Top Rated Crime Movies on The Roku Channel - Page 97

Pallet on the Floor

1986

Pallet on the Floor

1986
5
A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.
Eastside

1999

Eastside

1999
6
A young man is transformed from criminal to local hero.
Diamond Run

1996

Diamond Run

1996
5
Rogue Vietnam War vets led by their old commander Sloan try to steal some diamonds, but mysterious Megan Marlow steals them first. Sloan sends his men after her, but rogue cop Jack Cates, who's partner was murdered by Sloan, helps her.
The Return of Eliot Ness

1991

The Return of Eliot Ness

1991
6
Detective Eliot Ness comes back to town to fight corruption and avenge a former partner's murder with the help of the son.
Night Partners

1983

Night Partners

1983
7
Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by working with crime victims to help catch criminals.
MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice

1994

MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice

1994
6
Reformed con man Jack MacShayne is back, this time as the head of security at the Las Vegas hotel he stayed at in MacShayne: Winner Takes All. As part of his new job, he's charged with protecting a variety of distinguished guests, from the kleptomaniac grandson of the hotel's CEO to the lounge singer whose ex-husband shows up dead. Meanwhile, a senatorial candidate is relying on MacShayne to keep him safe from a deadly hit man.
Life Tastes Good

1999

Life Tastes Good

1999
5
A quirky tale that brings together a murder, poisonous mushrooms and a mysterious woman to reveal the ephemeral beauty of life and the unforgiving nature of death. It is the story of a rogue mobster who finds love in the darkest days of his life.
Out of Nowheresville

2020

Out of Nowheresville

2020
2
A middle-aged woman, struggling to make ends meet and survive in remote desert town, stumbles onto a dead body and nearly a million dollars in cash. Along with her best friend, the two are swept up in a chaotic world of drugs and bad cops. The choices they make along the way make all the difference as they discover what's most important in life.
Monkey Business

1998

Monkey Business

1998
4
Two ex-cons try to frame the good-guy detective who sent them to jail. However, a group of kids decides to shut the gangsters' operations down with the help of some friends from the animal kingdom.
Liberty & Bash

1989

Liberty & Bash

1989
10
Liberty, Bash, and their friend Jesse served together in a war in Central America. Now Liberty and Bash work with youths, helping them stay out of crime and becoming a positive part of the community. But Jesse has gotten mixed up with drug lords, and when he turns up dead, it's up to Liberty & Bash to declare another war, this time on the home front. Written by Sean Kilby
Russian Holiday

1992

Russian Holiday

1992
4
In this thriller, an American schoolteacher visits St. Petersburg, Russia and ends up entangled in a deadly plot to steal a valuable artifact.
Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions

1996

Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions

1996
10
Detectives Cagney and Lacey come face-to-face with their true feelings about capital punishment when they're assigned to the city's first capital murder case in 10 years.
Skeem

2011

Skeem

2011
6
South African crime/comedy movie. Forced to spend the night at a creepy old holiday resort, two wannabe gangsters run into trouble when, unpacking the car, their box of cash splits open, spilling a million bucks in eye-catching bundles all over the driveway
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

1996

Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah

1996
6
The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents are forced to act on their own to find her. They must battle the bureaucracy of the police department while they are searching all over town for clues to Sarah's whereabouts. When the crucial clue is discovered, Sarah's father confronts her kidnapper at gunpoint.
Tell Me No Lies

2007

Tell Me No Lies

2007
6
In a small town, Jordan, the son of police chief Bates, and his friends Glenn and Russel Derrek, the son of the garage-owner Gordon Russell, enjoy having their way with local girls, like Tori, and recording those exploits on video. When Alex Mills is about to report them to the police, he is pushed but it's staged as an accident. Samantha 'Sam' Cooper witnesses this, and is threatened in order to keep her silent, next her mothers car is sabotaged, finally ecstasy laid in her locker so an anonymous tip to the police gets her arrested. When Derrek turns his back to his friends and promises Sam's mother Laura to testify, he has a 'car accident', actually run off the road, but survives. Laura and Tori's mother Shawna get one cop, Officer Brady Thomas, to investigate, and the chief starts to suspect his son is going bad again, but where lies his loyalty?
Identity Theft

2007

Identity Theft

2007
8
When a drug deal turns into a bloodbath, a junkie-gangster crosses paths with an illegal alien. The illegal alien ends up with the gangster's ID and uses it to create a new successful life as a US citizen. A near death experience causes the gangster to re-evaluate his life, and when he leaves prison three years later, he is clean, sober, and ready to put his life back together. But both men are haunted by their pasts and they are soon set on a collision course that may destroy them and the women they love.
In the Blue Ground: A North of 60 Mystery

1999

In the Blue Ground: A North of 60 Mystery

1999
6
Someone – or something – is stalking the woods of Lynx River, a small isolated town in the unforgiving wilderness. When a geologist on the verge of a major diamond find is murdered, Corporal Michelle Kenidi and her partner Constable James Harper suspect a hotheaded entrepreneur who’d been double-crossed by diamond hunters. But then the town nurse disappears under chilling circumstances and the two cops find themselves tracking a phantom. Through endless miles of rough terrain, their search leads to a startling discovery: the unknown stalker’s real target is Michelle. Now the madman is playing a deadly game with people as bait. And when the two finally meet, it’s a showdown that will leave only one of them standing.
Pinching Penny

2011

Pinching Penny

2011
4
A British hypochondriac turns to crime after becoming addicted to consumerism. As his obsession worsens, his life falls quickly into the absurd and he continues to spend himself deeper and deeper into depravity.
Unknowns

2012

Unknowns

2012
10
A group of young unknown actors arrive in Hollywood with dreams of fame and fortune. When they are cast in a horror film they become the unsuspecting participants in a snuff film - theirs.
The Vault

2005

The Vault

2005
2
After terrorists take over a museum, a reformed jewel thief must decide if he should help them steal a priceless diamond or if he should save the day.