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Crime
The Pilgrim Lady (1947) Lesley Selander, Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, Alan Mowbray
Dennis Carter (Warren Douglas), the head of a detective agency, and his secretary Read More »
We Are Not Alone (1939) Edmund Goulding, Paul Muni, Una O’Connor, Jane Bryan
Warners’ publicity releases, intended for newspapers, on this film state that Paul Muni Read More »
Vice Squad AKA Brigade mondaine (1978) Jacques Scandelari, Patrice Valota, Odile Michel, Florence Cayrol
The crime squad is after a drug and prostitution ring, which enables a number Read More »
Angela (1954) Edoardo Anton, Dennis O’Keefe, Mara Lane, Rossano Brazzi
Angela (Mara Lane, secretary to an important businessman in Italy, Bertolati (Nino Crisman) Read More »
A Legend of Turmoil AKA Shura no densetsu (1992) Akiyoshi Kimata, Akira Kobayashi, Takanori Jinnai, Ruby Moreno
Otaki, a member of a small yakuza family, hunts down the people who murdered his boss. Read More »
The Monster of London City AKA Das Ungeheuer von London-City (1964) Edwin Zbonek, Hansjörg Felmy, Marianne Koch, Dietmar Schönherr
Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London Read More »
What a Way to Die AKA Sommersprossen (1968) Helmut Förnbacher, William Berger, Helga Anders
Germany 1934. In the middle of a southern German forest, a number of mannequins Read More »
The Five AKA Gonin (1995) Takashi Ishii, Kôichi Satô, Masahiro Motoki, Jinpachi Nezu
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza Read More »
The Gorilla Greets You AKA Le gorille vous salue bien (1958) Bernard Borderie, Lino Ventura, Charles Vanel, Pierre Dux
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must Read More »
Next Stop Paradise AKA Terminus paradis (1998) Lucian Pintilie, Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, Gheorghe Visu
The Bucharest’s suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu Read More »
The Jailbreakers (1960) Alexander Grasshoff, Robert Hutton, Mary Castle, Michael O’Connell
A married couple is held hostage in a dismal, deserted town by three escaped convicts. Read More »
Fighting Back (1982) Lewis Teague, Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin
It’s a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals’ violences and ravages. Read More »
Send for Paul Temple (1946) John Argyle, Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Tamara Desni
This is the first film based on Francis Durbridge’s long-running BBC Radio serial. Read More »
The Way of All Flesh (1940) Louis King, Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George, William Henry
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna Read More »