
Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in a big way. Read More »
Crime
The Brutalisation of Franz Blum (1974) Reinhard Hauff, Jürgen Prochnow, Eike Gallwitz, Burkhard Driest

Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. Read More »
Polar (1984) Jacques Bral, Jean-François Balmer, Sandra Montaigu, Pierre Santini

This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist Read More »
Cop Game (1988) Bruno Mattei, Brent Huff, Max Laurel, Romano Puppo

In the final days of the Vietnam War, someone is killing the officers of the elite Cobra Force. Read More »
The Sicilian (1987) Michael Cimino, Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland

Giuliano robs from the rich conservative landowners to give to the poor, serf-like peasants, who in turn hail him as their savior. Read More »
Whirlpool (1934) Roy William Neill, Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook

Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight Read More »
Dragnet Girl (1933) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jôji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo

Tokiko is an office typist who is more pleased at catching the owner’s son attention than he knows. Read More »
Physical Evidence (1989) Michael Crichton, Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty

Extortionist Jake Farley is found strangled, and the clues lead directly to former detective Joe Paris Read More »
The Sky Dragon (1949) Lesley Selander, Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland

All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up Read More »
Vulgar (2000) Brian O’Halloran, Bryan Johnson, Jerry Lewkowitz

A loser with a crummy apartment, an odious mother, and a job that isn’t taking him anywhere (kid’s clown), gets a new idea. Read More »