The Black Gestapo (1975)
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, exploitation film, thriller film
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
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Murder at the Vanities (1934)
Crime, musical film, mystery film
Jack Ellery is staging a lavish musical revue starring Eric Lander, Ann Ware and Rita Ross, supported by a cast of one hundred background singers and dancers (almost all women, and many scantily clad) and two full orchestras. On opening night, just before the show, someone tries to kill Ware several times. Ellery summons police lieutenant Murdock of the homicide squad to investigate.
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980)
Action, Crime, Drama
Part one details the early life and imprisonment of Clarence Carnes, climaxing with the Battle of Alcatraz. Part two focuses on Carnes as a veteran prisoner, His friendship with Robert Stroud, His involvement in the escape attempt of Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers.
The Power of Few (2013)
Action, Crime, thriller film
It is a crime drama featuring five interconnected stories, set in New Orleans.
Abandoned (1949)
Crime, Noir
After her sister goes missing in Los Angeles, a woman tries to find information about the disappearance at city hall. The police are not helpful, but she does get support from a local crime reporter. As the two investigate the disappearance together, they are led to a shady detective and a black-market baby ring.
You'll Find Out (1940)
Comedy, Crime Comedy, Horror
After Kay Kyser and his orchestra arrive at a castle-shaped mansion, the drawbridge leading to it is mysteriously dynamited, stranding both entertainers and guests. Kyser is suspicious of mystic Prince Saliano, and for good reason. He is taking advantage of the heiress' Aunt Bellacrest's belief in spiritualism to swindle the estate out of large sums of money.
Blowback (2000)
Crime
The film follows detective Morrell (Van Peebles) as he investigates whether a series of murders identical to those committed by Wittman (Remar) years ago were committed by a copycat or if they were committed by Wittman himself.
Cops and Robbers (1973)
Action, Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist
NYPD Detective Tom Loomis and Officer Joe Fortunato are working class neighbors in a high-density residential community in Queens. Though they have rather content lives with families and homes, Tom and Joe are unhappy with their dangerous policing jobs that offer little pay, and seek more money for a better lifestyle. One night, Joe robs a liquor store while in uniform and simply walks away.
Ruben Brandt, a gyujto (2018)
action thriller, Adventure, Cartoon, Crime, Detective, Heist, Noir, Surrealist, thriller film
Unlikely as it seems, Ruben Brandt travels by train along with Duveneck's Whistling Boy and is attacked by Velázquez's Infanta Margarita Teresa. It is revealed that he had been having a nightmare. Acrobatic thief Mimi steals Cleopatra's Fan from the Louvre Museum.
The Break (1963)
Crime
Jacko Thomas is a dangerous criminal who escapes from the train taking him to prison and hides in the secluded Dartmoor hotel run by Judd Tredgar, who had arranged his escape. Also staying at the hotel are Thomas's sister Sue, private detective Pearson, and novelist Greg Parker, the man Pearson is investigating. When Pearson discovers that Tredgar is running a smuggling racket, Thomas kills him.
Judge Priest (1934)
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy
thumb|The full film Personable Judge Priest (Will Rogers), known to his contemporaries as "Billy", presides over court in Fairfield, Kentucky, in 1890; Jeff Poindexter is accused of chicken theft. Senator Horace Maydew, a rival in an election bid to the judge's seat, is the prosecuting attorney in Jeff's case. After some distraction by Priest and the court onlookers, Jeff is found innocent.
Black Gunn (1972)
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Heist, thriller film
In Los Angeles, a nighttime robbery of an illegal mafia bookmaking operation is carried out by the militant African-American organization BAG (Black Action Group). Though successful, several of the bookmakers and one of the burglars are killed. The mastermind behind the robbery, a Vietnam veteran named Scott, is the brother of a prominent nightclub owner, Gunn.
Slingshot (2005)
Crime
Taylor (Getty) and Ashley (Arquette), best friends since childhood, are drifters, going across country, pulling low-level cons. They end up in Fairfield, CT, where they embark on a bigger scheme: to scam wealthy, as well as lonely, housewives.
La casa de las mil muñecas (1967)
Crime, Drama, Horror, sexploitation film, thriller film
Stephen Armstrong, vacationing with his wife Marie in Tangiers, runs into an old friend and learns he is searching for his missing girlfriend who was kidnapped by an international gang of white slavers. The kidnappers are nightclub magician Manderville and his mentalist partner Rebecca. Under the guise of their nightclub act, they hypnotize and kidnap young women for the white slavers, and spirit them away to an exclusive brothel called "The House of 1000 Dolls." Stephen continues the investigation when his friend is murdered.
Trading Favors (1997)
Crime, Drama
Lincoln Muller's life turns upside down when he asks an attractive woman to buy him a beer at a convenience store. Then he learns that both she and her abusive boyfriend are into crime and violence, and Lincoln has been sucked in whether he likes it or not.
Hit! (1973)
Action, Crime
In Marseille, a man and his girlfriend board a yacht. He retrieves a bundle of opium attached to a sea buoy and delivers it to a man in a chateau who processes the opium into heroin. The chateau man transfers the processed heroin to the ringleader who takes it to the docks and hides the drugs inside bicycle frames designated for transport to the U.S.
Right to Kill? (1985)
Crime, Drama, Family Drama
Girls in Prison (1994)
Crime, Drama, thriller film
An aspiring young singer is sent to prison after getting wrongly convicted of murdering a record company president in 1950s Hollywood. With the help of two other convicts, she must survive as the real culprits send "hit girls" to kill her inside. One of these convicts connects her to a private investigator who tracks the culprits down, but the real murderer is determined to silence her.
Hate Crime (2005)
Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film
Robbie Levinson (Seth Peterson) and Trey McCoy (Brian J. Smith) are an openly gay couple living in a suburban home near friend and next-door neighbor Kathleen Slansky (Lin Shaye). The couple plans to hold a commitment ceremony to exchange rings.
Sket (2011)
Crime, thriller film
Sisters Kayla (Aimée Kelly) and Tanya (Kate Foster-Barnes) move from Newcastle upon Tyne to commence a new life near their estranged father after their mother has died. Kayla is reluctant to reconcile with him. Meanwhile, drug dealer/gang-boss Trey (Ashley Walters) has instructed his female companion Shaks (Riann Steele) to murder a crackhead who has fallen behind on the payments for her drugs.
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King (1995)
Crime
Never Let Go (1960)
Crime, Drama, Noir
Lionel Meadows is a London garage owner who deals in stolen cars. Meadows buys log books from scrapped models, then has other cars corresponding to the log books stolen and the number plates replaced. He gives a list of cars to young petty thief Tommy Towers, which includes a 1959 Ford Anglia.
Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger (1976)
Action, Bruceploitation, kung fu film, Martial arts
The film tells the story of David "The Tiger" Lee, who was a student, protégé and successor of Bruce "The Dragon" Lee. "The Tiger" comes to Hong Kong in search of answers regarding the mysterious death of his shih-fu "The Dragon". The character Susie Yung represents Betty Ting Pei, whom "The Tiger" teams up with as they both take on "The Baron", the head of the Hong Kong mafia, in search of the truth regarding the death of the late martial arts legend "The Dragon".
The Busy Body (1967)
Comedy
George Norton is a low-level bumbler who works for Chicago crime boss Charley Barker. A well-dressed mama's boy, George is in good standing with Barker, gaining a promotion, until an incident that costs the mob a million dollars. George is indirectly responsible when Archie, a mob courier, is killed at a barbecue.