Michael Mann’s Typical Vibe
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Michael Mann has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Heat.
Recurring themes

The Last of the Mohicans
1992 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 8%Prime Video · Included

Collateral
2004 · Movie · Director
Top 18%Paramount+ · Included

Thief
1981 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Manhunter
1986 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 31%Prime Video · Included

Public Enemies
2009 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 53%Prime Video · Included

Ali
2001 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 55%Paramount+ · Included

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Jodhi May

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
Dir. Michael Mann · With James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky

FBI Agent Will Graham, retired after catching notorious cannibal Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
Dir. Michael Mann · With William L. Petersen, Tom Noonan, Dennis Farina

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Naomie Harris

Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley

Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Leehom Wang