Gone with the Pope (2010)
Comedy, exploitation film
The movie tells the story of four ex-convicts who journey to Rome to attempt to kidnap the Pope, planning to charge a ransom of "a dollar from every Catholic in the world."
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Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
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The Revengers Comedies (1998)
Comedy, Crime, Dark Comedy
Conservative Henry Bell has been eased out of his job by condescending Bruce Tick, while wealthy and wildly eccentric Karen Knightly has been abandoned by her lover Anthony Staxton-Billing, who opted to return to his wife Imogen. Both are intent on committing suicide by leaping from the Tower Bridge in London. When neither succeeds, they strike a bargain whereby each agrees to exact revenge on behalf of the other, although Henry is less enthusiastic about the plan.
Enemy Territory (1987)
Action, Crime, thriller film
Barry (Frank) is a formerly successful insurance executive whose career and life are being destroyed by alcoholism. As the day ends, he is sent to a notorious New York City housing project, the Lincoln Towers, to try and complete a life insurance policy sale to a nice elderly woman named Elva (Frances Foster). Meanwhile, a man named Will (Parker), a soft-spoken but tough employee of the telephone company, also heads to the building to hook up with his girlfriend and repair the phone lines.
Spaceways (1953)
Adventure, Crime, Hard Science Fiction, Science fiction
Engineer Dr Stephen Mitchell is part of a British space programme that plans to launch an artificial satellite that will permanently orbit Earth. At a cocktail party, it is announced to the programme's staff that the satellite project has been approved by the defence council. Mitchell's wife Vanessa is not enthusiastic about the new project, nor with having to live at its high security base.
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Crime
Zurta and Valya are at ease in sophisticated society. Zurta steals a diary from the safe of an embassy in Paris while they are guests at a reception there, killing a servant who walks in on the theft. Poole, an accomplice, is passed the diary, but double-crosses them and attempts to flee with it on the Orient Express traveling between Paris and Trieste.
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
documentary film, Documentation
The film features interviews with both supporters and opponents of Barbie's trial, ranging from journalists to former U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps agents, independent investigators of Nazi war crimes, and Barbie's defense attorney. Much of the testimony presented is contradictory.
ID2: Shadwell Army (2016)
Action, association football film, Crime
Set twenty-one years after I.D., Mo, a young Muslim police officer in the Metropolitan Police is sent by Trevor to infiltrate the hooligan firm of Shadwell Town Football Club, who are reportedly fired up following the club's takeover by a wealthy Russian oligarch. Mo searches out Eddie who has now retired and is working as a stand-up comedian in a pub ran by former Shadwell player Gerry Edwards. Eddie warns Mo of the dangers of Shadwell firm and warns him whatever happens he needs to be careful not to be drawn in like John was, warning him of the alcoholism, drug abuse, violence and racism that comes with his assignment.
Look (2007)
Comedy, Crime, Drama, thriller film
The film follows several intertwining narratives as the security cameras watch over the characters in several different areas over the course of one week. Tony, a manager at a housewares store, sexually harasses, and occasionally has sex with, his female employees. Office worker Marty is a socially awkward geek who seems to be born of bad luck.
Acolytes (2008)
Horror
James and Mark are teenagers in their final year of school and victims of Gary Parker, who raped them when they were younger. They still live in fear of him after he is released from prison for this crime. A brain damaged teenage girl named Tanya who has gone missing is run down by a car and killed while walking in a pine forest.
Scene of the Crime (1949)
Crime, Drama, Noir
Lieutenant Mike Conovan (Van Johnson), a LAPD homicide detective, investigates when Ed Monigan, an older member of his precinct (and former partner), is murdered. The fact that he was carrying $1,000 in cash confirms it wasn’t robbery, but instead raises the issue of whether he was on the take. Conovan's current partner and one-time mentor, Fred Piper (John McIntire), is getting on in years and his eyesight is failing, while under Conovan's wing rookie detective "C.C." (for "carbon copy") Gordon (Tom Drake) is learning the ropes.
The Long Memory (1953)
Crime
Phillip Davidson boards a boat and embraces Fay Driver. Then he goes down below to try to convince her alcoholic father, Captain Driver, not to involve Fay in his criminal activity. However, Boyd brings aboard Delaney (a man he has agreed to smuggle out of the country) and two henchmen.
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (1999)
Action, Crime, katastrophe, thriller film
A group of people celebrate overcoming their fear of flying by taking a flight together. They board a TransContinental Airlines Boeing 747-200, TransCon Flight 110, circling around Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. While the aircraft is cruising, a Czech terrorist hijacks the flight.
The Super Cops (1974)
Action, Crime, thriller film
The film opens with archival footage from a press conference where NYPD officers Dave Greenberg and Robert Hantz are being commended by Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy for the sheer volume of drugs and weaponry that the two cops have removed from the streets. After a credits sequence, the narrative begins at the New York City Police Academy, where Greenberg and Hantz graduate as probationary officers.
A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
Drama, mystery film
Henry Maurier rebounds from the death of wife Emily by marrying a much younger woman, Doris, upsetting another woman, Janet, who is in love with him. Suspicions grow that Henry might have hurried along his wife's death with poison, until eventually he finds himself condemned to death for a murder he didn't commit.
The Chameleon (2010)
Drama
A young man (Marc-André Grondin) in France shaves off all his body hair and turns himself in to the police. The man claims to be a 16-year-old boy from Louisiana named Nicholas Mark Randall, who had been missing for four years. His story is that he was kidnapped by a child prostitution ring in France who physically altered his appearance.
The Black Bird (1975)
Comedy, Crime, Detective, Parody
When San Francisco private detective Sam Spade dies, his son, Sam, Jr., inherits his father's agency, including the sarcastic secretary, Effie Perine (also known as "Godzilla"). He must also continue his father's tradition of "serving minorities" (with "spade" double-entendres). When Caspar Gutman is killed outside Spade's building, his dying words are, "It's black and as long as your arm." Spade is given an offer by a member of the Order of St.
The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Crime, Mysterie, mystery film
When Philo Vance's dog does not make it into the final of the Long Island Kennel Club's dog show, fellow competitor Archer Coe is disappointed, having hoped to savor a victory over Vance. The next morning, Coe is found dead, inside his locked bedroom. District Attorney Markham and Police Sergeant Heath assume it was suicide because Coe was found holding a pistol.
Fun (1994)
buddy film, Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Bonnie, aged 14, and Hillary, aged 15, meet at a bus stop in Los Angeles, California, and begin a friendship. They stroll around their city, chuck rocks onto a highway from an overpass bridge, run rampant in shopping malls, and play video games. In a stream of careless chatter, Hillary reveals to Bonnie that her father is in prison for raping her and Bonnie recounts of how joking around with her brother turned into intercourse, and that she has kept this to herself.
Night Train to Mundo Fine (1966)
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, thriller film, war film
In the film's opening sequence, young reporter Jim Benton asks train engineer Mr. Wilson about three menGriffin, Cook and Landiswho hopped his freight train five years earlier, in 1961. "He ran all the way to hell," the engineer remarks about Griffin.
Cocaine Cowboys (1979)
Crime, Drama
Dustin, the leader of a rock band on the verge of success, and his manager Raphael ("Raf") finance their musical ambitions through cocaine smuggling. Determined to leave the drug trade behind and focus on their music career, they agree to undertake one final shipment for the Mafia. When a police raid disrupts the operation, a cache of cocaine is lost near the band's coastal estate.
Secret People (1952)
Crime, Drama, spy film
In 1930, Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London as their father is about to be executed by his country's dictator. Seven years later, Maria unexpectedly meets Louis, her childhood sweetheart, who is engaged in a plot to assassinate the dictator. Maria is persuaded to play an active part in the plan, but it all goes horribly wrong when the bomb they plant kills an innocent waitress, causing Maria much distress.
Evidence (2013)
Crime, thriller film
In the aftermath of the massacre in Kidwell, Nevada, police examine the crime scene. At the press conference lead Detective Burquez, tells reporters that the police are looking into the matter. After the conference, a disheveled Detective Reese asks to be put on the case, to which Detective Burquez assents.
Dragnet (1954)
Crime
The film uses the inverted detective story format. Los Angeles police detective Sergeant Joe Friday hunts down the killer of a mobster, Miller Starkie, focusing on West Coast mafia second-in-command Max Troy (played by Harris). The vendetta between Friday and Troy becomes increasingly bitter and personal as the film proceeds, leading to a brawl at a private card game between Friday, Frank Smith, and several of Troy's henchmen.
Hyena (2014)
Crime, thriller film
Michael Logan is a detective sergeant in London, working as part of a specialised taskforce alongside his friends and colleagues Chris, Martin and Keith. The taskforce's unconventional and corrupt operations bring the officers into contact with European drug syndicates, with them happy to turn a blind eye to their dealings for either a cut, or electing to confiscate suppliers' merchandise for their own profit. Logan meets with a contact in a Turkish drug cartel, who is organising a large scale shipment that he has invested £100,000 into with the hope of netting an even better profit.