The best crime movies of 2022 feature a wide variety of action pictures from all over the world. Mysterious murders, cunning scams, desperate situations, complex relationships, gruesome chases and shootouts – all can be found in a wide variety of stories centered around crime.
Explore the violent and addictive world of people living on the dark side in the collection of top-rated crime movies we’ve compiled for you in this list.
Bullet Train
- Rating IMDB – 7.3
- Genre: Action, comedy
- USA production / 2022
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $239,268,602
- Directed by David Litch
- Cast: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Bad Bunny, Logan Lerman, Zazie Beatz, Michael Shannon
«Bullet Train» is a crime thriller, one of the funniest, most dynamic and exciting movies of 2022 from Netflix, another adaptation of Kotaro Isaka’s novel «Bullet Train.»
If you want to see a story with a psychedelic dive into the thoughts of the main character (played by Brad Pitt), a complex action movie, a fun adventure and a touching relationship drama, there’s plenty of that here.
«Ladybug» is an unsuccessful hitman who is determined to get on with his job, running simple errands, just as long as there are no murders. Fate, however, has its own plans for the guy, and he faces deadly adversaries from around the world on the fastest train in the world.
Beomjoidosi 2
- Rating IMDB – 7.0
- Genre: Crime, action, thriller, detective
- South Korea production / 2022
- Budget: $9 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $102 135 914
- Directed by Lee Sang-yeon
- Cast: Ma Dong-seok, Song Seok-ku, Choi Gi-hwa, Park Ji-hwan, Ho Dong-won, Song Ha-joon, Jeong Jae-gwan, Nam Moon-chul, Park Ji-yeon, Eum Moon-seok
«Beomjoidosi 2» is an exciting South Korean crime thriller with old characters and a new, stand-alone story.
Police officer Ma-seok-to gets a new responsible task – he has to pick up a criminal in Vietnam, surrendered to the local authorities and connected to the Korean mafia, which is engaged in the kidnapping of rich tourists. Of course, this does not suit the mafia itself, which is plotting a real war, and the police of both countries will have to work together.
Filming took place in the midst of the pandemic, and therefore the locations were constantly changing, and lines of characters rewritten right in the process.
Bandit
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Thriller, drama, crime
- Canada production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $467 005
- Directed by Allan Hangar
- Cast: Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert, Mel Gibson, Nestor Carbonell, Sven Temmel, Keith A. Bolden, Dylan Flashner, Olivia d’Abo, Michael H. Cole, Claire Bronson
«The Bandit» is an incredibly dynamic crime biopic from Canadian director Allan Angar starring Josh Duhamel.
The charismatic crook Gilbert escapes from a Michigan prison and settles in Canada, taking a new name: Robert Whiteman. He falls in love with a woman whose high demands force him to rob a bank. And it goes so well that he repeats the crime again. And again.
Robert robs several banks a day in different cities across the country, becoming a media celebrity dubbing him the «Flying Bandit» and a legend of the criminal world…
Critics called Duhamel’s role the best of his career, and the film was a box office hit in the first weeks after its premiere.
Rogue Agent
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Thriller, Drama
- UK, Germany, USA production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $192 880
- Directed by Adam Patterson
- Cast: James Norton, Gemma Arterton, Marisa Abela, Sarah Goldberg, Shazad Latif, Jimmy Ekinbola, Freya Mavor, Edwina Findlay, Julian Barrett, Matthew Douglas
«Rogue Agent» is a crime drama about a big crook who posed as a secret agent. Robert Hendy-Frigard is a charming young man. He deceives those around him by seducing women with his mystique, alluding to the dangers and secrecy of his job and extorting money from his victims.
Robert’s acting talent is so good that several secret MI5 agents go into hiding for fear of exposure. The stumbling block that ended the pseudo-spy’s career was Alice Archer, who guessed about Robert’s deception.
The film is based on the real-life biography of the con man Robert Hendy-Frigard,
Heojil kyolshim
- Rating IMDB – 7.3
- Genre: Detective, thriller, melodrama, crime
- South Korea production / 2022
- Budget: $10 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $22 995 289
- Directed by Park Chang-uk
- Cast: Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Lee Jong-hyun, Park Young-woo, Ko Kyung-pyo, Kim Shin-yeon, Jeong Young-suk, Yoo Seung-mok, Park Jong-min, Seo Hyun-oo
«Heojil kyolshim» is a brilliant, high-scoring neo-noir thriller from South Korean director Park Chang-ook. It is a tightly wound story of a hot and unhappy romance between a straightforward detective and a beautiful woman suspected of murdering her husband.
Suffering from insomnia, Detective Hae-joon is torn between two worlds. He works in Busan while his wife dutifully waits for his infrequent visits in the tiny town of Ipo. One day, the body of a rock climber is found at the foot of a cliff, and the police suspect murder. Hae investigates, interacting extensively with the dead man’s widow, the charming So-rae, and realizes that he quickly falls in love with her…
The film took the Best Director prize at Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar from South Korea.
Where the Crawdads Sing
- Rating IMDB – 7.2
- Genre: Thriller, drama, melodrama, detective
- USA production / 2022
- Budget: $24 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $140 230 760
- Directed by Olivia Newman
- Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, David Strathairn, Michael Hiatt, Sterling Maser Jr., Logan McRae, Bill Kelly, Ana O’Reilly, Garrett Dillahunt
Katherine Clark, known around here as «Kia, the swamp girl,» lives alone in a shack in the backwoods of ’60s North Carolina. One day a local boy, Chase, tries to rape her, but Kia fights back and vows to kill the guy if he dares touch her.
This conversation is overheard by a local fisherman. And when Chase’s body is soon found near the fire tower, everyone is convinced that Kia is the one responsible for the crime. But the court finds no evidence and acquits the girl. Chase’s death remains a mystery for years to come…
The picture is based on the bestseller of the same name by Delia Owens.
Glass Onion
- Rating IMDB – 7.1
- Genre: Detective, comedy, crime
- USA production / 2022
- Budget: $40 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $13 280 000
- Directed by Ryan Johnson
- Cast: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monet, Katharine Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr, Kate Hudson, Dave Batista, Jessica Henwick, Madeline Kline, Noah Segan
After a long hiatus, Daniel Craig returns to the role of detective Benoit Blanc, the protagonist of the brilliant 2019 hit «Knives Out» in the sequel to 2022.
The action takes place on a small Greek island, where techno-billionaire Miles Bron has invited a group of old friends (all rich and famous) and chaperones to a themed party with a mock murder. Bron is surprised by the presence of Blanc among the guests, but soon, when the real murder takes place, the detective turns up just in time.
The film’s director, Ryan Johnson, was unhappy that he had to add «Knives Out» to the title «Glass Onion» He wanted each film about a gentleman detective to be a story in its own right.
Los renglones torcidos de Dios
- Rating IMDB – 7.0
- Genre: Detective, thriller
- Spain production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $6 291 488
- Directed by Oriol Paolo
- Cast: Barbara Lenny, Eduard Fernandez, Loreto Mauleon, Javier Beltran, Pablo Derkey, Samuel Soler, Federico Aguado, Adelfa Calvo, Antonio Buil, Dafnis Baldus
«God’s Curved Lines» is a Spanish psychological puzzle thriller with an insanely twisted plot, whose events unfold in two alternate realities.
Alice is a private investigator. She goes to a well-known psychiatric clinic diagnosed with paranoia, actually planning to investigate the murder of one of the institution’s «guests». Weaving lies and truth, Alice becomes acquainted with the routines and patients of the clinic, quickly losing her mind in the chaos surrounding her.
The film is based on the book of the same name by the writer and journalist Torcuato Luca de Tena Brune.
Holy Spider
- Rating IMDB – 7.3
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
- Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Jordan, Italy production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $1 683 316
- Directed by Ali Abbasi
- Cast: Zara Amir Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bejestani, Alice Rahimi, Diana Al Hussen, Soraya Helly, Hazem Elian, Arash Ashtiani, Sohaib Kista, Forozan Jamshidnead, Maryam Taleb
“Holy Spider” is a disturbing, sharp-shooting film about a serial murder investigation from Iranian-born director Ali Abbasi. The script is based on the true story of Said Hanai, which took place in the early 2000s in the holy city of Mashhad.
Rahimi is a journalist who tries to conduct her own investigation into the heinous crimes taking place in the city. Some maniac is killing local prostitutes. The media calls the killer a “Holy Spider” and a local religious organization supports his “efforts”…
The journalist is the only fictional character in the script. She was played by Zara Amir Ebrahimi, who won the Best Actress Award at Cannes.
Kimi
- Rating IMDB – 6.3
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
- USA production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $63 155
- Directed by Steven Soderbergh
- Cast: Zoe Kravitz, Betsy Brantley, Byron Bowers, Derek Delgaudio, India de Befort, Sarai Koo, Jaime Kamil, George Evans, Sheila Evans
«Kimi» is a dynamic and compact crime thriller by Steven Soderbergh starring Zoe Kravitz. She plays Angela, an agoraphobic employee of a tech company working remotely. Events unfold just after the pandemic.
She evaluates the capabilities of a new virtual assistant, «Kimi,» and listens to recordings of people’s requests to evaluate the AI’s responses. And she stumbles upon a file that appears to be a recording of a brutal violent attack. After reporting the incident to her superiors, Angela soon realizes that no one intends to involve the police, so she tries to figure out what’s going on herself.
The American edition of Harper’s Bazaar named the crime drama «Kimi» the best movie of 2022.
The Outfit
- Rating IMDB – 7.2
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
- UK, USA production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $4 032 313
- Directed by Graham Moore
- Cast: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Simon Russell Beale, John Gamley-Mason, Steven Knox, Steve Chatfield, Michal Foretek
«The Outfit» is a carefully crafted, sophisticated, neat and stylish gangster film set in Chicago in 1956. The legendary Sir Mark Rylance plays Leonard Bering, a London tailor who has moved to the United States.
He keeps a small workshop that local crime boss Roy Boyle uses as a money stash. Leonard has to put up with it, but one day when the boss’s assistants Francis and Richie leave a briefcase with dirt on Al Capone’s Suit gang in the atelier, the tailor plans to outsmart the bandits and hand the briefcase to the FBI.
«The Outfit» is the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore.
Jabaek
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Thriller, Crime, Detective
- South Korea production / 2022
- Budget: $5 500 000
- Worldwide gross: $8 752 293
- Directed by Yoon Jeong-seok
- Cast: Seo Ji-soop, Kim Yoon-jin, Nana, Choi Gwan-il, Hong Seo-jun, Park Hyun-suk, Hwang Seon-hee, Seo Young-ju, Park Mi-hyun, Han Gap-su
«Jabaek» is a South Korean detective from director Yoon Jeong-sung with great suspense.
Yoo Min-ho is a selfish businessman who occasionally cheats on his wife by meeting his mistress in a hotel. Then one day he wakes up next to the dead body of his date. The hotel room has been locked, and there’s no way to get in through the window either.
Of course, Min-ho becomes the prime suspect, but desperately clings to his innocence. Yang Shi Ae is an ambitious lawyer who believes her client and decides to try to find out the truth.
This crime film is a remake of the 2016 Spanish detective «Contratiempo».
Beurokeo
- Rating IMDB – 7.2
- Genre: Drama
- South Korea production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $18 789 037
- Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast: Song Kang-ho, Kang Dong-won, Bae Doo-na, Lee Ji-eun, Lee Ju-young, Park Ji-young, Lim Seung-soo, Baek Hyun-jin, Ryu Kyung-soo, Song Se-byeok
«The Mediator» is a crime drama with a subtle comedic edge from Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda. In a modern city, outside a church equipped with a “baby box” (where unwanted babies can be dropped off), So-young leaves her baby behind while a policewoman closely follows her from a nearby parked car, who has long been trying to solve a case of smuggling babies stolen from baby boxes.
A couple of thieves who resell babies to childless couples steal the baby, but then So-young, who doesn’t want to leave the baby but wants to follow its fate, returns. Together they embark on a journey to the poor infant’s new home, and the police follow them invisibly…
This is Hirokazu Koreeda’s first film made in South Korea, the script for which he spent five years developing.
Teuksong
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
- South Korea production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $3 583 325
- Directed by Tae-min Park
- Cast: Park So-dam, Jeon Hyun-jun, Sung Sae-byeok, Kim Yi-sung, Yeom Hye-ran, Han Hyun-min, Young Woo-jin, Ho Dong-won, Oh Ryung, Baek To-geum
«Teuksong» is a sharp Korean action film about a girl, Eun-ha, who works as a courier for an illegal delivery service. She drives beautifully and doesn’t ask about the contents of her shipments.
Another order turns into a deadly chase. The client is killed and his young son needs protection, in addition to possessing the key to a huge fortune. The girl begins to be chased not only by the mafia, but also by the police, who consider her a kidnapper and murderer.
Actress Park So Dam, who played the main character, underwent combat training in preparation for filming.
Kærlighed for voksne
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
- Denmark production / 2022
- Directed by Barbara Topsee-Rothenborg
- Cast: Dar Salim, Sonja Richter, Sus Noreen Jondal Wilkins, Mikael Birkkiar, Katinka Lærke Petersen, Lars Rante, Milo Campanale, Iris Milor Olsen, Morten Burian, Salomon Stampe Frederiksen
«Kærlighed for voksne» is a fresh detective from Denmark who claims that love is murder!
An experienced detective on his daughter’s wedding day tells her a crime story about a failed marriage, a love triangle, and, ultimately, a murder mixed up with passion and greed.
The story centers on Christian and Leonora, a married couple who have lived together for 20 years. She abandoned her musical career to care for her sick son, and he, on the other hand, developed his business. And when all the family’s difficulties were left behind, Christian found a new love and wanted a divorce, which of course his wife did not intend to give him. So they both start their own secret game…
The literary basis for the screenplay of this film was a novel by Anna Ekberg of the same name.
Enola Holmes 2
- Rating IMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Adventure, Detective, Crime
- UK, USA production / 2022
- Directed by Harry Bradbeer
- Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, David Thewlis, Louis Patridge, Susan Wokoma, Adil Akhtar, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Helena Bonham Carter
«Enola Holmes 2» is the sequel to the first part of the adventures of the famous detective’s fictional sister. Self-confident, smart and pushy woman investigates crimes in Victorian England, without looking back at the society angry at her independence.
This time Enola decides to open her own detective agency, but customers are not in a hurry to line up for a strange lady. But stubborn Enola is waiting for her moment of glory when she is approached by a young factory worker, where women’s rights are violated and a typhus epidemic is rampant.
The film is based on the amateur novels of Nancy Springer, where Enola Holmes is the main character.
Jak pokochalam gangstera
- Rating IMDB – 6.0
- Genre: Drama, Crime
- Poland production / 2022
- Directed by Maciej Kawulski
- Cast: Tomasz Wlosok, Alex Kurdzelewicz, Anthony Krulikowski, Agnieszka Grochowska, Magdalena Lamparska, Krystyna Janda, Claudiusz Kaufman, Eric Lubosz, Sebastian Fabiański, Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz
«How I Loved a Gangster» is a long narrative Polish nostalgic detective story directed by Maciej Kawulski. The events of the film unfold over 20 years, from the ’70s to the ’90s in Poland, Germany, Hungary and the United States.
It all begins in a small café, where a young journalist interviews an elderly lady who talks about the life of Poland’s «king of gangsters,» Nikodem “Nikosz” Skotarchak. All his life he considered himself a big crook and a flawless seducer of women, but it seems that everything is not so unequivocal…
The film is based on the real-life biography of Nikodem Skotarchak, who founded a gang in the mid-1970s to resell stolen cars.
The Good Nurse
- Rating IMDB – 6.8
- Genre: Thriller, drama, crime, biography
- USA production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $14 943
- Directed by Tobias Lindholm
- Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain, Nnamdi Asomugha, Noah Emmerich, Kim Dickens, Malik Joba, Maria Dizzia, Denise Pillott, Dartel McCree
«The Good Nurse» is a sterile, très-crippling romp that begins with the story of Amy Longren (Jessica Chastain), a nurse with a heart condition and a heart condition, torn between work and family.
Amy’s hassle-filled life becomes considerably easier when a new nurse, Charlie (Eddie Redmayne), shows up in the intensive care unit. He not only takes care of the patients professionally, but also helps Amy with the children, and for free. However, soon seriously ill patients start dying in the hospital in a strange way, and Amy and Charlie find themselves under suspicion.
The film’s literary source material is a novel by Charles Graeber, which tells the story of a real-life character, Nurse Charles Cullen.
Maigret
- Rating IMDB – 5.9
- Genre: Detective, Criminal
- France, Belgium production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $5 917 799
- Directed by Patrice Leconte
- Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Jade Labeste, Melanie Bernier, Aurora Clément, Hervé Pierre, Elisabeth Burgin, Clara Antunes, Pierre Moore, Bertrand Poncet, Ann Loiret
«Mégret and the Mysterious Girl» is a French-Belgian detective based on the novel by Georges Simenon. It all takes place in Paris in the 1950s.
In the central square of the French capital, the corpse of a girl in an expensive evening dress and shabby shoes is found. She clearly hoped to impress someone, and most likely was in a hurry to go on a date. There are no documents in her purse, and finding out the identity of the victim, Mégret sets in motion a chain of the darkest events.
In the first week after its premiere, the film was a box office hit in France.
Memory
- Rating IMDB – 5.7
- Genre: Action, thriller, crime
- USA production / 2022
- Budget: $30 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $13 897 255
- Directed by Martin Campbell
- Cast: Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, Taj Atwal, Arold Torres, Ray Fearon, Monica Bellucci, Ray Stevenson, Mia Sanchez, Daniel De Burgh, Natalie Anderson
Alex Lewis (Liam Neeson) is gradually losing his memory to progressive Alzheimer’s disease, which is fatal for people in his profession. Alex is a bounty hunter who cannot simply retire.
However, he has already rethought a lot of things in his life, and on the next job does not destroy, and saves his victim, a 13-year-old girl Beatrice. Now the aging hitman with memory lapses will have to hide not only from the FBI investigating his crimes, but also from the angry mafia.
This film is a remake of the 2003 Belgian film «De zaak Alzheimer», based on the novel by Jef Gerarts.
Vengeance
- Rating IMDB – 6.8
- Genre: Drama, comedy, detective
- USA production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $4 370 536
- Directed by B.J. Novak
- Cast: B.J. Novak, Boyd Holbrook, Leo Tipton, Ashton Kutcher, Isabella Amara, Dove Cameron, J. Smith-Cameron, Issa Rae, Clint Obenchain, Zach Villa
B.J. Novak has written, directed and starred in his witty new film with a murder mystery and subtext in the black comedy genre. Ben is a vain New York journalist who dreams of starting his own podcast and is looking for a good story to do so.
And it swims into his lap – he gets a phone call informing him that a girl he once dated, Abilene, has died in Texas. He goes to the funeral, deciding to do a podcast about the investigation, reflecting the cultural differences between North and South. But things don’t go according to plan, of course.
From 2015 to 2018, Benjamin Joseph Novak systematically traveled to Texas from his Los Angeles home, gathering material for the script.
Death on the Nile
- Rating IMDB – 6.3
- Genre: Detective, Crime, Drama
- USA production / 2022
- Budget: $90 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $137 307 235
- Directed by Kenneth Branagh
- Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Emma Mackey, Leticia Wright, Sophie Okonedo, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Rose Leslie, Michael Rouse
«Death on the Nile» is a detective drama based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot decided not to get involved in any more investigations and went on vacation to Egypt. He is invited to travel on a luxury cruise ship “Karnak”, where, of course, there is a mysterious murder.
Poirot did not have time to make an assumption about the identity of the perpetrator, as the situation heats up – another passenger kills liner. And now the famous detective needs to move his wits faster to stop this nightmare.
The events of the film are set in 1914. By the way, the plot of the book was pretty much changed for the movie.
The Stranger
- Rating IMDB – 6.6
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
- Australia production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $149 441
- Directed by Thomas M. Wright
- Cast: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Jada Alberts, Steve Mouzakis, Matthew Sunderland, Fletcher Humphries, Alan Dukes, Even Leslie, Harry Waddell
The Australian thriller «The Stranger» is Thomas M. Wright’s dark, partly based on true events, crime-psychological drama that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022.
Investigating the kidnapping and murder of a 13-year-old teenager, police find a convincing suspect, Henry Teague, on whom there is no evidence. That’s when the officers of the law launch the “Mr. Big procedure.” Police officer Mark Frame, posing as a criminal, gets close to Teague, doing unsightly things for a long time in order to earn the murderer’s trust.
The film is based on Kate Keriakou’s book investigating the murder of Daniel Morcombe.
Ddeu-geo-un pi
- Rating IMDB – 6.0
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- South Korea production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $2 955 766
- Directed by Cheon Myung Gwan
- Cast: Jung Woo, Kim Gap-soo, Choi Moo-sung, Ji-seung-hyun, Yoon Ji-hae, Lee Hong-ae, Jeong Young-ju, Hyun Bong-shik, Lee Sung-woo, Kim Joo-hee
«Ddeu-geo-un pi» is a South Korean crime thriller about the fate of Hee-su (played by famous actor Jung Woo), a small-time gangster who has been working for the mafia in the port for 20 years and dreams of a law-abiding quiet life. The action takes place in Busan in 1993.
Suddenly, Young-kang, a murderer who escaped from prison, returns to the city and starts causing trouble not only for the police, but also for the whole criminal world. Hee-su, against his will, finds himself drawn into this chaos.
The film is based on the novel by Kim Eun-soo, the winner of the Korean Literary Award.
See How They Run
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Detective, comedy
- USA, UK production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $21 966 634
- Directed by Tom George
- Cast: Sam Rockwell, Sirsha Ronan, Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson, Rhys Shersmith, Harris Dickinson, David Oyelowo, Charlie Cooper, Shirley Henderson, Pippa Bennett-Warner
«See How They Run» is an elegant British detective story set in 1953, the night before the hundredth production of the famous “Mousetrap” at the London Theater.
An American journalist, Leo Copernicus, arrives for the performance and is murdered backstage after an argument with the husband of the leading actress. An experienced detective, Stoppard, and his assistant, a girl with the surname Stalker, imposed by the police commissioner, take charge of the investigation. The pair look really comical, but are very effective in the investigation.
Mascarade
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Drama, Crime
- France production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $6 560 710
- Directed by Nicolas Bedos
- Cast: Pierre Ninet, Isabelle Adjani, François Cluzet, Marina Wacht, Emmanuelle Deveaux, Laura Morante, Charles Berlain, James Wilby, Nicolas Briançon, Marie Fabre
«Masquerade» is a sharp, sophisticated con from French director Nicolas Bedos, a film with a magnificent, unexpected ending, for the sake of which it is worth enduring the agony of a somewhat protracted plot, which, incidentally, has many unpredictable twists and turns.
Adrian is a former dancer who left the stage after an injury. He is vacationing on the French Riviera in the company of demanding star Martha Duval. It’s not love at all; she’s a meal ticket and he’s a pretty toy. Everything changes when Adrian meets Margot, a con artist who lives off cheating rich men.
The film is based on an unpublished novel by Nicolas Bendos himself.
Emily the Criminal
- Rating IMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Drama, Crime
- USA production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $2 157 673
- Directed by John Patton Ford
- Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Megalyn Echikanwoke, Gina Gershon, Bernardo Badillo, John Billingsley, Brandon Sklenar, Kim Yarbro, Cara Louis, Janice Sonia Lee
«Criminal Emily» is a foreign social-crime drama starring Aubrey Plaza. She plays Emily, a young woman who dreams of becoming an artist and is burdened with a lot of student debt. She tries in vain to find a job, but she is not hired anywhere because of a small criminal record in the past.
One day Emily meets Yousef, who, along with his cousin, is running a credit card scam. Emily is unaware of the criminal background of what is going on and gets bogged down in crime.
This neat indie film was shot in 20 days in the most crime-ridden areas of Los Angeles.
Gyeong-gwan-ui pi
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Detective, Criminal
- South Korea production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $5 592 635
- Directed by Lee Kyu-man
- Cast: Choi Woo-shik, Jo Jin-un, Park Hee-sung, Kwon Yul, Park Myung-hoon, Lee Ohl, Lee Hyun-uk, Baek So-bin, Jang So-kyung, Kim Tae-geum
«Blood of a Cop» is a Korean moral and psychological detective story about the work of an internal affairs police officer and the difficult choice any officer of the law has to face sooner or later.
Choi Min-jae follows in his father’s footsteps and becomes a police officer. He is of impeccable integrity and doesn’t hesitate to testify against his colleagues who broke the law. Internal Affairs asks him to join his father’s ex-partner, an experienced investigator Park Kang-yoon, who believes that high clearance rates should be achieved at all costs and is clearly not living up to his means.
The screenplay is based on a Japanese novel by Joha Sasaki.
Watcher
- Rating IMDB – 6.3
- Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
- USA production / 2022
- Worldwide gross: $3 199 952
- Directed by Chloe Okuno
- Cast: Micah Monroe, Carl Glusman, Bern Gorman, Tudor Petrut, Gabriela Butuch, Madalina Anea, Cristina Dleanu, Bogdan Farkas, Daniel Nuta, Ioana Abour
«Watcher» is a mystery that will remain unsolved until the end. It is a heartbreaking story from Chloe Okuno, telling the story of a young woman named Julia. Together with her husband Francis, who has been promoted, she moves from New York City to the mysterious Bucharest.
Not knowing the language or the city, Julia hesitantly explores the city and one day begins to suspect that she has a stalker–a man watching her from the house next door. At the same time, the corpses of decapitated young women begin to be found in Bucharest…
The original screenplay is by Zach Ford, who wrote it under the pseudonym “Carl Young.”
The Man from Toronto
- Rating IMDB – 5.8
- Genre: Action, thriller, comedy, adventure
- USA production / 2022
- Directed by Patrick Hughes
- Cast: Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Jasmine Matthews, Caylee Cuoco, Pearson Fod, Ellen Barkin, Giancarlos Canela, Ronnie Rowe, Alejandro De Hoyos, Lila Loren.
Unlucky Teddy loses his job, but doesn’t rush to tell his wife. First, he rents a cabin in the countryside for a romantic weekend to mitigate the consequences.
Because of a cab driver’s mistake, he ends up in another house, whose occupants mistake him for a hit man named Randy, nicknamed «The Man from Toronto,» whom no one knows by sight. To save his life, Teddy pretends to be a hit man, and then he receives tempting offers from the FBI and from Randy himself…
«The Man from Toronto» loves durian, the tastiest and most foul-smelling fruit on Earth. As the screenwriter intended, this emphasizes the character of the character.
Savage Salvation
- Rating IMDB – 4.6
- Genre: Action, thriller, crime
- USA production / 2022
- Directed by Randall Emmett
- Cast: Jack Huston, Robert De Niro, John Malkovich, Willa Fitzgerald, Meadow Williams, Sven Temple, Winter Ave Zoli, Jonathan Orsini, Clay Wilcox
«Savage Salvation» is a depressing crime drama by Randall Emmett. Robert De Niro plays Mike Church, the sheriff of a small town that has been swept by a drug wave. Shelby and Ruby are two former drug addicts who have recently become engaged and want to start a new life.
Then one day Shelby finds his fiancée dead of an overdose on the porch of their house. He decides to take revenge on the local drug mafia and stages a real massacre, which the sheriff tries to stop.
De Niro claimed $11 million in royalties – and that was half the total budget of the film.
Ambulance
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
- USA, Japan production / 2022
- Budget: $40 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $52 300 984
- Directed by Michael Bay
- Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Matin II, Isa Gonzalez, Garrett Dillahunt, Keir O’Donnell, Jackson White, Olivia Stambulia, Moses Ingram, Colin Woodell, Cedric Sanders
«Ambulance» is a fast-paced Michael Bay crime film with superb technical special effects.
Will Sharp is a war veteran who urgently needs to pay for expensive surgery on his dying wife. His criminal brother Danny offers him a “safe” way out – to rob a bank of $32 million, and demonstrates a flawless plan for this adventure.
Unfortunately, the plans go to hell when an armed policeman, Zack, decides to look into the bank where the robbery is in progress. Will accidentally shoots him, and the brothers have to steal an ambulance and kidnap the paramedic Cam to save the wounded man’s life while the brothers try to get away from the police chase.
Этот фильм – ремейк датского триллера «Скорая помощь» 2005 года.
Confess, Fletch
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Detective, Comedy, Crime
- USA production / 2022
- Budget: $20 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $656 613
- Directed by Greg Mottola
- Cast: John Hamm, Roy Wood Jr., Aiden Mayeri, Lorenza Izzo, Kyle McLocklen, Annie Mumolo, John Belmann, John Slattery, Lucy Punch, Marsha Gay Harden
«Confess, Fletch» is the third installment in a series of neo-noir crime comedies about former journalist Irvin Maurice, nicknamed «Fletch,» a witty and confusing detective mystery about art theft in Italy and murder in America.
Fletch travels with his acquaintance Angela from Italy to Boston to track down priceless paintings stolen from her millionaire father. Upon entering the rented townhouse, Fletch finds a dead woman inside, calls the police, and becomes the prime suspect in the murder. Now he must not only fulfill Angela’s request, but also clear his name.
The «Fletch» series is a film adaptation of the ’70s bestsellers by writer Gregory MacDonald, whose name is certainly known to all lovers of vivid detectives.
