To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don’t seem to let dames swing Read More »
Crime
I Want to Live! (1958) Robert Wise, Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Biography, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Read More »
The Batman (1943) Lambert Hillyer, Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In his first screen appearance, the Caped Crusader of Gotham City (belying the lethargic facade of his alter ego Bruce Wayne) battles Dr. Daka Read More »
Strange Illusion (1945) Edgar G. Ulmer, Jimmy Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Paul, a young man whose father was once lieutenant Governor of California before his untimely death Read More »
Still of the Night (1982) Robert Benton, Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
George Bynum, a patient of Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice, is brutally murdered. Read More »
Wife Wanted (1946) Phil Karlson, Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Robert Shayne, Crime, Drama
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). Read More »
The Nitwits (1935) George Stevens, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Johnnie is a would-be songwriter; Newton is a would-be inventor. Both work at a cigar stand in the lobby of an office building. Read More »
The Star Chamber (1983) Peter Hyams, Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Hardin is a hard-working, honest judge becoming frustrated with a legal system, that continuously forces him to release criminals on technicalities. Read More »
The Singing Detective (2003) Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Mystery
While hospitalized with an extreme case of psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.) reworks his first book in his head. Read More »
Il rossetto / Lipstick (1960) Damiano Damiani, Pierre Brice, Giorgia Moll, Pietro Germi, Crime, Drama
A prostitute is found dead in an adjoining that of Silvana, a girl of thirteen who is in love with his neighbor Gino, a thirty handsome building. Read More »