Delia Jordan’s father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. Read More »
Crime
Live Fast, Die Young (1958) Paul Henreid, Mary Murphy, Norma Eberhardt, Mike Connors
Two sisters live in a dysfunctional family in a California town. The elder, “nice” Kim, was sexually abused and hates men. Read More »
Countdown to Doomsday (1966) Marcello Baldi, George Ardisson, Pascale Audret, Christa Linder
NY private eye Jeff Milton is investigating a case of kidnapping in Caracas. Read More »
Smart Money (1931) Alfred E. Green, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp
Nick Venizelos, an immigrant Greek barber, has an uncommon affinity for poker and other sorts of wagering and a group of his friends bankroll him in a big game Read More »
The Mystery of Mr. X (1934) Edgar Selwyn, Richard Boleslawski, Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allan, Lewis Stone
There have been a spate of London police murders, the victims always killed by a long knife (which the police know is a sword cane) Read More »
Anti-Social (2015) Reg Traviss, Gregg Sulkin, Meghan Markle, Josh Myers
Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. Read More »
A Piece of the Action (1977) Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Read More »
The Crooked Web (1955) Nathan Juran, Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning
Cafe owner Stan Fabian joins Joanie Daniel and her “brother” Frank in a scheme to unearth a “fortune in stolen gold buried by Frank” in Germany during World War II Read More »
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940) Sidney Salkow, Warren William, Frances Robinson, Bruce Bennett
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit. Read More »
College Scandal (1935) Elliott Nugent, Arline Judge, Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Read More »
When a Stranger Calls (1979) Fred Walton, Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda
High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, “Have you checked the children lately?” Read More »
He Laughed Last (1956) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlow, Anthony Dexter
In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. Read More »
Power of the Press (1943) Lew Landers, Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper’s policy and support the US war effort. Read More »
Panic in the Streets (1950) Elia Kazan, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it’s pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. Read More »
The Seventh Juror (1962) Georges Lautner, Bernard Blier, Maurice Biraud, Francis Blanche
In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Read More »