Genre: Thriller
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A Time to Kill
1996
In Canton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks -- James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Almost immediately after Tonya is found and rushed to a hospital, Pete and Billy Ray are found at a roadside bar, where they had been bragging about what they did to Tonya. Tonya's understandably distraught and enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, remembers a case from a year ago, when four white men raped an African-American girl in a nearby town, and got acquitted. Carl is determined to not let that happen in this case. While deputy Dwayne Powell Looney is escorting Pete and Billy Ray up a flight of stairs to a court room, Carl emerges from the building's basement with an assault rifle, and he kills Pete and Billy Ray for what they did to Tonya. Carl is later arrested at his house by African-American sheriff Ozzie Walls, and Carl is scheduled to be placed on trial. Despite the efforts of the NAACP and local African-American leaders to persuade Carl to choose some of their high-powered attorneys, Carl wants to be represented by his friend Jake Tyler Brigance, who has a wife named Carla and a daughter named Hannah. Presiding over the trial is white judge Omar Noose, and the prosecution attorney is Rufus Buckley, who would like nothing more than to win the case and swim in the publicity that a win would generate, because Rufus realizes that a murder conviction could help him gain higher office. Helping Jake on the case are his former law professor Lucien Wilbanks, fellow attorney Harry Rex Vonner, and law student Ellen Roark. Ellen has had experience with death penalty cases, and that's exactly what Rufus may be seeking. To start things off, Noose denies bail and denies Jake's petition for a change of venue. Carl has also been fired from his job. Billy Ray Cobb's brother Freddie Lee Cobb wants revenge on Carl, so Freddy gets the help of the Mississippi branch of the KKK, led by Mississippi grand dragon Stump Sisson. Carl's wife Gwen tells Carl that a doctor has said that because of Pete and Billy Ray, Tonya's reproductive organs are damaged enough to where she won't be able to have kids when she grows up. That night, a KKK member is found trying to plant a bomb under Jake's porch. Jake's secretary Ethel Twitty and her husband Bud are also attacked by the KKK. Still, Jake, Harry, Lucien, and Ellen continue to help Carl. On the day the trial begins, there is a riot outside the court building between the KKK and the area's African-American residents, and Stump Sisson is killed by a molotov cocktail that was dropped from a roof by one of Carl's sons, who was not seen dropping it. Freddy and the KKK start burning crosses throughout Canton, and one of the crosses burns Jake's house down while Jake and his family are not home. As a result, the National Guard is called to Canton to keep the peace during the trial. But Freddy is not about to let that stop him. While Freddy continues his efforts to get revenge on Carl for Billy Ray's death, Carl's attorneys put everything they've got into Carl's defense.
Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Matthew McConaughey,Sandra Bullock,Samuel L. Jackson,Kevin Spacey
7.4 IMDB Rating 9,422 Views
Sleepers
1996
Efter ett spratt går katastrofalt fel skickas en grupp pojkar till ett ungdomshem där de utsätts för brutala behandlingar. Tretton år senare ger ett oväntat slumpmöte med en före detta vakt dem en chans till hämnd.
Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt
7.5 IMDB Rating 9,673 Views
Ransom
1996
Tom Mullen är miljonär, han byggde sin förmögenhet genom hårt arbete. Under tiden lärde han sig hur spelet går till. Han har en fantastisk familj. En dag kidnappas hans son. Han är villig att betala lösesummen men bestämmer sig för att kontakta FBI, som lyckas ta sig in i hans hem i hemlighet. När han ska lämna pengarna går något fel. Kidnapparen ringer honom igen och schemalägger om det. På vägen bestämmer sig Mullen för att inte åka och dyker upp på TV där han säger att lösesummen han skulle ge till kidnapparen nu är en belöning på kidnapparen.
Category: Crime, Thriller
Stars: Mel Gibson,Rene Russo,Brawley Nolte,Gary Sinise
6.6 IMDB Rating 6,990 Views
Fargo
1996
Minnesota-bilförsäljaren Jerry Lundegaards klantiga brott rasar samman på grund av hans och hans handlangers fumlande och det ihärdiga polisarbetet från den ganska gravida Marge Gunderson.
Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
8.1 IMDB Rating 9,701 Views
Eye for an Eye
1996
När domstolarna misslyckas med att hålla mannen som våldtog och mördade hennes dotter bakom galler, söker en kvinna sin egen form av rättvisa.
Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris
6.1 IMDB Rating 5,502 Views
Just Cause
1995
En Harvardprofessor lockas tillbaka till rättssalen efter tjugofem år för att ta hand om fallet med en ung svart man som dömts till döden för ett barns fasansfulla mord.
Category: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Stars: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw
6.4 IMDB Rating 5,841 Views
Jade
1995
En lysande biträdande åklagare utreder ett grymt yxdråp och döljer en ledtråd han hittade på brottsplatsen. Under hot om yrkesmässiga konsekvenser och ett mordförsök på sitt liv, fortsätter han med sorg i hjärtat eftersom bevisen pekar på kvinnan han fortfarande...
Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri
5.3 IMDB Rating 5,715 Views
The Day of the Jackal
1973
I kölvattnet av Frankrikes beslut att tillåta Algeriets självständighet anlitar en grupp förbittrade militärveteraner en professionell lönnmördare med kodnamnet "Jackal" för att mörda president Charles de Gaulle.
Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair
7.8 IMDB Rating 5,626 Views
Vanishing Point
1971
Under 1970-talet levererar bilbudet Kowalski heta bilar på rekordtid men hamnar alltid i trubbel.
Category: Action, Crime, Thriller
Stars: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Charlotte Rampling
7.2 IMDB Rating 4,765 Views
On the Waterfront
1954
En före detta prisfighter som blivit hamnarbetare i New Jersey kämpar för att stå upp mot sina korrupta fackföreningschefer, inklusive sin äldre bror, samtidigt som han börjar närma sig den sörjande systern till ett av syndikatets offer.
Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
8.1 IMDB Rating 4,287 Views
Dial M for Murder
1954
En före detta tennisstjärna arrangerar mordet på sin otrogna hustru.
Category: Crime, Thriller
Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
8.2 IMDB Rating 5,066 Views
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
En Brooklyn-författare av böcker om äktenskapets fåfänglighet riskerar sitt rykte när han bestämmer sig för att gifta sig. Det hela blir ännu mer komplicerat när han på sin bröllopsdag får veta att hans älskade ogifta mostrar är vanemördare.
Category: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
7.9 IMDB Rating 3,767 Views