
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders. Read More »
Crime
Blind Spot (1947) Robert Gordon, Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray

A down-and-nearly-out writer makes a drunken visit to the office of his publisher Read More »
Lucky Jordan (1942) Frank Tuttle, Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard, Comedy, Crime, Drama

Lucky Jordan, cynical gambler and racketeer, finds one thing his luck and connections can’t fix: the draft board. Read More »
Once a Thief (1950) W. Lee Wilder, Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Read More »
Nora Inu / Stray Dog (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Read More »
Mystery Submarine (1950) Douglas Sirk, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War

Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist, and sink a Nazi submarine, hiding off the coast of South America. Read More »
The Gambler (1974) Karel Reisz, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Crime, Drama

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.
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Deprisa, deprisa / Faster, Faster (1981) Carlos Saura, Berta Socuéllamos, Jose Antonio Valdelomar González, Jesús Arias, Crime, Drama

Writer and director Carlos Saura here dramatizes the downward slide of four young people who started out with many strikes against them. Read More »
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) Boris Sagal, Roger Moore, John Huston, Patrick Macnee

In this mystery, Holmes pursues his archenemy Moriarty to New York City, in which the villainous scoundrel has carried out the ultimate bank robbery. Read More »
Lansky (1999) John McNaughton, Richard Dreyfuss, Yosef Carmon, Mosko Alkalai, Drama, Crime

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 »