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Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the real-life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and how he put his life together again afterwards. The screenplay was written by Mark Thomas and Kevin Lewis with additional writing by the film's director Nick Moran.
Crime
A car plunges over a cliff in Italy. Both passengers, newspaperman Lewis Forrester and actress Alison Ford, are killed. In London, Lewis's brother, Tim, is an artist.
Crime, Drama, prison film, trial film
Eddie Dodd is a burnt-out attorney who has left behind civil rights work to defend drug dealers. Roger Baron is an idealistic young legal clerk, fresh out of law school, who encourages Dodd to take on the case of Shu Kai Kim, a young Korean man who was imprisoned for a gang-related murder committed in New York's Chinatown eight years ago, and has now killed a fellow inmate in self-defense. Kim's mother believes her son was wrongfully accused in the gang-related murder.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Callum Crane is a high-powered lawyer in line for an appointment to the federal bench, during the same week he rapes new secretary Sophie at his office. Sophie threatens to go public with the assault if Crane does not turn down the judicial appointment. Crane resolves to hire a hit man to kill Sophie before she can go to the police.
Comedy, Crime Comedy, Heist
After leaving his lover Angel McGinnis behind in London, rich playboy Barney Lincoln breaks into a playing card manufacturer in Geneva to mark the cards, and then proceeds to break the bank at major European casinos. Barney meets up with Angel again in Monte Carlo, where he wins a great deal of money, but her suspicions after he left England caused her to consult her father, a Scotland Yard Inspector. He blackmails Barney into helping him catch a powerful drug smuggler named Harry Dominion, who owns a casino and also has a weakness for high stakes poker.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
Echo, a freshman in high school, is attempting to come to terms with the loss of her older sister, Zoë, who was murdered a year ago. Echo's mother has been abusing antidepressants while her father works overtime. They regularly visit a family therapist, though Echo finds the sessions to be largely unhelpful.
Biography, Crime
Chicago, 1919: A young Al Capone arrives to work for mob boss Johnny Torrio. He meets Torrio's top man, "Big Jim" Colosimo, who runs business and politics in the First Ward while secretly on Torrio's payroll. Prohibition is enacted a year later, causing Torrio and other gangsters like Dean O'Banion, George "Bugs" Moran and Earl "Hymie" Weiss to compete for profits in bootleg liquor and beer.
Crime, Noir
American soldier Bob Corey, seriously wounded at the end of World War II is a patient at an army hospital undergoing several surgical operations on his spine. He has fallen in love with his nurse, Julie Benson. Bob's military pal Steve Connolly arrives to discuss plans for the ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona that they plan to purchase and operate together.
Comedy, Crime, thriller film
Car thief Dick Kanipsia gets out on parole from a penitentiary. He intends to go straight, but first he goes to see an old friend Harry Moss, only to see Harry shot. The dying Harry tells Dick to find Barry Fenaka, who supposedly knows where to find a stash of stolen cash that Harry has hidden.
mystery film, thriller film
A married cartoonist named C. C. Drood becomes involved in the cover up of a political sex scandal after his lover, Yolanda Caldwell, a call girl, is found murdered.
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
The film follows a day in the life of Detective Chief Inspector George Gideon of the Metropolitan Police. His day starts when he receives information that one of his officers has been taking bribes. Despite his hectic schedule, his wife reminds him his daughter has a violin recital that evening; she also tells him her aunt and uncle are coming for tea before the concert.
Road Movie
Scott and the couple John and Suzie go to Alaska to make money salmon fishing. They enter a bar and the two men get drunk. Suzie meets an older man working for the oil pipeline who says he can get all three of them a job.
Action Comedy, spy film
A series of inexplicable accidents befall the development of the world's first supersonic airliner, the SST1 – a man falls victim to a homicidal air stewardess and two women perform separate acts of sabotage during tests. The Air Ministry calls on Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond to investigate. Aided by ditzy American blonde Flicky, Drummond uncovers a plot by criminal mastermind Carl Petersen, who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date.
Drama, thriller film
The movie opens with Ellen Farris, the former wife of Dr. David Farris, getting out of bed after battling an illness. In the kitchen await her two daughters and their father.
Action, crime thriller film, Gangster Film, thriller film
After professional thief Jack Tulliver and his crew pull off a meticulously planned armored vehicle heist, they are ambushed in Bucharest by a group of Romanian racketeers. This rogue group, tipped off to the heist by an unknown turncoat, kills Tulliver's associate Bull and most of his crew. Tulliver escapes with a mysterious sealed case that was the most valuable part of the stolen loot.
Action
A group of escapees from prison take over a shopping mall, only to be stopped by the brother of one of the fugitives.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Ed Hutcheson is the crusading managing editor of The Day, a large metropolitan newspaper. He is steadfastly loyal to publisher Margaret Garrison, the widow of the paper's founder John, but Garrison is soon to sell the newspaper to interests who plan to cease operations. Hutcheson assigns his reporters to the murder of a young woman named Bessie Smith and the involvement of racketeer Tomas Rienzi, which could turn out to be a circulation builder that keeps the paper in business.
Action, Crime
A man remains tormented by his sister's death, while his cousin grows more powerful in the hierarchy of the family crime business.
Crime, Drama, Noir, prison film
One night, several prison inmates take guards prisoner to protest brutal conditions in their prison. They then make their demands known to prison warden Reynolds, a liberal-minded administrator who has complained for many years about the same conditions. James V.
Crime, Horror, Mysterie, Slasher
On May 14, 1989, six-year-old abductee Martin Bristol, whose face has been disfigured by his captor, watches as he butchers a young woman in the basement of a farmhouse. Ten years later, on September 20, 1999, Julian and his girlfriend Marylin enact a bank heist with Marylin's ex-convict brother, Max, and accomplice Kurt, taking around $500,000. Max, who was shot by a security guard in the melee, dies in the car with Julian and Marylin; Kurt leaves in a separate car with the money, but breaks down en route to their meeting place: an abandoned house in the woods.
Comedy, Comedy horror, Crime, Crime Comedy, Groteske, Slasher
In a prologue shown from the point of view of a camera viewfinder, a series of female models in a studio are asked by an off-screen cameraman to undress for a screen test. One model is seemingly stabbed by the unseen man behind the camera. During an afternoon of shopping in Manhattan's boutiques, Karen, another model, tells her socialite friend Tracy about her fiancé Christopher, a photographer and widower.
Crime, Drama, Noir
thumb|thumbtime=15|Dishonored Lady (1947) Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine called Boulevard. Men are attracted to her, including boss Victor Kranish, wealthy advertiser Felix Courtland, and former assistant Jack Garet, who now works for Courtland and is blackmailing her about events from her past. Madeleine attempts suicide and is headed toward a breakdown.
Action, Crime, Drama
Phoenix Police Detective Charlie Congers is tasked to assist the FBI in bringing a gangster's girlfriend, Jackie Pruitt, back to the USA to testify. The FBI thinks she can give incriminating information to law enforcement that will put Joe Bomposa behind bars for life. It turns out that Pruitt doesn't know much of anything useful to the FBI.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, crime drama film, crime thriller film, Drama, Mysterie, thriller film
thumb|left|One of the tiled mosaics celebrating local boy Alfred Hitchcock in the subway at Leytonstone tube station. Along a coastline in rural England, police Detective Barton arrives at a house, Number 17, marked for sale or rent. The door is unlocked, and he wanders in.