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Directed by Frères CoenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Billy Bob Thornton,
Frances McDormand,
Michael Badalucco,
Richard Jenkins,
Scarlett Johansson,
Adam Alexi-MalleRating75%
In 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is a low-key barber in the town of Santa Rosa, California. He is married to Doris (Frances McDormand), a bookkeeper with a drinking problem, and works in a barber shop that belongs to his brother-in-law Frank (Michael Badalucco). A customer named Creighton Tolliver (Jon Polito) tells Ed that he's a businessman looking for investors to put up $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning. Ed decides to get the money by anonymously blackmailing Doris's boss, "Big Dave" Brewster (James Gandolfini), whom he knows to be having an affair with Doris. Dave embezzles money from his department store to pay the blackmail. However, he soon pieces together the scheme and beats Tolliver until he implicates Ed. Dave confronts Ed at the store and attempts to kill him, but Ed stabs Dave fatally with a cigar knife., 1h24
Directed by Bob OdenkirkOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Dax Shepard,
Will Arnett,
Chi McBride,
David Koechner,
Dylan Baker,
Michael ShannonRating58%
John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has spent most of his life in prison, serving three different sentences (starting when he was eight, when he stole the Publisher's Clearing House van). Each of his three trials were before Judge Nelson Biederman III, who seemed to show no mercy passing down indiscriminately harsh sentences. After being released from his third sentence, John decides to take revenge on Biederman. After trying to determine when Biederman would be presiding over his next case, he discovers (much to his dissatisfaction) that he had died three days prior to his release., 1h53
Directed by Rob MarshallOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Musical theatre,
Action,
Musical,
CrimeThemes Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Prison films,
Films about sexuality,
Théâtre,
Erotic films,
Sexploitation films,
Musical films,
Women in prison films,
Films about capital punishment,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicalsActors Renée Zellweger,
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Richard Gere,
Queen Latifah,
John C. Reilly,
Christine BaranskiRating71%
In 1927, Roxie Hart sees star Velma Kelly perform ("All That Jazz") at a Chicago theater. Wanting stardom for herself, she begins an affair with Fred Casely, who claims to know the manager. After the show, Velma is arrested for killing her husband Charlie and sister Veronica, who were in bed together. A month later, Casely admits to Roxie that he has no showbiz connections and just wanted her body. Enraged, she shoots him dead. She convinces her husband Amos to take the blame, telling him she killed a burglar in self-defense. As Amos confesses to the detective, Roxie fantasizes that she is singing a song devoted to her husband ("Funny Honey"). However, when the detective brings up evidence that Roxie and Casely were having an affair, Amos recants; Roxie furiously admits what really happened and is arrested. Ambitious District Attorney Harrison announces he will seek the death penalty., 1h33
Directed by Glenn Ficarra,
John RequaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Prison films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Évasion,
Escroquerie,
LGBT-related films,
HIV/AIDS in film,
LGBT-related filmActors Jim Carrey,
Ewan McGregor,
Rodrigo Santoro,
Leslie Mann,
Brennan Brown,
Michael ShowersRating65%
Steven Jay Russell (Jim Carrey) is on his deathbed, recalling the events of his life that led him to this point. He spent his early adult years in Virginia Beach as a police officer. He plays the organ at church, has unenthusiastic sex with his wife, Debbie (Leslie Mann), and spends his off hours searching for his biological mother, who placed him for adoption as a child. Steven locates his biological mother, but she rejects him., 1h42
Directed by Neil JordanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Road movies,
Buddy films,
Chase filmsActors Robert De Niro,
Sean Penn,
Demi Moore,
Hoyt Axton,
Bruno Kirby,
Ray McAnallyRating61%
A couple of 1930s Great Depression-era convicts, Ned and Jim, jailed on never-specified charges and abused by a ruthless warden, are dragged along when a vicious killer named Bobby escapes the electric chair., 1h52
Directed by James BobinOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Adventure,
Musical,
CrimeThemes Films about films,
Films about music and musicians,
Prison films,
Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Musical films,
Heist films,
Children's filmsActors Ray Liotta,
Ricky Gervais,
Tina Fey,
Ty Burrell,
Sean Combs,
Bridgit MendlerRating63%
Following the events of the previous film, The Muppets find themselves at a loss as to what to do until Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais) suggests that the Muppets go on a European tour with him as their tour manager. As the Muppets begin their tour, the criminal mastermind Constantine, a near-exact double for Kermit the Frog in appearance, escapes from a Siberian Gulag and joins his subordinate Dominic to begin a plot to steal the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom., 1h31
Directed by Simon NamOrigin Hong kongGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Horror,
Crime,
Martial artsThemes Prison films,
Sports films,
Films about suicide,
Martial arts films,
Political films,
Dystopian filmsActors Louis Fan,
Yukari Oshima,
Frankie Chan,
Gloria Yip,
Tetsurō Tanba,
Lam SuetRating69%
The plot closely follows the events depicted in the original Japanese comic and its anime adaptation, with some minor modifications in certain instances., 1h23
Directed by David Zucker,
Peter SegalOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Comedy thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Leslie Nielsen,
Priscilla Presley,
Fred Ward,
George Kennedy,
Anna Nicole Smith,
Kathleen FreemanRating64%
Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) has retired from Police Squad and lives a basically happy life with his wife, Jane Spencer-Drebin (Priscilla Presley). It remains "basically happy" because police work has been Frank's meaning of life, and he feels unhappy about not being able to legally take on criminals anymore. Additionally, Jane tries to push him into siring a child, but Frank does not have the courage to go through this yet. It comes as a blessing to him when his old friends Ed Hocken (George Kennedy) and Nordberg (O.J. Simpson) come by and ask for his help in an investigation. The Police Squad has caught wind that a well-known bomber named Rocco Dillon (Fred Ward), who is currently incarcerated, has been hired by a terrorist (Papshmir, known from the first movie) to conduct a major terrorist act against the United States. An important contact, Tanya Peters (Anna Nicole Smith), Rocco's girlfriend, proves to be a dead end, so Drebin is asked to join Dillon undercover in prison, befriend him, and then leak details of the plan to his colleagues. However, the first part of the mission – by pure accident – proves to be extremely taxing; Jane becomes frustrated both at Frank's sudden unwillingness to engage in his marital duties and the suspicion that he is doing police work again, and storms out of the house.