The Scarlet Hour (1956)
Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
E. V. Marshall, known to all as "Marsh," works for wealthy real-estate businessman Ralph Nevins and is having a romantic affair with Ralph's unhappy wife, Paulie.
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
Drama, drama film
In Lurgan, Northern Ireland, during 1975 and the Northern Irish Troubles, the Irish Republican Army are targeting loyalists; in turn, the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force are exacting revenge on Catholics they claim are militant republicans. Alistair Little, 17, is the leader of a UVF cell, eager to let blood. He and his gang are given the go-ahead to kill a young Catholic man, James Griffin, as a reprisal and a warning to others.
Hot Stuff (1979)
Crime Comedy, comedy film
In Miami, police detectives Ernie, Ramon, and Doug grow frustrated at their inability to convict the criminals they arrest. Ernie is the most frustrated, and plans to retire within days so he can receive his pension. Their supervisor Captain John Geiberger recruits another police detective, Louise Webster, to help them.
The Window (1949)
Drama, Thriller, drama film, film noir, heist film
In New York's Lower East Side, lives young Tommy Woodry, who has a habit of crying wolf. Late one night, while trying to sleep on the building fire escape, he sees his two seemingly normal neighbors, Mr. and Mrs.
Into Temptation (2009)
drama film
Father John Buerlein (Jeremy Sisto) is the mild-mannered priest of a small Catholic parish in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Overworked and underpaid, he has grown jaded with the profession and has trouble connecting with his parishioners. During confession, a mysterious and unnamed prostitute (Kristin Chenoweth) confesses to a sin she has not yet committed: she plans to commit suicide on her birthday.
Apartment Zero (1989)
LGBTQ-related film, Political Drama, Political Thriller, Psychodrama, political thriller film
Adrian LeDuc is the British owner of a revival house in Buenos Aires. Apart from his mother, the core of his emotional life is movies, specifically classic American movies and stars. The story begins with Adrian in his theater, watching the final scene of Touch of Evil.
Short Eyes (1977)
Drama, drama film, prison film
Short Eyes is set in an unnamed prison in New York City, whose inmates are predominantly African American or Puerto Rican. One day, Clark Davis, a young, middle-class white man accused of raping a young girl, arrives on remand. His fellow prisoners immediately turn on him—child molesters are considered the lowest form of prison life—except for Juan, one of the institution's older prisoners, who treats him with some dignity.
Wrong Cops (2013)
Crime Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film
In the not very distant future, where crime has been completely eradicated, a group of crooked cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
crime film, drama film
Double Trouble (1967)
Komödie, Musical, crime film, drama film, musical film
When singer Guy Lambert and his entourage travel from Swinging London to Antwerp on a tour, he is followed by Jill Conway, a beautiful but unworldly heiress, and Claire Dunham, a sexy, sophisticated socialite. Complicating matters are a pair of ineptly comical jewel thieves who have hidden smuggled diamonds in Jill's luggage, a trio of bumbling Clouseau-like Flemish detectives, and a mysterious murderer who seems bent on killing Jill.
Criminal Activities (2015)
Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Four people invest borrowed money in a company guaranteed to return their venture capital tenfold or more. It does not bother them that the privileged information on which they are acting is derived from insider trading. Two things go wrong.
Guncrazy (1992)
Thriller, crime film, drama film
Anita Minteer is a 16-year-old girl living in derelict small town in Central California desperate to be popular. She agrees to have sex with two of her rowdy high school classmates, Tom and Bill, after school. Afterward, she returns to the mobile home she lives in with her mother's estranged stepfather, Rooney, who tells her that her mother has ran off to find work in Fresno.
A Violent Separation (2019)
Crime, crime thriller film
In a quiet Missouri town, Norman, a young deputy sheriff, covers up an accidental shooting at the hands of his older brother, Ray, but neither of the young men are prepared for what's to come, including Norman dying at the hands of Frances. As the investigation wears on, family bonds are tested as we descend into the depths of morality and loyalty and are forced to bear witness to the violent separation of flesh and blood with everyone desperately trying to do the right thing, all while doing the wrong.
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Detective Film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
While Miss Marple and Mr Stringer are soliciting donations for a charity ("The Reformed Criminals Assistance League"), they call on Mr Enderby, a rich recluse. He tumbles down the long entrance staircase, apparently the victim of a fatal heart attack. Knowing that Enderby had a pathological fear of cats, Miss Marple becomes suspicious when she finds one in the house.
Angels Fall (2007)
Mysterie, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
The film revolves around Reece Gilmore , the sole survivor of a massacre at the Boston restaurant where she worked as a chef. Reece wants to escape her life, so she hits the open road with no destination in mind, desperate for a fresh start. When her car gives out in a picturesque Wyoming town, Reece takes a job at the local diner, hoping to earn enough cash to keep moving.
Dangerous Ground (1997)
Action, action film, crime film
In 1983 South Africa, a young Vusi organizes a radical student protest that is soon put down by police, Vusi is captured and forced to leave for the United States where he settles down in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fourteen years later, Vusi returns to South Africa to attend his father's funeral at the village he grew up in. He is unable to bring himself to slaughter a cow as part of the funeral ritual.
Out For A Kill (2003)
Action, action film, thriller film
Wong Dai (Chooi Kheng Beh), an influential Chinese drug kingpin, sits at a long table in an old building in Paris, going through the motions of a gigantic merger between himself and several other major Chinese drug dealers. Sai Lo (Hon Ping Tang) controls shipments in the French heroin market in Paris, using laundromats all over Paris as a front. Tang "The Bird" Zhili (Bruce Wang) controls the entire New York drug conglomerate from the Chinatown section of New York City, and runs Mahjong gambling rackets.
The Man Who Came Back (2008)
Western, Western film, drama film, prison film
The Man Who Came Back is loosely based on the Thibodaux massacre. This was the culmination of the largest strike in the sugar cane industry, when 10,000 workers stopped labor, and the first to be conducted by a formal labor organization, the Knights of Labor. With an estimated 50 or more African-American cane workers killed by white paramilitary forces, it was the second bloodiest labor strike in U.S.
Night Eyes (1990)
Erotic Thriller, erotic thriller
Will Griffith is the owner of a security and surveillance company in Los Angeles. Will is hired by a rock star named Brian Walker, who is undergoing a messy divorce from his philandering wife Nikki, to rig the Walkers' home with video cameras to capture Nikki cheating on him with various lovers. During this job, Will gets to know Nikki better and ultimately grows more attracted to and protective of her, eventually ending up having an affair with her.
Outlaws (2017)
Crime, Thriller, mystery film
Set within the underworld of outlaw motorcycle club gangs, the film follows Paddo, Vice President and the heir to the leadership of a motorcycle club, who has to save his brother's life by betraying his president. Paddo has been running the club while its president Knuck serves a three-year prison sentence. When Knuck is released, he clashes with Paddo.
Frank & Louis (2026)
Drama, crime film
A prisoner finds redemption when he starts helping fellow inmates who have health problems.
Knight Moves (1992)
Drama, Mysterie, crime film, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
In 1972 David and Peter face each other in a chess match. David, the loser, stabs the winner Peter with a fountain pen. The loser's savage attack on his childhood opponent after his public humiliation and defeat lead to the dissolution of his parents' marriage.
Last Rampage (2017)
Crime, Drama, drama film
The film tells the true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenawalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, AZ in the summer of 1978.
Big Money Rustlas (2010)
Western film, parody film
Sheriff Sugar Wolf (Utsler) returns to his hometown after many years to find that it has been taken over by Big Baby Chips (Bruce), a ruthless gambling tycoon who has run the downtrodden town of Mud Bug with his gang of thugs, which include Raw Stank (Jamie Madrox) and Dusty Poot (Monoxide), since killing Sugar Wolf's father, Grizzly Wolf (Ron Jeremy), and Sugar's brothers. Sugar decides to take over the position his father once held, leading Big Baby Chips to pit Sugar against a series of deadly assassins. Sugar Wolf begins to successfully dispatch all of his would-be assassins, winning the approval of the townfolk, begins a romance with…