This is the telling of the life of organized crime boss, Meyer Lansky, as remembered by him as a very old man who is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the US courts have put out an extradition order for him to stand trial. Read More »
Crime
The Counterfeit Killer (1968) Joseph Lejtes, Jack Lord, Shirley Knight, Jack Weston, Drama, Crime
Is there a link between the murder of five foreign sailors from the East whose bodies have been found on the San Pedro waterfront and the issue of one million counterfeit dollars in the USA? Read More »
F.I.S.T. (1978) Norman Jewison, Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. Read More »
Fragment of Fear (1970) Richard C. Sarafian, David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Crime, Mystery, Drama
A young British author is plunged into a nightmare as he tries to solve his aunt’s murder in Italy. Read More »
Un meurtre est un meurtre / Murder Is a Murder (1972) Etienne Périer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Stéphane Audran, Robert Hossein, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Paul Kastner’s wife dies in tragic circumstances. Although Paul is, or seems, blameless, a stranger soon appears in town who maintains he has evidence to show Paul in fact murdered the woman. Read More »
Desperate Moment (1953) Compton Bennett, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller, War
In post-world-war II Germany, Dutchman Simon Van Halder is accused of killing a British soldier. Although he confessed to the murder in order to obtain penicillin for his illness, Simon is innocent. Read More »
Three for Jamie Dawn (1956) Thomas Carr, Laraine Day, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Carlson, Crime, Drama
Unscrupulous trial lawyer and his operatives fix a case involving a wealthy client accused of murder. He finds and exploits the weaknesses of three jurors who capitulate at first. Read More »
Two Hands (1999) Gregor Jordan, Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, David Field, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Read More »
Dark Odyssey (1961) William Kyriakis, Radley Metzger, Athan Karras, Jeanne Jerrems, David Hooks, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Yianni Martakis, a sailor immigrant in New York City, is on a mission to find and kill the man who raped his sister. Read More »
Crimewave (1985) Sam Raimi, Louise Lasser, Brion James, Paul L. Smith, Comedy, Crime, Horror
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair. Read More »