Thai crime films
Overview of films
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Dreams and Honour
A morality play about father figures and sons, good and bad influences, honour and disgrace, dynamically shot and edited.
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303 Fear/Faith/Revenge
This murder thriller set in a Catholic boys’ school was the 1998 box-office hit in Thailand.
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The Dumb Die Fast, the Smart Die Slow
Successful Thai ‘film noir’ about safebreaker who joins a young woman to rob her rich husband.
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Butterfly and Flowers
Unusual cross between neo-realism and sweet-yet-unsentimental romance concentrates on the Islamic minorities in the South of Thailand.
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Crime Kings
Macho-romantic biographical film about Sua Bai, an historic bandit from Thailand who stole from the rich and corrupt and then shared the booty with
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Dang Bireley’s and the Young Gangsters
This portrait of a ‘hero’ who gushes about James Dean and Elvis from the slums of Pra-Nakom in the late fifties underlines the gap betw
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Once Upon a Time… This Morning
An intelligent thriller about a ‘family in danger’. Children run away from home looking for a sweet father, but there’s a bag of