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Action, thriller film
John Steele is a Vietnam Vet who had trouble adjusting to life after the war. He hasn't been able to hold on to a job which includes being a cop. When his best friend Lee, who also served with him in Vietnam and who also became a cop, was killed by some drug dealers he was investigating, Steele was able to save his daughter and saw one of the shooters.
Drama
Crime, Drama, Noir
Shubunka is a racketeer preying upon small-time operators on the New Jersey boardwalk. He has a girlfriend, Nancy Starr, a showgirl, and offers protection to a New York beachfront cafe owned by Nick Jammey. A more powerful rival, Cornell, seeks to take over Shubunka's operations and territory.
Crime, Drama, Horror, Police Film, thriller film
Fiona Wagner is studying for a master's degree in Journalism and still grieves for her mother Samantha who committed suicide 3 years ago. Her father, Detective Tom Wagner, is investigating the brutal death of lawyer Elliot Vincent, by the hands of his teenage daughter. His daughter was forced to choose between killing him or having her mother, younger brother and herself killed by a sadistic criminal who broke into their home.
Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, prison film
Frank Ross, a crusading newspaperman on the trail of a crooked district attorney, is framed for manslaughter and sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison. There, he encounters the notorious Stacey, a lifer who is falsely accused of fatally stabbing a stool pigeon. Though Ross suspects Stacey is actually responsible, he keeps mum.
Crime, Drama
Deputy sheriff Steve Walsh and his partner encounter a trio of young people in Washington between Shelton and Aberdeen. After being taken hostage when the girl, Bobbie, produces a gun, the two deputies are forced by their captors into rural Mason County forests as the group flees an ever-growing search party. Bobbie later tries to seduce Walsh - twice her age - who resists.
Crime, Drama, Marital Tragedy
The film starts with the murder of narrator Andrew Kissel (John Stamos), and is told through a series of flashbacks and documentary interviews, telling the story of how embezzling real estate mogul Andrew and his younger Wall Street broker brother, Robert (Anson Mount) meet their untimely ends. The two men compete for the affection of their disapproving father, and try to one-up each other with Robert marrying social climber Nancy (Robin Tunney) and having three children, while Andrew marries TV news analyst Haley (Gretchen Egolf). Nancy starts having an affair and kills her husband in Hong Kong, while Andrew starts doing drugs.
Crime, thriller film
David Lamont, a successful literary agent in New York City who is known to be ruthless toward friends, foes, and clients alike, moves into his new penthouse apartment. There he meets his mysterious and beautiful neighbor, Audrey Lavine, who lives on the third floor. Shortly thereafter, he receives a visit from an investigator and a man who claims that the penthouse belongs to his father who never sold it.
Crime, Drama, Mysterie
In 1888, Jack the Ripper is on his killing spree. Scotland Yard Inspector O'Neill (Byrne) welcomes a visit from his old friend, New York City detective Sam Lowry (Patterson), who agrees to assist with the investigation. Sam becomes attracted to modern woman Anne Ford (McDowall) but her guardian, Dr.
Crime, Noir
Max Thursday is an alcoholic former cop working as a house detective at his pal Smitty's rundown hotel. Max's ex-wife Georgia visits him in a panic because their young son Jeff and her brother Fred Mace are both missing. She was warned to not inform the police by Dr.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
In Amsterdam, Inspector Van der Valk is on the trail of a group of wealthy young men who go round attacking women for entertainment.
Crime
Cambridge student Prince Alexis is accused of stealing the athletic funds. Friend and fellow student Watson recommends he seek the assistance of classmate Sherlock Holmes. Meanwhile, while honing his observational skills out in the countryside, Holmes falls and is knocked unconscious.
Crime, crime thriller film, Drama, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
In 1994, Sean Veil is acquitted of charges relating to an infamous triple murder. He becomes paranoid that the police are trying to frame him for this and other crimes. A book based on his trial called Darkness Invisible is released.
Crime, Drama, Horror, LGBTQ-related film
The film is based on the real-life murders committed by Charles E. "Smitty" Schmid, Jr. in Tucson.
Comedy drama, Crime
The story is told in a choppy surreal manner, with frequent absurd happenings acting as backdrop for the dialogue and story. The film opens with a shot of a man in an office's head exploding; it is referenced throughout the film as an ongoing news report. We meet Ogden as he discusses his never-begun career as a gymnastics talent with his friend Hate Crime John in an abandoned warehouse.
Crime, Horror, thriller film
In an anonymous American town, Tom Gerrick is a Wall Street Whiz Kid. He's also a serial killer. Six victims have had their eyes cut out, six their ears cut off and three their tongues removed.
Crime, Drama
In 1927 during prohibition, gangland kingpin Joe Krozac returns from Europe with a new wife, Talya, who is unaware of his criminal background. The Kile brothers have muscled in on his territory in his absence, so he orders their assassinations. Three are killed, but "Acey" Kile survives.
Crime, Noir
All Paris is frightened by the murders attributed to "Bluebeard". Modiste Lucille is introduced to Gaston Morrell, a puppeteer and painter, by her friend. They are attracted to each other, and she accepts a commission to design some costumes for his puppets.
Crime, Detective, mystery film, thriller film
A former police officer, Derian McCall (Rebecca De Mornay), hands in her badge then she and a colleague, opens a detective agency. One day Anthea (Dana Delany) walks in, the wife of a wealthy investor, Michael Ferrow-Smith (Kiefer Sutherland). Anthea asks Derian to flirt with Michael to see if he is unfaithful, suggests using her as a bait to seduce Anthea's husband.
Crime, Drama, historical film, LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, thriller film
Police inspector Danladi Waziri is summoned by the British colonial authorities to present his findings on a series of rapes and murders of young women in Akote, a remote village in Western Nigeria. Upon his arrival in Akote, he is received by Sergeant Afonja, who tells him that a man on horseback being admired by several villagers is Prince Aderopo, the first of their community to graduate from university. As he begins his investigation, Waziri notices a pattern in the killings and concludes that the rapes and murders are the work of a serial killer.
Crime, Drama, teen film
Emma is a 15-year-old girl who was raised in a West Virginia mining town by her miner grandfather, Clayton Hayes. She wants to know about her mother Angie Baker, who abandoned her when she was a baby. She decides to go visit her mother in Tennessee despite her grandfather's insistence against it, leaving him a note.
Crime, Drama, exploitation film, satanic film
thumb|left|thumbtime=1994|upright=1.5|300px|Marihuana (full film) Burma is a confused girl who likes to party. One day she meets some strangers in a bar who invite her and her group to a party. At the party everybody drinks alcohol and the girls unknowingly smoke marijuana, which keeps them laughing.
Blaxploitation, Crime, Western
In Texas in 1911, Thomasine knocks out a man who attempted to force himself on her sexually without paying for her prostitution services. She is revealed to actually be a bounty hunter who used her attractiveness to lure in her latest, unsuspecting target. The marshal pays her the bounty, but also threatens her because he does not care for her self-confident attitude.
Crime
thumb|thumbtime=15|The Benson Murder Case (1930) In the midst of the Wall Street crash of 1929, Anthony Benson, a ruthless stockbroker, is force-selling the unsecured investments of his friends and colleagues on-margin to compensate for the loss of collateral; including those of his affluent and well-connected friend, Harry Gray. In his office, Benson accuses Adolf Mohler, a shallow gigolo, of forging a check to pay for a trinket that he put on-loan for one of his lovers, Mrs. Paula Banning.