When the Sky Falls (2000)
Biography, Crime, Drama
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 164.
The Sinful Dwarf (1973)
Crime, exploitation film, Horror, pornographic film, Sex Film
Olaf (Torben Bille) tricks young women and brings them to the home he shares with his drunken mother (Clara Kelle). Once the unlucky ladies arrive, they are drugged, imprisoned, tied up, and then turned into junkie-prostitutes in the secret brothel that Olaf manages together with his mother.
Ticking Clock (2011)
Action, thriller film
After killing a woman and cutting her open, Keech calms her crying baby boy. Investigative reporter Louis has a rocky marriage to Gina, a girlfriend named Felecia, and a slumping career. District Attorney Felicia tells Louis she is ending the relationship.
Regeneration (1915)
Biography, Crime, Drama, romance film, silent film
Cited as one of the first full-length gangster films, Regeneration tells the story of a poor orphan who rises to control the mob until he meets a woman for whom he wants to change. The film is a "candid adaptation" of the autobiography of Owen Frawley Kildare, called the Kipling of the Bowery. The story follows the life of Owen, a young Irish American boy who is forced into a life of poverty after his mother dies.
Chicago Overcoat (2009)
Crime
The story takes place in modern-day Chicago. Lou Marazano was once a feared hit man, but his reputation has dimmed significantly twenty years after his retirement. Unable to help his daughter financially after her ex-husband fails to pay child support, he asks the current local mob boss, Lorenzo Galante, for work.
The Speedway Murders (2023)
documentary film, true crime
The film follows four young friends who disappeared after their shift at the fast-food restaurant Burger Chef in Speedway, Indiana on November 17, 1978. Two days later, their bodies were found in Johnson County, over 20 miles away. The case was never solved, partly due to police mishandling of evidence at the time.
Bookies (2003)
Comedy, comedy thriller, Coming-of-age, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Three college students, Toby, Casey, and Jude, start up a bookie business taking bets from various clients. Their business immediately booms, arousing suspicion among local campus authorities and Toby's girlfriend, Hunter. They subsequently are able to purchase many expensive items such as big-screen televisions and new computers to help them manage their complex business.
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
Comedy drama, Crime
Peter is a cocky Harvard law student, who is tired of being square, so his best friend and theater director John gets him into the drug business. Peter loves the excitement of the gig and agrees to transport a suitcase full of pot from his suppliers to him. As a fan of the Rolling Stones' song "Sympathy for the Devil", he picks Lucifer as his street name.
Lady Ice (1973)
Crime, Heist
In a Miami hotel room, insurance agent Andy Hammon surprises Tony Lacava, a jewelry fence, at gunpoint and retrieves a diamond necklace that Lacava had concealed under his clothes. While working at a garage, Hammon encounters Paula Booth, a wealthy young woman who leaves her car to be repaired. He makes a lewd comment toward Paula and is summoned to see the garage owner, Booth's father, who fires him.
Nowhere to Go (1958)
Crime
Paul Gregory, a Canadian confidence trickster operating in London, targets a wealthy Canadian woman in Britain to sell her collection of valuable coins. After meeting her at an ice hockey match, he sets about winning her confidence until she is prepared to grant him legal control over the sale. He completes the deal without her knowledge, stores the money from the sale in a safe deposit box and then deliberately waits to be caught by the police.
The Unholy Three (1930)
Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
thumb|thumbtime=20|The Unholy Three (1930) A sideshow is closed by the police after Tweedledee, the embittered "Twenty Inch Man", kicks a young boy, starting a riot. Echo, the ventriloquist, proposes that Tweedledee, the strongman Hercules, and he leave and, as "The Unholy Three", use their talents to commit crimes. Echo also takes along his pickpocket girlfriend Rosie and his gorilla, whom Hercules fears.
Family of Cops (1995)
Crime, Drama
Milwaukee Police Department inspector Paul Fein (Charles Bronson) is a veteran police commander whose eldest son Ben (Daniel Baldwin) is a senior police detective, whose older daughter Kate (Barbara Williams) is a public defender who takes her job very seriously, and whose younger son Eddie (Sebastian Spence) is also a cop assigned to the department's Patrol Bureau. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of suspects has been narrowed down to the victim's sexually freewheeling wife Anna (Lesley-Anne Down) and Paul's wild-child daughter Jackie (Angela Featherstone). Neither…
The Black Panther (1977)
Crime, thriller film
The story begins with Neilson's robbery at Heywood Post Office in Greater Manchester on 16 February 1972. Neilson loses his black-hooded mask after a fight with the owner, but manages to escape. He later travels home to his wife and teenaged daughter, who are unaware of his criminal activity.
The River Rat (1984)
Adventure, Crime, Drama
Jonsy is a teenager who meets her father Billy, who has just been released from prison, for the first time. The two slowly forge a relationship as they rebuild a boat named The River Rat. The father cannot escape his criminal past, being blackmailed by the prison psychiatrist Doc Cole, who believes he knows the location of a large amount of cash stolen before imprisonment.
Showdown (1973)
Western
Childhood friends Billy Massey and Chuck Jarvis go in opposite directions after Chuck ends up married to Billy's former sweetheart. Billy becomes a bank robber, Chuck a lawman. But they end up joining forces against common enemies in a final showdown.
Desire (1936)
Comedy, Crime, romance film, romantic comedy
Beautiful, young, sexy Madeleine de Beaupre selects a string of perfect pearls worth millions of francs at a posh Parisian jeweler. She cons the owner Aristide Duvalle into believing she is married to an eminent and wealthy psychiatrist, Maurice Pauquet, and has him deliver the pearls to Pauquet's office in order for him to pay for them. Before the scheduled time she meets Pauquet there and tells him her husband has delusions of needing to collect debts and needs to be examined.
The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
Crime, Science fiction, Secret Agent, spy film, thriller film
Groundstar space project technician John Welles attempts to steal miniaturized rocket fuel system plans from the project's computer facility. His attempt goes awry and he is badly disfigured in an explosion he set and barely escapes. He stumbles to the nearby vacation home of Nicole Devon, and collapses.
Harry in Your Pocket (1973)
Crime, Criminal Comedy Film
At an airport, a dapper man, Casey (Walter Pidgeon), picks the pocket of a deaf man, relieving him of his wallet. Casey then meets his old friend Harry (James Coburn) at his arrival gate. Ray Houlihan (Michael Sarrazin) is an amateur pickpocket making various, obviously inept attempts to steal watches and wallets in Seattle's Union Station.
The Unholy Three (1925)
Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=5|The Unholy Three (1925) Three performers leave a sideshow after Tweedledee, a midget performer, assaults a young heckler and sparks a melee. The three join together in an "unholy" plan to become wealthy. Professor Echo, the ventriloquist, assumes the role of Mrs.
Dangerously Yours (1937)
Crime
A detective, Victor Morell (Caesar Romero) assumes the guise of a jewel thief to infiltrate a criminal ring who he suspects of having stolen a fabulous gem. The comedy caper takes place on a transatlantic crossing from New York to Europe. The passengers include various crooks, insurance investigators, and the jewel thief himself, Julian Stevens (Alan Dinehart).
Murder with Mirrors (1985)
Crime, Mysterie, mystery film
Miss Marple reunites with her friend Carrie Louise Serrocold at her country mansion. Christian Gulbranson, Marple's lawyer, persuades her to visit the estate of his stepmother, Carrie Louise. Her devoted husband Lewis has turned the manor house Stonygates into a halfway house for criminals.
Foreign Intrigue (1956)
Crime, mystery film, Noir, thriller film
One of the world’s richest men, Victor Danemore, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his palatial estate on the French Riviera. His secretary, Dave Bishop (Robert Mitchum), is repeatedly asked by a diverse cast of characters whether or not the man spoke any last words before dying. Though he did not, nobody seems satisfied with that answer.
Fingers at the Window (1942)
Crime, Drama, Noir
There have been six axe murders in Chicago. The police, led by Inspector Gallagher, have arrested a different man for each crime. All are impervious to interrogation, and all are diagnosed by the county psychiatrist, Dr.
The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (1935)
Drama, Horror, Mysterie, mystery film
Captain Briggs and Captain Morehead are best friends. Morehead is in love with Sarah, and he brings Briggs to New York to meet her. However, Briggs and Sarah fall in love with one another.