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Comedy drama, Crime, mystery film
Trixie Zurbo is an eccentric woman who longs to quit her job as a security guard in a department store and become a private detective. She finally gets her wish when she takes a job in security at a casino. She accidentally becomes involved in a murderous plot and Trixie takes her first case; however, her unschooled command of the English language (malapropism) and comedy intervenes and the mess begins.
Crime, Drama
Johnjo O'Shea is an ordinary 17-year-old except that he is a haemophiliac. He is asked to give a few friends of his older brother a lift in his brother's car so that they can visit a pizza takeaway. Johnjo is unaware that one of his passengers has been tipped off by a friend who runs that shift at the pizza place that an adversary is about to enter and that the real reason for wanting a lift is to get there quickly to confront him.
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Conrad "Rad" McRae (Duane Martin) is a private investigator who is on the trail of the man who murdered his lifelong friend, Benjamin (Jadakiss), an up-and-coming rapper. Weapons expert Lisa (Vivica A. Fox) partners with McRae and assists him in his quest for justice.
Adventure, Crime, crime thriller film, Horror, Science fiction
In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Dr. Fu Manchu, with his sadistic daughter Lin Tang, has discovered a deadly venom in a "lost city" in the Amazonian jungle that affects only men. Women can become carriers of the "kiss of death" by being bitten by venomous snakes.
Drama, thriller film
Alberta leaves her small hometown to move to the city, and she moves in with her former babysitter, Celene, who wears thigh high boots and is now a professional dominatrix. Out of money, Alberta decides to impersonate her roommate's identity, lured by the $300 per hour pay rate. While working with her first client, Paul, three men, Rene, Isaac, and Aaron, break into the house, believing that Paul stole half a million dollars from Rene's club.
Crime, Drama
Rodney (Gooding) is a former boxing star reduced to working as a bouncer, a job that eventually brings him into contact with Yuri (Dreyfuss), a Russian gangster whose preferred method for the disposal of dead bodies is in the form of "bayou caviar," which is food left to the alligators in the Louisiana swamps. Rodney’s task is to provide compromising evidence on the son-in-law of the gangster’s business associate, a blackmail scheme that if executed properly, could rebound to the benefit of several people, including a fame-hungry teenager Kat (Lia Marie Johnson) and lesbian photographer Nic (Famke Janssen).
Crime, Drama, Noir
Johnny O'Clock is a junior partner in an upmarket casino with Guido Marchettis. Complicating their longtime working relationship is Guido's wife Nelle, who is still in love with former boyfriend Johnny. She gives Johnny an expensive custom pocket watch, the twin of a birthday present she gave her husband, except Johnny's has a romantic inscription engraved on the back.
Drama, Noir
Gigolo "Doctor" Omar bribes the Shanghai police not to jail the broke American showgirl Dixie Pomeroy; he invites her to seek a job at the casino owned by Dragon-lady "Mother" Gin Sling, his boss. In the casino, Omar attracts the attention of a beautiful, privileged young woman, fresh from a European finishing school. She is out for some excitement.
Action, Comedy, Crime
Crime, mystery film, Western
In modern times, a newspaper reports that "noted explorer and writer" Floyd Buckley claims to have discovered the location of the Lost Dutchman gold mine. He is approached by Barry Storm, who believes he has some claim to it, as the Dutchman was his grandfather. Buckley brushes him off, but when he heads into the Superstition Mountains, Storm secretly follows him.
Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Noir
thumb|upright=1.2|Humphrey Bogart in The Big Shot Three-time loser Duke Berne is dying in a prison hospital, conveying the story in flashback how he ended up there. After being released from prison previously, he tries to go straight, but is tempted to join a holdup gang led by lawyer Martin Fleming. Fleming's wife, Lorna, was once Duke's girlfriend, and says she still loves him and merely married Fleming for his money, and she keeps him out of a planned robbery, but Duke is falsely identified as one of the gang by a witness.
Crime, Horror, Mysterie
In 1992, a group of young anarchists, seeking to preserve local wildlife, are brutally murdered. The killer is later found by the river, having collapsed from wounds he sustained while trying to kill a lone surviving anarchist. The movie flashes forward 15 years to 2007, as a successful crime novelist Susan moves into a nearby house with her husband David, who purchased it in hopes of helping her with her writing.
Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film
In Australia, a young woman called Mickey reads a poem to an audience at a bar. When she leaves, she gets into an unseen person's car. Jill Fitzpatrick is a former police officer turned private detective, who investigates missing persons.
Crime, Drama
The film is a fictional narrative set in the nine hours in the life of Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz) that led up to his assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (J.S. Casshyap). As he prepares for the shooting at Gandhi's residence, flashbacks recall Godse's hostility to Muslims during the Partition, his adherence to Hindu Mahasabha that hatches the plot to kill Gandhi, and his involvement with a married woman Rani (Valerie Gearon) and a prostitute Sheila (Diane Baker).
Crime, Drama
Crime, Heist, Noir, thriller film
In Los Angeles, criminal mastermind Dave Purvis devises a scheme to rob an armored car on its last pickup of the day at Wrigley Field. He recruits Benny McBride, who brings fellow low-level professional crooks Al Mapes and Ace Foster to complete the gang. Benny needs money to feed his hopeless plan to win back his wife Yvonne LeDoux, a gorgeous blonde strip-tease dancer who is now seeing Purvis.
Drama, Heist, Noir, thriller film
Four friends enrolled at Midwestern University—Brick, Al, Ronnie and Roy—visit the Harold's Club casino in Reno, Nevada, during a weekend trip. After an hour of gambling and socializing, Ronnie is broke. He and Roy go to the cashier's window to cash a check, but the cashier is being threatened by a would-be robber with a gun.
Action, Crime
Decorated World War II veteran Kyle Martin returns home with a Silver Star to Georgia to start a farm, but realizes running a one-man farm isn't profitable, and the bank needs to foreclose, despite his being a veteran. At that point a gambler named Johnny has an auto crash close to the farm, in which Kyle spares his life. Johnny offers him $1,500, which actually isn't sufficient to spare the homestead.
crime thriller film
A young white girl, Lia Eltham, is left in Fu Manchu's care. A British regiment, chasing Boxer rebels, fires on Fu Manchu's home, killing his wife and child. When Lia Eltham grows up, he uses her as an instrument for revenge, killing all descendants of those who killed his family.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama
John "Son" Martin owns and operates a profitable still, making moonshine whiskey in Prohibition-era Kentucky. One day, he gets a visit from an old Army acquaintance, Frank Long, who is now an Internal Revenue agent. When Frank is unable to persuade Son to cut him in on the profits, or even reveal where the moonshine is hidden, in exchange for Frank looking the other way, Frank calls in the dangerous Dr.
Comedy, Crime, musical film
Hair-Do Lempke snatches actress Eleanor Collier, believing her to be a witness to the murder of his gangster boss. Eleanor tells him her story. While rooming with girlfriends Sandra and No-No and desperately trying to become a star, Eleanor resists the marriage proposals of theater director Danny James, her boyfriend.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Detective Tom (Sean Patrick Flanery) and his partner Ryan Alba (Greg Serano) have spent the last three years unsuccessfully trying to locate the Lion (Joe Pantoliano), an international hitman that has always eluded their grasp. They believe that they've found his location via a tipster but instead find Tom's wife Kelly (Michelle Greathouse) tied up in a basement filled with explosives, surrounded by a black outline. The Lion calls Tom and commands him to kill Kelly or risk the entire house blowing up and killing everyone inside.
Crime
Phyllis tells her story, beginning with how she met rich vintner Paul Hochen from Napa Valley in a bar and married him soon after. Not long after the marriage, Phyllis begins having an affair with a local rodeo rider, San Sanford, seeing him every time her husband is away, which is frequently. One night, her elderly mother-in-law thinks a burglar is breaking into the house, so she calls the police.