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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 171.
Crime, Drama
A ruthless gang of people smugglers brings foreign nationals into the US illegally, and is prepared to drop their cargo from a plane to their deaths to avoid capture by the authorities. The gang tries to force Mr. Lang, a wealthy importer of Oriental antiques, to employ aliens or risk his business being wrecked.
Crime, thriller film
A pair of drifters in Duke and Boots are hanging out at a gasoline station on the Pacific Ocean. They menace the owner and steal from his store. Having been denied the touch of a woman recently, Duke promises Boots that he will fix him up with a woman.
Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy
Crime boss Little John Sarto retires suddenly, giving leadership of his gang to Jack Buck, while he leaves for a tour of Europe to acquire "class." However, Sarto is repeatedly swindled and finally loses all his money. He decides to return home and take back his gang, as if nothing has changed after five years, but Buck has him thrown out of his office. The only ones who remain loyal to Sarto are his girlfriend Flo Addams and Willie "the Knife" Corson.
Action, Crime, neo-noir
Michael Gordon Jr. is an African-American teenager in South-Central Los Angeles, being raised by a single mother and beginning to drift away from school. Before long, Michael is running with a tough local street gang, the Kingsmen, who christen him with the nickname Youngblood.
Action, Crime, Drama
The film opens at Canyon Park where LAPD narcotics Detective Lieu. Frank Daly (Brian Dennehy) is coaching fellow unit members Wayne Gross (Joe Pantoliano), Ricky Rodriguez (Jeff Fahey), and Howard Jones (Bill Paxton) during a flag football game. After the game, Daly tells Captain Joe Torres (Henry Darrow) that his team is working on a major bust.
Crime
In London in 1901, during Ireland's struggle for independence, Charles Norgate, an Irish American, is recruited by Irish revolutionaries to rob the Bank of England. Iris Muldoon, widow of an Irish independence martyr, enlists Norgate for the heist. Led by O'Shea, the group plans to steal one million pounds in gold bullion as a political statement.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
thumb|thumbtime=4|A Study in Scarlet (1933) The film opens in London in the present day. The body of Mr. Murphy is found dead on a train, apparently by suicide, but in fact, murdered.
Crime, Drama
Crime, Drama
Joey was convicted of killing a shop-owner during a botched burglary and serves a six years sentence. His prison term leaves him with many mental and physical scars due to assaults he suffered. Upon release, Joey is determined to abandon prison.
Crime, Horror, thriller film
Crime, documentary film, true crime
Featuring interviews with the Hollywood Bandits bank robbers themselves, law enforcement and characters from the Pacific Northwest, the documentary chronicles the rise of Scott Scurlock as he becomes the bank robber known as Hollywood, America's most successful bank robber.
Crime, Drama
Criminal accountant Waldo Zhernikov is involved in protection racketeering and plans to organise the six gangs that operate the rackets into a single organisation, under the control of crook Harry Foulcher. Burglar Paddy Damion is lured into the scheme by Foulcher as a money collector. When Alf Peters, one of the gang bosses, quarrels with Foulcher and walks out of the scheme, Foulcher murders him.
Western
In the town of Red Rock, gun salesman Steve Farrell demonstrates the new Colt .45 repeating pistols to the sheriff. The demonstration is interrupted when men arrive to transfer one of the prisoners to another jail. As he is being led away, prisoner Jason Brett grabs the pistols, shoots the sheriff and escapes.
Crime, Drama, historical film, neo-noir
In the film, Karl Hulten (Kiefer Sutherland) is an American GI who is stalking the black market of London after stealing an army truck and going AWOL. There he meets up with Betty Jones (Emily Lloyd), a stripper with a deluded fantasy world view formed by watching a steady stream of Hollywood film noir and gangster pictures. Seeing Karl, who claims he is "Chicago Joe" doing advance work in London for encroaching Chicago gangsters, Betty takes the opportunity to set her fantasies to life as she connives Karl into a spree of petty crimes.
Crime, thriller film
Crime
A rich but disliked uncle invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies, should not one of the heirs fulfill a condition. Before he can do this, he is murdered.
Action, Crime, thriller film
An American doctor, Dr. Nicholas Pinter (Val Kilmer), working in Bulgaria for Doctors Beyond Borders, is mistakenly identified as a secret agent by the Russian mob. He escapes a close brush with death and is then rescued by the British Secret Service and a beautiful but mysterious woman named Katrine (Izabella Miko).
Crime, Drama, Noir
Late one night, Thelma Jordon arrives at the investigative office of the district attorney to report a series of attempted burglaries at her Aunt Vera's home. The chief investigator, Miles Scott, is out, but she meets assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall, an unhappily married man who would rather drink than return home. Cleve invites Thelma to join him for a drink and she agrees.
Crime, Drama, romantic comedy
Victor "Vic" Kelly (Christopher Walken) is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. When a supposed cousin from Ireland visits Vic, the alleged cousin sabotages one of Vic's auto repair jobs, to ensure Vic's desperation and participation in the robbery scheme introduced to Vic by neighborhood resident Pat (Donal Logue). Vic is too stubbornly proud to accept a loan from his bar-owner girlfriend Sally (Cyndi Lauper), who offers Vic money that she was otherwise planning to use to renovate and remodel her neighborhood bar.
Action, Crime, Drama
The film starts with Gloria (Adrienne Shelly), who is being held hostage, bothering her captors in charge of watching her, Mooney (Anthony Clark) and Titus (Matt Adler), by changing the channel the two were watching on television and jumping in front of the TV. Titus then scolds and takes the remote from Gloria and suggests she should go take a swim in the pool outside which she subsequently obliges. While playing in the pool, Gloria hauls a trampoline near the edge of the pool and begins to jump on it before slipping and falling in the pool.
Crime, Drama, Family Drama
In 1970, Tom Leary takes his fiancée Susie Sharp Newsom home to Louisville, Kentucky to meet his parents. Tom is a dental student while Susie is a spoiled Southern belle from a prominent North Carolina family. Despite the disapproval of his mother Delores, Tom and Susie get married in a lavish ceremony in her hometown of Winston-Salem.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
While driving alone in the Mojave Desert, Sandra Thomas's (Plummer) car breaks down after a road rage incident with another driver, Santini (Thewlis), who is later revealed to be a notorious scam artist. Sandra is offered a lift by soft-spoken passerby Jake Nyman (Forster), who identifies himself as a Los Angeles psychiatrist on a pleasure trip with decisions based on a flip of a coin. Sandra intended to meet her down-on-her-luck hitchhiking sister Alice (Fairuza Balk) in the town of Pearblossom.
Crime, Drama
documentary film, Documentation
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill travels to Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and other countries where the United States has taken military action in the war on terror. In Afghanistan, he investigates the United States military and government cover-up of the deaths of five civilians, including two pregnant women killed by US soldiers from the Joint Special Operations Command. After investigating the attack, Scahill travels to other sites of JSOC intervention, interviewing both proponents and opponents, and the survivors, of such raids, including U.S.