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Crime, Drama, Noir
Vince, an escaped convict from San Quentin headed for Los Angeles, has a canister in his possession that he thinks has heroin inside of it. It does not; instead, it contains Cobalt-60, a dangerous nuclear substance with enough radiation to kill most of the population of Los Angeles. As continued exposure to the element is slowly killing Vince, authorities move to capture him and the canister.
Crime, Detective, Drama, Mysterie
Crime, Mysterie
Crime, thriller film
Just out of jail, Gruesome goes to the Hangman's Knot saloon, where his old crime crony, Melody, is now playing piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer, where X-Ray and a mysterious mastermind are in possession of a secret formula and hatching a sinister plot. Ignoring a warning not to touch anything, Gruesome sniffs the gas from a mysterious test tube; he escapes the toxic fumes but collapses upon returning to the Hangman's Knot and is taken to the city morgue, where his body stiffens dramatically.
Comedy, Crime, Parody, spy film, thriller film
The contract giving Britain the right to the oil fields in the fictitious country of Ramat in the Middle East is coming to an end. The current ruler wishes to sell the rights to the Eastern Bloc. However, the heir to the throne, prince Jamil, is coming of age (turning 14) and is more lenient to British interests.
mystery film
In The Man Who Wouldn't Die art imitates life for Thomas Grace (Roger Moore), a famous British ex-novelist who wrote a series of acclaimed crime stories featuring a villain patterned after real-life criminal Bernard Drake (Malcolm McDowell). Now living in America, Grace works as a hack reporter for a city newspaper. After reading one of Grace's books, Jessie Gallardo (Nancy Allen), a waitress with burgeoning psychic abilities, predicts several murders—with Grace as one of the victims.
Action, Crime, Drama, mystery film, Political Thriller
French heiress Tracy Mallambert, in search for her brother Henri after rumors that he defected during a diplomatic post, tries to bribe ship captain Carson in Athens, Greece, to smuggle her into the People's Socialist Republic of Albania. Although he refuses, she sneaks onto his ship anyways and he reluctantly agrees to transport her. She learns that he is smuggling out Greek refugee children from Northern Epirus.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Bill Rogers, a US Air Force pilot, visits England to visit his estranged wife Katie. He finds details that suggest she has left him and is living a life that involves several male "friends". She shows up to meet him at her new flat, but then he is suddenly knocked unconscious from behind by a man named Orville Hart, who then kills Katie with Bill Rogers' own gun.
Crime, Science fiction
Race car driver Tom Kovack suddenly begins to experience psychic visions. He meets Michelle Brent, an expert on the paranormal, and the two form an unlikely partnership. Kovack's visions draw them into an occult-themed mystery at a remote inn on the English coast.
Action, Crime, thriller film
The story follows wildlife ranger Julie Clayton who, alongside her boyfriend and fellow ranger Don Powell, discovers multiple slaughtered grizzly bears in a remote forest. When they report the killings, federal agents join them to hunt the poacher responsible, but the man they seek, Hanaghan, kills Don and severely wounds Julie during the confrontation. Julie survives and, devastated by the loss of her partner, becomes determined to confront the killer.
Crime, Drama, Noir, thriller film
A falsely convicted murderer named Speight (accused of murdering an ex-mistress) escapes prison to seek out the real killer and to clear his name. A private detective named Hugo Bishop agrees to help Speight uncover the real murderer. Speight's ex-wife Thelma works for a publisher named Maurice Jerrard, who has been in love with her for some time.
Crime, Drama, musical film, Noir
Pépé le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah district of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Inez, his girlfriend, is infuriated when Pépé flirts with Gaby, a French tourist who is visiting the area aboard a yacht with friends, and wealthy suitor, but Pépé tells Inez to mind her own business, that he will never forget her but he is leaving. Detective Slimane is trying to lure Pépé out of the Casbah so that he can be jailed.
Crime, Noir
An attractive blonde drifter, Billie Nash (Beverly Michaels), arrives in town on a bus and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. She sets her sights on the bar's handsome owner, Matt Bannister (Richard Egan), who is married to Dora (Evelyn Scott), who inherited the bar from her alcoholic father and is an alcoholic herself. Nash seduces Bannister and they scheme to sell the bar without Dora's knowledge and skip to Mexico together.
Crime, Drama, Western
In the wake of the American Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family move west to settle in lawless Arizona.
Action, Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, thriller film
Blair plays Shawn, a loan officer at a bank who is having an affair with the bank’s married vice-president. After discovering that his wife is pregnant, Shawn has a meltdown and goes to the roof to kill herself. At the same time, bank robbers hijack an armored car.
Drama
Dean, a young hood, and his wife Lucy take their disturbed young son, Shane, to a clinic where the boy is diagnosed by Stevie, a psychologist. They discover that the boy is autistic. As the couple's marriage falls apart, Stevie believes she can help Shane as well as possibly help Dean break away from the life of crime he leads.
Crime
Police Lieutenant Martin, an officer leading the fight against New York gangsters, is killed. Jake Irbell is arrested and charged with his murder, but has to be released when prosecution witnesses are either coerced into changing their testimony or simply disappear. A civilian crime commission demands action of the police commissioner, but he has no fresh ideas.
Crime, Drama, Mysterie
On a fateful weekend, private detective Michael Shayne secretly escorts murder-trial witness Helen Carlson by train from Denver to San Francisco. Helen's testimony will free a man falsely accused of murder. His acquittal will also effectively destroy the election chances of a crooked Bay Area politician.
Crime, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
When a woman is murdered following her discovery of an unpublished Charles Dickens manuscript, an unusual trio team up to investigate. The three are Mike (Jones), an ambitious sports tabloid journalist determined to make a name for himself, Kate (Cox), a police officer, and an eccentric old beach-combing tramp (Jacobi). Together they must track down the mystery and we are taken back to the world of Charles Dickens.
Crime, Drama, Noir
In Edwardian England, Ivy Lexton is a woman with a taste for the finer things in life. Despairing of her husband Jervis's poor prospects, Ivy sees an opportunity in wealthy Miles Rushworth and is determined to have him, despite being married and having the additional obstacle of her affair with the infatuated Dr. Roger Gretorex.
Drama
In 1902, adventurer Gilbert De Quincey, a descendant of Thomas De Quincey, is hired by the editor of a Chinese newspaper to stop auctions of trafficked Chinese women to be the brides of Chinese men resident in the United States. The community is split down the middle between those feeling the traditional practice is the only way for overseas Chinese to obtain brides, and those who regard the practise as indecent.
Crime
Comedy drama
Red's Desert Diner Oasis, a dive in the middle of nowhere, becomes the focal point of three separate storylines. In the first, Dwayne (Savage), a homicidal vacuum cleaner salesman, may have met his match in Patty Mae (Tilly), a woman with an impressive collection of sweepers. The second story follows Johnny (Perry), a suicidal man who hires a sadistic hitman (Jones) to end his life anyway possible which includes beating the ever loving crap out of him.
Noir
A widow named Helen Gordon impulsively hires handyman Howard Wilton to help her with house repairs and cleaning, but she quickly discovers that he is dangerous, paranoid and unstable. Howard keeps Helen inside the house for the entire day and she cannot summon help or escape.