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      • "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is not, properly speaking, a thriller, and yet it plays like one. In fact, it plays a little like those film noir classics of the 1940s, like " Double Indemnity," in which a man thinks of himself as moral, but finds out otherwise.
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  2. "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is not, properly speaking, a thriller, and yet it plays like one. In fact, it plays a little like those film noir classics of the 1940s, like " Double Indemnity ," in which a man thinks of himself as moral, but finds out otherwise.

  3. Crimes and Misdemeanors is a 1989 American existential comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars alongside Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston, and Joanna Gleason.

  4. Nov 9, 2021 · Crimes and Misdemeanors asks such things as, Is there any real punishment for crime? Is God, or anyone else, paying attention and keeping score? If someone is murdered or humiliated, does anyone care? To Judah’s amazement, life turns into a movie—but will it end like one?

  5. Sep 11, 2005 · The new film resembles "Crimes and Misdemeanors" in the way it involves a man who commits murder to cover up an affair, but "Match Point" is more firmly a film noir, and "Crimes" is frankly a complaint against God for turning a blind eye on evil.

  6. Nov 3, 1989 · Recently viewed. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Directed by Woody Allen. With Bill Bernstein, Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Stephanie Roth Haberle. An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.

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    • Comedy, Drama
    • Woody Allen
    • 1989-11-03
  7. Crimes and Misdemeanors. Judah (Martin Landau) is a philandering eye doctor who wants to preserve his marriage, and his dangerous brother Jack (Jerry Orbach) comes up with what appears to be the ...

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    • Comedy, Drama
    • PG-13
  8. C rimes And Misdemeanors was released in the US on 13th October 1989. At the time, Ridley Scott's action thriller Black Rain was enjoying its third week at the top of the US box office. Crimes And Misdemeanors played the 40th Berlin Film Festival, which ran from 9-20 February 1990. It played out-of-competition.

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