Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "attorney", "gang"

1. Alpha Dog (2006)

R | 122 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Johnny and his pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother Zach, then assign his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder. They develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control.

Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Willis

Votes: 108,019 | Gross: $15.23M

2. King of New York (1990)

R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller

A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo

Votes: 42,134 | Gross: $2.55M

3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Approved | 123 min | Drama, Western

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin

Votes: 82,337

4. Touch of Evil (1958)

PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 109,837 | Gross: $2.24M

5. Big Stan (2007)

R | 105 min | Action, Comedy

A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.

Director: Rob Schneider | Stars: Rob Schneider, David Carradine, Sally Kirkland, Jennifer Morrison

Votes: 47,264

6. Destroyer (2018)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.

Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Sebastian Stan

Votes: 31,809 | Gross: $1.53M

7. Grand Canyon (1991)

R | 134 min | Crime, Drama

The fates of several people are randomly intertwining. Their sympathy of each other faces multiple differences in their lifestyles.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell

Votes: 16,714 | Gross: $33.24M

8. Animal Factory (2000)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama

A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.

Director: Steve Buscemi | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, Mark Boone Junior

Votes: 14,651 | Gross: $0.04M

9. 3 Strikes (2000)

R | 82 min | Comedy

Rob has 2 strikes and 3 strikes now means 25 to life. Leaving prison, he's picked up in a stolen car later stopped by the police. Can he prove his innocence before he's caught?

Director: DJ Pooh | Stars: Brian Hooks, N'Bushe Wright, Faizon Love, E-40

Votes: 3,695 | Gross: $9.82M

10. 'G' Men (1935)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 4,368

11. Knock on Any Door (1949)

Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts

Votes: 4,211

12. Kidnap Syndicate (1975)

R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller

Based on an actual event "The Kidnap Syndicate" is the story of two boys, one from a rich family and the other from a poor family, who are kidnapped and held for ransom.

Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Luc Merenda, James Mason, Irina Maleeva, Marino Masé

Votes: 900

13. Dick Tracy (1937)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.

Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette, Lee Van Atta

Votes: 652

14. Emergency Call (1933)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An expose of the racketeering "accident victims" who extort millions of dollars annually from American automobile owners, insurance companies and property owners by staging fake accident ... See full summary »

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: William Boyd, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan, George E. Stone

Votes: 194

15. Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote. This turns out to cause many problems for the family while on vacation.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Lewis Stone, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Louise Latimer

Votes: 210

16. Sealed Lips (1942)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A detective begins to suspect that a man may be in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: William Gargan, June Clyde, John Litel, Anne Nagel

Votes: 98

17. Midnight Court (1937)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Victor Shanley had once been New York City's most-acclaimed crime-fighting, crusading District Attorney and the scourge of the underworld. But the workaholic demands of the job led him to ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Ann Dvorak, John Litel, Carlyle Moore Jr., Joseph Crehan

Votes: 129

18. This Marriage Business (1938)

Passed | 71 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

New York city reporter Bill Terry (Allan Lane and his photographer-assistant "Candid" Perry (Jack Carson) follow an eloping heiress to a small New York town where he hears the marriage ... See full summary »

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Victor Moore, Allan Lane, Vickie Lester, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 156

19. Voice in the Night (1934)

Passed | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force... See full summary »

Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Billie Seward, Joseph Crehan, Ward Bond

Votes: 30

20. Hurricane Smith (1941)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new and happy life for himself. But one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Ray Middleton, Jane Wyatt, Harry Davenport, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 42

21. Main Street Lawyer (1939)

Approved | 72 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Flossie, girl friend of gangster Tony Marco, is released from the state penitentiary. With Marco and Ballou, his lawyer, she goes to Corinthia to deliver a letter to "Link" Boggs, from her ... See full summary »

Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Edward Ellis, Anita Louise, Robert Baldwin, Harold Huber

22. Romance Revier (1934)

Passed | 29 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

Bud arrives for the reading of his late uncle's will. But his other uncle has already seen the will and he will receive the estate only if Bud is married. Finding Bud unmarried, he has a plan that will force Bud into a quick marriage.

Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Fred Humes, Ben Corbett, Renee Borden, Franklyn Farnum

Votes: 11

23. The Joe Rogan Experience (2009– )
Tom O'Neill (2020 Podcast Episode)

TV-MA | 175 min | Comedy, Talk-Show

Tom O'Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice and ... See full summary »

Stars: Joe Rogan, Tom O'Neill

Votes: 18

24. Major Crimes (2012–2018)
Episode: Rules of Engagement (2013)

Not Rated | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raydor comes to blows with her husband when she asks him to represent a witness in what initially appears to be a gang related shooting.

Director: David McWhirter | Stars: Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan

Votes: 318