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Crime, Drama, war film
With the Vatican having financial difficulties during World War II, Father John Flaherty, a young priest from America is sent for, recommended because of his accounting skill. He has already broken the rules, for his first assignment after ordination, is a military chaplain. There he ministers to dying soldier Private Musso and then takes the dead Musso's position as a machine gunner and destroys a squadron of advancing German troops.
Crime, Drama, Police Film
Beauregard "Bo" Lockley, long-haired and thoughtful, is a new type of undercover detective in the New York City Police Department. He is assigned to find a missing young woman, but he is not told she is actually an undercover officer whose latest assignment is to get close to a heroin dealer, Thomas 'Stick' Henderson with links to political radicals; the department has long been after Stick. Lockley trails her to a disco with the help of Joey.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
Portly private detective Runyan is asked by dental nurse Jane Adams to investigate the unexplained murder of her boss. Suspicion falls on disappeared patient Clark, last seen being driven from his appointment by the chauffeur of probable gangster Gordon. Runyan contacts Boyd, Clark's former lover and briefly his wife, who reveals that Clark had once spent time in jail.
Comedy drama, Crime, Social Study
Upon release from prison, Bill and his son Karl arrive home at Down Terrace in Brighton. With the help of his wife Maggie, Bill decides to find the rat in his criminal organisation and a tale of recrimination, betrayal and murder ensues. Meanwhile, Karl grows increasingly edgy and uncomfortable with his dysfunctional family.
buddy film, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Returning from Missouri as a medical school dropout, Meg Kennedy moves to Staten Island, New York City, staying with her grandmother due to not having found a place for herself. With the recommendation of Mrs. Saladino, a woman who looks after Meg's grandmother, Meg takes work at an Italian restaurant, run by Gio Esposito.
Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Following a gruesome discovery of a bag of severed hands in the sewer system, State Profiler Audrey Macleah is called in to help the Houston police department investigate. After examination, the hands appear to be the hands of young girls from various ages, each with a number tattooed on her palm. Captain Swaggert sends Macleah to a nearby psychiatric hospital to talk to a doctor who called in a tip about one of his patients after hearing about the discovery.
Comedy, Heist
Lieutenant Jordan, U.S. Coast Guard, responds to a number of pleas for help from civilian pleasure boat sailors around Southern California's Balboa Island. This type of event is typical of what the Coast Guard deals with on a regular basis, and it is one of the reasons why Jordan has requested to transfer to a new station.
Noir, thriller film
thumb|The full film Janet Stewart arrives at a hotel expecting to find her husband Paul already checked in, but he hasn't arrived, causing her to wonder if he's had an accident. Adding to her distress, for the last two years he's been presumed dead. When the hotel clerk can't find her reservation and says they don't have any open rooms she nearly bursts into tears, but the hotel manager finds her a room.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Alison Courtland, a wealthy New Yorker, awakens on a train bound for Boston with no memory of how she got there. When she phones her husband, Richard, the police listen in and overhear that she had threatened him with a gun. On a flight home, fellow passenger Bruce Elcott is attracted to Alison.
Crime, thriller film
Carl has travelled to London to clear up the details of his brother's death. He finds that there is another side to his brother's life. A group of all-night ravers accept him into their family, as the brother of their late friend.
Biography, Crime, Drama, prison film
After repeated convictions and prison sentences for robberies and violent crimes in the early 20th century, Carl Panzram (James Woods) is serving time again at Leavenworth penitentiary for burglary. Prison guard Henry Lesser (Robert Sean Leonard), at the beginning of his career, extends kindness to him arising from his belief in reform. They develop some kind of relationship and Panzram asks Lesser for writing materials.
documentary film, Documentation, true crime
Rachel de Leon, a journalist at The Center for Investigative Reporting discovers a number of legal cases across the United States, where young women are charged by police for making false rape accusations, despite being truthful.
Action, Erotic Thriller
Anna Nicole Smith plays Vickie Lynn, an ex-CIA agent going by the pseudonym "Collette" who is attempting to track down the leader of an organization of trained assassins to exact revenge for the murder of her husband. Joey Travolta is Frank DaVinci, an ex Vietnam War veteran who is also after the same man for his own reasons. In light of this, they agree to work together to track him down with the help of Lynn's boyfriend, assassin China Smith, played by Michael Nouri.
black comedy film, Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
One-eyed Mrs. Taggart is an emasculating woman whose husband, a successful building contractor, has been dead for ten years. Joining her for the traditional annual celebration of her wedding anniversary are her three sons.
Comedy, Crime
Television mystery writer and director Elliott Nash is blackmailed by Dan Shelby over nude photographs of his wife Nell, taken when she was 18 years old. Elliott does not inform Nell, the star of a Broadway musical, but works feverishly to pay off the increasing demands. Finally, Elliott decides that murder is the only way out.
Crime, Drama, Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
Philip Hannon is a blind playwright who lives in a London flat with a spectacular view over the River Thames between Waterloo Bridge and Charing Cross Station. One day, he overhears part of a conversation in a pub that possibly involves a plot to commit a crime. He tries to contact Inspector Grovening, who offers no help, so Hannon, his butler and his American ex-fiancée Jean seek to bring the kidnappers to justice.
Crime, Drama, Noir, romance film
Rosa Moline is the dissatisfied, restless wife of Lewis, a small-town Wisconsin doctor. She is easily bored, uninterested in her husband's career or in anything to do with her current circumstances. She has long desired a glamorous life, in a world where she can have expensive things and meet truly interesting people.
Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
A veteran of World War II, Edwin Boyd (Scott Speedman) is disillusioned and barely getting by as a Toronto bus driver. With his wife Doreen (Kelly Reilly), whom he met in England during the war, and two young children to support, he finds it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. Adding to his dissatisfaction, Boyd has deep, unfulfilled dreams of making it as a star in Hollywood, a desire frowned upon by his retired policeman father (Brian Cox).
Comedy, Crime, Dark Comedy
Colleen Gibson doesn't realize live-in boyfriend Dick Rasmusson, a third-rate private detective, has been cheating on her until phony psychic Madame Hugonaut inadvertently provides accurate details about his most recent indiscretion. When Colleen confronts him with what she believes is an empty gun, she shoots and kills Dick, who had loaded the firearm without her knowledge. Enter Daniel Gallagher, an Irish mobster whose desire to be a crooner was dampened by his ex-girlfriend Mary when she laughed at his singing.
Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
In 1940, while on a vacation cruise, a drunken "Doc" Ryan falls overboard, and when Larry Wilson throws him a lifebuoy, the rope becomes tangled around his ankle, causing Larry to fall into the sea. As a group of sailors rescue the two men, Larry is accidentally hit on the head with an oar. He awakens in his cabin with Doc by his side and remembers that he is actually George Carey, a suave con man.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
A group of thieves attempts to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
The film intertwines several stories of people in a Manhattan neighborhood ravaged by crack cocaine. Romeo, a 14-year-old criminal, is the leader of a gang. He lures his girlfriend, Debbie, to a secluded alley where he and another gang member gang rape her.
Horror, monster film, thriller film
Struggling sculptor Marcel de Lange is depressed about events in his life, and decides to commit suicide. Just as he is about to kill himself, he sees a madman known as "the Creeper" in the process of drowning and saves him. Taking the disfigured man into his care, he makes him the subject of his next sculpture and calls it his best creation.
buddy cop film, Crime, Drama, neo-noir, thriller film
Two weary, hard-luck private eyes Al Hickey and Frank Boggs are hired to find a missing woman. Their inquiries bring death to almost everyone around them, culminating in a violent conclusion.