Movies by Writer - Jim Thompson (18 [Missing: 5]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Killing, TheCrook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery. | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 8.0 (87.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Paths of GloryAfter refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them. | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick | Drama,War | 8.4 (190.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Getaway, TheA recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry. | 1972 | Sam Peckinpah | Action,Crime,Thriller | 7.4 (31.4K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
Killer Inside Me, TheHaunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually exhibits the signs of a homicidal schizophrenic. | 1976 | Burt Kennedy | Crime,Drama | 5.9 (444 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
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 h | 1979 | Alain Corneau | Crime,Drama | 7.5 (2.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
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. | 1981 | Bertrand Tavernier | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 7.5 (5.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
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. | 1989 | Maggie Greenwald | Crime,Drama | 6.1 (186 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
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 m | 1990 | James Foley | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.6 (3.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
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. | 1990 | Stephen Frears | Crime,Drama,Thriller | 6.9 (27.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Getaway, TheAn ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned. | 1994 | Roger Donaldson | Action,Adventure,Crime | 5.8 (18.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
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. | 1996 | Steven Shainberg | Crime,Drama,Thriller | 5.4 (518 votes) | 125 | 20240504 |
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. | 1997 | Michael Oblowitz | Crime,Drama | 5.2 (1.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Killer Inside Me, TheA West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer. | 2010 | Michael Winterbottom | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.1 (34K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Untitled Noir ThrillerNA | TBA | | Crime | | | Not Available |
Lunatic at LargeNA | TBA | | Thriller | | | Not Available |
Nothing More Than MurderNA | TBA | | Thriller | | | Not Available |
Pop. 1280NA | TBA | | Western | | | Not Available |
TrappedNA | 2014 | | Crime,Short | | | Not Available |