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Crime
When a young girl goes missing in the small country town of Mingara, a large scale operation is started by the police and residents of the town. However, when the search proves too big for the local authorities after five dead bodies are found, buried in a field in shallow graves, a specialised team of homicide detectives are flown in from the city.
Crime, Drama, trial film
In a small New Mexico town, young lawyer David Mitchell is appointed to defend Ben Brown, who has confessed to killing an off-duty police officer, Cole Clinton. The ambitious prosecutor, Norris Bixby, is pursuing the death penalty, aiming to succeed a respected retired district attorney, Art Harper—Mitchell's mentor. Though initially reluctant, Harper agrees to advise Mitchell on the case.
Comedy
Jared Phelps returns home from his mission in Wyoming to find a world very different from the one he left only two years previously. This movie opens with a send-off at the airport full of family and friends of Elder Phelps. He serves a two-year mission in the Wyoming Evanston South Mission.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
A man goes around marrying wealthy women, and then murdering them. However, his third wife has married him with similar intentions.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Newspaper editor and co-owner Jim Austin and his wife are fleeing Kennington, where they live and work, so that he may testify before a U.S. Senate special committee investigating crime in interstate commerce. They are pursued by the criminal element from their town and take refuge at a police station in the town of Warren.
Drama
Sally Cambridge is the divorced mother of two sons, 16-year-old Jack and 9-year-old Leo. As the film opens, she is arrested on suspicion of child abuse, and during questioning, she reveals the story of what actually happened, told via flashback. One evening, a call to Jack's basketball coach reveals that he has been given a two-week suspension from the team due to poor grades, which Jack did not tell her.
Crime, exploitation film
Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenage daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon they meet Harold and he's got other plans.
Crime, Drama
It is the mid-1950s. A young Robert F. Kennedy is beginning to make a name for himself in Washington, D.C., as is his older brother, John F.
Crime, Drama, spy film
The police inspector Fonseca is interested in two Lisbon men in particular, the wealthy and notorious Greek criminal Aristides Mavros and an American suspected smuggler with a fast boat, Captain Evans. A number of beautiful women work for Mavros, including a secretary, Maria, who came to him for help when she was destitute. A menacing and jealous servant, Serafim, is secretly in love with Maria, but the attraction is not mutual.
Biography, Crime, trial film
In late 1910, Crippen is portrayed as a downtrodden cuckold continually humiliated by his coarse, overbearing wife. There is a strong suggestion in the story that he may have been innocent of murder, possibly killing his wife by accident, and that his younger mistress Ethel Le Neve is completely ignorant of the killing. The plot ostensibly covers Crippen's trial, but the story is fleshed out with flashbacks to the doctor's relationship with his wife and his affair.
Biography, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film
The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano , Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and Michael Lasker , growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime.
Crime, mockumentary
A week in the life of a Soho pimp - Woody (Robert Cavanah) as seen through the lens of a documentary camera team: A week which spirals brutally out of control when the Chinese up their muscle on Woody's boss's territory, a girl goes missing, and a snuff webcast appears, showing a former employee being murdered, with another potential webcast impending. In a parallel story, aspiring young rent-boy Stanley (Danny Dyer) discovers that life in the sex-trade is tougher than he thought it would be when he is sold to sinister businessman Zeb (Martin Compston).
Crime, mystery film
A group of guests are invited by telegram to a party at a New Orleans penthouse by an anonymous caller. Among them are professor Murray Reid, campus radical Henry Abbott and his love interest Jean Trent, mob boss Jason Osgood, attorney Sylvia Inglesby, District Attorney Timothy Cronin, socialite Margaret Chisholm, and writer James Daley. Upon their convergence, the guests find that each are enemies of one another.
Crime, Drama
The initial scenes introduce the various miscreant young children who are to appear in the final classroom siege. A series of arson attacks are taking place across the city, with metal laundry tags being found at each scene. The film focuses on a Liverpool street gang led by Johnny Murphy.
Crime
In a London fashion house, "Blood Orange" is the name of a new dress designed by Helen Pascall. A model and a rich client are found murdered, each wearing the new dress. Private Eye Tom Conway and his employer Mr.
Crime, Drama, hood film
The film dissects the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict and the ensuing riots through four narratives. A Chinese liquor store owner tries to come to an understanding with his assimilating teenage son who sees his father's Old World ways and non-aggressive Buddhism as signs of weakness. A Hispanic teenager tries to live a straight life and do well in school so he will not make the same mistakes his older brother had made, and be able to provide as best he can for his current and future family.
Crime, Mysterie, thriller film
Olivia, a young, beautiful, brilliant, and effortlessly charming woman, works as a dedicated charity worker, responsible for establishing free clinics across the country for poor women. When she meets millionaire Danny Keegan, the pair soon form a relationship and he falls for her. However, it soon becomes clear that not everyone admires Olivia.
Crime, Drama
Mrs. Railton is blind and deaf from a wartime injury. She allows a criminal gang to use her London club as a hideout, and acts as a fence for their stolen goods.
Drama
Pendleton "Penny" Wise, a talented telemarketer who can sell almost anything over the phone, makes a fine living doing phone sales until the company that employs him goes bankrupt. Penny is approached by Caitlin Carlson, who is hiring telephone salesmen for Kelly Grant, a legend in telemarketing, but Penny is unsure if Grant's latest venture, selling shares in a gold mine, is legitimate.
Crime, Noir
San Francisco ex-cop Vic Barron's family has died in a car bombing and he has been disfigured, framed and imprisoned when he crossed the wrong mobsters. After his release, he wants revenge on gangster Tino Morelli, whom he considers responsible. Morelli is hiding out in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Comedy, Crime, mystery film
During the filming of a death scene of The Death Kiss, leading man Myles Brent is really shot and killed. Tonart Studios manager Joseph Steiner is assigned to handle the situation. The studio wants to pass it off as a simple accident, but screenwriter Franklyn Drew digs a bullet out of a wall and tells Homicide Detective Lieutenant Sheehan that it is a .38 caliber, while the guns used in the film are all .45s.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars from a bank job that had been planned by his brother-in-law. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worse when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part, as his wife shoots him after the police follow him home. Tell is subsequently arrested and sentenced to three years in prison when he continually claims that the money was destroyed in a fire.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime
Gordon, a soldier from Harlem, returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam to find his old neighborhood has been taken over by drug dealers and pimps. Outraged and heartbroken after his wife dies of a heroin overdose, he partners with three other ex-Vietnam soldiers and pledges to use their combat experience to go to war against the criminals.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Shoplifter Faye Burton is being watched by security guard Herb Klaxon at a Los Angeles department store. Shopper Jeff Andrews tries to warn her, but Faye is caught and arrested. She signs a confession and is set free, warned that future incidents will lead to jail time.