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The Killer (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on October 27, 2023

Review 118min Genre:       Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller Director:     David Fincher Cast:         Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell…and more Writers:     Andrew Kevin Walker, Alexis Nolent, Luc Jacamon -Synopsis- A skilled and meticulous assassin who finally fails to stick to the plan is forced into hiding when an assignment goes wrong, only to be drawn into a […]

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on October 12, 2023

Review 206min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama, Romance Director:     Martin Scorsese Cast:         Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro…and more Writers:     Martin Scorsese, Eric Roth and David Grann -Synopsis- In 1920s Oklahoma a series of unexplained murders and exploitation of the oil-rich Osage Nation sparks an FBI investigation which uncovers a sobering conspiracy, triggering the breakdown […]

Hit Man (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on October 2, 2023

Review 113min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Romance Director:     Richard Linklater Cast:         Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio…and more Writers:     Richard Linklater, Glen Powell, Skip Hollandsworth -Synopsis- A mild-mannered straight-laced American professor who moonlights as a contractor for the cops unexpectedly ends up deep undercover as a fake hitman to catch those who order the killings, taking […]

Infinity Pool (2023)

Posted by Gui on March 24, 2023

Review 117min Genre:     Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Director:   Brandon Cronenberg Cast:       Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman…and more Writers:   Brandon Cronenberg -Synopsis- An idyllic beach vacation at an exclusive island resort for a young couple turns into a surrealist nightmare when the husband is sentenced after a tragic accident, only to be offered a disturbing […]

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 23, 2022

Review 139min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Mystery Director:     Rian Johnson Cast:         Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe…and more Writers:     Rian Johnson -Synopsis- A mysterious invitation brings renowned detective ‘Benoit Blanc’ and a rag-tag group of “disruptors” to a luxurious coastal getaway and the Greek private island home of a tech billionaire, where a seemingly friendly […]

Holy Spider (2022) (Persian Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 7, 2022

Review 116min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:     Ali Abbasi Cast:         Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani…and more Writers:     Ali Abbasi and Afshin Kamran Bahrami -Synopsis- In the streets of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad, a dogged female journalist plunges into the dark underbelly of society to track down an elusive serial killer preying on […]

The Batman (2022)

Posted by Gui on March 9, 2022

Review 175min Genre:       Comic-book, Action, Crime, Drama Director:     Matt Reeves Cast:         Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano…and more Writers:     Matt Reeves, Peter Craig and Bob Kane -Synopsis- Struggling with his dual role as reclusive billionaire and caped protector of a rotting city whose corruption hits uncomfortably close to home, ‘Bruce Wayne’ forms an unlikely […]

House of Gucci (2021)

Posted by Gui on November 28, 2021

Review 157min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:     Ridley Scott Cast:         Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino…and more Writers:     Becky Johnston, Roberto Bentivegna and Sara Gay Forden -Synopsis- Built on generations of wealth, power, and glamour, the Italian fashion powerhouse is steadily plunged into turmoil and scandal when one of their heirs marries an ambitious […]

Titane (2021) (French Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2021

Posted by Gui on October 12, 2021

Review 126min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:     Julia Ducournau Cast:         Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier…and more Writers:     Julia Ducournau -Synopsis- A detached and fearsome exotic dancer with a scarring past and morbid present goes on the run, plunging into gender fluidity and a new identity when she forms a curious deceptive bond with a […]

Zola (2021)

Posted by Gui on August 4, 2021

Review 86min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:     Janicza Bravo Cast:         Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Colman Domingo…and more Writers:     Janicza Bravo, Jeremy O. Harris and A’Ziah King -Synopsis- A young Detroit stripper embarks on a saucy road trip to Florida with a fellow exotic dancer and her two companions, only for things to take a turn […]

Kajillionaire (2020)- BFI London Film Festival 2020

Posted by Gui on October 18, 2020

Review 104min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:     Miranda July Cast:         Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins…and more Writers:     Miranda July -Synopsis- The curious life of scrounging a living on the streets of Los Angeles is thrown into turmoil for a family of con artists and petty thieves when a stranger enters the […]

The Devil All the Time (2020)

Posted by Gui on September 18, 2020

Review 138min Genre:     Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:   Antonio Campos Cast:       Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård…and more Writers:   Antonio Campos, Paulo Campos and Donald Ray Pollock -Synopsis- In the churches and backwoods of god-fearing, post-war small town Ohio and West Virginia, the lives and ill deeds of corrupt and nefarious locals intersect with a […]

Deerskin (2019) (French Language)

Posted by Gui on May 20, 2020

Review 77min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Horror Director:     Quentin Dupieux Cast:         Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy…and more Writers:     Quentin Dupieux -Synopsis- A curious French man develops an obsession with a brown suede deerskin jacket with its own personality, as he sequesters himself in a small country town and assumes the identity of a […]

Bacurau (2019) (Portuguese & English Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on March 1, 2020

Review 131min Genre:     Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:   Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho Cast:       Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Sônia Braga…and more Writers:   Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho -Synopsis- In the arid rural Northeast of Brazil, the residents of Bacurau begin to experience strange happenings after the death of the village’s elderly matriarch, only to […]

First Love (2019) (Japanese Language)

Posted by Gui on February 17, 2020

Review 108min Genre:        Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance Director:      Takashi Miike Cast:          Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Becky…and more Writers:      Masa Nakamura -Synopsis- After receiving a bleak diagnosis, a young Japanese boxer’s life is forever changed when he inadvertently gets caught in the middle of a Yakuza drug-smuggling conspiracy and gang war, after he meets a […]

Parasite (2019) (Korean Language)

Posted by Gui on February 6, 2020

Review 132min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:     Bong Joon Ho Cast:         Song Kang-ho, Jo Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik…and more Writers:     Bong Joon Ho and Jin Won Han -Synopsis- Struggling on the margins of Korean society, a young man and his unemployed family find their fortunes changed when they infiltrate an all-too-trusting wealthy local family, only to […]

Richard Jewell (2019)

Posted by Gui on February 2, 2020

Review 131min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:     Clint Eastwood Cast:         Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde…and more Writers:     Billy Ray, Marie Brenner, Kent Alexander… and more -Synopsis- During the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, a humble Georgia security guard becomes an instant hero when he saves scores of people from a pipe bomb planted […]

Uncut Gems (2019)

Posted by Gui on January 30, 2020

Review 135min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:     Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie Cast:         Adam Sandler, LaKeith Stanfield, Julia Fox…and more Writers:     Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie -Synopsis- When he smells a score that could solve all his financial woes, a wheeler-dealer New York jeweller takes a major gamble which ropes-in professional athletes, bookies, […]

The Gentlemen (2020)

Posted by Gui on January 3, 2020

Review 113min Genre:     Action, Crime, Comedy Director:  Guy Ritchie Cast:       Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant…more Writers:   Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies -Synopsis- When an American drug kingpin in London looks to cash out of the business, a whole cast of the city’s gangsters converge on an opportunity, triggering a turf war as […]

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Posted by Gui on December 7, 2019

Review 144min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:    Edward Norton Cast:         Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin…and more Writers:     Edward Norton and Jonathan Lethem -Synopsis- When his friend and mentor is brutally murdered on the streets of 1950’s New York, a solitary private detective with Tourette’s Syndrome and an obsessive mind determined to solve the mystery […]

Judy & Punch (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on November 20, 2019

Review 105min Genre:       Crime, Drama Director:    Mirrah Foulkes Cast:         Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Benedict Hardie…more Writers:     Mirrah Foulkes -Synopsis- In puritanical 17th century England, an irresponsible father and manipulative self-centred puppeteer takes out his shortcomings and alcoholism on his wife and baby, only to face a reckoning when she returns with new purpose as an […]

Knives Out (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on October 30, 2019

Review 130min Genre:     Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:  Rian Johnson Cast:       Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas…and more Writers:   Rian Johnson -Synopsis- When the wealthy author patriarch of a combative and dysfunctional American family unexpectedly dies at one of their gatherings, a police detective and a celebrated private investigator are sent to investigate, but […]

The Irishman (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on October 23, 2019

Review 208min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Martin Scorsese Cast:         Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci…and more Writers:     Steven Zaillian and Charles Brandt -Synopsis- When 1950s family man truck driver Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran ingratiates himself with certain people, he soon climbs the ranks of the East coast mob, while becoming a labour union […]

Joker (2019)

Posted by Gui on October 21, 2019

Review 122min Genre:       Comic-book, Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:    Todd Phillips Cast:         Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz…and more Writers:     Todd Phillips and Scott Silver -Synopsis- When the pressures of a toxic world conspire with life hitting him hard, a failed clown and aspiring comedian takes his inability to bring joy and find happiness badly, […]

The Mustang (2019)

Posted by Gui on August 31, 2019

Review 96min Genre:      Crime, Drama Director:   Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Cast:        Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruce Dern, Jason Mitchell…and more Writers:    Mona Fastvold, Brock Norman Brock…and more -Synopsis- Languishing in a Nevada prison with little hope for redemption, a withdrawn and anti-social hardened convict finds hope in a horse therapy rehabilitation program, as he struggles […]

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)

Posted by Gui on May 17, 2019

Review 130min Genre:       Action, Crime, Thriller Director:    Chad Stahelski Cast:         Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane…and more Writers:     Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins…and more -Synopsis- On the run after being excommunicated from ‘The Continental’ for breaking a sacred rule and spilling blood on the underground institution’s floor—thereby activating a huge global bounty on his […]

Birds of Passage (2018) (Spanish and Wayuu language)

Posted by Gui on May 16, 2019

Review 125min Genre:     Crime, Drama Director:  Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego Cast:       José Acosta, Carmiña Martínez, Natalia Reyes…and more Writers:   Maria Camila Arias, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal, Cristina Gallego -Synopsis- A chronicle of the rise of an indigenous Colombian tribe, when an outsider marries into one of their prominent families and begins a drug smuggling […]

Dragged Across Concrete (2019)

Posted by Gui on April 18, 2019

Review 159min Genre:     Action, Crime, Drama Director:  S. Craig Zahler Cast:       Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles…and more Writer:    S. Craig Zahler -Synopsis- When two hard-working but overzealous cops are suspended for misconduct and police brutality, they plunge into the underworld to take matters into their own hands to get their dues the easy way, […]

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

Posted by Gui on April 7, 2019

Review 122min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Western Director:    Jacques Audiard Cast:         Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal…and more Writers:     Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Patrick DeWitt -Synopsis- When their latest contract takes them across the unforgiving mid-19th century American West on a hunt for a gold prospector with a valuable secret, the notorious pair of […]

The Highwaymen (2019)

Posted by Gui on March 28, 2019

Review 132min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    John Lee Hancock Cast:         Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates…and more Writer:      John Fusco -Synopsis- When the resources of the Texas governor’s office, state law enforcement and the FBI aren’t enough to ensnare a band of brutal outlaws and perverse folk heroes in 1930s depression era USA, the […]

Under the Silver Lake (2018)

Posted by Gui on March 15, 2019

Review 139min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:    David Robert Mitchell Cast:         Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Zosia Mamet…and more Writer:      David Robert Mitchell -Synopsis- A directionless young man plunges into the murky depths of Los Angeles when he becomes obsessed with unravelling the mystery of his beautiful and mysterious neighbour who inexplicably disappears, only to uncover […]

Serenity (2019)

Posted by Gui on March 1, 2019

Review 106min Genre:      Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:   Steven Knight Cast:        Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jason Clarke…more Writer:     Steven Knight -Synopsis- A fishing boat captain’s tranquil existence on a tropical island is shattered by the re-emergence of his ex-wife, whose plea for help and sinister plan to deal with her abusive new husband plunges him into […]

Cold Pursuit (2019)

Posted by Gui on February 22, 2019

Review 119min Genre:       Action, Crime, Thriller Director:    Hans Petter Moland Cast:         Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Tom Bateman…and more Writers:     Frank Baldwin and Kim Fupz Aakeson -Synopsis- When an unassuming and dedicated local snowplow driver’s son is brutally murdered by a Colorado druglord, he discovers a talent for cold-blooded revenge, destroying what’s left of his family […]

Capernaum (Arabic Language) (2018)

Posted by Gui on February 20, 2019

Review 126min Genre:       Crime, Drama Director:    Nadine Labaki Cast:         Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Kawsar Al Haddad…more Writers:     Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily and Michelle Keserwany -Synopsis- Streetwise twelve-year-old ‘Zain’ lives a tough life on the streets of the Lebanese capital, estranged from his family and drawn to Ethiopian refugee ‘Rahil’ and her baby son while […]

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on February 7, 2019

Review 119min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Romance Director:    Barry Jenkins Cast:         KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King…and more Writers:     Barry Jenkins and James Baldwin -Synopsis- A nineteen-year-old and her family struggle to prove the innocence of her falsely accused and incarcerated young fiancé, before their unborn child comes into the unjust world, in this socially reflective […]

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Posted by Gui on February 1, 2019

Review 106min Genre:       Fact-based, Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:    Marielle Heller Cast:         Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Jane Curtin…and more Writers:     Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty -Synopsis- When her literary career begins to wane and her work no longer pays the bills, a prickly New York writer forms an alliance and unlikely friendship with a British […]

Burning (Korean Language) (2018)

Posted by Gui on February 1, 2019

Review 148min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:    Lee Chang-dong Cast:         Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo…and more Writers:     Jungmi Oh, Lee Chang-dong and Haruki Murakami -Synopsis- A lonely young Korean man’s childhood friendship is rekindled when he’s reunited with a former neighbour, only to have his world uprooted when a successful and mysterious man— with […]

The Mule (2018)

Posted by Gui on January 25, 2019

116min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Clint Eastwood Cast:         Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest…and more Writers:     Sam Dolnick and Nick Schenk -Synopsis- After falling on hard times and reeling from his failure as a father and husband, an elderly horticulturalist and US veteran becomes a drug mule for a notorious Mexican cartel, but struggles […]

Papillon (2018)

Posted by Gui on December 30, 2018

Review 133min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Michael Noer Cast:         Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Roland Møller…and more Writers:     Aaron Guzikowski, Henri Charrière, Dalton Trumbo…more -Synopsis- Accused of murder and imprisoned on a brutal and remote penal colony in 1930s French Guiana, Henri Charrière endures the hardships of his sentence while making enemies and forming an […]

The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

Posted by Gui on December 10, 2018

Review 93min Genre:     Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance Director:  David Lowery Cast:       Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck…and more Writers:   David Lowery and David Grann -Synopsis- Career criminal Forrest Tucker may be the most charming bank robber in history, pulling off heists without forgetting his manners while enchanting the woman who loves him despite himself, and […]

Assassination Nation (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on November 20, 2018

Review 108min Genre:     Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:  Sam Levinson Cast:       Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse…and more Writer:    Sam Levinson -Synopsis- When modern technology and a voyeuristic culture conspire to destroy the last semblance of privacy in American suburbia, the residents of Salem lose their minds and unleash pure unadulterated mayhem, as a quartet of […]

Woman at War (2018) (Icelandic Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on October 21, 2018

Review 101min Genre:     Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:  Benedikt Erlingsson Cast:       Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo… Writers:   Benedikt Erlingsson and Ólafur Egilsson -Synopsis- Middle-aged Icelander ‘Halla’ leads a double life, known to most as an upstanding left-leaning Reykjavik choir director, but moonlighting as a militant environmental activist in rural Iceland, wreaking havoc on the country’s […]

Border (Swedish Language) (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on October 17, 2018

Review 101min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Romance Director:    Ali Abbasi Cast:         Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson…and more Writers:     Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf and John Ajvide Lindqvist -Synopsis- ‘Tina’ is a perennial outsider, a loner with an abnormal physical appearance and extra sensory abilities, making her a highly effective Swedish border guard but something of a […]

Widows (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on October 15, 2018

Review 129min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:    Steve McQueen Cast:         Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell…and more Writers:     Steve McQueen, Gillian Flynn and Lynda La Plante -Synopsis- When their husbands pay the ultimate price for a life of crime and leave them with debts to dangerous people, a group of disparate Chicago widows form their […]