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Nightmare Alley: Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe. A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychologist bent on exposing him.
- (167K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Guillermo del Toro
- 2021-12-17
Silk Road: Directed by Tiller Russell. With Nick Robinson, Jennifer Yun, Jimmi Simpson, Jason Clarke. Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him down.
- (6.8K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Tiller Russell
- 2021-02-19
Silk Road is a 2021 American crime thriller film, written for the screen and directed by Tiller Russell based on the Rolling Stone article "Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross Ulbricht's Big Fall" by David Kushner. [ 2 ] The film stars Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Paul Walter Hauser, Darrell Britt ...
- Brotherly Love
- Concrete Cowboy
- Beats
- They Cloned Tyrone
- Street Flow
- Baby Boy
- The Kitchen
- 13th
- Burning Sands
- Roxanne Roxanne
‘Brotherly Love’ follows the lives of three siblings as they try to navigate their lives while trying to stay together in their Philadelphia neighborhood. The eldest sibling, June (Cory Hardrict), gets swayed by the streets thanks to his father’s death and the financial crash that followed. Sergio (Eric D. Hill, Jr) is the best high school basketba...
‘Concrete Cowboy’ follows fifteen-year-old Cole (Caleb McLaughlin), who is sent by his mother to his father, cowboy Harp (Idris Elba), for the summer. Directed by Ricky Staub, the film showcases the differences between the father and the son, a strained relationship that is symbolized by the very setting in which Harp finds himself: a cowboy commun...
‘Beats,’ a film directed by Chris Robinson, tells the powerful story of a young, Black teenager named August Monroe, portrayed by Khalil Everage, who is struggling to cope with a traumatic event that changed his life. The movie explores the healing power of music as August, guided by a former music manager played by Anthony Anderson, rediscovers hi...
‘They Cloned Tyrone,’ directed by Juel Taylor in his feature film directorial debut, takes the hood movie stereotype to new heights through its unique blend of science fiction, comedy, and mystery. With a stellar cast including John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, and Jamie Foxx, the film explores the story of Fontaine, a drug dealer in the suburban neighb...
‘Street Flow’ is a French movie directed by Leïla Sy and Kery James and centers on three brothers. One of the elder two brothers is a gangster, while the other is a scholar. The youngest brother, a teenager, must choose what life he wants for himself. The gritty and dark drama highlights the difficulties of life in the suburbs of Paris, where crime...
This coming-of-age hood drama stars Tyrese Gibson in his acting debut as 20-year-old Jody Summers, who lives in South Central L.A. For a guy who has two babies, one from each of his two girlfriends, Yvette (Taraji P. Henson) and Peanut (Tamara LaSeon Bass), Jody is irresponsible and lives with his mother, Juanita (Adrienne-Joi Johnson). As complica...
Directed by Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya, ‘The Kitchen’ is set in a dystopian London that is war-torn between the oppressors and the oppressed. It explores an unlikely alliance between a guy named Izi and a kid named Benji, both of whom live in “the Kitchen,” the only remaining social housing that faces eradication by the rich. As the two get t...
’13th’ is a docudrama directed by Ava DuVernay. The film provides a keen look into the nuances of the U.S. prison system. There have been visible and invisible traces of racial discrimination and prejudices prevailing in society throughout. Ava DuVernay draws an original picture of the criminalization of African Americans in the country. The direct...
‘Burning Sands’ centers on a black fraternity named Lambda Lambda Phi at Frederick Douglass University. The plot follows Zurich, who is in the first year of college. In the first few weeks, everything goes fine for Zurich, but things take an ugly turn when he starts the Hell Week of Pledging for his fraternity. The various kinds of horrible experie...
‘Roxanne Roxanne’ is a musical drama movie written and directed by Michael Larnell. It is based on the life of Lolita Shanté Gooden, better known as the rapper Roxanne Shante. The film tells a dramatized story of Roxanne’s life in the New York suburbs during the 1980s. While defending herself from the dangers in the hood, Roxanne becomes a hip-hop ...
Sep 24, 2024 · Vote up your favorite gangster movies that were released on or after January, 1 2019. Latest additions: Bangkok Breaking: Heaven and Hell, The Bikeriders, Fresh Kills. Most divisive: King of Thieves. Over 600 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of Great New Gangster Movies.
Sep 18, 2024 · Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci. 18 votes. For Fans Of: Action, Crime, Thriller, Comedy. Why Should I Watch Lethal Weapon 2: The second installment in this classic buddy cop action-comedy franchise finds partners Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) taking on a ruthless South African drug cartel.
Jun 19, 2024 · Fast Charlie follows the story of Charlie Swift (Pierce Brosnan), a hired gun who finds himself on a new life mission when his close friend, an aging mob boss, is taken down by a rival crew.Now ...
