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City of God (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes
Duration: 130 min
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10
IMDB Votes: 788000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Plot tags: gang, coming of age, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, storytelling, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption, street gang, urban ghetto life, drug dealing, ghetto, violence, photography, gangster, revenge, poverty, urban ghetto, drug, children, social decay
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Plot Summary:
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit
Duration: 141 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: con artists, adaptation, race against time, master criminal, prodigy, creativity, fbi, con men, deception, biopic, chase, entrepreneur, rise and fall, justice, impostor, parents separation, fraud, heist, obsessive quest, secret service, runaway, entrepreneurship, father son relationship, business, law enforcement
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Plot Summary:
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst
Duration: 101 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Plot tags: mole, police, triad, organized crime, gangster, undercover, betrayal, mob boss, mafia, double life, mind game, spy, cop, corruption, surveillance, psychologist, character study, tragic event, working undercover, drug dealing, asian gangster, heroic bloodshed, vengeance, moral ambiguity, violent
Company (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of them start drifting apart
Duration: 142 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: gangster, organized crime, gang war, criminal underworld, crime boss, gang, criminal syndicate, love and romance, rivalry, friendship, vengeance, underworld, police, sociopath, mob violence, dishonesty, revenge, death of protagonist, hindu, violent, based on real people, innovation, indian mafia, betrayal, mafia
Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working as a prostitute, and later meets Andrei. He offers her a good job in Sweden, but when Lilya arrives her life quickly enters a downward spiral
Duration: 109 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Plot tags: human trafficking, poverty, prostitution, sexual abuse, prostitute, suicide, life is a bitch, teenage prostitution, teenage life, youth, rape, slavery, social decay, friendship, sex scene, child prostitution, coming of age, downfall, exploitation, misery, bad mother, female protagonist, sex slavery, sex with a minor, children
Bang Bang You're Dead (2002)
Plot Summary:
Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free
Duration: 93 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: bullying, school shooting, depression, teacher, bully, school, social misfits, high school, teenage life, violence, childhood, fighting the system, bomb, death threat, social problems, juvenile delinquency, teachers and students, rivalry, society, lifestyle, sport team, suicide, adolescence, teenager, troubled teen
Road to Perdition (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him
Duration: 117 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 281000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: mafia, vengeance, organized crime, criminal's revenge, hitman, violence, bank robbery, road trip, murder, revenge, on the road, on the run, assassin, coming of age, betrayal, great depression, mob boss, manhunt, rain, catholic, gangster, great ending, photographer, heist, mob hit
Minority Report (2002)
Plot Summary:
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge
Duration: 145 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 576000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: cyberpunk, murder, foreknowledge, precognition, time loop, distopia, psychic, dystopia, law enforcer, frame up, consciousness, twists and turns, dystopian future, time travel, police investigation, conspiracy, investigation, murder mystery, virtual reality, graphic violence, seeing the future, perfect crime, corruption, police, fugitives
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge
Duration: 129 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Plot tags: kidnapping, revenge, organ donation, gory, crime gone awry, violent, suicide, transplant, vigilante, mute or deaf, macabre, rape and revenge, vengeance, black market, ransom, layoff, factory worker, violence, danger, loss of loved one, terrorist, dying, serial killer, tragedy, brutality
Gangs of New York (2002)
Plot Summary:
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area
Duration: 167 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 466000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Plot tags: revenge, gang, gangster, vengeance, organized crime, street gang, racism, crime boss, betrayal, violent, courage, gang war, gunfight, fistfight, immigrant, criminal heroes, violence, american history, racial slur, brutality, danger, social decay, murder, corruption, mafia
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Plot Summary:
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Plot tags: heroin, coming of age, innocence lost, teenager, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, prison, drug dealer, downfall, dysfunctional family, family relations, life is a bitch, society, family problems, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, loneliness, murder, drug abuse, character study, sibling relationship, addiction, childhood, adolescence, working class
All the Best (2002)
Plot Summary:
After his hatred of dishonesty costs him his job, an embittered man goes over to the dark side and plots to rob the bank he once managed
Duration: 165 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: heist, revenge, bank, vengeance, crime gone awry, mental illness, criminal heroes, rivalry, on the run, dishonesty, blind man, blindness, bank robbery, blind character, genius, training, villain played by lead actor, train, split personality, criminal's revenge, schizophrenia, kidnapping, security guard, workaholic, anger
Irreversible (2002)
Plot Summary:
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Plot tags: rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, vengeance, rape and revenge, brutality, sex, sexual perversion, sadism, vigilante, anal rape, rape victim, sexual cruelty, strong sexual content, cruelty, party, violent sex, female pubic hair, gore, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, depravity, justice, violence against women
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Plot Summary:
An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a night porter at the hotel. The pair discover the hotel is a front for all sorts of clandestine activities. Their only wish is to avoid possible deportation. Okwe becomes more entangled in the goings on when he is called to fix a toilet in one of the rooms. He discovers the plumbing has been clogged by a human heart
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Plot tags: immigrant, blackmail, maid, working class, friendship, illegal immigration, murder, black market, prostitute, character study, surgery, social decay, social commentary, poverty, society, immigration, prostitution, refugee, betrayal, migration, sex, medicine, hospital, exile, hotel
Red Dragon (2002)
Plot Summary:
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer
Duration: 124 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 287000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Plot tags: serial killer, psychopath, cannibalism, investigation, mind game, murder, torture, profiler, split personality, killer, reporter, blindness, fbi agent, cruelty, race against time, psycho killer, fbi, psychology, tragic villain, capture, law enforcement, one last case, special agent, deception, interrogation
Amen. (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops, by using zyklon, served as a basis to kill people in gas chambers
Duration: 132 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Plot tags: holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, pope, politics, christian, conscience, ss, nazi, war, priest, nazism, war crime, vatican, idealism, euthanasia, ss officer, gestapo, cardinal the priest, christianity, jesuit, anti semitism, german officer, diplomacy
Chicago (2002)
Plot Summary:
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago
Duration: 113 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 240000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, UK
Plot tags: prison, broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, legal, jail, lawyer, jazz, musician, music, flapper, rising to stardom, music business, courtroom, showbiz, rivalry, satire, execution, brutality, greed, ambition, fame, crimes of passion, warden, artists and showbiz
John Q (2002)
Plot Summary:
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list
Duration: 116 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: hostage, twists and turns, injustice, hospital, kidnapping, organ donation, fighting the system, father son relationship, financial problem, medical, society, parent child relationship, insurance, sick child, power relations, greed, life is a bitch, black, family in crisis, doctors and patients, ethics, interracial couple, kidnapped, homeless, politics
Phone Booth (2002)
Plot Summary:
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding
Duration: 81 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 282000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: hostage, sniper, psychopath, trapped, mind game, murder, dishonesty, hopes, sin, characters in danger, claustrophobia, plot twist, urban, obsession, police investigation, confined, swat team, wiretap, hidden truth, survival, trap, bad guy wins, psychological manipulation, kidnapped, terrorist
Narc (2002)
Plot Summary:
An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads and informants turn up dead
Duration: 105 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Plot tags: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, police officer, dark humor, drug overdose, child abuse, brutality, violence, cop, revenge, obsession, justice, vengeance, police shootout, crime gone awry, foul language, drug dealer
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities
Duration: 101 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: high school, teenager, coming of age, gang, friendship, cheerleader, visceral, mentor, adolescence, crime gone awry, unlikely friendships, basketball, juvenile delinquency, high school life, lifestyle, social decay, petty criminal, human nature, downfall, unlikely criminals, partners in crime, culture clash, friends, studying, character study
The Salton Sea (2002)
Plot Summary:
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns
Duration: 103 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: twists and turns, drug abuse, drug addiction, death of wife, drug lord, drug, revenge, violence, drug addict, double life, working undercover, heist, undercover, life is a bitch, rivalry, haunted by the past, nothing to lose, murder, gangster, recovery, corrupt cop, identity, vengeance, driver, justice
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Plot Summary:
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said
Duration: 113 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Plot tags: cia, double life, secret agent, hitman, double agent, intrigue, love and romance, artists and showbiz, biopic, espionage, success, profanity, couples, showbiz, recruit, government agency, prisoners exchange, kgb, marriage proposal, rise to the top, dishonesty, assassin, cold war, spy, undercover agent
Paid in Full (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: urban ghetto life, rapper, organized crime, ghetto, urban, drug dealing, drug lord, gangster, drug, black, rise and fall, street life, african american gangster, cocaine, profanity, social decay, criminal heroes, hip hop, friends, buddies, urban ghetto, double life, revenge, fight, violence
8 Women (2002)
Plot Summary:
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret
Duration: 111 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Plot tags: women, multiple suspects, dysfunctional family, christmas, murder, eccentric family, estate, lesbian, suicide, family relations, maid, twists and turns, who to trust, snow, holiday, confession, mistress, dancing, lgbtq, confinement indoors, who done it, relationships, lgbt, storytelling, adultery
Heaven (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, USA
Plot tags: redemption, on the run, police, murder, terrorism, bomb, terrorist, translator, criminal heroes, vigilantism, vengeance, danger, crime gone awry, drug dealing, overdose, regret, love story, justice, assassination, love, strong female lead, police officer, death, corruption, guilt
Panic Room (2002)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it
Duration: 112 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 293000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: home invasion, trapped, hostage, claustrophobia, confinement indoors, surveillance, cat and mouse, locked in a room, disorder, millionaire, mother daughter relationship, security system, confined, crime gone awry, isolation, mind game, psycho, serial killer, diabetic, kidnapping, survival, thief, twists and turns, danger, child in peril
The Transporter (2002)
Plot Summary:
Former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective
Duration: 92 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 317000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Plot tags: car chase, chase, one man army, tough guy, lone hero, martial arts, transportation, fight scenes, escapades, tough heroes, car, smuggling, gunfight, danger, one against many, ex military, chases and races, heroes, fight, lone wolves, ex soldier, revenge, organized crime, kidnapping, delivery
Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II (2002)
Plot Summary:
The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Plot tags: serial killer, bank robbery, gang, prison, parents and children, fugitives, dark humor, partner, disorder, criminal heroes, father son relationship, mafia, car chase, hustler, nordic, transplant, debt, hooligan, heist, heroes, escape, hostage, family relations, chases and races, confined
Spun (2002)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy
Duration: 101 min
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: drug abuse, drug addict, drug addiction, addiction, drug, junkie, masturbation, drug use, methamphetamine, strong sexual content, crazy, mental illness, self destructing, stripper, drug trip, drugged, bondage, older woman younger woman relationship, heroin, violence, profanity, gay, striptease, manic, bad trip