Movie Box Review

The first large batch of titles for TIFF 08 have been announced, the majority of which are North American premieres. The films span over many of the programs: Discovery (7), Contemporary World Cinema (6), Masters (5), Special Presentations (4), Visions (2) and single entries for Vanguard, Real to Reel and Gala. The total Galas released is currently two films as it was previously announced that Passchendaele, written, directed and produced by Paul Gross will open the festival on September 4, 2008. See the Passchendaele trailer here, it got me all teary eyed and patriotic at the same time.

Canadian entries so far are the above mentioned Passchendaele, and Atom Egoyan's Adoration which will be showing as a part of the Special Presentations program. Rounding out the Canadian content is Restless (dir: Amos Kollek) a co-production between Israel/Germany/Canada/France/Belgium and is included in the Contemporary World Cinema program.

I'm thrilled to hear that the South Korean “kimchi western” The Good, The Bad, The Weird (dir: Kim Jee-woon) will be at the festival this year. As I mentioned last week, I've been addicted to the trailer watching it over and over again. I was really hoping it would be at TIFF this year but thought it would be included in the Midnight Madness program, however it is a Gala. Regardless of program, it is thrilling that it will be at the festival!

Many of the announced films are Cannes '08 award winners including: Palme D'or winner Entre les murs (dir: Laurent Cantet) *, Grand Prix winner Gomorrah (dir: Matteo Garrone), Award for Best Screenplay winner Le Silence de Lorna (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne), Linha de Passe winner for Best Actress: Sandra Corveloni, Un Certain Regard prize winner Tulpan (dir: Sergey Dvortsevoy), Caméra d'or winner Hunger (dir: Steve McQueen).

It is still early days but it is most certainly shaping up to be one exciting year. Looking forward to hearing more titles release but until then here is the complete list of film titles released as of June 26, 2008:

Contemporary World Cinema (6)

Acne
Dir: Federico Veiroj
Uruguay/Argentina/Spain/Mexico

Linha de Passe
Dirs: Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas
Brazil

O’Horten
Dir: Bent Hamer
Norway/Germany/France

Lion’s Den
Dir: Pablo Trapero
Argentina/South Korea/Brazil

Restless
Dir: Amos Kollek
Israel/Germany/Canada/France/Belgium

Revanche
Dir: Götz Spielmann
Austria

Discovery (7)

Hunger
Dir: Steve McQueen
United Kingdom

Medicine for Melancholy
Dir: Barry Jenkins
USA

The Paranoids
Dir: Gabriel Medina
Argentina

Salamandra
Dir: Pablo Agüero
Argentina/France/Germany

Three Blind Mice
Dir: Matthew Newton
Australia

Tony Manero
Dir: Pablo Larraín
Chile/Brazil

Tulpan
Dir: Sergey Dvortsevoy
Germany/Switzerland/Kazakstan/Russia/Poland

Gala (2)

The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Dir: Kim Jee-woon
South Korea

Passchendaele
Dir: Paul Gross
Canada

Masters (5)

24 City
Dir: Jia Zhang-ke
China

Four Nights with Anna
Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski
Poland/France

Of Time and the City
Dir: Terence Davies
United Kingdom

Le Silence de Lorna
Dirs: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Belgium/France/Italy

Three Monkeys
Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey/France/Italy

Real to Reel (1)

Blind Loves
Dir: Juraj Lehotský
Slovakia

Special Presentations (4)

Adoration
Dir: Atom Egoyan
Canada

Un conte de Noël
Dir: Arnaud Desplechin
France

Entre les murs *
Dir: Laurent Cantet
France

Gomorrah
Dir: Matteo Garrone
Italy

Vanguard (1)

Waltz with Bashir
Dir: Ari Folman
Israel/France/Germany

Visions (2)

Liverpool
Dir: Lisandro Alonso
Argentina/France/Netherlands/Spain/Germany

Service
Dir: Brillante Mendoza
Philippines/France

* Update: Laurent Cantet's Entre les murs no longer appears on the original press release. Looks like it will not be part of the 2008 line up.

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 4 - 13, 2008 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

From the number of reviews you can easily see this isn't a genre I tend to be drawn too.

Family Film definition per Wikipedia: A family film is a film genre that is designed to appeal to a variety of age groups and, thus, families. To attract these diverse audiences, film makers often create works that operate simultaneously on several levels of appeal.[citation needed] Comic songs might appeal to younger children, for example, while wittier jokes and pop culture references attract adults.

I discuss Family Films as a Genre on Episode 18 of the Movie Moxie Podcast if you'd like to hear my take on this genre as a whole from series & franchise to favourites & themes and also review The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The
Despicable Me
Dumbo
Golden Compass, The
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Holes
petit Nicolas, Le / Little Nicholas
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Race to Witch Mountain
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Roll Bounce
Secret of Moonarce, The
Shine of Rainbows, A
Skellig - The Owl Man
Sorcerer's Apprentice, The (2010)
Timetrip: The Curse of the Viking Witch / Vølvens Forbandelse
Winnie the Pooh

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Wikiipedia definition of Documentary: Documentary film describes a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.

Love Docs? Check out Episode 38 of the Movie Moxie Podcast where I take on Documentaries as a Film Genre, chat about my favourite documentaries, the themes, focuses & styles within the genre and the vast number of documentaries releases in Toronto. You can also check out my coverage of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

24 City / Er Shi Si Cheng Ji
65_REDROSES
1991: The Year Punk Broke

Act of God
Action Boys / Woorin action beawooda
African Cats
Africorama
All Together Now
American Teen
Another Perfect World
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Arirang
Ascension / Voschozhdenie
Assume Nothing
At Night, They Dance
Audience of One
Audition

B1
Be Like Others
Best Worst Movie
Big John / BLOD & ÆRE
Big River Man
Bigger, Stronger, Faster *
Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World, The

Cat Ladies
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio
Corridor #8

Daddy Tran: A Life in 3-D
David Wants to Fly
Derek
Destination Forks: The Real World of Twilight
Different Path, A
Disco and the Atomic War
Discovering Hamlet
Dolphin Boy
Dragonslayer (2011)
Dungeon Masters, The

Eleven Minutes
Encounters at the End of the World
Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzet, L' / Inferno
Everybody's Children
Every Little Step

Family Instinct
Farmer's Song / Nongminga
Feet Unbound
Freetime Machos
Future is Now!, The

Gaea Girls

His & Hers
Housing
Hunting Down Memory / Jakten På Hukommelsen

I Bought a Rain Forest / Jag köpte en regnskog
Imagining Emanuel
Inconvenient Truth, An
Inside Lara Roxx
Into Eternity
It Came From Kuchar
It Might Get Loud

Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work
John & Jane

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The

Last Continent, The / Le Dernier Continent
Leave Them Laughing
Life with Murder
Limelight
Listen to This
Long Story Short
Love at the Twilight Motel

Making the Boys
Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient
Man on Wire
Manufactured Landscapes
Maple Flavour Films
Mechanical Love
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Milking the Rhino
My Barefoot Friend
Mr. Big
My Greatest Escape / Ne me liberez pas, je m'en charge
My Winnipeg
Mystery of Picasso, The / Le Mystère Picasso
Mystic Ball

Nénette
Nobody Waved Good-bye

Old Partner / Wyo-nang So-ri
Oh Saigon
On the Downlow
One Big Hapa Family

Passage
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Peddler, The
People vs. George Lucas, The
pereSTROIKA - reCONSTRUCTION of a Flat / PERESTROIKA - UMBAU EINER WOHNUNG
Prima Donna: The Story of Rufus Wainwright's Debut Opera
Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman, A

Real MASH, The
Real Shaolin, The
Regretters
RiseUp
Rise and Fall of Grumpy Burger, The

S&M: Short and Male
Second Skin
Shake Hands with the Devil
Sharkwater
She's a Boy I Knew
Shot in Bombay
Simple Rhythm, A
Small Act, A
"Socalled" Movie, The
Sons of Perdition
Soundtracker
Space Tourists
Steam of Life / Miesten vuoro
Superheroes

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
talhotblond
Tankograd
Thin
This Way of Life
Tiger Spirit
Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
Trading the Future
Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong, The
Twelve

Up the Yangtze/ 沿江⽽上

Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero

We Live In Public
Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour
Wild Horse Redemption
Woman with the 5 Elephants, The
World According to Ion B., The

Zombie Girl: The Movie

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Shannon definition of Dance Films: Dance films are a subgenre of film where the central focus of the film is on an dancer, group of dancers, dance event or competition. They often including themes of coming of age, romance, overcoming adversity, working together and people coming together from both sides of the tracks.

Love Dance Films? I do, I do! To hear more on dance films check out Episode 38 of the Movie Moxie Podcast where I chat about Dance Films as a Genre including my favourite dance films, discussing different types of dance styles and dance films from classic to current and everything in between.

At Night, They Dance
Beat the World
Burlesque
Every Little Step
Fame (2009)
Hail the New Puritan
Mao's Last Dancer
Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance
Roll Bounce
Saigon Electric
Shall We Dance / Shall we dansu?
Step Up
Step Up 3D
Stomp the Yard
Take the Lead
Tankograd

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Drama film definition from Wikipedia: A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena.

Want to hear all about Drama as a Film Genre? Check out Episode 8 of the Movie Moxie Podcast where I dive into the themes, favourites and acclaimed films of the genre.

$5 a Day
3 saisons / 3 Seasons
4:30
22 Bullets / L'Immortel

A Beautiful Life
A Nanny for Christmas
Accidents Happen
Achillles and the Tortoise
Adjustment Bureau, The
Adventureland
Adrift in Tokyo / Tenten
Âge des ténèbres, L / Days of Darkness
African Queen, The
After the Wedding / Efter brylluppet
Agora
Air Doll / Kûki ningyô
Alexander
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
All Around Us / Gururi no koto
An Affair to Remember
Anastasia
And Then Lola Came
Angel-A
Angel at My Table, An
Animal Kingdom
Another Earth
Antichrist
Ape, The / Apan
Applause / Applaus
Arn: The Knight Templar
Au Revoir Taipei

Baarìa
Babel
Bambou / Bamboo
Bank Job, The
Barney's Version
barons, Les / The Barons
Beastly
Beautiful (2009)
Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Kate
Beaver, The
Before I Forget / Avant que j'oublie
Beginners
Bellflower
Beyond the Years / Chun-Nyun-Hack
Bi, Don't Be Afraid
Big Blue, The
Big Fan
Black Death
Black Swan
Bleak Night / Pasuggun
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly / Babi buta yang ingin terbang
Blood Diamond
Bloomington
Blue Valentine
Bodyguards and Assassins / Shi yue wei cheng
Bomber
Boy (2010)
Boy A
Brand Upon the Brain!
Bread and Tulips / Pane e Tulipani
Breathless / Ddongpari
Brick Lane
Brighton Rock (2011)
Bright Star
Bronson
Brothers
Burlesque

C.R.A.Z.Y.
C'est pas moi, je le jure! / It's Not Me, I Swear!
Cactus
Call Girl, A / Slovenian Girl
Carjacked
Cèdre penché, Le / Mona's Daughters
Centurion
Cheaper By the Dozen
Children of Men
Chloe
Chorus, The / Les Choristes
Chungking Express / Chung Hing Sam Lam
Ciao
City Island
City of Shadows, The / La cité
Cleopatra (1963)
coeur simple, Un / A Simple Heart
Complices / Partners
Conformist, The
Contre toute espérance
Conversations With Other Women
Country Strong
Crazy Heart
Creation
Cry of the Owl, The
Curse of the Golden Flower / Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia

Damned United, The
Dans tes bras / In Your Arms
Daydream Nation
Dear Doctor
Dear Frankie
Death Defying Acts
Debt, The (2011)
Decline of the American Empire, The / Le Déclin de l'empire américain
Defendor
Deliver Us From Evil / Fri os fra det onde
Dernier Maquis
Derrière moi / Behind Me
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The
Discovering Hamlet
divan du monde, Le / Everybody’s Couch
Don McKay
Donation, La / The Legacy
Donnie Darko
Don't Look Back / Ne te retourne pas
Dorian Gray
Double Happiness
Down Terrace
Dreamers, The
Drifting Flowers / Piao Lang Qing Chung
Drumline
Dumbo

Eagle, The
Eat Pray Love
Eclipse, The (2010)
Eden à l'Ouest / Eden Is West
Eighteen
Eloise's Lover / Eloïse
Empty Nest / El Nido vacío
Enter the Void
Espion(s) / Spy(ies)
Eternity / Tee rak
Every Day Is a Holiday / Chaque jour est un fête
Exorcism of Emily Rose, The
Experiment, The (2010)
Extra Man, The
Eyes Wide Open / Einaym Pkuhot

Fable of the Fish / Isda
Face / Visage
Factory Girl
Familia
Fear Me Not / Den du frygter
Fido
Fighter, The
Fire in the Sky
Flight of the Red Balloon / Voyage du ballon rouge, Le
Flower in the Pocket
Fountain, The
Frisson des Collines
Frozen
Funny People
Future, The (2011)

Gandhi
Ghost From the Machine / Phasma Ex Machina
Ghost Writer, The
Gidget
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The / Män som hatar kvinnor
Girl Who Played with Fire, The / Flickan som lekte med elden
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The / Luftslottet som sprängdes
Gladiator
Glory to the Filmmaker! / Kantoku Banzai!
Good Heart, The
Good Shepherd, The
Gracie
Graduate, The
Greatest, The
Griff the Invisible
Grown Up Movie Star
Guard, The (2011)
Gun

Hair of the Beast, The / Le poil de la bête
Hanna
Happythankyoumoreplease
Harry Brown
Harvest / Stadt Land Fluss
Heavenly Creatures
Heartless
Help, The (2011)
Hereafter
Hey, Hey It's Esther Blueburger
Homestay
Host, The / Gwoemul
Human Centipede (First Sequence), The
Hustle & Flow

i am a good person i am a bad person
I Am From Titov Veles
I Heart Huckabees
I Love You Phillip Morris
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The
In a Better World / Hævnen
In America
In the Heat of the Night
Incendies
Inception
Interview with the Vampire
Invictus

J'ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother
Jane Eyre (2011)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
JCVD
journée de la jupe, La / Skirt Day
Journals of Knud Rasmussen, The
Julius Caesar (1953)
JUMP ASHIN!

Kamui / Kamui Gaiden
Katia's Sister / Het Zusje van Katia
Kill the Irishman
King's Speech, The
Kings
Kisses

Ladyhawke
Lance et Compte / He Shoots He Scores
Last Chance Harvey
Last Hit Man, The
Last Night (2011)
Last Ride
Last Station, The
León, La
Let the Right One In / Låt den rätte komma in
Letters to Juliet
Life During Wartime
Like You Know It All / Jal Alijido Motamyunseo
Little Ashes
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Locked Out
Lookout, The
Lost Song
Love Conquers All
Love Happens
Love Ranch
Lover's Discourse /Leun yan sui yu

M (1931)
M (2007)
Madadayo / Not Yet
Made: The Movie
Mademoiselle Chambon
Maltese Falcon, The
Man from London, The / A Londoni férfi
Mao's Last Dancer
Martin
Me and Orson Wells
Meek's Cutoff
Meet Monica Velour
Misfortunates, The / De helaasheid der dingen
Mongol
Monkey Warfare
Monsters
Mr. Nobody
Multiple Sarcasms
Murder on the Orient Express
My Dear Enemy / Meotjin haru

Namesake, The
Nashville
NEDS
Never Let Me Go
Newcastle
Night Listener, The
Night Watch / Nochnoi Dozor
No Regret / 후회하지 않아
Nowhere Boy
Normal
Nos vies privées / Our Private Lives
Notes on a Scandal
Nymph / Nang Mai

Ocean Flame / Yi ban hai shui, yi ban huo yan
OFF BEAT
Offside
Old Joy
Once
Once Were Warriors
One Day (2011)
One Week
Only
Orphan
Our Brief Eternity
Overheard / Qie ting feng yun
Owl and the Sparrow /Cú và chim se sẻ
Owls, The

Paper Man
Paranoid Park
Parking / Ting Che
Passion Play
Pearls of the Far East
Perrier's Bounty
Personal Velocity
Phantom Pain / Phantomschmerz
Piercing 1
Places Everyone
Polytechnique
Prima della rivoluzione / Before the Revolution
Public Enemies

Québec-Montréal
Queen of the Damned

Radio Love
Raven, The / Le Corbeau
Red Baron, The
Red Cliff / Chi ba
Remember Me
Road, The
Rashômon
Reaping, The
Red
Repeaters
Revolutionary Road
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
River
Robin Hood (2010)
Rocket, The / Maurice Richard
Roll Bounce
Rubber
Runaways, The

Sad Vacation
Saddest Music in the World, The
Soga, La
Saigon Electric
Saint Ralph
Sakuran / さくらん
Samson & Delilah
Santa Mesa
Savage Grace
Sawasdee Bangkok
Schoolgirl's Diary, A / Han nyeohaksaengeui ilgi
Season of the Witch
Secret Diary of Miss Ann Lister, The
semaine sur deux (et la moitié des vacances scolaires), Une / Alternate Weeks (and Half the Vacation)
September
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Seventh Seal, The / Det Sjunde Inseglet
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Sex and the City 2
Shadow of the Vampire
Shadows
Shall We Dance / Shall we dansu?
She, A Chinese
She-Wolf of London
Shine of Rainbows, A
Singapore Dreaming
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, The
Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley, The
Sleepless Night / Nuit blanche
Small Town Murder Songs
Snow Cake
Snowtown
Social Network, The
Some Guy Who Kills People
Some Kind of Wonderful
Somewhere
Soul Surfer
Source Code
Spartacus
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...and Spring / Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom
Square, The
Step Up
Step Up 3D
Still Walking / Aruitemo aruitemo
Stomp the Yard
Stone Angel, The
Stone of Destiny
Story of Jen / L'histoire de Jen
Strada, La
Strella: A Woman's Way
Sun Also Rises, The / Tai Yang Zhao Chang Shen Qi
Super 8
Surrogate Valentine
Suspiria
Swirl / Girimunho

Take the Lead
Tanner Hall
Tempest, The (2010)
Terrains Connus, En / Familiar Grounds
Three Times / Zui hao de shi guang
Thirst / Bakjwi
Thousand Years of Good Prayers, A
Throne of Blood / Kumonosu jô
Toad's Oil / Gama no Abura
Toby Dammit
Toilet
Toronto Stories
Tokyo Sonata / Tôkyô sonata
Trigger
Tree of Life, The
True Grit (2010)
Twilight
Twilight Saga: New Moon, The
Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The
Tyrannosaur

Ulzhan
Un été sans point ni coup sûr / A No-Hit No-Run Summer
Undertow / Contracorriente
Unfinished Sky
Unloved, The
Unnatural & Accidental
Unthinkable

Vacation / Kyûka
Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey
Vie en Rose, La / Ma Mome
Vie secrète des gens heureux, la / The Secret Life of Happy People
Volver

Wackness, The
Waiting City, The
Waiting For Guffman
Waiting Room, The
Wake Wood
Warrior (2011)
Warrior and the Wolf, The / Lang Zai Ji
Water
Water for Elephants
We are the Mods
Weekend
Werewolf of London
West 32nd
When Love Comes / Dang Ai Lai De Shi Hou
White Night Wedding / Brúðguminn
Whip It
Wild Child
Wild Grass / Les Herbes Folles
Wild Hunt, The
Winds of September / Jiu jiang feng
Winnie the Pooh
Wolf Man, The (1941)
Wolfman, The (2010)
Wolfsbergen
Wonderful Town
Wuthering Heights

XXY

Yang Yang
Yanggaw
Your Beautiful Cul de Sac Home

Zoo la Nuit, Un

TV on DVD
Being Human Season 1 (North American)
Durham County Season 1 & 2
Haven: The Complete First Season
Walking Dead: The Complete First Season, The

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Wikipedia Definition: Political Cinema in the narrow sense of the term is a cinema which portrays current or historical events or social conditions in a partisan way in order to inform or to agitate the spectator. Political cinema exists in different forms such as documentaries, feature films, or even animated and experimental films.

Want to hear more about Political Films? Check out Episode 34 of the Movie Moxie Podcast where I take on Political Films as a Genre.

Another Perfect World
Debt, The (2011)
Farmer's Song / Nongminga
Four Lions
In the Loop
journée de la jupe, La / Skirt Day
Monkey Warfare
Nashville
Offside
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Trading the Future
Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong, The
Up the Yangtze/ 沿江⽽上
Water

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Mystery films as defined by Wikipedia: Mystery film is a sub-genre of the more general category of crime film. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of a crime by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction. The successful mystery film adheres to one of two story types, known as Open and Closed. The Closed (or whodunit) mystery conceals the identity of the perpetrator until late in the story, adding an element of suspense during the apprehension of the suspect, as the audience is never quite sure who it is. The Open mystery, in contrast, reveals the identity of the perpetrator at the top of the story, showcasing the "perfect crime" which the audience then watches the protagonist unravel, usually at the very end of the story, akin to the unveiling scenes in the Closed style.

Love mystery films? You are in luck as they feel on the rise. If you want to hear more check out Episode 13 of the Movie Moxie Podcast where I take on Mystery Films as a Genre.

And Soon the Darkness (2010)
Beautiful (2009)
Beautiful Kate
Black Death
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame / Di Renjie
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The
Don McKay
Don't Look Back / Ne te retourne pas
Entitled, The
Espion(s) / Spy(ies)
Espions, Les
Ghajini
Ghost Writer, The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The / Män som hatar kvinnor
Girl Who Played with Fire, The / Flickan som lekte med elden
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The / Luftslottet som sprängdes
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hot Fuzz
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The
Incendies
In the Heat of the Night
Lone Star
Losers, The
Maltese Falcon, The
Murder on the Orient Express
Night Listener, The
Raven, The / Le Corbeau
Rubber
Salt
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Scream 4
She-Wolf of London
Trespass
Wicker Man, The

TV on DVD
Haven: The Complete First Season

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Wikipedia definition: Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.

Love crime films? Check out Episode 23 of the Movie Moxie Podcast where I take on Crime Films as a Genre and chat about themes, countries & character focuses of the genre as well as faves, sub-genres & notable films.

3 saisons / 3 Seasons
13
22 Bullets / L'Immortel
A-Team, The
Animal Kingdom
Assassins' Code
Au Revoir Taipei
Bank Job, The
Black
Black Dahlia, The
Bleak Night / Pasuggun
Blood & Donuts
Blood Brothers / Tian Tang Kou
Breathless / Ddongpari
Brighton Rock (2011)
Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Boy A
Cactus
Chocolate
Complices / Partners
Conformist, The
Down Terrace
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The
Drummer, The
Enter the Void
Espions, Les
Espion(s) / Spy(ies)
Fast Five
Faster
Flash Point / Dao huo xian
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The / Män som hatar kvinnor
Girl Who Played with Fire, The / Flickan som lekte med elden
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The / Luftslottet som sprängdes
Gone Baby Gone
Good Shepherd, The
Green Hornet, The
Grosse Pointe Blank
Guard, The (2011)
Gun
Harry Brown
Headshot / Fon Tok Kuen Fah
High Life
Hobo with a Shotgun
Hot Fuzz
I Love You Phillip Morris
I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
In the Heat of the Night
Inception
JUMP ASHIN!
Kick-Ass
Kill the Irishman
King of the Hill / El Rey de la montaña
Last Hit Man, The
Last Ride
Life with Murder
Lone Star
Lookout, The
M (1931)
Maltese Falcon, The
Mechanic, The
Micmacs / Micmacs à tire-larigot
Must Love Death
My Greatest Escape / Ne me liberez pas, je m'en charge
Night Listener, The
Ninja Assassin
Ocean Flame / Yi ban hai shui, yi ban huo yan
Overheard / Qie ting feng yun
Paranoid Park
Parking / Ting Che
Perrier's Bounty
Perth
Piercing 1
Public Enemies
Raid, The
Rebel, The
Rough Cut / Yeong-hwa-neun yeong-hwa-da
Sad Vacation
Savage Grace
Sleepless Night / Nuit blanche
Small Town Murder Songs
Snowtown
Soga, La
Square, The
SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO
Sympathy for Mr. Vengence / Boksuneun naui geot
talhotblond
Vacation / Kyûka
West 32nd
Wicker Man, The
Wild Target
Zoo la Nuit, Un

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