In Phoenix, Arizona, Harry Collins is a cop whose compulsive gambling has indebted him to a local gangster, Chicago.

Retired thief, Roy Egan (Harvey Keitel), comes out of retirement to help his youngest brother, Lee (Timothy Hutton), with a jewelry heist in Palm Springs.

Max Dembo, a lifelong thief in Los Angeles, is released from a six-year stint in prison and forced to report to a boorish and condescending parole officer, Earl Frank.

John Wisdom is a young man just out of college. On the night of his high school graduation, he had got drunk and stolen a car.

Willie Dynamite appears as the film's opening credits begin, with Martha Reeves singing the title song, 'Willie Dynamite.

Frank (James Caan) is a jewel thief and ex-convict who has a set structure to his life.

Drive is a 2011 American action drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.

New York City law student and gifted poker player Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) dreams of winning the World Series of Poker.

Neil McCauley is a criminal based in Los Angeles.

Jake Van Dorn is a prosperous local businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who has strong Calvinist convictions.

Jessie McMullen (Sean Connery) is a Scottish American widower who emigrated with his Sicilian wife to New York in 1946.

A trio of Wayne County, Michigan auto workers, two black—Ezekiel "Zeke" Brown from Detroit, Michigan (Pryor) and two-time ex-con convicted murderer Smokey James from Mississippi who spent time in Michigan State Prison (Kotto)—and one white— Polish-American from Hamtramck, Michigan, Jerry Bartowski (Keitel)—are fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass.

In 1972, Miklo Velka is the 17 year old son of a Mexican mother and a white father.

Fred Williamson stars as Duke Johnson, a man who arrives in Bucktown to bury his brother, a bar owner who was killed after refusing to pay crooked cops for protection.

Chris (Luke Perry), a young police officer meets the attractive and sexy Pamela (Ashley Judd) and immediately falls in love with her.

Note: The story is explained here in its chronological order, rather than as it is presented in the film.

After nearly being caught on a routine burglary, master safe-cracker Nick Wells decides the time has finally come to retire from his criminal activities.

Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene.

In 1963, an aging Philip Marlowe (James Caan) is newly married to young socialite Laura Parker (Dina Meyer).

In August 2005, Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) is a New Orleans police sergeant.