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Comedy, Crime, Drama
Deidra & Laney's mother Marigold is taken to jail, and they are left to support themselves. To keep her sister Laney and younger brother Jet from being placed in foster care, Deidra makes a plan to rob trains. They need enough money to help pay their mother's bills and bail her out of jail.
Drama
Lucy and Claire are at a house where Lucy used to work. The two of them hack into the safe behind a picture. Inside are several jewels.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Alan Curtis is an American estate agent living in England, dissatisfied with his humdrum life. With his wife Elizabeth on a short break visiting her mother, he gives a lift to sultry nightclub singer Lila when he finds her stranded on the road at night. Curtis becomes romantically involved with her and Lila tells him that her brother is in trouble over a jewel robbery.
Drama
Led by 16-year-old Roy Walsh, a post-war London street gang specializes in snatching women's purses. They use their membership in a boys' club as cover. During a club-sponsored dance, Roy meets Rene, the sister of one of his gang.
Crime, Drama
Crime, Drama
At Dennington Prep school, four initially non-connected students band together to recover some of the $10 million in funds that were embezzled from the school's coffers. Alice, a skilled hacker, approaches Jason, son of the headmaster (accused of mishandling the funds) with the idea to create their own slightly altered Michigan state quarters, worth $5,000 each. She was inspired during their recent class trip to the Philadelphia Mint.
Crime Comedy, Heist
Pedley, retiring from the British Secret Service, can't understand why he hasn't yet been knighted. He devises an elaborate heist of an airplane cargo, recruiting Mike Warden, a writer from America, although his real aim is to capture the elusive General Ferranti. Warden travels to Italy to assume control of the scheme along with Pedley's accomplice Sylvia Giroux, with whom he soon falls in love.
Comedy, Crime
A group of gullible military private volunteers to be the subject of numerous military biological and chemical weaponry experiments, and later robs banks as a result.
Drama
thumb|left|Helen Twelvetrees (left) and Charlotte Walker in Millie thumb|thumbtime=31|Millie (1931) by John Francis Dillon Millie is a naïve young woman who marries a wealthy man from New York, Jack Maitland. Three years later, unhappy in her marriage due to her husband's continued infidelity, she asks for and receives a divorce. Because of her pride, she does not want his money, but she also does not want to deprive her daughter of a comfortable lifestyle.
Comedy, Crime, mystery film
Elderly Juliet Mitchell suffers shock upon discovering her nephew's lifeless body. It is not clear if the young man, Herbert Wynn, was killed by accident while cleaning his gun or if he committed suicide or was murdered. Miss Adams is called in to serve as nurse for the bedridden Mitchell.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Paul Cameron is an insurance executive who finds out he has a brain tumor. His family will receive nothing under his current policies, but there is a huge reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderer of a businessman. Cameron frames himself for the murder in the hope of collecting the reward money for his wife in an anonymous bank account.
Crime
When a gunman's best friend is murdered he sets out to find the killers and ends up concocting a scheme to blackmail a corrupt leader of a labor union who's to blame.
Crime, Drama, Tragicomedy
After leaving prison, gang lord Danny Kean shocks everyone by quitting crime. He cedes control of his gang to Jerry "the Mug". Having always dreamed of becoming a news reporter, Danny finds Al McLean, city editor of the sleazy Graphic News, who had offered Danny a future job while he was imprisoned.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Half a million dollars is stolen from the mafia by small-time crook Harry Mitchell, who splits it with girlfriend Stacey Woodward and takes off for Acapulco. The mob sends hitman Dano Villanova to deal with Harry and get the money back. Sol Madrid, an undercover narc, is out to find Harry first, hoping to persuade him to testify against organized crime in court.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
Rhoda Montaine learns that her first husband, Gregory Moxley, is still alive, which makes things awkward for her, since she has remarried Carl, the son of wealthy C. Phillip Montaine. She turns to Perry Mason for help, but when he goes to see Moxley, he finds only his corpse.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Luis and Eddie are police detectives and long-time partners. Eddie is married to Luis's sister Gloria and struggles to support their family. He yearns to give Gloria a better life.
Crime, documentary film, Drama
thriller film
Jack (Ray Liotta) awakes with amnesia in the middle of the desert. Suffering from violent flashbacks, he finds his way to the home of reclusive artist Vicky Robinson (Gloria Reuben), who agrees to help him uncover his past. While Jack's flashbacks become more violent and vivid, the pieces of his past slowly come together.
Comedy, Tragicomedy
A naïve country boy named Benny Miller, from Cucamonga, California, has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship. Upon completion of the course, he leaves his mother and his girlfriend Martha to pursue a career in Los Angeles. He arranges a meeting with his Uncle Clarence, a bookkeeper with the Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Company.
Crime
A serial killer is at large, committing a series of horrific murders. Frances O'Neill (Fiona Shaw) draws on her training as a profiler and her strong religious background to try to get inside the killer's mind and track him down before he is able to strike again.
Action, Science fiction
Rykker is an intergalactic warrior trapped on Earth, constantly fighting a gang of ruthless aliens known as The Syndicate, an alien fifth column plotting to take over the planet. The film opens with a high speed chase, with Rykker killing several syndicate agents. Saylon is a top syndicate leader who crash-lands on Earth.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Drama, Noir, thriller film
Crystal Benson is a single mother living in a small town in New Mexico. One afternoon, her teenage daughter, Randy, mentions running into a man who tells her she reminds him of someone he once knew. Crystal, already jumpy and unable to sleep, knows that this man is her mobster husband, Steve.
crime thriller film, thriller film
Martin Ryan is a Detroit columnist with mob ties. He meets Caprice, a stripper with a dark past. When his best friend Doc helps sell a film deal based on his writings to a Hollywood studio, Martin chooses between fame or saving his girlfriend Sara.