Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git’s girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He’s now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog.
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Crime
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955) Fred F. Sears, Tommy Cook, Molly McCart, Sue England, Crime, Drama
A propaganda film intended to highlight the growing problem of juvenile crime. Jane Koberly, present during a robbery, is falsely convicted of being an accessory.
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Night Must Fall (1964) Karel Reisz, Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, Mona Washbourne, Crime, Thriller
Albert Finney stars in this second film version of Emlyn Williams thriller about an innocent looking but psychopathic killer named Danny. Danny is a Welsh hotel bellboy who commits an axe murder near the home of Mrs. Bramson (Mona Washbourne), a well-to-do widow.
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Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941) Wallace Fox, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Comedy, Crime, Drama
East Side Kids: Fighters Danny Breslin and Muggs McGinnis, once boyhood chums, have drifted apart. Policeman Tom Brady – because his own former friend fell into a life of crime and got the electric chair – takes rough and tumble Muggs under his wing to turn the lad’s life around, but Danny, brother of Mary Breslin (whom Tom plans to marry), is also at risk.
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Orfeu (1999) Carlos Diegues, Toni Garrido
In a dangerous but human Rio de Janiro’s slum, rises the love affair between Orfeu, a famous composer Read More »
Gang Tapes (2001) Adam Ripp, Darris Love, Darontay McClendon, Don Cambell, Crime, Drama
When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
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Prizzi’s Honor (1985) John Huston
Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Read More »
Out of the Past (1947) Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he’s ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. Read More »
Jerry and Tom (1998) Saul Rubinek, Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Maury Chaykin, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
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Dossier K. (2009) Jan Verheyen, Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Blerim Destani, Action, Crime, Drama
DOSSIER K. is the long anticipated successor to ‘The Alzheimer Case’ which won numerous awards and was sold to over 30 countries, among which the US (where it was released through Sony Picture Classics). This second film based on a novel by Jef Geeraerts is a dense European thriller about passion, betrayal, revenge, blind ambition and the inevitability of fate.
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