An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. Read More »
Crime
Rififi à Tokyo / Rififi in Tokyo (1963) Jacques Deray, Karlheinz Böhm, Charles Vanel, Barbara Lass, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Van Ekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up, to get a very valuable diamond, so big it’s named Titan. Read More »
Massacre Gun (1967) Yasuharu Hasebe, Jô Shishido, Hideaki Nitani, Yôko Yamamoto, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Read More »
I soliti ignoti / Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) Mario Monicelli, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Comedy, Crime
Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang. Read More »
Dressed to Kill (1941) Eugene Forde, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders. Read More »
Blind Spot (1947) Robert Gordon, Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A down-and-nearly-out writer makes a drunken visit to the office of his publisher, who turns up dead shortly afterward, and the writer is unable to prove his innocence. Read More »
Lucky Jordan (1942) Frank Tuttle, Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lucky Jordan, cynical gambler and racketeer, finds one thing his luck and connections can’t fix: the draft board. Read More »
Once a Thief (1950) W. Lee Wilder, Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Read More »
Stolen Life (1962) Aarne Tarkas, Mäkelä, Rauha Rentola, Rose-Marie Precht, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. Read More »
Nora Inu / Stray Dog (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Read More »
Mystery Submarine (1950) Douglas Sirk, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist, and sink a Nazi submarine, hiding off the coast of South America. Read More »
Black Angel (1946) Roy William Neill, Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Kirk Bennett is falsely sentenced to death for killing blackmailer Mavis Marlowe, ex-wife of nice-guy drunk Martin Blair. Read More »
The Gambler (1974) Karel Reisz, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Crime, Drama
Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.
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Deprisa, deprisa / Faster, Faster (1981) Carlos Saura, Berta Socuéllamos, Jose Antonio Valdelomar González, Jesús Arias, Crime, Drama
Writer and director Carlos Saura here dramatizes the downward slide of four young people who started out with many strikes against them. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) Boris Sagal, Roger Moore, John Huston, Patrick Macnee
In this mystery, Holmes pursues his archenemy Moriarty to New York City, in which the villainous scoundrel has carried out the ultimate bank robbery. Read More »