Two stories, 14 years apart, converge in a suburb of New York. Manuel Esquema, an international financier, whose face is badly scarred Read More »
Crime
The Docks of New York (1928) Josef von Sternberg, George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova
Bill Roberts works as a stoker on a coal-red barge. It’s dirty, hard work and the men have to put up with a foreman, Andy Read More »
The Beast to Die (1980) Tôru Murakawa, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi, Yoshirô Aoki
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Read More »
Bloody Territories (1969) Yasuharu Hasebe, Akira Kobayashi, Ryôji Hayama, Tadao Nakamaru
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure Read More »
The File of the Golden Goose (1969) Sam Wanamaker, Yul Brynner, Charles Gray, Edward Woodward
Policemen Novak & Thompson go undercover to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters. Read More »
The Bandit (1946) Alberto Lattuada, Anna Magnani, Amedeo Nazzari, Carla Del Poggio
Ernesto returns from captivity in Germany, at the end of the Second World War. And ‘only, the house destroyed, his mother died, his sister disappeared. Read More »
Festival Champ (1976) Noribumi Suzuki, Hiroki Matsukata, Jirô Sakagami, Etsuko Shihomi
A man working in a fish market is crazy about festivals. Read More »
The House of Fear (1945) Roy William Neill
Seven rich men retire to a Scottish castle and promptly begin to die in violent fashion. Read More »
Pursuit to Algiers (1945) Roy William Neill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Riordan
Holmes and Watson are recruited in a serpentine fashion to escort the heir to a European throne back to his native country following his father’s assassination. Read More »
Criss Cross (1949) Robert Siodmak, Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. Read More »