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A seventh-year senior at Florida State University is accidentally majoring in Russian. He becomes well known among Russian Mafia members while studying abroad and earns the nickname "the Machine" because of his incredible drinking prowess. Ultimately, his connections catch up with him on a class trip where he is forced to become an accomplice in a train robbery.

Biopic of Nicky Barnes, the Harlem-based mobster who was dubbed "Mr. Untouchable." The Council will aim to tell the story of an organized crime syndicate run by seven black mobsters who operated in Harlem in the 1970s.

Career criminal Nick Mason is released from prison after serving only five of a 25 year sentence. He promptly moves into a tony condo on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, living with a beautiful roommate and driving a new car. The circumstances behind Mason's release soon become clear. He made a deal with an infamous Chicago crime lord, Darius Cole, who lived on the same cell block as Mason and used his clout to free Mason, only if the ex-con will pick up the crime lord's cell phone call and execute every thing asked of him, from robbery to murder to fixing any problem, no questions asked. Mason made this Faustian bargain so he could re-connect with his estranged daughter. Hounded by the cop who put him away in the first place, Mason must figure out how to get out from under.

Two decorated detectives uncover a terrifying extortion ring that operates within the secret underbelly of New York City.

A young woman, Katarina Bishop, comes from a long line of master thieves. However, she has left her illicit life behind until her father is the prime suspect in the case of a mobster's missing art collection. She assembles a crew to track down the art and steal it back.

Siblings struggling in modern-day America discover a dead body in their parents' basement.

Simon Templar targets the lowlifes and corrupt politicians. He often leaves a calling card at his "crimes," a stick figure of a man with a halo.

The movie follows a famous London artist who inexplicably shoots her fashion-photographer husband five times, then falls mute.

Kids are collared by drug enforcement agents for relatively minor or even borderline serious infractions like being caught with small amounts of drugs. They trade cooperation for prosecution. The agents take the untrained kids and wire them up and put them into incredibly dangerous sting operations to catch big fish. Law enforcement seems indifferent about their kid snitches, and kept using the kids over and over again under the threat they would otherwise be sent to prison. When the dealers learn the kids are working for agents they are tortured, beaten. After the fact, the cops circle the wagons and sometimes paint the murder victims as incorrigible druggies as their outraged families sue.

A schizophrenic, map-obsessed savant witnesses a murder online on Manhattan's Lower East Side. He insists that his older brother investigate, and it's not long before the siblings cross paths with a politically-connected ex-cop and his ice pick-wielding henchwoman, who are themselves scrambling to clean up after a high-stakes screw-up.

Set in a distant land after the king, queen and crown prince are murdered, a nobleman devises a plan to find someone to impersonate the king’s long-lost son and act as a puppet. An orphan finds himself chosen with three other boys in the running. But this is no mere competition -- with court intrigue and political conspiracies make it a contest to the death.

The story concerns the son (Balfour) of a murdered Madfioso. He seeks revenge for the death at the hands of his uncle (Assante).

A gangster who survives a lethal attack by a serial killer. He forms an unlikely partnership with a cop to help track down the murderer.

The second part of the Millenium trilogy remakes in which a journalist investigates politicians and sex trafficking.

A young criminal, who doesn’t say much, can open anything with a lock on it. Trained by an eccentric genius and owned by a Detroit mobster, he is rented out as a lock picker for hire to a daring and outlandish gang of youth thieves pulling jobs in Los Angeles. His challenge is to get out before they get caught, and get back to the woman he loves.

Molly the maid gets involved in the murderous underbelly of her gilded workplace.

Larry Ray is released from prison and promptly moves into his dauther's dorm at Sarah Lawrence, a liberal arts college. He cooks fancy steak dinners and regales students with stories of his work being a CIA operative while extolling the virtues of a Marine life. He takes charge of the kids' lives and then whisks them away to a private apartment for the summer. Ray turns the kids against parents and abuses them. But none turn against him, even praising how he turned their lives around in several court cases.

In 1990, the police department in Flint, Michigan devises a plan to create a fake wedding in order to lure all the local drug dealers to one party and arrest them.

Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Underground Railroad, now solves crimes in post–Civil War Philadelphia.

A group of Canadian criminals rob North American banks in the 1980s without ever having to fire their guns. Lionel Wright is a meticulous introvert who could disappear in a room full of people. Paddy Mitchell is a charming and well-connected crook who sees an angle in everything and will go to any lengths to avoid the hell of being locked away. And Stephen Reid is a fearless point man who can find the weakness in any system and whose story — of addiction and descent into crime, of redemption and literary fame — is all prelude to a tragic but life-saving fall from grace. The men rob an estimated 100 banks, from which they steal roughly $10 million.