
A private detective and former police officer gets an investigation that turns out to be rather complicated. Read More »
Crime
Any Place But Home (1997) Rob Hedden, Joe Lando, Dale Midkiff, Mary Page Keller

A businessman’s son is kidnappped, but the kidnapper’s sister-in-law and her husband are opposed to the plan. Read More »
The Charge Is Murder / Atto di accusa (1950) Giacomo Gentilomo, Lea Padovani, Marcello Mastroianni, Karl Ludwig Diehl

A luckless young teacher is suspected of committing two murders. Read More »
Manhattan Melodrama (1934) W.S. Van Dyke, George Cukor, Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy

Orphans Edward “Blackie” Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Read More »
Le rouge est mis / Speaking of Murder (1957) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Marcel Bozzuffi

Louis Bertain, a respectable garage owner by day, is the head of a band of notorious crooks by night. Read More »
Sans mobile apparent / Without Apparent Motive (1971) Philippe Labro, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Sacha Distel

A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders. Read More »
The Night of the Generals (1967) Anatole Litvak, Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay

In 1942, in Warsaw, a Polish prostitute is murdered in a sadistic way. Read More »
Inside the Mafia (1959) Edward L. Cahn, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Strauss, Grant Richards

Mafia gunmen sent by their boss to kill a rival gang leader take over a small airfield where their target is scheduled to land. Read More »
Orchids Under the Moon (1991) Takashi Ishii, Jinpachi Nezu, Kimiko Yo, Shû Nakajima

Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago while he was an accountant for their organization. Read More »
Out of the Blue (2008) Yigal Bursztyn, Alon Aboutboul, Moshe Ivgy, Dorit Bar-Or

This is a little like an extended but half-serious variation on the “Uptown Girl” song video where the working-class guy meets the beautiful model from the billboard. Read More »