A racketeer, deported back from America, faces murder charge and hatches jury rigging plot with accomplice. Cross and double-cross follow. Read More »
Crime
Love Is Colder Than Death AKA Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (1969) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake
Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress Read More »
Mad Dog Time (1996) Larry Bishop, Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss
Mob boss Vic returns to business from madhouse. Meanwhile his best Read More »
Girls on Probation (1938) William C. McGann, Jane Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Averill
This film proves the old adage “You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you shouldn’t pick friends who rob banks.” Read More »
The Criminal (1960) Joseph Losey, Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan
An ex-con who’s taken part in the robbery of a racetrack is caught and sent back to prison Read More »
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 3 AKA Showa zankyo-den: Ippiki okami (1966) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Sumiko Fuji
Takei Shigejiro belongs to the Shimazu family. When his boss gets killed, he takes revenge and ends up in prison. 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 »
Sara (1997) Maciej Slesicki, Boguslaw Linda, Agnieszka Wlodarczyk, Cezary Pazura
Leon, the 40-year-old former soldier who is an alcoholic now, gets a job as a bodyguard. Read More »
The Big Sleep (1978) Michael Winner, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone
Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is asked by the elderly General Sternwood (James Stewart) Read More »
The Violin Case Murders AKA Schüsse aus dem Geigenkasten (1965) Fritz Umgelter, George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Pascal
The first Jerry Cotton movie is a good one. Jerry’s after crooks who pose as a musical band. Read More »