Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small Read More »
Crime
The Domain: The Naniwa Story AKA Nihon Kyokaku-den: Naniwa-hen (1965) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Hideo Murata, Asao Uchida
Osaka, 1920. A sailor returns from several years at sea to see his brother Read More »
Phantom Raiders (1940) Jacques Tourneur, Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut
A mysterious rash of cargo ship sinkings in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter Read More »
The Colonel AKA Mon colonel (2006) Laurent Herbiet, Olivier Gourmet, Robinson Stévenin, Cécile De France
A “Reformed Colonel” is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria’s struggle for independence was won from France. Read More »
Why Me? (1990) Gene Quintano, Christopher Lambert, Kim Greist, Christopher Lloyd
A jewel thief, his wacky sidekick, and his girlfriend are chased around Los Angeles by cops, the Cia Read More »
The Falcon’s Brother (1942) Stanley Logan, George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Gay Lawrence, amateur detective known as The Falcon, learns that his brother Tom Read More »
The Falcon in Hollywood (1944) Gordon Douglas, Tom Conway, Barbara Hale, Veda Ann Borg
Vacationing in Hollywood doesn’t free the Falcon from investigating murder. Read More »
Chinatown at Midnight (1949) Seymour Friedman, Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willes, Tom Powers
Clifford Ward is a thief working San Francisco’s Chinatown district, and his stolen goods are fenced through an interior-decorators shop ran by Lisa Marcel. Read More »
Federal Agent at Large (1950) George Blair, Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Kent Taylor
A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. Read More »
The Object of Beauty (1991) Michael Lindsay-Hogg, John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel way beyond what they can afford. Read More »
Tokyo Drifter AKA Tôkyô nagaremono (1966) Seijun Suzuki, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi
Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most acclaimed films of Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan’s most talented maverick directors. Read More »
I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death AKA Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino (1969) Giuliano Carnimeo, Gianni Garko, Frank Wolff, Ettore Manni
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name. Read More »
Guardian Angel AKA Andjeo cuvar (1987) Goran Paskaljevic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Jakup Amzic, Neda Arneric
The Guardian Angel in this harrowing film is the one who doesn’t protect gypsy children Read More »
Le pont du Nord (1981) Jacques Rivette, Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti
A woman recently released from prison and a strange young female street urchin keep running into each other on the streets of Paris Read More »
Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957) Richard Thorpe, Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Marcel Dalio
An expatriate American living in Madrid, former Air Force pilot Lloyd Tredman (Robert Taylor) Read More »