The best Peter Boyle’s crime movies

Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle

18/10/1935- 12/12/2006
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Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver
8.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/02/1976
  • Character: Wizard
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Red Heat

Red Heat
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 17/06/1988
  • Character: Lou Donnelly
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.

Outland

Outland
6.6/10
An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.

Hardcore

Hardcore
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/02/1979
  • Character: Andy Mast
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.

Johnny Dangerously

Johnny Dangerously
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 21/12/1984
  • Character: Jocko Dundee
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
7.4/10
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

Joe

Joe
6.8/10
Ad executive Bill Compton confronts and murders his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend. Wandering into a local bar, Bill encounters a drunken, bigoted factory worker with a bloodlust, Joe Curran. When Bill confesses the murder to Joe, the two strike up an uneasy alliance, leading to a wild adventure.

The Dream Team

The Dream Team
6.5/10
This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.

Men of Respect

Men of Respect
5.5/10
In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.

Crazy Joe

Crazy Joe
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/02/1974
  • Character: Joe
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

The Brink's Job

The Brink's Job
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/12/1978
  • Character: Joe McGinnis
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino (Peter Falk), a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis (Peter Boyle), who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...

Steelyard Blues

Steelyard Blues
5.3/10
A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. There mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that the PBY needs a lot of work and they will need jobs to pay for the parts. When they find that they have only 10 days before the PBY is sold for scrap, they decide on borrowing the parts for their trip

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