
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. Read More »
Crime
The Devil’s Mask (1946) Henry Levin, Anita Louise, Jim Bannon, Michael Duane, Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Based on the “I Love a Mystery” radio program (where most of the stories were told in serial fashion over several episodes): Searching through the wreckage of a crashed airline Read More »
The Flaw (1955) Terence Fisher, John Bentley, Donald Houston, Rona Anderson, Crime, Thriller, Drama

A race car driver marries a woman for her money and plans to murder her. An old suitor steps in to help her but the driver takes steps to eliminate the rival. Read More »
Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) Stanley A. Long, Christopher Neil, Suzy Kendall, Harry H. Corbett, Comedy, Crime

While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to “solve” a case that comes in. Complications ensue. Read More »
Mr. District Attorney (1941) William Morgan, Dennis O’Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Comedy, Crime, Drama

An assistant prosecutor (Dennis O’Keefe) and his spunky friend (Florence Rice) investigate a suddenly hot case. Read More »
The Lineup (1958) Don Siegel, Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Richard Jaeckel, Crime, Film-Noir, Drama

In San Francisco, two police inspectors are on the case when a rogue taxi driver, with the help of a rogue porter Read More »
Kenjû zankoku monogatari / Cruel Gun Story (1964) Takumi Furukawa, Jô Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Thriller

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa’s sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. Read More »
Le quai des brumes / Port of Shadows (1938) Marcel Carné, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Life’s a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. Read More »
Regarde les hommes tomber / See How They Fall (1994) Jacques Audiard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Read More »
Larceny (1948) George Sherman, John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she’s received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead. Read More »