Crime thrillers you may have missed... (10 titles)

The Great Bookie Robbery

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• The Great Bookie Robbery (2 discs) on DVD (1986)
  Starring: John Bach,  Catherine Wilkin,  Gary Day
  Director: Marcus Cole,  Mark Joffe
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  This is the story of one of the most daring and dazzling robberies in modern history. There are few people who like a flutter who will not be familiar with the phrase 'The Great Bookie Robbery'. In the way that the Great Train Robbery caught the imagination of the public in the UK, this headline ..read more »
  
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Goodbye Pork Pie

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• Goodbye Pork Pie on DVD
  Starring: Tony Barry,  Kelly Johnson,  Claire Oberman
  Director: Geoff Murphy
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  Gerry, a young man, finds a drivers license and uses it to hire a rental car in Kaitaia and drive south. After an incident with a traffic cop he is helped by John, a man whose wife has left him to go to Invercargill. Realising that Gerry's car is the means to see his wife again, the pair set off on ..read more »
  
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Thief

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• Thief on DVD (1981)
  Starring: James Caan,  Tuesday Weld,  Willie Nelson
  Director: Michael Mann
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  After 11 years in prison, an ageing master safecracker (James Caan) decides to pull one more job before retiring to a quiet, peaceful life. However, the mob finds him much too valuable and refuses to let him retire, keeping him trapped in the life he so desperately wants to leave behind. An ..read more »
  
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Villain

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• Villain on DVD (1971)
  Starring: Richard Burton,  Ian McShane,  Nigel Davenport
  Director: Michael Tuchner
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  Action thriller which centres around a vicious East End gangster, who loves his mother, beats up his boyfriend and has a ruthless contempt for society and his fellow men.
  
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White Sands

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• White Sands on DVD (1992)
  Starring: Willem Dafoe,  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,  Mickey Rourke
  Director: Roger Donaldson
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  A slick whodunit about a straight-laced small town deputy sheriff, a charismatic but unpredictable arms dealer, and a slumming, thrill-seeking heiress with a weakness for dangerous men, underground politics and other lost causes.
  
  Rate this: 57% from 296 members

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Miami Blues

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• Miami Blues on DVD (1990)
  Starring: Fred Ward,  Alec Baldwin,  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Director: George Armitage
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  Junior (Alec Baldwin), an ex-con psychopath who sets twisted goals and achieves them at any cost, meets his match in Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward), a weather-beaten Miami detective who attempts to avenge Junior's antics when the lifelong criminal steals the detective's badge, gun, and even his false ..read more »
  
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The Driver

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• The Driver on DVD (1978)
  Starring: Ryan O'Neal,  Bruce Dern,  Isabelle Adjani
  Director: Walter Hill
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  Ryan O'Neal stars as THE DRIVER, a conniving and talented getaway driver, and Bruce Dern as the corrupt police detective obsessed with capturing him. With breathtaking car chases and a terrific climax, this is a simple and thrilling cat and mouse game. The two single-minded characters, with ..read more »
  
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Bad Company

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• Bad Company on DVD (1972)
  Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Barry Brown,  Jim Davis
  Director: Robert Benton
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  Robert Benton's directorial debut stars Jeff Bridges as young con man Jake Rumsey in this highly original Western. After Drew Dixon (Barry Brown), an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose ..read more »
  
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The Long Firm

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• The Long Firm (2 discs) on DVD (2004)
  Starring: Mark Strong,  Derek Jacobi,  Judy Parfitt
  Director: Bille Eltringham
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  During the swinging sixties in London, there was only one crime boss in Soho that mattered: the indomitable Harry Starks (Mark Strong). With a reputation for savagery and generosity in equal measure, Starks ruled central London with a coercive fist and his favourite implement of torture: the red-..read more »
  
  Rate this: 70% from 1,551 member

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Sweeney Double Feature, The - Sweeney 1 / Sweeney 2

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• Sweeney Double Feature, The - Sweeney 1 ... on DVD (1976)
  Starring: John Thaw,  Dennis Waterman,  Barry Foster
  Director: David Wickes,  Tom Clegg
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  Much imitated but rarely bettered, this disc features both spin off movies from the hugely popular 1970s detective series THE SWEENEY. In the first film, DI Regan (John Thaw) is asked to investigate the mysterious death of a friend's girlfriend. But as he is suspended, he can't ask his partner, DC ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 72% from 835 members

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