A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires Read More »
Crime
Contraband (1940) Michael Powell, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control Read More »
Blind Woman’s Curse (1970) Teruo Ishii, Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satô
Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents’ leader Read More »
Gorky Park (1983) Michael Apted, William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow’s Gorky Park. Read More »
Cold Summer of 1953 (1988) Aleksandr Proshkin, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. Read More »
The Assignment (1997) Christian Duguay, Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley
1986. In his civilian clothes while on shore leave in Jerusalem, Lieutenant Commander Annibal Ramirez of the US Navy Read More »
Karate Warriors (1976) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Shin’ichi Chiba, Isao Natsuyagi, Akiko Koyama
Chico arrives in a city where there are two waring gangs. Read More »
Lulu (1962) Rolf Thiele, Nadja Tiller, O.E. Hasse, Hildegard Knef
A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor’s pocket. Read More »
The Moon God (1988) Jonas Cornell, Tomas Laustiola, Agneta Ekmanner, Per Myrberg
A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. Read More »
The Phantom Thief (1946) D. Ross Lederman, Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. Read More »