Claude is a young man with a regular job, no history of trouble with the law and no chance of making any real money. Read More »
Film-Noir
A Strange Adventure (1956) William Witney, Joan Evans, Ben Cooper, Marla English
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder Read More »
Harbor of Missing Men (1950) R.G. Springsteen, Richard Denning, Barbra Fuller, Steven Geray
A fishing-boat owner, Jim “Brooklyn” Gannon, cuts a deal with a gangster syndicate to deliver a load of contraband firearms. Read More »
Flight from Destiny (1941) Vincent Sherman, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn
After philosophy Professor Todhunter is told he has 6 months left to live, he is barred from teaching by his college Read More »
Johnny O’Clock (1947) Robert Rossen, Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb
Johnny O’Clock (Dick Powell) is a junior partner in a posh casino with Guido Marchettis (Thomas Gomez) Read More »
Laura (1944) Otto Preminger, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Detective Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the killing of Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) Read More »
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) Joseph H. Lewis, Nina Foch, May Whitty, George Macready
Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather nosy employment agency Read More »
The Beast of the City (1932) Charles Brabin, Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. Read More »
The Phenix City Story (1955) Phil Karlson, John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
In this semidocumentary, an Alabama town is run by a crime syndicate that’s grown fat on prostitution and crooked gambling Read More »
Railroaded! (1947) Anthony Mann, John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont
Sexy beautician Clara Calhoun, who has a bookie operation in her back room, connives with her boyfriend Read More »
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Anatole Litvak, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home, she picks up the phone Read More »
The Killing (1956) Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
After just being released from a five year stint in prison, Johnny Clay has assembled a five man team Read More »
The Woman on the Beach (1947) Jean Renoir, Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
Scott, a troubled Coast Guardsman assigned to a fog-bound station on a remote stretch of beach Read More »
The Strange One (1957) Jack Garfein, Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Peter Mark Richman
Jocko De Paris, cadet leader in a Southern military academy, so manipulates events that George Avery, Jr., son of the school’s executive officer, is found drunk and expelled. Read More »
The Big Combo (1955) Joseph H. Lewis, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde
Police Lt. Diamond is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown Read More »