A homicide detective (Robert Rockwell) suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder. Read More »
Crime
Hold That Woman! (1940) Sam Newfield, James Dunn, Frances Gifford, George Douglas, Comedy, Crime, Romance
A skip tracer–someone who collects late payments from people who’ve purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don’t pay–repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who’s skipped payments. Read More »
Eddie og Suzanne / Eddie and Suzanne (1975) Arild Kristo, Sverre Horge, Yvonne Sparrbåge, Per-Axel Arosenius, Crime, Drama
The former convicted Eddie from Oslo meet Suzanne, the daughter of a tyrannic Swedish police chief, in a discotheque by coincidence. Read More »
Bowery Bombshell (1946) Phil Karlson, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car Read More »
Inspector Hornleigh (1939) Eugene Forde, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Miki Hood
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Read More »
Information Received (1961) Robert Lynn, Sabine Sesselmann, William Sylvester, Hermione Baddeley, Crime, Drama
In this crime drama, a band of robbers hire a Yankee safecracker but he is captured and arrested by Scotland Yard before he gets there. Read More »
The Shanghai Gesture (1941) Josef von Sternberg, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by “Mother” Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Read More »
The Charlatan (1929) George Melford, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Rockliffe Fellowes, Thriller, Crime
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Read More »
Multiple Maniacs (1970) John Waters, Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Comedy, Crime, Horror
The travelling sideshow ‘Lady Divine’s Cavalcade of Perversions’ is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers Read More »
The Long Goodbye (1973) Robert Altman, Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In the middle of the night, private eye Philip Marlowe drives his friend Terry Lennox to the Mexican border. Read More »