Three men gun down Solly Pitts, ‘rebel’ against the racket-ridden Longshoremen’s Union. Before dying, Pitts tells his wife ‘Cockeye’ Cook was one of the killers…but won’t repeat it to the police, nor will anyone else help them. Read More »
Crime
La fille inconnue / The Unknown Girl (2016) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier, Crime, Drama, Mystery
The efficient Dr. Jenny Davin works hard and has been chosen to replace Dr. Habran, who has just retired, at the Kennedy Hospital. Read More »
Intent to Kill (1958) Jack Cardiff, Richard Todd, Betsy Drake, Herbert Lom, Crime, Drama, Thriller
As British Dr. Bob McLaurin prepares for a dangerous surgical procedure on South American leader Juan Menda in Montreal, the doctor’s wife reveals her plan to blackmail McLaurin if he refuses her demand to take a job in England. Read More »
Home at Seven (1952) Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Crime, Drama, Mystery
David Preston, a bank official goes missing for 24 hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has been found murdered. Read More »
Nihon no don: kanketsuhen / The Godfather: Resolution (1978) Sadao Nakajima, Toshirô Mifune, Bunta Sugawara, Naoko Ôtani, Crime, Drama
Double crosses and backstabbing while older yakuza bosses fight for the title of “The Godfather of Japan” violent history and a cast full of stars. Read More »
Somewhere in the Night (1946) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the World War II, a soldier is hit by a grenade that deforms his face and leaves him with amnesia. Read More »
The House of Fear (1939) Joe May, William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Arnold, Crime, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor’s murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. Read More »
Nihon no fûikusaîchi / The Fixer (1979) Yasuo Furuhata, Shin Saburi, Masakazu Tamura, Kyôko Enami, Crime
A fixer controls political events from behind the scenes – the portrait of a political fixer and his machinations. Read More »
Anaparastasi / Reconstruction (1970) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos, Crime, Drama
A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Read More »
The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935) Ray Kirkwood, Jack Nelson, Lon Chaney Jr., Dean Benton, Marie Burton, Crime, Drama
A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter tries to run off with the gang’s latest haul. Read More »
The Hands of Orlac / Orlacs Hände (1924) Robert Wiene, Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Orlac is a world famous pianist. One day he is badly hurt in a big train wreck. He is in danger of losing both his hands so his wife begs the doctors to save them. Read More »
Legion of Terror (1936) Charles C. Coleman, Bruce Cabot, Marguerite Churchill, Crawford Weaver, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and ‘Slim” Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation Read More »
Bô no kanashimi / Like a Rolling Stone (1994) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Eiji Okuda, Eiko Nagashima, Reiko Takashima, Crime, Drama
Tanaka is a yakuza who collects ‘protection money’ from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Read More »
Topkapi (1964) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
A small-time con-man with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Read More »
Thunderhoof (1948) Phil Karlson, Preston Foster, Mary Stuart, William Bishop, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Texas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had saved a few years earlier. Read More »