Crime – Stream On Demand

Luc Merenda and James Mason star in Fernando di Leo's mob revenge thriller

‘Kidnap Syndicate’ – The business of crime on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD 01/29/2023 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo’s 1975 Italian crime thriller reworks the premise of Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’ as a brutal portrait of class, power, and vengeance.

Leaving soon: Victor Mature and Richard Conte hear the ‘Cry of the City’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Robert Siodmak directs this crime drama of a desperate gangster and a driven cop, one of his darkest film noirs, seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis

Leaving soon: Richard Conte drives the ‘Thieves’ Highway’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jules Dassin directs this film noir drama set in the cutthroat world of long haul trucking, independent drivers, and the San Francisco produce market run by a crime boss.

Orson Welles is Harry Lime on Carol Reed's classic

Continental noir: ‘The Third Man’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, international noir, Mystery, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, suspense, SVOD, thriller 01/16/2023 Sean Axmaker

Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles star in Carol Reed’s continental film noir set in the rubble of post-war Vienna. It placed in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films ever made.

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster star in the modern outlaw western from director David Mackenzie

‘Hell or High Water’ – Outlaws of the new west on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Crime, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 01/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jeff Bridges is a Texas Ranger on the trail of bank robbers Chris Pine and Ben Foster in this outlaw thriller set against the mortgage crisis.

Luc Merenda stars in Fernando di Leo's crime drama from Italy

‘Shoot First, Die Later’ – Revenge of the corrupted on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, gangsters, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema 01/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo’s seventies Italian gangster thriller stars Luc Merenda as a hotshop young cop on the take and features some of the most impressive car chases of its era.

‘Reservoir Dogs’ – Quentin Tarantino begins on Netflix

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Crime, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 01/10/2023 Sean Axmaker

Harvey Keitel leads the cast in this quotable blast of post-modern crime movie cool, one of the most attention grabbing directorial debuts in history.

‘Breathless’ – Jean-Luc Godard’s new wave classic on HBO Max, Criterion Channel, and Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, French New Wave, HBO Max, International Classics, Kanopy, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, SVOD 01/09/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a charming rogue of a street thug in this cinematic blast across the bow of the French filmmaking and international cinema.

Tom Hanks is on the ‘Road to Perdition’ on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, gangsters, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 01/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

Sam Mendes followed up his Oscar-winning ‘American Beauty’ with a dark, Depression-era gangster drama costarring Paul Newman and Jude Law.

Keanu Reeves is retired assassin John Wick roused back for a mission of vengeance in the 2014 action hit directed by Chad Stahelski

Keanu Reeves is ‘John Wick’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 01/07/2023 Sean Axmaker

This 2014 action movie hit revived a kind of thriller that Hollywood had ignored in the age of superhero movies: simple, streamlined, driven by action scenes that rely on physical prowess rather than computer generated elements. It also turned Keanu Reeves into an unexpectedly terrific action star.