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Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 193.

That Riviera Touch (1966)

Comedy

After Eric Simpson nearly gives The Queen a parking ticket in London, he and Ernest Clark decide to take a holiday in the south of France. However, when they arrive there, they become unwittingly involved in a jewel theft when the thief Le Pirate decides to use them to smuggle some precious jewels out of the country. He sends the two Britons to a sinister villa and sends the beautiful Claudette, a member of his criminal gang, to keep Eric and Ernie occupied while he carries out the various stages of his plan.

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The Locket (2002)

Drama, Psychodrama

Esther is a disillusioned and bitter nursing home resident who shares much with her attendant, Michael, in terms of personal sacrifices that they have both made. Esther also hides a dark secret. Michael has spent the last several years of his life looking after his cancer-stricken late mother and now faces rejection from his fiancée's father.

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Interpol (1957)

Crime, Drama, Noir, thriller film

Charles Sturgis is an FBI agent on the trail of a drug-smuggling operation run by ruthless criminal mastermind Frank McNally, who has murdered Sturgis's sister. He travels to Europe to find McNally and destroy the organisation. In Rome he gets a tip that he can find McNally by following his mistress, Gina Broger.

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The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)

Crime, Heist

London police constables are being killed by a man calling himself "Mr. X". By chance, one of the murders occurs around the same time and place as a diamond robbery, leading Police Commissioner Sir Herbert Frensham to suspect the same man is responsible for both, much to the annoyance of the thief, Nicholas "Nick" Revel, and his confederates, taxi driver Joseph "Joe" Palmer and insurance clerk Hutchinson.

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The Happy Thieves (1961)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Crime Comedy, Heist

A valuable painting belonging to Duchess Blanca is stolen at night from her castle in Spain by one of her houseguests, Jimmy Bourne, who replaces the original work with a duplicate. The debonair gentleman thief then passes the painting to his partner in crime, Eve Lewis. However, the artwork is subsequently stolen from them by a man acting on behalf of Dr.

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New York'Ta Bes Minare (2010)

Action, action thriller, Crime, Political Thriller, Terrorism, thriller film

The film follows two anti-terror officers from Istanbul, sent to New York City to find and bring back a Turkish religious man named Hadji Gümüş, who they suspect is the man they've codenamed Dajjal, a terrorist who is responsible for attacks in Turkey. Hadji is arrested in the United States, in his home in New York City by FBI agents during prayer. His Christian wife, Maria, and American friend, Marcus (a devout Muslim convert), as well as close friends and family do what they can to protect Hadji, who they faithfully believe is innocent.

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Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966)

Crime, Drama, Science fiction, Secret Agent, spy film

Adam Chance (Peter Mark Richman) works for an American agency called Human Aetiological Relations Machine, or H.A.R.M. He is assigned to protect Dr. Jan Steffanic (Carl Esmond), a recent Soviet defector who has developed a new weapon which fires spores that upon contact with human skin slowly dissolves it.

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Blackout (1950)

Crime, Drama

An engineer, Christopher Pelley, loses his eyesight in an accident and is due to have an operation to restore his sight. One night he goes to a friend's house but the driver drops him at the wrong address by mistake. Pelley goes inside and discovers a body, as well as a ring, on the floor.

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Naked Alibi (1954)

Crime, Drama, Noir

In a California city, police lieutenant Fred Parks interrogates mild-mannered baker Albert Willis about his suspected involvement in a series of violent robberies. When Willis angrily assaults Parks during questioning, Chief Joseph "Joe" E. Conroy intervenes but is pressured to release Willis due to political scrutiny from city councilman Edgar Goodwin, who is investigating allegations of police brutality.

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Uncle Silas (1947)

Drama

Caroline Ruthyn is the teenage niece of her elderly uncle Silas, a sickly and at one time unbalanced rake who becomes her guardian on the death of her father. The fact that Silas is broke and greedy and young Caroline is the heir to her father's vast fortune is reason enough for Caroline to be wary, but her fears increase when she meets Silas's brutal son, her cousin, and when she discovers that her fearsome former governess, Madame de la Rougierre, is working with her uncle...

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The Garment Jungle (1957)

Crime, Noir

Alan Mitchell is a returning Korean War veteran who joins his father Walter's garment company, Roxton Fashions. The company has been paying protection money to gangsters led by Artie Ravidge to keep the union out. Walter's partner, Fred Kenner, sympathizes with the union's goals.

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Time Table (1956)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Paul Bruckner, a surgeon whose license has been revoked for alcoholism, poses as Dr. Sloane aboard a train passing through Arizona. His presence there is part of a caper involving a fictitious patient, on whose behalf he gains access to his physician's bag in the baggage car.

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The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)

Crime, crime drama film, Drama, Noir, romance film

Gabe Ryan is released from reform school and is taken to a new house by his sister Joy to start a new life where no one knows of his past. However, Gabe immediately joins the Beale Street Termites gang, and meets gangster William Kroner, who accuses Gabe of starting a fire at one Kroner's his properties. Alfred Martino, the actual arsonist, uses the opportunity to frame Gabe for other fires.

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3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets (2015)

Crime, documentary film, Documentation

The film takes a look at the shooting of Jordan Davis, an African-American teenager who was shot by Michael Dunn on November 23, 2012, at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooting was sparked by an argument between Dunn and Davis over loud rap music. Dunn would later claim in court that he believed that Davis possessed a shotgun and was going to harm him.

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Home of the Giants (2007)

teen film

Like everyone in Riverton, Indiana, seventeen-year-old Robert "Gar" Gartland (Haley Joel Osment) loves his school's basketball team, the Riverton Giants. His best friend, Matt Morrison (Ryan Merriman), is the star of the Riverton Giants. When Matt makes Robert take part in the robbery of a small-time drug dealer, things do not go as planned and Robert faces the challenge of saving the team from a desperate predicament with the state championship and Matt's future on the line.

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The Lost Son (1999)

Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film

Xavier Lombard is a Parisian private detective based in London. His best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a telephone call from an old friend in the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing.

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Ravagers (1979)

Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction

In the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, animal-like creatures known as "the ravagers" roam the earth and kill all survivors. A man named Falk (Richard Harris) witnesses his wife's murder by the creatures. Seeking vengeance, Falk becomes a vigilante.

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Virtue (1932)

Crime, romance film

New York City streetwalker Mae (Carole Lombard) is told by police to leave New York. However, she gets off the train at a suburban station, taking the cab of Jimmy Doyle (Pat O'Brien). He says he knows women well and does not think much of them.

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Ad ogni costo (1967)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist

A seemingly mild-mannered teacher, Professor James Anders, is an American working in Rio de Janeiro. Bored with years of teaching, Anders retires and sets about putting together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival in Brazil. With the help of Mark Milford, a youthhood friend and now successful criminal, Anders recruits a team of four international experts to carry out the robbery: Gregg, an English safecracking specialist; Agostino Rossi, an Italian mechanical and electronics genius; Jean-Paul Audry, a French playboy (whose job it is to seduce the only woman with a key to the building holding the diamonds, the lovely…

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Diamonds (1975)

Crime, Drama, Heist

Charles Hodgson (Shaw) is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl (Shaw), a security expert who has built a supposedly impregnable vault in Tel Aviv, which holds a cache of diamonds. For the caper, Charles enlists Archie (Roundtree), a heist expert, and Sally. He also becomes acquainted with an American woman, Zelda Shapiro (Winters), who is in Israel looking for a new husband.

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