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Drama
Josh is a high school boy who lives with his adoptive parents and is involved in little crimes with his friends, including young lesbian Bella. His elder brother, Walter, returns home after leaving home ten years prior when he was 18 and not being heard of all those years. Walter starts to involve Josh in various new criminal activities, including robbery.
Drama, thriller film
Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live up to his brother's potential. However, this quickly becomes inconsequential, as blood-thirsty killers soon show up to steal the artwork, and whatever else they can find in the house.
Adventure, Crime
In 1910, Mr. Ming is an agent of a group which secretly fights against tongs, China's criminal organizations. To fulfill his mission, he takes a ship to Hong Kong.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Bookkeeper Nick Cherney is sent to jail for embezzling from Johnny Torno's trucking company. One week before getting out, he sees a newsreel showing Johnny welcoming home his heroic brother Jess, a Catholic chaplain just returned from a World War II prisoner-of-war camp. Nick decides to get back at Johnny and hires Rocky (a fellow-inmate about to be released) to murder Jess.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
South Korea's most wanted criminal, "Helios" (Chang Chen), and his assistant "Messenger" (Janice Man), have stolen a weapon of mass destruction secretly developed by the South Korean military: a portable nuclear explosive device (DC8), along with sixteen fuel modules. The police forces of Hong Kong, China, and South Korea have been informed that Helios will hold an underground negotiation for the weapon in Hong Kong. An emergency response team is set up, including chief inspector Eric Lee Yan-ming (Nick Cheung) of the Counter-Terrorism Response Unit, senior Chinese official Song An (Wang Xueqi), and two South Korean weapons experts: Choi…
Crime, exploitation film, Horror, Psychological horror, Slasher, Splatter Film
Adam Sorg is a struggling artist who lives at a house near the beach and suffers from anger issues as a result of his critics making fun of his poor use of color. He thus often takes out his frustrations on those around him, chief among them his girlfriend, Gigi. Adam's struggles are mainly derived from his inability to find the perfect shade of red.
Comedy, Crime Comedy, Heist, Horror, romantic comedy
Nick and Charlie, a couple of aging thieves looking for a last score before they retire, come to ritzy Palm Beach, Florida, where they have an elaborate scheme to rob a Harry Winston jewelry store. The shop is well-guarded and has high-tech security. Its manager, Edward, welcomes an elderly customer seeking an expensive gift for a terminally ill wife.
Crime
A young couple, Rob and Sophie, purchase alcohol at a convenience store late at night. They are friendly, despite wearing exaggerated gothic fashion and accessories. A teenage boy, named Michael, asks Sophie if he can touch her hair - black and red dreadlocks - and she agrees joyfully, joking that she will have to charge him next time.
Comedy drama, Crime, Daffy Comedy, romantic comedy
Bert Harris works for a hotel as a bellboy. One day, he meets Anne Roberts, who signs up as a chambermaid. He takes a fancy to her and lets her in on his racket, conning people out of money.
Adventure, crime thriller film, Gangster Film, Horror, Science fiction
In 1924, Dr. Fu Manchu, his army of dacoits and his vicious daughter Lin Tang are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his hidden base in the Atlas Mountains, where he demands that their fathers help him to build a device that transmits blast waves through a radio transmitter, which he intends to use to take over the world. He plans to keep (even wed) the girls in question.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
A naïve, good-hearted Los Angeles waitress does not think twice about helping her troubled roommate. Her help lands her in Central America fleeing for her life with a grungy mercenary.
Drama, Noir, romance film
Harry Quincey is an amiable middle-aged bachelor working as a designer in a fabric mill in the small New England town of Corinth. Younger people in town call him "Uncle Harry". He lives in the family's mansion with his two sisters, the younger Lettie and the older Hester.
Crime, Drama, hood film
Jason St. Julian (LL Cool J), a talented yet troubled DJ with a gambling problem. As Jason is sleeping, Crash (Gene Anthony Ray) and Nut (Mark Venturini) break into his apartment to collect a debt.
Action, Adventure, Drama, thriller film
While working for Sight magazine, journalist Katie Connors goes to San Marcos, a remote Mexican fishing village. She seeks novelist and adventurer Mike Latimer, who has abandoned writing "at the peak of his fame" and dropped from sight. He is in the village, indulging in drinking, fishing, hunting, and flying his aircraft.
Crime, Drama, Noir, thriller film
An heiress has shut herself inside her Columbus Circle apartment for nearly two decades. A detective investigating the death of one of her neighbors and the duo who move into the subsequently vacant apartment force her to face her fears of the outside world.
Comedy horror, Crime
When wealthy businessman Walter Stevens (Lionel Atwill) receives a death threat from a mysterious killer known as "the Gorilla", he hires the bumbling Ritz Brothers, a team of inept private detectives, to protect him. As a violent storm rolls in and power outages darken his mansion, a real escaped gorilla begins to terrorize the household. Amid the chaos, suspicious characters emerge — including the creepy butler Peters (Bela Lugosi) and a nervous maid (Patsy Kelly) — leaving everyone to wonder whether the threat is a human murderer or something far more beastly.
Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
Mo and Rashid "Rash" are teenage brothers of Egyptian descent living with their parents in Hackney. Elder brother Rash is fiercely protective of Mo, giving him a TV when he does well and encouraging him to stay in school. However Mo begins to want to emulate Rash who works as a low level drug dealer, and is able to use money from his job to pay for small luxuries to make their lives more comfortable.
Crime, Drama
The film is about a poor married couple living in New York City. The husband works as a musician and must often travel for work. When returning, his wallet is taken by a gangster.
Crime, Drama
A desperate young man shoots five bullets into a well known successful author as he leaves a New York club and then turns the gun on himself. Questions surround this seemingly senseless murder and investigative reporter David Leader is assigned the case. David soon meets Emma Burgess, a beautiful woman who is directly involved in this case as David.
Adventure, Comedy
In 1912, fortune hunter Dan Rockland comes to West Africa pretending to be a geologist. He is actually employed by Kramer, whose business is diamonds. Kramer's workers discover a huge uncut gem.
Crime, mystery film
Whispering Smith, an American detective, is summoned to London to investigate the suicide of a young woman named Sylvia Garde. The dead girl's father and his secretary Anne both suspect that Sylvia was murdered. Smith finds a little black book that indicates that Sylvia's lawyer Hector Reith and her fiance Roger Ford had both been blackmailing Sylvia.
The film is based on the actual events of the pursuit of American bank robber John Dillinger during the 1930s.
Crime, Drama, Horror, thriller film
A young women jumps from a window and runs through town and country to escape some men who are pursuing her. As the story unfolds, it emerges that she is Marianne, a nightclub dancer, who is on the run from her father, a disbarred corrupt judge who lives in a villa in Portugal with Marianne's half-sister Hildegarde. On her 21st birthday, Marianne is due to receive a large inheritance from Ruth, her mother and a former lover of the judge.
Crime, Drama