Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks Read More »
Crime
Bande à part AKA Band of Outsiders (1964) Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard
A triangle: Franz, Arthur, and Odile. Franz, a young man with Alain Delon good looks, has met Odile in an English class. Read More »
A Double Life (1978) Daniel Haller, J.D. Cannon, Alex Courtney, Cristina Ferrare
After the death of his parents, millionaire playboy Jack Cole is framed on charges of embezzlement. Read More »
South of Algiers (1953) Jack Lee, Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix, Eric Portman
Archaeologist Dr. Burnet, his daughter Anne and newspaperman Nicholas Chapman Read More »
King of the Roaring 20’s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) Joseph M. Newman, David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson
Moving from one scam to another Arnold Rothstein quickly becomes rich, and settles into the life of owning big-town gambling joints. Read More »
‘Hukkunud Alpinisti’ hotell AKA Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (1979) Grigori Kromanov, Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson
Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Read More »
Abenteuer in Wien AKA Adventures in Vienna (1952) Emil E. Reinert, Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner
In postwar Vienna, fate brings together a petty crook working under the table as a taxi driver and a famous concert pianist. Read More »
Le rouge est mis AKA Speaking of Murder (1957) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi
Louis Bertain, a respectable garage owner by day, is the head of a band of notorious crooks by night. Read More »
Little Athens (2005) Tom Zuber, John Patrick Amedori, Jack Anthony, Jasmine Jessica Anthony
A day in Athens, Arizona, as teens and twenty-somethings navigate life without a compass. Read More »
Secret Service Investigator (1948) R.G. Springsteen, Lynne Roberts, Lloyd Bridges, George Zucco
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks. Read More »
Traitor’s Gate AKA Das Verrätertor (1964) Freddie Francis, Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond, Margot Trooger
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Read More »
Prison Break (1938) Arthur Lubin, Barton MacLane, Glenda Farrell, Paul Hurst
Joaquin Shannon arrives home from a cruise on his fishing boat. Read More »
Nuit d’or AKA Golden Night (1976) Serge Moati, Bernard Blier, Klaus Kinski, Marie Dubois
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members. Read More »
L’assassino AKA The Assassin (1961) Elio Petri, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni
The antiquarian Alfredo Martelli is brought to a police precinct without any explanation and interviewed by Inspector Palumbo. Read More »
Telefon (1977) Don Siegel, Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
The KGB is looking for one of their people, a man named Dalchimsky because he has stolen something important but Read More »