The Gunrunner (1984)
Crime, Drama
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
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High School Confidential! (1958)
Crime, Drama
Mike Wilson, a young police officer, poses as a student under the alias Tony Baker and thus infiltrates a high school in order to investigate a narcotics ring. He lives in an apartment with Gwen Dulaine, a married woman who pretends to be his aunt in public but attempts to seduce him in private. "Tony" flirts with pupil Joan Staples and incurs the wrath of teacher Arlene Williams as he makes acquaintances in school.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
Crime, Horror
The film starts in 1936 as a barber tells a patron the story of the infamous Sweeney Todd. In 1836, Sweeney Todd is a barber with a shop near the docks of London. One day, as the mercantile ship The Golden Hope readies to leave, Todd watches Johanna Oakley and Mark Ingerstreet.
The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
Crime, Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
Prison escapee Moose Malloy is looking for his girlfriend Velma Valento, whom he has not seen for five years. Velma was a showgirl at Florian's, a now-defunct nightclub which has become Club 13. Nobody there has heard of Velma and after a frustrated Moose runs amok and kills the manager Montgomery, amateur sleuth Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, takes an interest in the affair.
Assault on a Queen (1966)
Action, Heist, thriller film
After a World War II-era German submarine that has been missing for 20 years is retrieved in the Bahamas by diver Mark Brittain, the wealthy Rosa Lucchesi and her partner Vic Rossiter, who have been searching for sunken Spanish galleons, hire the submarine. Eric Lauffnauer, a U-boat officer during the war, devises a plan to stage a daring million-dollar heist aboard the British ocean liner while the ship is crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Brittain returns the submarine to operational order with the assistance of his partner Linc and new man Moreno, a war hero and expert with engines.
Ransom (1974)
Crime, Drama, thriller film
A small group of terrorists have seized the British ambassador to the fictitious country of "Scandinavia", and are holding him hostage in his residence. Scandinavia's head of security, Col. Nils Tahlvik, wants to take an uncompromising position, but he is overruled by the governments of both Scandinavia and Britain, who insist that all of the terrorists' demands be met.
Cardboard Gangsters (2017)
Crime
The film follows Jay and his friends as they attempt to take control of the Darndale drug trade from Murphy, who has controlled the Darndale drug trade for the last 30 years. 24 year old Jayson "Jay" Connelly, who lives with his friends in Darndale, Coolock with his friends Dano, Glenner and Cobbie; learns he is cut off from unemployment benefits due to a recent DJing gig. To make matters worse, he finds out his mother has been taking loans from Derra Murphy, the local crime lord, to pay for her debts and bills.
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
Crime, Drama, Noir
Czech refugee Clementi Sabourin, missing and believed dead, one day turns up to find that his love Zina is now married to his brother, Gerry. Out of spite, he betrays Gerry to the police. Gerry is killed resisting arrest.
Heavens Fall (2006)
Crime, Drama
In the film, two young white women (portrayed by Leelee Sobieski and Azura Skye) accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South. Timothy Hutton stars as criminal defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz. The film begins after the first trial of the nine in the bustling city of Scottsboro, Alabama.
The Dark Eyes of London (1940)
Crime, Horror
In London, Dr Orloff runs a life insurance agency where he loans money on his customers' policies. Scotland Yard begins finding bodies in the Thames River, all of them insured by Orloff with the Dearborn Home for the Blind as their sole beneficiary. This charity Home, which Orloff sponsors and serves as its medical advisor, is located in a dilapidated former warehouse abutting the Thames.
Alibi (1929)
Crime, Drama
thumb|left|thumbtime=10|Alibi (1929) thumb|344x344px|Alibi ad in The Film Daily, 1929 Joan Manning, the daughter of a police sergeant, secretly marries Chick Williams, a gangleader who convinces her that he is leading an honest life. Chick attends the theater with Joan and, at the intermission, sneaks away, committing a robbery during which a policeman is killed. Chick is suspected of the crime but is able to use Joan to substantiate his alibi.
The Black Camel (1931)
Crime, mystery film
Movie star Shelah Fayne is making a picture on location in Honolulu, Hawaii. She summons mystic adviser Tarneverro from Hollywood to help her decide whether to marry wealthy Alan Jaynes, a man she has known for only a week. Her friend Julie O'Neil worries, however, that the famous psychic has too much influence over Fayne.
Satan's Sadists (1969)
Action, Horror, thriller film
The plot centers around an outlaw motorcycle gang called the "Satans", who roam the deserts of the Southwestern United States. The gang's leader goes by the name of Anchor, and other members include Firewater, Acid, Muscle, Willie, Romeo and Gina. The gang comes upon two lovers whom they proceed to attack: they beat up the boyfriend and rape the girl.
La Gomera (2019)
Crime
Zsolt, a corrupt businessman in Bucharest in league with Spanish gangsters, has been smuggling drug money out of the country in mattresses. Among those on his payroll are his mistress, the glamorous Gilda, and Cristi, a police inspector whose payoffs are left in his mother's cellar. When Zsolt is arrested, the Spaniards concoct a plot to free both him and the latest mattressfuls of cash.
The Pyx (1973)
Mysterie, thriller film
In Montreal, a woman named Elizabeth Lucy falls to her death from a tenement building. Police arrive on the scene and find a crucifix and a small metal pyx gripped in her hand. Widowed detective Sergeant Jim Henderson is assigned to the case, and soon learns that Elizabeth was a heroin-addicted prostitute.
The Grissom Gang (1971)
Crime, Drama
In 1931, outside Kansas City, Missouri, wealthy heiress Barbara Blandish is robbed by three small-time criminals. The trio panic after murdering her boyfriend and kidnap her. At their hideout, the trio are ambushed and killed by mobster Eddie Hagan, who happened to witness the crime, and the rest of the notorious Grissom Gang.
The Pretender: Island of the Haunted (2001)
Crime
The film begins with Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) working as a professor and searching for a mysterious artifact. Both he and Ms.
The Long Haul (1957)
Crime, Drama
Harry Miller, a U.S. Army NCO, leaves Allied-occupied Germany after discharge and is persuaded by his English wife Connie to settle in Liverpool. Looking for work, he becomes a lorry driver.
Blackout (1985)
Crime, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
In Ohio, Lucy Vincent and her three children are found brutally murdered following a birthday party. Her husband, Ed Vincent, is missing and is believed to be the killer. Veteran homicide detective Joe Steiner is assigned to the case, but with Vincent missing, the case goes cold.
Five Star Final (1931)
Crime, Drama
Joseph W. Randall is the managing editor of the New York Evening Gazette tabloid newspaper, who has been trying to legitimize the paper by reducing sensationalism and improving the reporting, but circulation has dropped dramatically. When publisher Bernard Hinchecliffe plans to boost sales by running a retrospective series on a 20-year-old murder, hoping to thereby revive the scandal, Randall reluctantly agrees.
Please Murder Me (1956)
Crime, Noir
Defense lawyer Craig Carlson buys a pistol at a pawn shop and deposits it in his office desk drawer with a file folder. He dictates a message into a tape recorder for district attorney Ray Willis, revealing that he expects to be murdered within an hour, and he begins to tell his story in extended flashbacks. The memories begin with Craig's explanation to his friend Joe Leeds that he is having an affair with Leeds' wife Myra, who wants a divorce.
The Liquidator (1965)
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, spy film, thriller film
During the Allies' occupation of Paris late in World War II, bumbling tank corps Sergeant "Boysie" Oakes stumbles when responding to a fellow Englishman's call for help, and unwittingly shoots and kills two men attempting to assassinate British Intelligence Major Mostyn. A grateful Mostyn mistakenly believes Oakes is a born killer. Twenty-one years later, Mostyn (then a colonel in British Intelligence) and his boss are in trouble due to a series of embarrassing security leaks.
Sioux City (1994)
Mysterie, mystery film
Dr. Jesse Rainfeather Goldman (Lou Diamond Phillips) is an emergency room doctor living with his adoptive Jewish parents Douglas (Adam Roarke) and Leah Goldman (Melinda Dillon) in Beverly Hills, California. Going maverick with another physician's patient by removing her from all prescribed medications, he is put on forced leave instead of a suspension, effective after his shift is over.
Aftermath (2013)
crime thriller film