse, murder, mafia, gunfight, greed, drug dealing, police investigation, crime gone awry, drug addiction, corruption ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, northern california, san francisco
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 5.2
 586
Mercy Streets (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Estranged twin brothers - one a con man, the other an Episcopal deacon - accidentally switch places... and find God in the process.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, christian film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twins, christianity, christian, redemption, crime gone awry, dishonesty, heist, betrayal, cons and scams, disorder, estrangement, scam ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, rome italy
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 6.5
 3K
Hold-Up (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied ...
Style: realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, action thriller ...
Plot: bank robbery, crime gone awry, misfit partners, criminal heroes, on the run, nothing goes right, chase, disorder, partner, ex convict, bank, bank robber ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada, rome italy, montreal
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 5.9
 23K
Mad Money (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
Style: light, sexy, feel good, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: heist, workplace, cons and scams, bank robbery, storytelling, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, society, money, caper, robbery, crime gone awry ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa, kansas
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 5.3
 148K
Spring Breakers (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.
Style: sexy, disturbing, stylized, sexual, surreal ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: party, spring break, debauchery, juvenile delinquency, rapper, murder, danger, nudity, summer, beach party, female killer, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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 5.3
 22K
Blank Check (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston is fed up with his family -- especially their frugality. But he gets his chance to teach them a lesson when a money-laundering criminal nearly bulldozes Preston with his car and ...
Style: humorous, feel good, epic, scenic, family comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: child protagonist, childhood, gangster, crime gone awry, chauffeur, mistaken identity, youth, forgery, destiny, child, misfit, toys ...
Time: 90s
Place: indiana
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 6.9
 40K
Bully (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, sexy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: bullying, sexual abuse, rape, teenager, murder, nudity, sex, drug, rivalry, revenge, youth, teenage sex ...
Time: year 2001, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, bronx new york city, florida
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 8.2
 904K
Snatch (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the ...
Style: entertaining, witty, dark comedy, funny, clever ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, caper, gambling, organized crime, gangster, robbery, criminal heroes, cons and scams, group of criminals, sarcasm, master criminal, boxing ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, antwerp, belgium ...
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 5.0
 390
The Key Man (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for his family, but things don't go as he planned.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: crime gone awry, gangster, down on your luck, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, murder, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, couple relations, criminal heroes, insurance agent ...
Time: year 1974, 21st century
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 8.1
 9K
Vedam (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Five people from varied strata of society – a slum dweller who works as a cable operator, a runaway prostitute, a desperate woman drowning in debt, a rising musician, and a grief-stricken Muslim man – end up together in the same hospital, at a ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tragic ending ...
Plot: crime gone awry, going straight, frame up, changing lives, testimony, pregnancy, life is a bitch, dishonesty, prostitute, urban ghetto life, gang, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: india
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In Security (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, light, entertaining ...
Plot: heist, crime gone awry, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, couples, danger, robbery, profanity
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.4
 5K
Drive Hard (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, unlikely criminals, on the run, crime gone awry, chases and races, partner, disorder, rivalry, reluctant partners, danger, on the road, die hard ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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 6.1
 2K
The Living (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After an alcohol induced blacked-out night of drinking, Teddy discovers he has severely beaten his wife, Molly. As he attempts to redeem himself to her she must decide whether or not she will take him back as her mother, Angela, continuously ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: hitman, danger, crime gone awry, siblings relations, disorder, mental illness, brutality, revenge, life is a bitch, abusive relationship, domestic violence, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Chaperone (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ex-con on the run from his criminal past, hides out from those he ratted on by chaperoning a field trip to New Orleans.
Style: humorous, not serious, sentimental, realistic, action comedy ...
Plot: going straight, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, on the run, chase, family relations, disorder, redemption, parents and children, heroes, hopes, job seeking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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Johan Falk: Barninfiltratören (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of young robbers, specializing in robbing shopping center security guards, are raging through out Gothenburg. A robbery goes awry when an innocent passerby is killed. Ricky, the gang's young leader, tries to quickly find an expert who ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: crime gone awry, law enforcement, danger, investigation, hunt down, nordic, rivalry, heist, swedish, criminal, tough law enforcer, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.6
 2K
Chaos (2000)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he sends the ransom demand. When he returns home that night, however, he finds her laying dead on the ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, non-linear, suspense thriller ...
Plot: crime gone awry, obsession, riddles and clues, danger, disorder, abduction, asian girl, extreme, kidnapping, cons and scams, dishonesty, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 90s
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Space Travelers (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, crime gone awry, disorder, rivalry, heroes, danger, cons and scams, heist, obsession, stockholm syndrome, heist gone wrong, burglar ...
Time: future
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 7.2
 519
Dirty Hands (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Shot entirely on location along the Pacific coast of Colombia—in ...
Style: suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful, social ...
Plot: drug dealing, crime gone awry, family relations, disorder, escapades, chases and races, ocean, murder, drug, teenager, mafia, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: colombia, africa
Is relevant ?
 8.3
 12K
Soodhu Kavvum (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Dass specialises in small time kidnapping and has his own set of rules. The primary and most important among them is not to get involved with influential people. Three jobless youngsters meet Dass and the four take up an assignment for a hefty sum ...
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, captivating, tense ...
Plot: gang, crime gone awry, cons and scams, parents and children, police investigation, disorder, confined, abduction, ransom, kidnapping, politics, heist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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 5.0
 18K
American Heist (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, heist, sibling relationship, crime gone awry, going straight, disorder, criminal heroes, hopes, haunted by the past, brother brother relationship, bank robber, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
Is relevant ?
 5.7
 10K
Whisper (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Convicted felon Max Truemont (played by Josh Holloway) is hired to execute a kidnapping of the son of one of the richest women in the state. Along with his fiancée Roxanne (played by Sarah Wayne Callies), Max joins two other strangers who were also ...
Style: scary, serious, bleak, suspenseful, christmas horror ...
Plot: evil child, kidnapping, winter, hostage, mind control, snow, murder, isolation, crime gone awry, confined, danger, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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 6.3
 7K
The Mule (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, realistic, stylized
Plot: drug, dark humor, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, disorder, drug dealing, escapades, drug dealer, prison, stoned, house arrest, police ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: thailand, australia
Is relevant ?
 5.5
 17K
Good People (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bag of money, life turned upside down, couples, profanity, crime gone awry, moral dilemma, unlikely criminals, drug addict, childless couple, dishonesty, rivalry, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 12K
Rob the Mob (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, social ...
Plot: mafia, lovers on the run, crime gone awry, partner, love and romance, couple relations, wanted, fbi, chases and races, heist, couples, mob boss ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: new york, usa
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 6.7
 1K
Swindled (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, anamorphic ...
Plot: cons and scams, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, femme fatale, con trick, power relations, love and romance, forgery, betrayal, dishonesty, manipulation, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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 5.8
 2K
Take (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, non-linear, psychological ...
Plot: death row, child in peril, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, family problems, addiction, strange person, dishonesty, society, clergy, redemption, hopes ...
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Stealing Harvard (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her ...
Style: funny, humorous, stylized, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: robbery, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, partner, disorder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, buddies, couple relations, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, toilet humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: harvard university, usa
Is relevant ?
 4.8
 413
Second to Die (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Erika Eleniak as a woman who plans the murder of her husband ...
Style: serious, intense, suspense, realistic, tense ...
Plot: erotica, murder, cons and scams, crime gone awry, dishonesty, insurance scam, money, nothing goes right, murder of husband, danger, blonde, infidelity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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