Dirty Games: Four Crime Stories Where Nobody Plays Clean

Money. Revenge. Power. Survival.

Dirty Games brings together four dark and gripping crime stories about people pushed into dangerous situations where the difference between right and wrong quickly begins to disappear.

Blending crime, thriller and psychological tension, the anthology follows thieves, police officers, criminals and desperate men as they make choices that pull them deeper into worlds of violence, revenge and moral compromise.

Collectively, the films featured in Dirty Games have earned 14+ festival wins, bringing together acclaimed independent filmmaking from across the crime-thriller genre.

What is Dirty Games about?

Across four interconnected themes of desperation, ambition and survival, Dirty Games explores what happens when people decide the normal rules no longer apply.

A thief discovers that his latest target may have been waiting for him. Police officers, traffickers and a dealer race towards an inevitable collision. A desperate husband takes justice into his own hands while searching for his missing wife. And a man living on the edge risks everything in pursuit of power and revenge.

Every character believes they have a plan.

But in Dirty Games, every move has consequences.

Which short films are in Dirty Games?

Mr. Silhouette

A car thief targeting a Tesla discovers that what appeared to be an easy score may actually be a carefully laid trap.

As the balance of power shifts and the thief becomes the target, Mr. Silhouette blends crime and horror into a claustrophobic story about greed, survival and the terrifying consequences of choosing the wrong victim.

The Drop

Two police officers, two traffickers and a drug dealer travel separately through the city, unaware that their journeys are drawing them towards the same destination.

Told across three cars and multiple perspectives, The Drop explores the blurred line between law and criminality, revealing the humanity, desperation and moral compromises of people operating on opposite sides of the law.

Have You Found the Bodies?

When his wife disappears, a desperate man becomes convinced that his former police partner knows more than he is admitting.

Determined to uncover the truth, he takes matters into his own hands and crosses increasingly dangerous moral boundaries. Have You Found the Bodies? is a tense psychological crime thriller about obsession, justice and how far someone will go for the person they love.

The Showdown

After years spent living on the edge, Max Voron sets out to build a criminal empire while settling unfinished business from his past.

Driven by ambition, revenge and old wounds that refuse to disappear, The Showdown explores the dangerous price of power and what happens when personal grudges collide with criminal ambition.

Four stories. No clean hands.

While each film tells its own story, the characters of Dirty Games are connected by a common choice: each decides to cross a line.

Some want money.

Some want answers.

Some want revenge.

Some want power.

But once the game begins, control becomes increasingly difficult to hold onto.

For fans of morally complex crime thrillers such as Pulp Fiction, The Gentlemen and Nightcrawler, Dirty Games brings together four independent stories filled with tension, violence, shifting loyalties and characters who are rarely as innocent as they first appear.

Because when everybody is playing dirty, nobody gets out clean.