LOFT

2008, Belgium

Genre: Crime

Director: Erik Van Looy

Producer: Hilde de Laere

Writer: Bart de Pauw

Budget: 3,2 M Euros

Cast: Koen de Bouw, Filip Peters, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruno Vanden Broucke, Koen De Graeve, Veerle Baetens

Plot Summary:

5 friends who are all married and know each other very well decide to rent a loft together. In this loft they meet their mistresses. Everything is OK until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The 5 friends begin to suspect each other of murder. And it becomes clear that they don't know each other as good as they always thought.

GLORIA

USA, 1980

Genre: Crime

Director: John Cassavetes

Producer: Sam Shaw

Writer: John Cassavetes

Cast: Julie Carmen, Gena Rowlands

Plot Summary:

Jack Dawn and his family are eliminated by the mob, because he was their accountant and was keeping a personal copy of their records. However his six-year-old Puerto Rican son, Phil, escapes with Gloria, a neighbor who was a former girlfriend of one of the gangsters. Gloria and Phil are chased throughout New York City because Phil has a black book containing the accounts of the mob.

FARGO

USA, 1996
Genre: Crime

Director: Joel Cohen
Producers: Ethan & Joel Cohen
Writers: Joel & Ethan Cohen
Cast: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell
Budget: $7M

Plot Summary:
Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the bloodshed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from Brainerd, MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.