Great Films and their Great Images

Crime

THX-1138

"Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses."
- OMM
01 (50)
Dir: George Lucas
DoP: Albert Kihn & David Myers
Year: 1971
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Drama 
| Sci-Fi | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Stray Dog

"Bad luck either makes a man or destroys him. Are you gonna let it
destroy you? Depending how you take it, bad luck can be a big break."
- Police Inspector Nakajima
01 (25)

Dir: Akira Kurosawa

DoP: Asakazu Nakai

Year: 1949

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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La Femme Nikita

"There are two things that are infinite:
femininity and means to take advantage of it."
- Amande
01 (27)Dir: Luc Besson
DoP: Thierry Arbogast
Year: 1990
Country: France | Italy
Language: French | Italian 
| English
Genre: Action | Crime 
| Drama | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Hard Times

"Every town had somebody who thinks he's tough as a nickel
steak; but, they all come to old Speed for the do-re-mi."
- Speed
01 (2)
Dir: Walter Hill
DoP: Philip H. Lathrop
Year: 1975
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Drama | Sport
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Thieves Like Us

"You think life's free, don't you, Elmo? I ain't
never had my name in the papers like you fellas."
- Dee Mobley
01 (33)Dir: Robert Altman

DoP: Jean Boffety

Year: 1974

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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3:10 to Yuma

"You know, squeezin' that watch won't stop time."
- Ben Wade
01 (29)
Dir: James Mangold
DoP: Phedon Papamichael
Year: 2007
Country: USA
Language: English | Chinese
Genre: Adventure | Crime 
| Drama | Western
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Big Eyes

"Why are their eyes so big?"
- Ruben

"Eyes are the windows to the soul!"
- Walter Keane
01 (32)Dir: Tim Burton

DoP: Bruno Delbonnel

Year: 2014

Country: USA | Canada

Language: English | French 
| Italian
Genre: Biography | Crime 
| Drama | Romance
Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Out of the Furnace

"Working for a living? I gave my life for this country
and what's it done for me? Huh? What's it done for me?"
- Rodney Baze Jr.
01 (54)
Dir: Scott Cooper
DoP: Masanobu Takayanagi
Year: 2013
Country: USA | UK
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

"With my brains and your looks, we could go places."
- Frank Chambers
01 (5)
Dir: Tay Garnett

DoP: Sidney Wagner

Year: 1946

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir 
| Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Dogville

"There's a family with kids. Do the kids and
make the mother watch. Tell her you'll stop if
she can hold back her tears. I *owe* her that."
- Grace
01 (43)Dir: Lars von Trier
DoP: Anthony Dod Mantle
Year: 2003
Country: Denmark | Sweden | UK 
| France | Germany | Netherlands 
| Norway | Finland | Italy
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Memories of Murder

"Did you see his face?"
- Detective Park Doo-Man
01 (55)Dir: Bong Joon-ho

DoP: Kim Hyung-koo

Year: 2003

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean | English

Genre: Crime | Drama 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Outland

"You're supposed to protect us! You're the
police! It's your job! Where are your men?"
- Rudd
01 (55)
Dir: Peter Hyams
DoP: Stephen Goldblatt
Year: 1981
Country: UK
Language: English
Genre: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi 
| Thriller | Western
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Confidentially Yours

"Everything I've done was for women. I like to
look at them and to touch them.I enjoy giving them
pleasure. Women are magic, so I became a magician."
- Maitre Clement
01 (60)
Dir: François Truffaut

DoP: Néstor Almendros

Year: 1983

Country: France

Language: French

Genre: Comedy | Crime 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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The Cotton Club

"If he came in here right now, he'd kill us both."
- Vera
01 (22)Dir: Francis Ford Coppola

DoP: Stephen Goldblatt

Year: 1984

Country: USA

Language: English | Italian

Genre: Crime | Drama | Music

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Manhunter

"And if one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is."
- Doctor Hannibal Lecktor
01 (34)
Dir: Michael Mann
DoP: Dante Spinotti
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Reservoir Dogs

"Who cares what your name is?"
- Mr. White
01 (3)
Dir: Quentin Tarantino
DoP: Andrzej Sekula
Year: 1992
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Lolita

"I want you to live with me and die with me and everything with me!"
- Humbert Humbert
01 (10)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

DoP: Oswald Morris

Year: 1962

Country: UK | USA

Language: French | English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Some Like It Hot

"Nobody's Perfect"
- Osgood Fielding III
01 (4)
Dir: Billy Wilder

DoP: Charles Lang

Year: 1959

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Straight Time

"You know what I'd like to do... Why don't
you run me by that hotel we'll check it out."
- Max Dembo
01 (14)Dir: Ulu Grosbard

DoP: Owen Roizman

Year: 1978

Country: USA

Language: Cantonese | English 
| Spanish
Genre: Crime | Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Whirlpool

"You were wise not to tell your husband, Mrs. Sutton. A successful marriage
is usually based on what a husband and wife don't know about each other."
- David Korvo
01 (44)

Dir: Otto Preminger

DoP: Arthur C. Miller

Year: 1949

Country: USA

Language: English | Italian

Genre: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Swamp Water

"If you can learn to live with cotton-mouths and 'gators and
panthers, on places where there ain't a solid bit of ground
to stand on, why I reckon you're welcome to your life."
- Tom Keefer
01 (12)

Dir: Jean Renoir 
(uncredited: Irving Pichel)
DoP: J. Peverell Marley 
(uncredited: Lucien Ballard)
Year: 1941

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Bonnie and Clyde

"This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks."
- Clyde Barrow
01 (28)Dir: Arthur Penn

DoP: Burnett Guffey

Year: 1967

Country: USA

Language: English

Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Sorcerer

"When the money's up, I'm just as good as any of you."
- Nilo

01 (41)Dir: William Friedkin

DoP: Dick Bush & John M. Stephens

Year: 1977

Country: USA

Language: English | Spanish 
| French | German
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Gone Girl

"You. Fucking. Bitch."
- Nick Dunne
01 (31)Dir: David Fincher
DoP: Jeff Cronenweth
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Drama 
| Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

 

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