Movie Database

Movies by Writer - Jim Thompson (18 [Missing: 5])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
Killing, TheCrook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.1956Stanley KubrickCrime,Drama,Film-Noir8.0 (87.3K votes)8420211228
Paths of GloryAfter refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.1957Stanley KubrickDrama,War8.4 (190.5K votes)8820211228
Getaway, TheA recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.1972Sam PeckinpahAction,Crime,Thriller7.4 (31.4K votes)12320211228
Killer Inside Me, TheHaunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually exhibits the signs of a homicidal schizophrenic.1976Burt KennedyCrime,Drama5.9 (444 votes)9920211228
Serie Noire [Série noire]Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from h1979Alain CorneauCrime,Drama7.5 (2.9K votes)11120211228
Coup de torchonA pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.1981Bertrand TavernierComedy,Crime,Drama7.5 (5.7K votes)12820211228
Kill-Off, TheBusiness at The Pavilion bar is down so Pete and Rags decide that the best way to get The Pavilion off the skids is to turn it into a strip joint.1989Maggie GreenwaldCrime,Drama6.1 (186 votes)11020211228
After Dark, My SweetAn ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom m1990James FoleyCrime,Drama,Mystery6.6 (3.5K votes)11420211228
Grifters, TheA small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.1990Stephen FrearsCrime,Drama,Thriller6.9 (27.3K votes)11020211228
Getaway, TheAn ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned.1994Roger DonaldsonAction,Adventure,Crime5.8 (18.1K votes)11520211228
Hit MeSonny lives with his intellectually disabled older brother, and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in. Sonny is offered a part in a heist that goes wrong.1996Steven ShainbergCrime,Drama,Thriller5.4 (518 votes)12520240504
This World, Then the FireworksIn 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder. Things complicate when their feeble-minded mother begins to suspect something.1997Michael OblowitzCrime,Drama5.2 (1.2K votes)10020211228
Killer Inside Me, TheA West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.2010Michael WinterbottomCrime,Drama,Mystery6.1 (34K votes)10920211228
Untitled Noir ThrillerNATBA Crime Not Available
Lunatic at LargeNATBA Thriller Not Available
Nothing More Than MurderNATBA Thriller Not Available
Pop. 1280NATBA Western Not Available
TrappedNA2014 Crime,Short Not Available