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Crime, mystery film, thriller film
A young English man is convicted of the murder of one Captain Hamilton of the Royal Air Force and sentenced to hang. His sister and her fiancé, convinced of his innocence, ask visiting detective Charlie Chan to investigate and find the real murderer. In order to solve the mystery, Chan must visit a lavish English country manor house, where the suspects vary from the housekeeper to a lawyer.
Drama, thriller film
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, Marcus struggles with parasomnia, a rare sleepwalking disorder. After Marcus wakes up with blood on his hands and a knife at his side, he is startled to hear that a close friend has been found stabbed to death. Marcus frantically tries to put the pieces together – could he have murdered his friend in his sleep to hide a dark secret between them?
Noir, thriller film
Eighteen-year-old Elizabeth "Liz" Taggart and her boyfriend Owen Clark visit a lovers' lane where childlike voyeur Harold Loftus secretly watches them. Loftus then knocks Owen unconscious and overpowers Liz, taking her to a shack. A couple on a motorcycle try to revive Owen with liquor, but they leave when he does not awaken.
Crime, Drama, Noir
A savings and loan company is robbed by men displaying abnormal familiarity with the building. Police inquiries led by Lt. Sam Wagner discern that soft-spoken bank employee Leon Poole is complicit in the crime.
Crime, Drama
Peter Mandrake, an American photographer in Brazil, is preparing an in loco essay for his new book, about the "train surfers" (groups of boys who court danger "surfing" on the roof of the trains) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. A local call girl with whom he is friends is murdered, and when the police can make no progress Mandrake decides to investigate himself. Subsequently, two hired thugs break into his apartment demanding a disk, and, when he doesn't produce it because he can't do so, they rape his girlfriend and stab him, leaving him to die.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Jennifer (Nancy Allen) is a woman who is suffering from amnesia to the extent that she does not even recognize her husband and daughter. Extremely confused and tormented, she desperately seeks to piece together her life and, in doing so, stumbles upon some startling secrets from her shadowy past. She discovers that a female killer connected to her from her earlier life is intent on stalking her and seeking revenge by killing her and her family.
Parody
Set in Los Angeles in 1960, Richard Hudson is a shrewd car dealer who moves from San Francisco and sets up a used-car dealership. Tiring of this job, he turns the lot over to an assistant Bill and starts writing his first film, The Man Who Got Away. It turns out to be an uncommercial picture, chronicling the story of a truck driver who goes berserk, runs over a little girl and dies fending off a platoon of police officers.
Crime, Drama
Stephen Rojack, a war hero, returns home to become a tough-talking television commentator who strongly criticizes the police's inability to put an end to the criminal activities of Ganucci, an organized-crime figure. Separated from his alcoholic wife Deborah, he goes to her seeking a divorce. A violent argument breaks out, ending with Rojack throwing her from a 30th-story window.
thriller film
A couple, Carter and Meghan, decide that they should hire a live-in sitter so that they can both work and support their two children, Max and Casey. Abby Reed answers their advertisement and they move her in immediately. After some initial rough spots with the kids, the family warms to Abby.
Crime
Eleven days into their marriage, Alabama couple Gabe Watson and his wife Tina Watson go scuba diving near Australia's Great Barrier Reef, where Tina drowns in what appears to be a freak accident. But her father Tommy Thomas begins to suspect that his daughter's death was by no means an accident, a belief shared by authorities in both United States and Australia, including Detective Gary Campbell. An investigation ensues, as does a media frenzy and a series of legal battles.
Crime
Kathleen Sullivan is a new teacher at a Texas high school. She meets local lawyer Larry Keeler, a gun enthusiast, who takes her out to dinner and then rapes her at gunpoint. Kathleen reports him to the police, who, though sympathetic, dissuade her from taking her case further.
Crime, thriller film
A disgraced former LAPD cop leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The crime goes wrong and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors, a thief and one of the victims.
American football film, Drama
At the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, the star players on the Cougars are dealing with issues beyond football. Dave Walecki is having marital difficulties, while quarterback Jim McCauley is being pursued by a shady management firm. Meanwhile, a national gambling syndicate attempts to find a way to stop the heavily favored Cougars from winning the game.
Drama, mystery film, Noir
Ex-commercial artist John Hamilton (Alan Ladd) and wife Linda (Carolyn Jones) have left New York and moved to Stoneville, Connecticut, in the New England countryside. John spends his time sketching the town's children, to whom he is a close friend, but his ambitions to be a fine artist are at this point frustrated by a failed art show and bad reviews. Meanwhile Linda longs to return to the city, where John has been offered a lucrative job at his old firm.
thriller film
A counterfeiter of money is attacked by two masked men and threatened to reveal where a certain amount of counterfeit money is. The counterfeiter pleads ignorance and is subsequently killed. Tommy 'Hopscotch' Hopkins, who has the money, learns of the death of the counterfeiter and begins to fear for his own safety.
Crime, Noir
American former soldier Frank Prior arrives in London to visit a wartime girlfriend, whom he has not seen in six years. His plane landing at the airport coincides with a fellow passenger being killed by a sniper. Scotland Yard Inspector Braddock and detective Cameron are assigned to investigate.
Crime, thriller film
The film follows Troy as he returns to Los Angeles from Miami to meet with his former partners: Al and Pete , whom Troy betrayed years before. Naturally they are dismayed to see him and call their boss, infamous crime syndicate leader Dmitri to inform them that Troy has returned. The three of them, along with Troy's former love Jessie attempt to exact their revenge, while Troy tries to convince them that he is not the man he was before.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
Eugene "Mack" McCanick (David Morse) is a detective who, along with partner Floyd Intrator (Mike Vogel), hunts down a young criminal named Simon Weeks (Cory Monteith) who was just released from prison.
Crime, Drama
A young man grows up in a rural Ukrainian village. Coming of age in the 1990s, he is a delinquent and petty thug. He is forced to join the Ukrainian mafia for protection after a smaller mafia-associated gang, led by a man called "Skull", threatens his family.
Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist
Daniel Foray (Gérard Depardieu) is the leader of an unusual group of burglars in Paris. When he's instructed by fence Laurent (Richard Bohringer) to go to Chicago to steal an expensive necklace in a suburban safe, the seemingly basic job becomes a fight for survival when the homeowner turns out to be mafia kingpin Frank Zammeti (Keitel), who is also under stakeout from authorities. The team are led to believe by American liaison Sophie (Joanne Kelly) that they wrote down the wrong address, but when she disappears with the money and other items taken from the mafioso, they later learn that his residence was the correct target after all and…
Drama, thriller film
When she turns 18, unhappy Lidda Daniels leaves Southern California to look for Charlie, her father, a professional gambler who abandoned her years before. On her way to Las Vegas, she picks up Colonel, a video store clerk who she finds attractive even though they have never spoken.
Crime, Drama
Martin Ashley, a mentally ill gardener, decapitates his wealthy boss Mrs. Townsend with a pair of shears. He subsequently turns himself in to the police, and is found insane and sent to a mental institution ruled by psychiatrist Edwina Beighley.
Crime, Drama
During The Blitz in wartime London, an actor suffers a concussion and believes himself to be the character he has most recently been playing - a vicious strangler with a hit list of potential victims.
Comedy
Three women start a lunch wagon business, but run into resistance from their competitor Mr. Schmeckler (Rick Podell) when their business starts interfering with illegal activity that Schmeckler is involved in. While Schmeckler busies himself trying to sabotage their wagon, the women are busy falling in love with construction workers and rock stars.