Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Read More »
Crime
Black God White Devil (1964) Glauber Rocha, Geraldo Del Rey, Yoná Magalhães, Othon Bastos, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western
Fictionalized account of the adventures of hired gunman Antonio das Mortes, set against the real life last days of rural banditism. Read More »
Crime and Punishment (1935) Josef von Sternberg, Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh, Crime, Drama
Roderick Raskolnikov, a brilliant criminology student and writer, becomes embittered by poverty and his inability to support his family. Read More »
The Young Captives (1959) Irvin Kershner, Steven Marlo, Luana Patten, Tom Selden, Crime, Drama
Teen-age sweethearts, Benjie Whitney and Ann Howel, decide to elope to Mexico. Read More »
The Unknown Man (1951) Richard Thorpe, Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Barry Sullivan, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Prominent attorney Brad Mason takes on the defense of Rudi Walchek, a young hit-man hoodlum accused of murder. Read More »
Storm Fear (1955) Cornel WildeJean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After being wounded by a bullet, bank robber Charlie Blake seeks shelter with his gang at his brother’s mountain retreat. Read More »
Three Cases of Murder (1955) David Eady, George More O’Ferrall, Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Crime, Mystery, Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Read More »
Marnie (1964) Alfred Hitchcock, Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. Read More »
L.627 (1992) Bertrand Tavernier, Avec Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Philippe Torreton, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police inspector more because he loves it than because it’s his job, Lucien Marquet, 35, nicknamed Lulu, spends his nights and days sniffing out clues that might lead to solving cases. Read More »
Give Us Tomorrow (1978) Donovan Winter, Sylvia Syms, Derren Nesbitt, James Kerry, Crime, Drama
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank. Read More »
Woman in Hiding (1950) Michael Gordon, Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
Deborah Chandler’s rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? Read More »
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) John Rawlins, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio ‘Voice of Terror’ Read More »
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) Michael Curtiz, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Tom Connors is sentenced to Sing Sing believing his influential friends will soon have him out on parole. Read More »
The Bus (1975) Tunç Okan, Tuncel Kurtiz, Björn Gedda, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away. Read More »
House of Bamboo (1955) Samuel Fuller, Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Read More »