American Heart (1992)

A crime anthology film based on George Pelecanos’ book of the same title.

Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However…

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

Deputy Langley tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who…

Grady suffers from multiple personality disorder. Lara doesn’t know she just angered the most dangerous one.

Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She’s smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous…

A visiting city reporter’s assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

On the eve of the 1997 handover, violence is rampant as the British Hong Kong government has joined forces with the triads to cause chaos in Hong Kong. The gang…

When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady who witnessed the kidnapper using a public phone box….

An ex-prize fighter — now reporter — tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.

A British crime novelist travels to her publisher’s upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of…