Crime movies after a long week from the 2000s. Includes The Dark Knight, City of God, The Departed and more, curated by Moviepiq.
You survived the week. The least you deserve is a good film on the other side of it.
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José "Zé" Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
After a long week, a film should feel like something you chose rather than endured. These do that.
Immersive world. Lets you step out of your own for two hours.
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
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.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.
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