It is almost unheard of for a ninkyô or jitsuroku yakuza to have an even halfway happy ending. Read More »
Crime
The Solitaire Man (1933) Jack Conway, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Lionel Atwill
Oliver Lane is “The Solitaire Man,” a renowned jewel thief who is ready to retire and marry Helen Read More »
Les intrigantes / The Plotters (1954) Henri Decoin, Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau, Raymond Pellegrin
A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes the prime suspect in the death of his assistant Read More »
Miami Blues (1990) George Armitage, Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh
When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. Read More »
Noose / The Silk Noose (1948) Edmond T. Gréville, Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, Derek Farr
Sugiani, a black-market racketeer in London, following World War II, is amassing a vast fortune until Linda Medbury Read More »
Offbeat (1961) Cliff Owen, William Sylvester, Mai Zetterling, John Meillon
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang Read More »
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) Michael Anderson, George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Read More »
Rise and Fall of Yakuza (1970) Yasuo Furuhata, Kôji Tsuruta, Kyôsuke Machida, Makoto Satô
A reformed gangster helps a former yakuza member. Read More »
Young and Dangerous (1996) Wai Keung Lau, Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Gigi Lai
Nam opens a bar in Wanchai and continues his rise in Hong Kong’s Hung Hing gang. Read More »
The Running Man (1963) Carol Reed, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates
Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death Read More »