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Kanopy
88
7.9
/93485/
79
/3517/
78
/2201/
4.3
/274626/
99
/230/
91
/198/
93
/40/
cc age 16+

Shoplifters (2018)
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.0
/133021/
79
/2232/
80
/2249/
4.3
/248873/
99
/72/
94
/2056/
cc age 13+

The 400 Blows (1959)
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
poster
Kanopy
87
7.9
/33017/
75
/604/
75
/635/
4.1
/55542/
97
/62/
89
/704/
99
/21/

The Rules of the Game (1939)
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.7
/93034/
74
/1777/
75
/1938/
3.9
/260667/
95
/81/
90
/2242/
96
/24/

Breathless (1960)
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
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Kanopy
83
7.5
/7553/
72
/149/
72
/168/
3.8
/4768/
100
/18/
86
/73/

Monsieur Hire (1989)
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.4
/2127/
75
/55/
72
/52/
3.8
/3613/
93
/29/
85
/2/
76
/7/

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (2021)
Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face, but talk on the phone every day. When Jaakko hears news about Sirpa's declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city. It's not the easiest decision, because he's blind and paralyzed from the chest down - and he has to make the journey alone. To get there, Jaakko must rely on the help of five strangers. What could go wrong?
poster
Criterion Channel
82
79
7.9
/12541/
76
/293/
81
/750/
4.0
/17101/
89
/9/
90
/85/

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.0
/7520/
65
/146/
67
/168/
3.6
/5208/
97
/70/
75
/59/
81
/19/

Sister (2012)
A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
poster
79
76
8.4
/16083/
81
/338/
74
/494/
3.8
/8482/

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures" was a hit movie and became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.
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Amazon Prime Video
79
75
8.3
/13911/
80
/284/
78
/243/
3.8
/5858/
81
/110/

Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.
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Kanopy
75
7.0
/27998/
71
/905/
69
/600/
3.6
/15896/
88
/104/
78
/353/
66
/26/
cc age 16+

The Angels' Share (2012)
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.9
/3129/
73
/119/
71
/168/
3.6
/4451/
89
/57/
77
/8/
70
/17/

The Ciambra (2017)
Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in southern Italian town of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio sets out to prove to his brother that he is as good or better than him but, when things go wrong, a series of events will forever change the way he sees the world.
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Criterion Channel
80
69
7.6
/5412/
72
/123/
75
/221/
3.9
/8215/
100
/8/
81
/28/

Bitter Rice (1949)
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.
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Hoopla
70
64
6.9
/7684/
67
/145/
65
/118/
3.5
/2075/
83
/29/
71
/96/
68
/14/

A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
poster
62
7.0
/37041/
73
/877/
69
/758/
3.6
/18901/
47
/86/
74
/1711/
48
/25/

Angel-A (2005)
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their meeting purely coincidence?
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
5.8
/11730/
62
/674/
57
/350/
2.9
/7960/
77
/13/
44
/87/

Let Us Prey (2014)
Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get better. Wrong, on both counts. Six is about to arrive - and All Hell Will Break Loose!
poster
73
58
7.0
/1671/
65
/32/
70
/38/
3.6
/1847/
89
/18/
81
/106/
70
/7/

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005)
Maxi, a boy on the cusp of his teens, is already comfortable with his homosexual feelings, with acceptance from his family. When Maxi is assaulted one evening, Victor, a police officer, comes to his aid. Maxi soon develops a crush on Victor, who shows a platonic affection for the young lad.
poster
72
58
7.1
/3053/
68
/76/
65
/42/
3.6
/2304/
84
/832/

Malcolm (1986)
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
57
6.8
/2793/
65
/35/
66
/75/
3.5
/2640/
86
/7/
66
/46/

La Commare Secca (1962)
Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm. One by one, the prime suspects -- girl-crazy teenager Nino, pickpocket Canticchia, a soldier on leave, a tourist and a pimp -- recount the events of the day to the police, each insisting he is innocent.
poster
56
6.2
/145353/
65
/4190/
60
/2405/
3.0
/92251/
42
/43/
40
/2673/
50
/14/
cc age 13+

Twins (1988)
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
6.1
/7105/
60
/95/
57
/84/
2.9
/2504/
51
/59/
42
/444/
57
/21/

Colour Me Kubrick (2005)
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
poster
78
55
7.2
/2095/
67
/26/
68
/41/
3.9
/4312/
100
/6/
84
/16/

Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)
In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
54
6.9
/2633/
67
/45/
69
/57/
3.6
/3401/
73
/1014/

Revolver (1973)
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
poster
54
6.2
/76276/
64
/1680/
61
/1295/
2.9
/39300/
34
/41/
41
/796/
52
/26/

The Devil's Own (1997)
Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
poster
65
53
6.6
/4718/
71
/80/
61
/64/
3.3
/3395/
69
/13/
57
/26/

Knock on Any Door (1949)
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
poster
74
52
7.1
/1360/
69
/30/
66
/45/
3.6
/2011/
92
/536/

Street Mobster (1972)
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
poster
65
49
7.4
/3853/
73
/62/
68
/47/
3.9
/2590/
57
/15/
45
/4/

Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland (2010)
Reindeerspotting is a documentary film of a group of young guys living in Rovaniemi, Arctic Circle, dabbling in petty crime and hard drugs. One of them, Jani, has lost five years of his life and two fingers to his debotators. He wants to leave Lapland and his old life behind. Robbing a supermarket is a start for his getaway. A few years back a documentarist, Joonas Neuvonen, was a young men living on social welfare, using drugs on daily basis. He started to film his friends and their life. This is the story of Jani.
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MGM Plus
48
5.1
/318/
35
/4/
47
/8/

Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
poster
77
45
7.0
/1322/
70
/50/
70
/28/
3.8
/5485/
100
/6/
82
/3/

Daughter of the Nile (1987)
Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
poster
70
42
6.6
/1451/
60
/22/
56
/35/
3.5
/2717/
91
/11/
82
/5/

The Wounded Man (1983)
Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up so much unrequited lust that it explodes with horrible results.
poster
62
42
6.7
/3942/
64
/18/
63
/50/
3.4
/878/
48
/48/

Hellsinki (2009)
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
49
42
5.5
/9166/
53
/198/
51
/188/
2.6
/1345/
38
/437/

.45 (2006)
Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: Vic, a woman who would like to be Kate's lover; Reilly, who runs with Al but also is attracted to Kate and repulsed by Al's violence; and, Liz, the counselor assigned to Kate from a battered-women's program. Vic and Reilly talk about killing Al, Liz gives pep talks; Kate remains frightened. Will Al's menace and Kate's dependency hold sway?
poster
67
41
6.9
/2078/
68
/31/
71
/31/
3.5
/1062/
57
/341/

The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Kanopy
62
39
6.4
/1198/
51
/15/
59
/31/
3.2
/1669/
71
/54/

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard.
poster
Criterion Channel
61
38
6.2
/933/
60
/13/
45
/27/
3.4
/2586/
71
/79/

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
35
7.2
/1331/
63
/28/
68
/31/
3.6
/2596/
79
/5/

Black River (1957)
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
poster
57
33
6.2
/2668/
60
/25/
55
/43/
3.2
/443/
45
/41/

V2: Dead Angel (2007)
The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
32
7.2
/815/
71
/19/
70
/22/
3.6
/1878/

Snow Trail (1947)
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
32
6.3
/1649/
64
/50/
54
/28/
50
/6/
38
/29/

Best Laid Plans (2012)
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can pay his debts.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
29
6.6
/585/
63
/10/
46
/18/
79
/105/

A Dot and a Line (2004)
The story of a young Colombian recruit who, while patrolling his country's border, is befriended by a Venezuelan adversary, and the tragic consequences of their relationship.
poster
51
29
5.4
/2584/
56
/34/
52
/26/
3.2
/346/
40
/15/
43
/238/
cc age 16+

Live Free or Die (2006)
It's not the crime, it's the cover-up. In small-town, hard-scrabble New Hampshire, foul-mouthed all-talk slacker John "Rugged" Rudgate fancies himself a criminal. When a local plumber stares him down at a pub, Rugged vows revenge, pouring brake fluid in the man's water supply. When the man dies from unrelated causes, Rugged and his side-kick, the even dimmer Jeff, try to cover up what they think i
poster
79
28
8.6
/2093/
83
/20/
73
/23/
3.6
/254/

Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert (1971)
The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
poster
55
27
6.6
/1441/
61
/24/
56
/28/
3.2
/911/
29
/163/

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.
poster
66
26
7.3
/1368/
53
/9/
62
/27/
3.5
/736/

The Worthless (1982)
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.
poster
69
25
6.9
/733/
66
/13/
57
/13/
3.5
/338/
86
/7/
68
/4/

The Little Thief (1999)
In this French drama, a teenager falls into a life of crime, little realizing the consequences. S. is a moody young man who loses his job at a bakery, and decides to throw in his lot with a group of thieves about the same age as himself. S. and his cronies are strictly small-timers, pulling off second-rate break-ins for an older crime boss, but his willingness to do what he's told helps him rise up the ladder to bigger and more lucrative jobs. However, S. lacks the maturity or experience to deal with the risks, and after a few disastrous mistakes, he finds his fortunes sinking far faster than they rose.
poster
67
25
6.9
/1191/
65
/17/
61
/15/
3.5
/1626/
70
/6/

A Cab for Three (2001)
A taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk.
poster
64
20
7.1
/1016/
66
/13/
48
/11/
3.6
/908/

Young and Healthy as a Rose (1971)
Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolić, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of the local police.
poster
48
20
5.2
/1667/
52
/24/
45
/32/
3.0
/708/
33
/9/

Crackers (1984)
Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a San Francisco pawn shop when he stumbles onto a scheme by some of the boss's disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow the whistle, however, he insinuates himself as the heist's mastermind.


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