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Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 168.

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)

association football film, Crime, Mysterie, mystery film

The film is a murder mystery set at the original Arsenal Stadium, Gillespie Road, Highbury, London, the then home of Arsenal Football Club, one of the dominant teams in English football. The backdrop is a friendly match between Arsenal and The Trojans, a fictitious amateur side. One of the Trojans' players drops dead during the match and when it is revealed he has been poisoned, suspicion falls on his teammates as well as his former mistress.

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Double Agent 73 (1975)

Crime, Erotic Thriller, Raunchy comedy, sexploitation film, thriller film

Chesty Morgan, a woman whose bust is in size, plays Jane Tennay, a large breasted secret agent. Her agency wants her to assassinate, one by one, an organized crew of low grade heroin pushers. In order for her to prove her killings, they plant a tiny camera in her big left breast.

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Roadblock (1951)

Drama, Heist, Noir

Insurance investigator Joe Peters and his partner Harry Miller solve a lucrative recovery case and prepare to fly home. At the airport, Joe meets Diane who, lacking enough money to afford a ticket, pretends to be Joe's wife without his knowledge in order to obtain a half-fare ticket. They are assigned to the same hotel room after a storm forces an emergency landing and layover, and an uneasy détente develops.

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Black Samurai (1977)

Action, Blaxploitation, Martial arts

Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is on vacation when his commanding officers ask him to save a Japanese girl named Toki who is Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of an Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb - but the 'Warlock' behind the deed is also into the business of drug dealing and Voodoo ritual murders.

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Murders in the Zoo (1933)

Crime, Horror

Big-game hunter and wealthy zoologist Eric Gorman is an insanely jealous husband who uses his animal knowledge to dispose of his impulsive wife's lovers. The film opens in an Indian jungle with Gorman using a needle and thread to sew a colleague's mouth closed after having discovered that he had kissed his wife, and then he seals the man's fate by abandoning him in the jungle with the wild beasts. Gorman later pretends to be surprised at hearing that the man had been eaten by tigers.

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Frauds (1993)

Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy

A boy named Roland Copping is celebrating his eighth birthday, where his mother gives him a pair of dice that belonged to his father. Roland and his brother Matthew make a raft, and Roland tells Matthew to get on the raft after rolling the dice. Sending it on the river, Matthew jumps onto an overhead crane while the raft goes over a waterfall.

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Pool of London (1951)

Crime, Drama, Noir

The Dunbar, a merchant ship, arrives in the Pool of London, bringing a crew of sailors eager to spend their shore leave in the bustling city. Among them are Dan MacDonald, a streetwise American seaman, and Johnny Lambert, his more reserved Jamaican friend. While Dan seeks excitement and quick money, Johnny experiences London from a different perspective, forming a tentative friendship with Pat, a young white woman who shows him kindness despite the racial prejudices of the time.

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Mad Dog Coll (1961)

Biography, Crime, Drama

The film is a heavily fictionalized treatment of the life of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, who was born in 1908 in County Donegal, Ireland. In the film, Coll is depicted as growing up with an abusive father who beats and ridicules him (the film opens with him machine-gunning his father's gravestone), and started a street gang at a very young age, which led in turn to organized crime. He is portrayed as a psychopath, incapable of fear or compassion, who is never more happy than when he is recklessly shooting people with his tommy gun or feuding with the fellow mobster Dutch Schultz over whisky hijacking.

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The Killing Time (1987)

Action, thriller film

A stranger shoots a man named Brian Mars and buries him on the side of a road. Then he assumes his identity and moves to a small town in California to start a job as a deputy sheriff. His motives are unclear, but he has nightmares of being a child and finding his father's dead body hanging on a rope.

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Swamp Women (1956)

Adventure, Crime, exploitation film, Horror, thriller film

Three escaped female convicts, along with an undercover policewoman, Lee Hampton, begin a search for stolen diamonds in the Louisiana swamps. The escape, allowed by the authorities, is part of a larger plan by the authorities to trail the convicts and recover the diamonds. When notified that the stolen diamond cache has been recovered by the undercover officer, they plan to rearrest the women and return the diamonds to their rightful owner.

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The Racket (1951)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Racketeer and mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials of a large midwestern American city. However, he cannot touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. The city's prosecuting attorney Welsh and state police detective Turk are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.

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Tyson (2008)

boxing film, documentary film, Documentation

The documentary is a self-discovery of a Mike Tyson, who reflects on his highly controversial public life. It begins with clips of 20-year-old Tyson's convincing World Boxing Council Heavyweight Championship win over Trevor Berbick, then explores the fighter's upbringing and motivation. It is revealed that he had a dysfunctional family life and difficult childhood in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where his crimes led him to Tryon School for Boys in Johnstown, New York.

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Agents secrets (2004)

Action, Crime, thriller film

A man steps off a ferry. Suspicious he is being watched, he ducks through traffic and avoids his pursuers long enough to swallow a microchip and flee in a car. Unable to elude them, he is rammed off the road and shot, but his murderers are unable to find the microchip.

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Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Action, Crime, Drama, mystery film

left|275px|thumb|Still with Lilyan Tashman and Ronald Colman thumb|thumbtime=20|Bulldog Drummond (1929) Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, a demobilised British captain bored with civilian life, places a personal advertisement in The Times offering his services for "any excitement". One of the many replies intrigues him: Phyllis Benton claims she is in great danger. He immediately sets out for the Green Bay Inn, where she has reserved some rooms for him.

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The Iron Claw (1941)

Crime

A fortune in gold, taken from the wreck of a Spanish galleon, is hidden in the home of Anton Benson, a reclusive miser. The entire Benson family and household want the gold for themselves, including a mystery villain known as the Iron Claw. Newspaper journalist Bob Lane, with his photographer Jack Strong and Benton's niece Patricia, attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery.

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Vincent N Roxxy (2016)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Vincent, a small town loner, contemplates delivering a black duffle bag full of money to a gang leader. On his way home he encounters Roxxy, a young woman, being forced out of her car and hit repeatedly by a man. Vincent hits the man and the two flee together before the police arrive.

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Jewel Robbery (1932)

Heist, romantic comedy

Viennese Baroness Teri von Horhenfels relieves the boredom of her marriage to her rich but dull older husband with love affairs. One day, she meets both her husband and a current lover, Paul, at an exclusive jewel shop, where the baron is to buy her an extravagant, diamond ring. While the shop owner and he retire to haggle over price, her tedium is lifted by the arrival of a suave jewel thief and his gang.

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