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Crime Movies For When You Feel Sharp With Friends

Crime movies for when you feel sharp with friends. Includes Taxi Driver, Joker, Better Days and more, curated by Moviepiq.

Brain is on. Make use of it.

Taxi Driver movie poster
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1976 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Your attention is worth giving here. This film has things to find.

Joker movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

It works on a sharp night. The details reward the noticing.

Better Days movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

It works on a sharp night. The details reward the noticing.

Reservoir Dogs movie poster
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1992 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

Your attention is worth giving here. This film has things to find.

Prisoners movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.

Your attention is worth giving here. This film has things to find.

Sharp viewers notice more. These films have more in them to notice.

Structural subtleties in crime films are worth noticing when you can.

Holds a group without requiring everyone to be fully locked in.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels movie poster
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1998 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

It works on a sharp night. The details reward the noticing.

Double Indemnity movie poster
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1944 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

It works on a sharp night. The details reward the noticing.

Big Deal on Madonna Street movie poster
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1958 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

It works on a sharp night. The details reward the noticing.

The Hate U Give movie poster
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2018 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Your attention is worth giving here. This film has things to find.

Some Like It Hot movie poster
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1959 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

It works on a sharp night. The details reward the noticing.

The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.

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