On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews’ wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Read More »
Crime
Go for Sisters (2013) John Sayles, LisaGay Hamilton, Yolonda Ross, Edward James Olmos, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Fontayne is enlisted by Bernice – her estranged old friend and current parole officer – along with a disgraced cop to search for Bernice’s son, who went missing on the Mexican border.
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Zhi fa xian feng / Righting Wrongs (1986) Corey Yuen, Biao Yuen, Cynthia Rothrock, Melvin Wong, Action, Crime, Thriller
Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands Read More »
Border Incident (1949) Anthony Mann, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside. Read More »
Let Us Live (1939) John Brahm, Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Crime, Drama
Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men’s execution date.
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O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra / The Sintra Road Case (2007) Jorge Paixão da Costa, Ivo Canelas, António Pedro Cerdeira, Bruna Di Tullio, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily “Diário de Notícias”. Read More »
An Act of Murder (1948) Michael Gordon, Fredric March, Edmond O’Brien, Florence Eldridge, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Judge Cooke, good husband and father, is known in court as Old Man Maximum. Cooke’s daughter loves defender Dave Douglas, who hates Cooke’s attitude toward defendants. Read More »
Endless Night (1972) Sidney Gilliat, Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Crime, Drama, Horror
Michael Rogers is a chauffeur with little money, but big dreams. Foremost of these is building his dream house on the perfect piece of land. Read More »
Abandoned (1949) Joseph M. Newman, Dennis O’Keefe, Gale Storm, Marjorie Rambeau, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An expose of the baby-profiteering racket as told through the story of an unwed-mother. Read More »
The Thrill Killers (1964) Ray Dennis Steckler, Liz Renay, Joseph Bardo, Horror, Action, Crime
Joe Saxon (Brick Bardo) is an unsuccessful actor in Hollywood who refuses to accept defeat. His wife, Liz (Liz Renay), is fed up with his dreaming, not to mention the wild parties he throws to suck up to movie industry bigwigs. Read More »
Jimmy the Gent (1934) Michael Curtiz, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Unscrupulous investigator of lost heirs Jimmy Corrigan loses his love Joan Martin to apparently upright competitor James Wallingham. He counters by adding a veneer of respectability to his own operation. Meanwhile he exposes Wallingham for a fraud.
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Traveller (1997) Jack N. Green, Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Margulies, Crime, Drama, Romance
A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended.
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Violencia na Carne (1981) Alfredo Sternheim, Hércules Barbosa, Luiz Carlos Braga, Claudio D’Oliani, Crime, Erotic
Three criminals escape from prison and break in a seaside house to wait for the getaway boat. They subdue four aspirant actresses and three men and rape and torture them. One of the escapees is an idealistic political prisoner that falls in love with Letícia. When the violent Jorge kills a woman camped on the beach, the police investigate the area.
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Rashômon / Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Crime, Drama
A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon.
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Schussangst / Gun-shy (2003) Dito Tsintsadze, Fabian Hinrichs, Lavinia Wilson, Johan Leysen, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lukas is a pacifistic young man, fulfilling his civil service obligation by delivering food to the elderly rather than spending time in the military.
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