Takei Shigejiro belongs to the Shimazu family. When his boss gets killed, he takes revenge and ends up in prison. Read More »
Crime
The Beast of the City (1932) Charles Brabin, Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. Read More »
Sara (1997) Maciej Slesicki, Boguslaw Linda, Agnieszka Wlodarczyk, Cezary Pazura
Leon, the 40-year-old former soldier who is an alcoholic now, gets a job as a bodyguard. Read More »
The Big Sleep (1978) Michael Winner, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone
Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is asked by the elderly General Sternwood (James Stewart) Read More »
Bonnot’s Gang AKA La bande à Bonnot (1968) Philippe Fourastié, Jacques Brel, Bruno Cremer, Annie Girardot
A group of French anarchists are moved to violence when their leader Raymond (Jacques Brel) is captured. Read More »
Blackmail Is My Life AKA Kyôkatsu koso waga jinsei (1968) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroki Matsukata, Tomomi Satô, Shinjirô Ehara
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises Read More »
The Violin Case Murders AKA Schüsse aus dem Geigenkasten (1965) Fritz Umgelter, George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Pascal
The first Jerry Cotton movie is a good one. Jerry’s after crooks who pose as a musical band. Read More »
A Cold Blooded Affair AKA Die Rechnung – eiskalt serviert (1966) Helmuth Ashley, George Nader, Yvonne Monlaur, Horst Tappert
Even Jerry Cotton, the scourge of the underworld, needs a vacation every now and then. Read More »
Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories AKA Cha và con và… (2015) Dang Di Phan, Thi Hai Yen Do, Ha Phong Nguyen, Cong Hoang Le
It is the late nineties, Vietnam is in economic turmoil and overpopulation has sparked political concern. Read More »
The Long Haul (1957) Ken Hughes, Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen
Desperate to earn money, Harry hooks back up with Joe Easy. The best scene is when they make the final run to cash out a load of furs Read More »
The Singing Killer AKA Xiao sha xing (1970) Cheh Chang, David Chiang, Ping Wang, Tina Chin-Fei
David Chiang plays Johnny, a reformed criminal turned pop headliner at a hip club in Hong Kong. Read More »
Red Hot Tires (1935) D. Ross Lederman, Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor, Roscoe Karns
Wally Storm (Lyle Talbot) is a hotshot race car driver. Read More »
Penelope (1966) Arthur Hiller, Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn
When James met Penelope at a club, it took all of three weeks before they were married. Read More »
A House Is Not a Home (1964) Russell Rouse, Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero
Based on Polly Adler’s best-selling autobiography about her life in the Roaring Twenties as a legendary Madam. Read More »
The Phenix City Story (1955) Phil Karlson, John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
In this semidocumentary, an Alabama town is run by a crime syndicate that’s grown fat on prostitution and crooked gambling Read More »