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Crime, Drama
Mr Roper, an insurance investigator, travels to Brighton to assess the apparent death of a businessman after his burning car was seen crashing over a cliff into the sea. The insurance company is suspicious, as the man had only recently taken out life insurance for a large sum. The car is recovered and no body is found.
Comedy, comedy thriller, LGBTQ-related film, rape and revenge film, sexploitation film
After performing at a local club, trans women Rachel Slurr and Emma Grashun plan to party with Nacho and Chuey. When the guys tell them that they have a third friend, the girls convince their reluctant friend Bubbles Cliquot to join them. The girls drive to a warehouse where they are joined by Nacho and Chuey, along with their partner Boner.
Caper-Movie, Comedy, Crime Comedy, Drama
Con artist Marcus Pendleton has just been released from prison for embezzlement. He has emerged into a world increasingly reliant on computers. He convinces computer programmer Caesar Smith to follow his lifelong dream of hunting moths in the Amazon rainforest.
Action, thriller film
Duke (Brian Geraghty) and Amber (Jenna Dewan) are a financially strapped young couple, both working menial jobs to survive, while their gangster neighbors continue to steal Duke and Amber's things. One day Amber gets home and finds the neighbors in the house, stealing a few things. They beat her up and leave.
Crime, Drama
Nick Tortano is an associate of local mafia boss Sal Vitaglia. Nick wants to become a made man but has yet to be trusted enough for his first contract killing. As the Boston crime families wither, however, Sal is forced to consolidate his power and advance more men.
Western
Johnny Carver and Buff Smith are released from jail by the head of the Texas Rangers to help capture outlaw Sam Bass, who has been terrorizing Texas. The men appear to be planning a double cross in league with the outlaws until the big holdup of a gold train when they fight on the Rangers' side.
Crime, Drama, Noir
In Washington D.C., federal agent Rigby is briefed on a racketeering ring that has been selling and retrofitting war surplus aircraft motors for profit, off the coast of Central America. The government suspects Tugwell 'Tug' Hintten and his wife Elizabeth are part of the racket. Tasked to recover the motors and raid their headquarters, Rigby travels to Los Trancos on the island of Carlotta, posing as a sportsman.
Crime, Drama, neo-noir
Ever since his assistant Velda went missing, private detective Mike Hammer has been drinking and he is now homeless. Although Hammer hasn't worked a case in seven years, his old police friend Capt. Pat Chambers asks for his assistance on a job.
Crime, thriller film
A young man with a gambling gets into serious debt by losing all his money. To pay off the bookies, his uncle pulls a few strings and gets him a job working for a gangster named Deepthroat, who needs a "runner" to place bets with bookies. The gangster keeps his new runner on a short leash and, for the most part, the young gambler behaves himself.
Crime, thriller film
Michael Dixon (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is an agent working linewatch for the United States Border Patrol on the U.S. Mexico Border in New Mexico. He is well-respected by his peers at US Border Patrol and loved by his wife Angela (Sharon Leal) and 5-year-old daughter Emily (Deja Warrior).
Noir
Father Roth counsels another priest named George, who wants to leave the parish because he is discouraged by the difficulties of caring for the parishioners. Roth tells him the story of Martin Lynn, a murderer who brought him "nearer to God". Martin struggles for money to marry his girlfriend and to take his sick mother to Arizona to recuperate.
Crime
After a showgirl begins an affair with Arthur Groome, a married man, she is found murdered. Groome discovers her body but fearing his wife's knowledge of his affair he does not summon the police; he soon becomes the prime suspect for the murder. Most of the film portrays the trial of Groome at the Old Bailey, London.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Rocky Mulloy was sentenced to life in prison for a robbery and murder that he did not commit. He is released five years later when Delong, a one-legged former Marine, suddenly appears and provides a fake alibi. Delong is an opportunist who hopes that by freeing Rocky, he can claim a share of the missing $100,000 from the robbery.
Action, Drama, Martial arts
In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, GI Billy Thomas saves captain Scott Monroe's life, but gets shot in the head in the process. The extensive brain damage leaves him with diminished mental capabilities. After the war, Scott opens a bar in Los Angeles and keeps Billy under his wing, but they soon find themselves on shaky financial ground and targeted by mafiosi.
Crime, Crime Comedy, Heist, romantic comedy
A.J. Raffles, the celebrated cricketer, is welcomed in the parlours and country estates of high society. This circumstance he uses to his advantage in his secret career as "The Amateur Cracksman", a master burglar and safecracker who remains always one step ahead of Scotland Yard.
Crime, Drama
When small-time hood Johnny Warjack and his gang hold up glitzy nightclub/illegal gambling den Club Bermuda he is recognized. Club owner Marty Fain (Bruce Bennett) offers to make good his patrons' losses, but orders his men to deal with Warjack. Seedy gambler Nelson Clark (Ben Welden) tries to take advantage of Fain's generosity for $10,000, followed by beautiful young socialite Linda Vickers (Virginia Mayo) for $18,000 in diamonds.
Crime, Drama
Ted and his girlfriend Patty kidnap Andrew, Ted's son by his ex-wife Gail. Gail informs the police, but no report is filed. Five years later, Ted returns Andrew to Gail, who has since remarried and has a new son.
Crime, Drama
After quitting his job as a police detective, Jim Schuyler accepts an offer from lawyer Tennessee Fredericks to protect Rena Westabrook, who is about to be placed on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband. Rena is accused of conspiring with a lover, Jonathan Fleming, to kill Westabrook for his money. She has an alibi from Sean Magruder, who says that he witnessed her in a bar at the time of the murder, but Schuyler finds Magruder dead in a car.
Crime
The film concerns the manhunt for David Martin and the events surrounding this. Stephen Waldorf, a 26-year-old film editor, was mistakenly identified as Martin and shot by police firearms officers. The story focuses on Finch, a young police officer who, at the beginning of the film, is awarded a medal for bravery in the course of duty after he arrested an armed criminal, and David Martin.
Crime, mystery film
The Greenes are a wealthy and dysfunctional family who are forced to gather annually to fulfil the stipulations of the late patriarch's will. The family is ruled by the resentful and ailing Mrs. Tobias Greene, who holds little affection for her children, Rex, Chester, and daughter Sibella.
Coming-of-age, Crime, Drama, hood film
The film begins with Woody Watson (Michael Rainey Jr.) having a dream about himself and his mother in the woods, but then he wakes up. Woody lives with his grandmother (Lonette McKee) in the inner city of Baltimore and longs to be reunited with his mother, who is in rehab in North Carolina. His charismatic uncle Vincent (Common) has recently returned home after having served 12 years of a 20-year sentence.
Crime, Drama, Noir, prison film
Joe Hufford is arrested after a fistfight in which a man is killed. District attorney George Knowland knows that Hufford did not intend to kill the man and offers his attorney a viable line of defense, but the attorney refuses to listen and Hufford is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison. Several years into Hufford's sentence, Knowland is appointed as the prison's new warden and gives Hufford a highly desirable job as his personal chauffeur, which mostly involves driving Knowland's pretty daughter Kay around town.
Action, Crime, Drama
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is attempting domination of major financial and business concerns. Victor Jory's Shadow is faithful to the radio character, especially the radio show's signature: the sinister chuckle of the invisible Shadow as he confronts the villain or his henchmen. Columbia, however, relied on fistfights, chases, and headlong action in its serials, and disliked the prospect of a 15-chapter adventure where the audience would not see much of the heroics, because the leading character was supposed to be invisible.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, mystery film, spy film
Chick Larkin and Mervyn Milgrim both work at the soda counter of a local radio station's headquarters. Their true passion, however, is to become writers on a radio mystery show. They attend a broadcast of the radio program Murder at Midnight along with one of the writers, Jimmy Turner, and the producer, Jane Little.