Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). Read More »
Crime
The Nitwits (1935) George Stevens, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Johnnie is a would-be songwriter; Newton is a would-be inventor. Both work at a cigar stand in the lobby of an office building. Read More »
The Star Chamber (1983) Peter Hyams, Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Hardin is a hard-working, honest judge becoming frustrated with a legal system, that continuously forces him to release criminals on technicalities. Read More »
The Singing Detective (2003) Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Mystery
While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) reworks his first book in his head. Read More »
Il rossetto / Lipstick (1960) Damiano Damiani, Pierre Brice, Giorgia Moll, Pietro Germi, Crime, Drama
A prostitute is found dead in an adjoining that of Silvana, a girl of thirteen who is in love with his neighbor Gino, a thirty handsome building. Read More »
The FBI Story (1959) Mervyn LeRoy, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Crime, Drama, History
The story of the FBI unfolds through the eyes of one of its agents. During his career he investigates gangsters, swindlers, the klu klux klan, Nazi agents and cold war spies.
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L’armoire volante / The Cupboard Was Bare (1948) Carlo Rim, Fernandel, Berthe Bovy, Germaine Kerjean, Comedy, Crime
Alfred Pic is a conscientious tax inspector who lives with his authoritarian aged aunt. Read More »
I’m a Stranger (1952) Brock Williams, Greta Gynt, James Hayter, Hector Ross, Crime, Comedy
When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance — only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. Read More »
Ratboy (1986) Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Christopher Hewett, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A physically deformed and somewhat feral teenager whose face looks like the snout of a rodent lives in solitude and misery in a city dump. Read More »
Edge of Eternity (1959) Don Siegel, Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O’Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. Read More »
Jewel Robbery (1932) William Dieterle, William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Comedy, Crime, Romance
When a baroness is present during a robbery at a jewellers in Vienna, she finds the gang’s debonair leader more attractive than either her husband or her lover.
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Der Fälscher von London / The Forger of London (1961) Harald Reinl, Karin Dor, Hellmut Lange, Siegfried Lowitz, Crime, Drama
A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may–or may not–have amnesia. Read More »
The Strange Countess (1961) Josef von Báky, Jürgen Roland, Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Lil Dagover, Adventure, Crime
(1961) Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum. A girl is almost murdered, but no explainable motive can be found until a 20 year old murder is uncovered and linked to the case.
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Reg’lar Fellers (1941) Arthur Dreifuss, Billy Lee, Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Buddy Boles, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the “Reg’lar Fellers”, and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine Read More »
Kagi-dorobô no mesoddo / Key of Life (2012) Kenji Uchida, Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Hirosue, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Unemployed 35 year old Sakurai aspired to become an actor, but failed miserably. He decides to end his own life, but first he goes to purify himself at a public bathhouse. Read More »