Criminal Movies

Explore 72 short dramas starring Criminal on ReelShort, including Bound by Honor, Ex-Convict Nanny and Billionaire Single Dad, and Return of the Reaper. Popular genres and themes include Step-Siblings and Independent Woman. Watch online with free first episodes.

Heroes in the Darkness

Heroes in the Darkness

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For years, a secretive group known as Department 749 had been protecting the world from supernatural forces. However, the entire department suddenly vanished. Then people learned the truth behind many incidents, and knew what Department 749 did and sacrificed to protect ordinary people's everyday lives. Ultimately, civilians recognized the value of Department 749 and saluted those unsung heroes.
You Woke the Wrong Dad

You Woke the Wrong Dad

483.1k
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Once feared as the "Ruthless Dragon," Yale Cooper left his violent past to protect his wife and daughter, living quietly for 18 years. When his daughter Nina is bullied and humiliated at school, she hides the truth to avoid trouble. But when the aggressor brings trouble to Yale's repair shop, his buried past resurfaces. The Ruthless Dragon awakens. After settling the matter, Yale moves his shop next to Nina's university, vowing to protect his family and live a life of redemption.
Trial of the Forgotten

Trial of the Forgotten

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Ten years after her best friend Blythe dies by suicide following an assault, Tamsin Rowe is condemned by the whole town as the woman who protected the attacker. Hated, isolated, and dying, Tamsin has spent years refusing to reveal the name everyone demands. Then Imogen, once her closest friend, returns as the country’s richest woman and drags Tamsin onto a public Memory Trial. The device was made for death-row criminals, and every extracted memory will be broadcast to the world. As the trial begins, Tamsin begs Imogen to stop. Some truths, once exposed, can never be buried again.
Her Father’s Secret, My Sentence

Her Father’s Secret, My Sentence

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Ten years after her best friend Blythe dies by suicide following an assault, Tamsin Rowe is condemned by the whole town as the woman who protected the attacker. Hated, isolated, and dying, Tamsin has spent years refusing to reveal the name everyone demands. Then Imogen, once her closest friend, returns as the country’s richest woman and drags Tamsin onto a public Memory Trial. The device was made for death-row criminals, and every extracted memory will be broadcast to the world. As the trial begins, Tamsin begs Imogen to stop. Some truths, once exposed, can never be buried again.
My Husband's Colleague

My Husband's Colleague

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Gentle housewife Sarah meets her husband’s new colleague Diego at a family dinner, only to be drugged and assaulted by him, filmed, and blackmailed. Forced to assist in stealing commercial secrets, she endures prolonged mental manipulation and abuse. Gradually awakening from silent fear, Sarah secretly cooperates with the police, lays a trap, and engages in a life-and-death struggle to bring down the entire criminal network. In the end, she walks out of the trauma and rediscovers herself.
The Ash Room for Bad Neighbors

The Ash Room for Bad Neighbors

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Willa buys a ground‑floor home but is bullied by vicious neighbors. Her counterattack of building an ash room unexpectedly exposes a buried corpse. The haunting rumors, midnight digging, and murder cover‑up unravel; the killers are jailed. Willa receives compensation and a fresh start.
Mafia Housewife

Mafia Housewife

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15.4k
Juliet seems like the perfect housewife—calm, composed, and always smiling. But behind that polished exterior hides a woman with a painful past as the long-lost heiress of the notorious Blackstone mafia. She thought she left that life behind when she married Jack, trading power for a chance at a simpler life. But when her charming husband reveals a darker side, plotting to build his own underground empire and leaving her for dead, Juliet barely makes it out alive. Rescued by Simon—her father’s trusted confidant—she fakes her death and comes back as Lila. Gone is the devoted wife. Now, she seeks to tear down Jack’s ambitions piece by piece and save her family’s fading legacy. As she and Simon grow closer romantically, Juliet begins to rediscover her true self, realizing she might be just as dangerous as the world she left behind. In a twisted game of secrets, seduction, and power, Juliet is ready to reclaim what's hers.
I Married Wall Street’s Most Wanted

I Married Wall Street’s Most Wanted

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Once a genius artist and the heir to a prominent family, Natalie Grant loses everything overnight, but the real reason for her bankruptcy is a financial algorithm system called Atlas Protocol. This system is secretly used by top banks and capital funds, manipulating rating agencies, media narratives, and bank liquidity to precisely create market panic and corporate bankruptcies. Then, at the lowest point, they acquire assets, enabling systematic plundering of wealth. To buy some legal debt relief time, Natalie exploits a legal loophole and marries a criminal of humble origins. What she doesn't know is that this criminal, named Sebastian Hale, was once Wall Street's youngest quantitative finance genius and the true architect of Atlas Protocol. When Sebastian realizes that this system is systematically causing financial disasters and tries to expose the truth, his boss, the oligarch Reymond, sends him to prison. Two lives destroyed by the financial system are forced into a hostile contract marriage. At first, they use each other — Natalie hopes Sebastian can help delay her debt settlement, while Sebastian seeks to escape regulation and find an opportunity to re-enter the financial world through this marriage. As they spend time together, they realize that both of their pasts were destroyed by the same system. Thus, Sebastian and Natalie embark on an unlikely counterattack. Sebastian uses his deep understanding of the financial system’s rules to exploit market loopholes, debt rules, and information asymmetry to strike back at the system. Meanwhile, Natalie uses her media influence and social power to rally the masses, transforming personal vengeance into a challenge to the people’s fight against capital. In this journey from survival to rebellion, Natalie grows from an innocent and proud elite artist to a public leader who dares to challenge the power structures. Sebastian, too, moves from being a lonely rebel to finding a true ally. As they fight against an unjust system, they gradually fall in love with each other.

The Ice Man

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After being forced to stay on campus during winter break, Eric Tully and his fellow college classmates find themselves trapped by one of the worst blizzards in recorded history. With the campus completely cut off from the outside world, the students soon realize they are not alone. A mysterious stranger wearing a mask made entirely of ice has begun stalking the frozen campus, picking them off one by one. As the body count rises, Eric and the remaining students desperately search for a way to survive the night while trying to uncover the identity of the masked killer known only as The Ice Man. But when the survivors begin uncovering clues connecting the murders to a dark secret some of them have been hiding, it becomes clear that the killings may not be random. The Ice Man knows what they did, and he intends to make them pay. With the blizzard showing no signs of stopping and escape becoming impossible, Eric and his friends must confront the truth about their shared past before The Ice Man hunts them all down. To survive, they will have to determine who among them is truly his target—and why.
The Rise of a Godfather

The Rise of a Godfather

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Ethan used to be weak and powerless—humiliated for over twenty years, unable to even protect the woman he loves. His future father-in-law tears them apart by sending him to prison—and that brutal experience is what flips the switch in him. In just three years, he rises from prison to the top, becoming the undisputed Godfather of North America. When he gets out, he's not just taking back the woman he loves—he's making everyone who ever crossed him pay.