Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "botched-crime"

1. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

R | 99 min | Crime, Thriller

When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn

Votes: 1,092,172 | Gross: $2.83M

2. Fargo (1996)

R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare

Votes: 729,115 | Gross: $24.61M

3. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar

Votes: 273,909 | Gross: $50.00M

4. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

Director: George Armitage | Stars: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack

Votes: 99,864 | Gross: $28.01M

5. The Silent Partner (1978)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

Directors: Daryl Duke, Curtis Hanson | Stars: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Céline Lomez

Votes: 7,808

6. The Cottage (2008)

Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A tough, cute woman is kidnapped for ransom and brought to a rural English cottage. David and two morons have way more to worry about than her crime boss stepdad, his two Asian killers and her.

Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith, Jennifer Ellison, Steven O'Donnell

Votes: 13,110

7. Small Time Crooks (2000)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant, Carolyn Saxon

Votes: 40,746 | Gross: $17.07M

8. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010)

Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely-linked tales.

Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Nushrratt Bharuccha, Anshuman Jha, Neha Chauhan, Rajkummar Rao

Votes: 6,148

9. Sag Salim 2: Sil Bastan (2014)

98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

The tragicomic adventure which started when Salim decides to take an forlorn funeral to its homeland, continues when his bear leader Nihal's mother is taken hostage. While they are being ... See full summary »

Director: Ersoy Güler | Stars: Ezgi Asaroglu, Burçin Bildik, Murat Akkoyunlu, Nazli Tosunoglu

Votes: 3,572

10. American Buffalo (1996)

R | 88 min | Drama

Long-repressed feelings of bitterness and betrayal explode when three inner-city losers plot the robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.

Director: Michael Corrente | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, Sean Nelson

Votes: 4,049 | Gross: $0.54M

11. Chain of Fools (2000)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime

Salma Hayek plays an avid detective assigned to the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.

Directors: Pontus Löwenhielm, Patrick von Krusenstjerna | Stars: Steve Zahn, Salma Hayek, Jeff Goldblum, Elijah Wood

Votes: 4,354

12. Crackers (1984)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Reduced to minding the counter at a crusty pawn shop, Weslake tumbles onto a scheme by some disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow the whistle, however, he insinuates himself as the heist's mastermind.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn

Votes: 1,555 | Gross: $0.13M

13. Botched (I) (2007)

Not Rated | 95 min | Thriller

During a heist in Russia, a professional thief finds himself dealing with serial killers, insane hostages, double-crossing psycho Russian hardmen and the real possibility of a horrible death.

Director: Kit Ryan | Stars: David Heap, Alan Smyth, Stephen Dorff, Sean Pertwee

Votes: 6,671

14. People's Hero (1987)

82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A bumbling pair robs a bank, taking everyone inside hostage when it goes wrong. However, one of the hostages turns out to be a notorious wanted criminal and he takes over the hostage situation.

Director: Tung-Shing Yee | Stars: Lung Ti, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Elaine Jin

Votes: 446

15. Double Exposure (1994)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama

Roger is cruel, violent and pathologically jealous and his wife Maria is suffering for it. He hires McClure, a P.I., to follow her and confirms his suspicions. Roger pays McClure to kill Maria's mysterious lover, but he botches the job.

Director: Claudia Hoover | Stars: Ron Perlman, Ian Buchanan, Dedee Pfeiffer, Jennifer Gatti

Votes: 193

16. Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (1997)

90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When Ah-Gou, a smalltime Hong Kong street rascal, visits a fortune teller and hears that soon he will face a life-changing choice, he surely can't imagine that his life reached a middle ... See full summary »

Director: Ka-Fai Wai | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Carman Lee, Francis Ng, Ruby Wong

Votes: 990

17. Bite (II) (2015)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Six criminals are tasked with kidnapping a young woman for ransom, but when they get locked inside her mansion, what they find is not what they expected.

Director: Alberto Sciamma | Stars: Vinnie Jones, Costas Mandylor, Gianni Capaldi, Elena Mirela

Votes: 428

18. Johnny One Hundred Pesos (1993)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young low-class student gets involved with the wrong people and takes part in a non successful video rental robbery.

Director: Gustavo Graef Marino | Stars: Armando Araiza, Patricia Rivera, Willy Semler, Aldo Parodi

Votes: 663

19. Four Days (1999)

R | 92 min | Drama

A teenager gets caught in the middle of a bank heist gone awry.

Director: Curtis Wehrfritz | Stars: Kevin Zegers, Lolita Davidovich, William Forsythe, Anne-Marie Cadieux

Votes: 358

20. You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)

94 min | Crime, Action, Comedy

During a slack period, contract killers market their business as a consumer experience.

Director: Ho-Cheung Pang | Stars: Eric Kot, Tat-Ming Cheung, Asuka Higuchi, Michael Wai-Man Chan

Votes: 1,705

21. Sensitive New Age Killer (2000)

87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A family man who witnessed a hit-man carry out a killing as a child decides to carry out contract executions in the suburbs of Melbourne, but soon finds himself also working as a hit-man, making his life far more complicated.

Director: Mark Savage | Stars: Paul Moder, Kevin Hopkins, Helen Hopkins, Carolyn Bock

Votes: 198

22. Space Travelers (2000)

125 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

What happens when ambitious robbery - to clear out a futuristic bank outside Tokyo in 5 minutes - gone wrong.

Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro | Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Eri Fukatsu, Masanobu Andô, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Votes: 524

23. 13 m² (2007)

84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

José is looking for a way out of his small time banlieue deals. When he overhears a conversation between his girlfriend and her step-brother,he might just have found a very lucrative ... See full summary »

Director: Barthélémy Grossmann | Stars: Barthélémy Grossmann, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Youssef Hajdi, Thierry Lhermitte

Votes: 295

24. The Hit Producer (2015)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Katelin Ballantine, a struggling movie producer in search of an investor, reluctantly follows the promise of money into Dublin's drug underworld where she witnesses a botched murder attempt... See full summary »

Director: Kevin de la Isla O'Neill | Stars: Michelle Doherty, Neill Fleming, Fergus Kealy, Susan Barrett

Votes: 55

25. Not Quite Right (2005)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

Four socially maladjusted brothers, each with their own set of significant problems, are suddenly cut loose from their father's dole and must try to fend for themselves. Not Quite Right ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Schaff | Stars: Corey Schaffer, Philip Schaff, Craig Hennon, Stephen Bowman

Votes: 21

26. Foodland (2010)

90 min | Comedy, Crime

A naive grocery clerk must finally stand up to his slimy, crafty, controlling coworkers in order to retrieve the store's considerable receipts, which have been mysteriously stolen.

Director: Adam Smoluk | Stars: James Clayton, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Ross McMillan, Kim Poirier

Votes: 37

27. Doo-noei-yoo-hee-peu-ro-jeg-teu-peo-jeul (2006)

91 min | Crime, Thriller

Five strangers, each with his own special talents, are recruited by the mysterious 'X'. They do not know why they are brought together, but nonetheless agree to a series of potentially ... See full summary »

Director: Tae-kyung Kim | Stars: Kim Ha-kyun, Ju Jin-mo, Park Jun-seok, Oh Jung-Won

Votes: 305

28. One Minutes (2009)

75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An anthology of one minute films in every genre imaginable.

Director: Philip Pugh | Stars: Lydia Adams, Adam Alexander, John Allen, Brigite Amaral

Votes: 23

29. The Hijacking of Studio 4 (1985 TV Movie)

94 min | Drama

A television station is held hostage as a distraught father tries to bargain with a Carribean government for the release of his imprisoned daughter.

Director: J. Aldric Gaudet | Stars: J.R. Zimmerman, Bill Boyle, Tom Nursall, Karen Cannata

Votes: 7

30. The Arriviste (2012)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime

One of them is after the killer. Another one is looking for the corpse. And the rest of them can't afford for the body to be found.

Director: Pascal Santschi | Stars: Eamon Speer, Mark James Fernandes, Gary Devirgilio, Raymond Turturro

Votes: 18

31. +1 (2015)

8 min | Short, Crime

Three guys are robbing a warehouse, but gets surprised by a security guard. They have to bring him along to their safe house. But what should they do to him now?

Director: Svend Colding | Stars: Fatih Sahin, Ali Kazim, Alexander Behrang Keshtkar, Lukas Miklik-Stolar

32. Urban Legends (2007–2011)
Episode: Best Laid Plans (2011)

PG-13 | 24 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A couple faces a life and death decision; a mayor receives a delivery of terror; a suicide attempt.

Stars: Michael Allcock, Carl Bauer, Zachary Connor, Rick Cordeiro

Votes: 7

33. Dual Suspects (2010– )
Episode: Burning Betrayal (2011)

Drama

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Directors: Karl Jason, P.J. Naworynski | Stars: Jacqueline Bynon, Nick Yaksich, Alberto Tihan, Garret Bullock