Crime

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A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.Read More »

Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornev. Kornev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of corrupt agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A dedicated Bolshevik of integrity, the young prosecutor suspects foul play. His quest for justice will take him all the way to the office of the Attorney General in Moscow. In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the plunge of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear said name.Read More »

Bruce Campbell stars as Carl, a man who launches a full-scale heist to steal mob money from the prison that just released him. With the help of an old friend, a driver and a safe-cracker, Carl’s attempt to carry out the heist is fraught with incompetence and bad luck. As the clock ticks and the circumstances turn tragic, Carl is forced to make the most important decision of his life. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” and filmed over twenty years before Sam Mendes’ “1917”, writer/director Josh Becker designed “Running Time” to play out using the “one continuous shot” technique with no computer-assisted trickery. Expertly photographed and edited on film to take place over 60 minutes of real-time, this gritty crime drama was shot entirely on location in the streets of Los Angeles.Read More »

In the outskirts and back-alleys of Kuala Lumpur, several individuals with money problems struggle to get their lives straight, finding their paths unexpectedly intersecting – with fatal results.Read More »

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Jacque Dollion get’s it right with this small film about a good of pre-teens who become friends despite tough circumstances.Read More »

The lives of two brothers diverge when one’s choice of hustling pool leads him down a darker road.Read More »

James Kennedy is a rich businessman whose son is kidnapped. Naturally, there’s a huge ransom demand but Scotland Yard tells Kennedy to let them handle it.Read More »

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Alex, a hit man, tries to get out of the family business, but his father won’t let him do so. While seeking the help of a therapist, he meets a sexually charged 23-year-old woman with whom he falls in love.Read More »

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Daisy Alexiou is a very conscientious traffic controlling police officer who happens to be near the scene of a bank robbery and manages to save police Captain Marcos Angelou’s life as well as chase the fleeing robber. For she’s brave and altruistic (let alone beautiful), she’s made police Lieutenant overnight and joins the newly formed Women’s Department in the Hellenic Police Force. She especially asks for a position in the Narcotics Prosecution Bureau and she has her reasons for doing so.Read More »