Crime
Assassins!
Day of the Jackal
Director, Fred Zinnemann. Starring Edward Fox. 1973.
The Jackal is hired for half a million dollars by disgruntled French generals to assassinate French President Charles de
Gaulle.
Entertainment DVD / DAY
The Hit
Director, Stephen Frears. Starring John Hurt, Tim Roth, Terence Stamp. 1984.
Two hit men kidnap a traitor who’s been hiding out in Spain and bring him back to Paris for his execution.
Entertainment DVD / HIT
Leon (Leon, The Professional)
Director, Luc Besson. Starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, and Danny Aiello. 1994.
New York’s top hit man takes in an orphaned 12-year-old girl and trains her so she can avenge the murder of her parents.
Entertainment DVD / LEO
Kill Bill
Director, Quentin Tarantino. Starring Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Vivica Fox, Lucy Liu. 2003.
An expertly trained assassin awakes from a coma and avenges the murder of her husband, seeking out those responsible, one by
one.
Entertainment DVD / KIL
Chocolate
Director, Prachya Pinkaew. Starring Yanin Mitananda. 2008.
The autistic daughter of an ailing hit woman learns to fight and violently goes to collect medical expenses from her mother’s
list of debtors. In Thai (with English subtitles) or dubbed English.
International Language DVD / CHO
Il Conformista (The Conformist)
Director, Bernard Bertolucci. 1970.
While in Paris on his honeymoon, an Italian devotee of Mussolini is assigned the task of assassinating an expatriate
professor. In Italian with English subtitles.
International Language DVD / CON
Koroshi No Rakuin (Branded to Kill)
Director, Seijun Suzuki. 1968.
The number 3 assassin in the world bungles a hit and becomes the target of the number 1 assassin. In Japanese with English
subtitles.
International Language DVD / KOR
El Mariachi
Director, Robert Rodriguez. 1993.
The mariachi is not the killer Azul, who carries his weapons in a guitar case, but the people trying to kill him don’t know
that. In Spanish with English subtitles.
International Language DVD / MAR
La Mariee Etait en Noir (The Bride Wore Black)
Director, François Truffaut. Starring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet. 1968.
A bride hunts down each of the five men that murdered her husband on their wedding day. In French with English subtitles.
International Language DVD / MAR
Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
Director, Luc Besson. 1990.
Nikita is a criminal and junkie, until sentenced to repay her debt to society as a trained spy and assassin. In French (with
English subtitles) or dubbed English.
International Language DVD / NIK
Le Samourai (The Samurai)
Director, Jean-Pierre Melville. Starring Alain Delon. 1967.
An assassin’s latest hit is witnessed, making him the target of the police chief and his employer. In French with English subtitles.
International Language DVD / SAM
Sum Muepuen (Hit Man File)
Director, Sananjit Bangsapan. Starring Chatchai Plengpanit. 2005.
A top hit man becomes a target after accepting a job to assassinate a drug lord. In Thai with English subtitles.
International Language DVD / SUM
La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins)
Director, Barbet Schroeder. Starring German Jaramillo. 2000.
After the murder of his 16-year-old assassin lover, Fernando goes on a hunt for the killer. In Spanish with English subtitles.
International DVD / VIR
De Zaack Alzheimer (Memory of a Killer)
Director, Eric Van Looy. 2005.
A hitman at the onset of Alzheimer’s decides to retire, and quits his last assignment when the target turns out to be a teenage girl. In Dutch with English subtitles.
International Language DVD / ZAA
Heists and Robberies!
The Asphalt Jungle
Director, John Huston. Starring Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern. 1950.
A recently released convict assembles a crew and pulls a heist, but the financier is planning a double-cross.
Entertainment DVD / ASP
The Bank Job
Director, Roger Donaldson. Starring Jason Statham. 2008.
A thief with inside info about a vault plans a bank heist, but the team has to contend with the mob, police, government, and
the royal family.
Entertainment DVD / BAN
Bonnie and Clyde
Director, Arthur Penn. Starring Warren Beatty,
Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman. 1967.
The story of the Barrow gang, from Bonnie’s joining Clyde,
to their disastrous end.
Entertainment DVD / BON
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Director, George Roy Hill. Starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford. 1969.
Butch and Sundance flee to Bolivia, pursued by a posse determined to bring the Hole in the Wall gang to justice.
Entertainment DVD / BUT
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Director, Peter Yates. Starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle. 1973.
A small time crook avoids jail by supplying information to the cops while continuing to supply guns to criminals.
Entertainment DVD / FRI
Heat
Director, Michael Mann. Starring Al Pacino, Robert Deniro. 1995.
A game of cat and mouse between an ambitious thief and an equally ambitious detective.
Entertainment DVD / HEA
The Ladykillers
(Original) Director, Alexander Mackendrick. Starring Alec Guinness. 1955.
(Remake) Directors, Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Tom Hanks, 2004.
Five criminals planning a robbery pose as a musical quintet to fool the elderly woman from whom they are renting space.
Entertainment DVD / LAD
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Director, Guy Ritchie. Starring Nick Moran, Jason Statham. 1998.
In a rigged game, a card shark loses the pooled money of his friends, and
plans to rob the thieves next door to pay off the
£500,000 debt he owes Hatchetman Harry.
Entertainment DVD / LOC
The Lookout
Director, Scott Frank. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels. 2007.
A brain injury ends the career of a successful high school athlete who goes on to do janitorial work at a bank-until a group of
criminals pulls him into their robbery plans.
Entertainment DVDs, DVD / LOO
Ocean’s Eleven
(Original) Director Lewis Milestone. Starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis, Jr. 1960.
(Remake) Director Steven Soderbergh. Starring George Clooney, Brad Pit, Bernie Mac, Matt Damon. 2001.
Danny Ocean and ten friends get together to pull a big casino heist
in Las Vegas.
Entertainment DVD / OCE
Reservoir Dogs
Director, Quentin Tarantino. Starring Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel,
Michael Madsen, Tim Roth. 1992.
After a botched bank robbery, the gang meets at a warehouse to
determine what went wrong, and who, if anyone, is the snitch.
Entertainment DVD / RES
White Heat
Director, Raoul Walsh. Starring James Cagney. 1949.
A disturbed gangster escapes from prison to pull a heist, not knowing
that his cellmate is an undercover cop.
Entertainment DVD / WHI
Bob le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler)
Director, Jean-Pierre Melville. Starring Roger Duchesne. 1955.
A broke, compulsive gambler plans a casino heist, but cops, thieves, and women all prove to be obstacles to his plan. In French with English subtitles.
International Language DVD / BOB
Du Rififi Chez les Hommes (Rififi)
Director, Jules Dassin. 1995.
Four men pull a jewelry heist and then turn on one another. In French or English.
International Language DVD / RIF
Cons and Swindlers!
Hu$tle
Starring Adrian Lester, Robert Vaughn, Jaime Murray. 2004-
A team of five London con artists pull scams targeting the amoral.
TV Series DVD / HUS
The Riches
Starring Eddie Izzard, Minnie Driver. 2007-
The Malloys are a family of con artists who’ve taken on the identity of a well-to-do family in an upscale suburb to pull a big
scam. They must deal with troublesome neighbors, other cons, and the law.
TV Series DVD / RIC
Beat the Devil
Director, John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones. 1954.
A gang of four criminals and a British couple are on a boat to Africa, where they attempt to outfox each other to acquire a
piece of land rich in Uranium.
Entertainment DVD / BEA
House of Games
Director, David Mamet. Starring Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna. 1987.
A psychiatrist is pulled into a gambling scam, which begins with her
evaluating the tells of other players for a man who is
owed money
from one of her patients.
Entertainment DVD / HOU
The Hustler
Director, Robert Rossen. Starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason,
George C. Scott. 1961.
An arrogant, yet skilled small-time pool hustler loses big in a match to
the renowned Minnesota Fats. His girlfriend helps him
get back on track,
and he’s soon heading for a rematch with Fats.
Entertainment DVD / HUS
The Sting
Director, George Roy Hill. Starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford. 1973.
A grifter targets a crime boss for a big con to avenge the murder of his partner.
Entertainment DVD / STI
The Usual Suspects
Director, Bryan Singer. Starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne,
Kevin Spacey. 1995.
A physically challenged criminal is grilled by a detective and spills his story of meeting four other criminals in jail. They
pull a series of jobs,which ultimately leads to a boat explosion.
Entertainment DVD / USU
The Mob!
The Sopranos
Starring James Gandolfini, Edie Falco. 1999-2007.
The story of the Soprano families: one is the patriarchal crime boss’s family
and the other his mob “family.”
TV Series DVD / SOP
Carlito’s Way
Director, Brian de Palma. Starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn,
Penelope Ann Miller. 1993.
A recently released Puerto Rican convict tries to stay out of his old criminal ways, but his past associates pull him back in.
Entertainment DVD / CAR
The Departed
Director, Martin Scorsese. Starring Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Matt Damon. 2006.
The cops and the mob in Boston each have a spy in the other camp, who are pitted against one another.
Entertainment DVD / DEP
Eastern Promises
Director, David Cronenberg. Starring Viggo Mortenson, Naomi Watts. 2007.
A London midwife searches for the family of an infant born to a teenage mother who dies in childbirth - but the baby is
dangerously linked to the Russian mafia.
Entertainment DVD / EAS
Goodfellas
Director, Martin Scorsese. Starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci. 1990.
From his youth, Henry Hill worked up the ranks of the mob with his friends and got made, only to tragically fall from the
heights of his success.
Entertainment DVD / GOO
Key Largo
Director, John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall,
Edward G. Robinson. 1948.
During the off-season, gangsters hold hostage the staff of a hotel in Key Largo, where they wait out a hurricane before leaving for Cuba.
Entertainment DVD / KEY
Miller’s Crossing
Directors, Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro. 1990.
An advisor to a crime boss navigates between his boss and a high-ranking captain who goes rogue against the boss.
Entertainment DVD / MIL
Sonatine
Director, Takeshi Kitano. Starring Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai. 1993.
A respected Yakuza is sent to Okinawa to bring peace between warring factions, but suspects that his boss plans to have him
assassinated.
International DVD / SON
Wu Jian Dao (Infernal Affairs)
Director, Andy Lau, Alan Mak. Starring Tony Leung, Andy Lau. 2002.
In this Chinese film that inspired The Departed, a mole and an undercover
cop try to catch one another.
International Language DVD / WU
Yao a yao, yao dao wai po qiao (Shanghai Triad)
Yao a yao, yao dao wai po qiao (Shanghai Triad)
A cousin from the countryside is brought into the city to work for a gang as
an attendant to the boss’s mistress, and is
immersed in intrigues beyond
his understanding.
International DVD / YAO
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