 |
Bullitt |
1968 |
Peter Yates |
Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset |
Romance, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action |
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal’s hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed. |
113 |
3.7 |
Anders |
 |
Carlito’s Way |
1993 |
Brian De Palma |
Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller |
Thriller, Drama, Crime, Romance |
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him, and lead a better life outside NYC. |
144 |
4.0 |
Anders |
 |
Easy Rider |
1969 |
Dennis Hopper |
Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper,Jack Nicholson |
Adventure, Drama |
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices. |
95 |
3.7 |
Anders |
 |
Mad Max |
1979 |
George Miller |
Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne |
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller |
Taking place in a dystopian Australia in the near future, Mad Max tells the story of a highway patrolman cruising the squalid back roads that have become the breeding ground of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. After some grisly events at the hands of a motorcycle gang, Max sets out across the barren wastelands in search of revenge. |
91 |
3.4 |
Anders |
 |
Quiz Show |
1994 |
Robert Redford |
Ralph Fiennes, Rob Morrow, John Turturro |
Mystery, Drama, History |
Lawyer Richard Goodwin discovers that ‘Twenty-One’, a successful TV quiz show, is rigged and decides to expose the team behind the show. |
133 |
3.8 |
Anders |
 |
Rumble Fish |
1983 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane |
Crime, Drama |
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother’s reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on. |
94 |
3.8 |
Anders |
 |
Serpico |
1973 |
Sidney Lumet |
Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe |
Drama, History, Crime |
The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system. |
130 |
3.9 |
Anders |
 |
Slacker |
1990 |
Richard Linklater |
Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine |
Drama |
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna’s Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits. |
97 |
3.7 |
Anders |
 |
The French Connection |
1971 |
William Friedkin |
Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider |
Crime, Action, Thriller |
Tough narcotics detective ‘Popeye’ Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation. |
104 |
4.0 |
Anders |
 |
To Catch a Thief |
1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis |
Romance, Thriller, Mystery |
To prevent being accused of the crimes, an ex-burglar must catch a thief who’s been copying his style. |
106 |
3.7 |
Anders |
