The Decks Ran Red (1958)
Drama
When the captain of the merchant vessel S.S. Berwind dies, Ed Rummill is offered the job. He accepts, even as he is warned of recent problems aboard the ship, now moored at New Zealand.
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
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Home Before Midnight (1979)
Crime, Drama
The film is set in London and follows Mike Beresford, a 28-year-old songwriter who is charged with statutory rape after having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Melvin Purvis: G-Man (1974)
Crime, Drama, Gangster Film
In this largely fictionalized film, agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly and sets out to do just that. The film script is loosely based on Kelly's actual 1933 kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel, an Oklahoma petroleum executive, but the names and locations are changed.
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
Drama, Melodrama
1910. Florence convent schoolgirl Maddalena is raped by a gypsy while picking flowers. In 1919 she leaves the convent to marry Giuseppe Labardi in Rome and has a daughter, Angela.
The Intent (2016)
crime thriller film
A small-time criminal called Hoodz finds success robbing stores and small businesses, finally catching the jackpot by attacking a big drug dealer for his stash of money and drugs. Gunz, an undercover police officer posing as a member in his squad, is failing to make regular contact to his commanding officers and is increasingly becoming extremely content with the idea of being one of the members in Hoodz's crew. The police begin to view him as a suspect like all the rest.
The Thin Blue Lie (2000)
Crime, Drama
The premise of the film concerns Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jonathan Neumann (Rob Morrow), who, along with his partner Phil Chadway (Randy Quaid), won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for a series of articles exposing Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo (Paul Sorvino) and the Philadelphia Police Department for corruption. According to the articles, suspects were beaten and tortured in interrogation rooms in an effort to meet the high quota of criminal cases solved by Philadelphia detectives. Neumann and Chadway met extreme opposition from the police department, working amidst phone tappings, apartment ransackings, and threats of death and bodily…
Not My Life (2011)
Crime, documentary film
The Glass Key (1935)
Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Noir
Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold) controls crime and politics in the city, helped by the brains and brawn of Ed Beaumont (George Raft). As he throws his support behind Janet Henry's (Claire Dodd) father, in a political campaign, Paul also plans to marry her. Janet's brother Taylor (Ray Milland) is a gambler heavily in debt to O'Rory (Robert Gleckler), a gangster whose club Paul intends to put out of business.
A Woman of Mystery (1958)
Crime
Ray Savage, reporter for a sensational magazine in London is assigned, despite his objections, to investigate the suicide of a pretty blonde hat-check attendant. Inquiring at Jane Hale's place of work, he learns that someone from her past had recognised her, and she was afraid. Finding a luggage label on her suitcase, he follows the lead to a dubious hotel where the manager tells him someone had taken a shot at her while she was staying there.
Cold Around the Heart (1997)
Crime, thriller film
Two criminals who are also lovers, Ned and Jude, kill three people in a jewelry store robbery. Ned is caught but escapes and vows revenge on Jude, who pushed him out of the getaway car. Ned is joined in his hunt for Jude by a woman hitchhiker named Bec.
Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959)
Crime, Drama, Noir, thriller film
The evening of December 23, Moreau, a reporter for Agence France-Presse (AFP), is asked by his editor to find out why Fèvre-Berthier, the French delegate to the United Nations, did not attend that day's meeting of the General Assembly. Moreau talks to McKimmie, an information officer at the UN, who does not know anything, but mentions Fèvre-Berthier's family is also trying to find the diplomat, and then Fèvre-Berthier's secretary, who suggests he may be with a woman, but does not know who or where. At a dead end, Moreau asks his friend Delmas, an alcoholic tabloid photographer, for help.
The Last Warning (1928)
Crime, Drama, Horror, mystery film, silent film
thumb|250px|left|thumbtime=22|The Last Warning "BROADWAY, ELECTRIC HIGHWAY OF HAPPINESS.... STREET OF NIGHT CLUBS, THEATRES, LAUGHTER." In a Broadway theatre production of a play entitled The Snare, one of the actors, John Woodford, inexplicably dies during a stage performance, and his body disappears. Few clues exist as to what caused his death, aside from several drops of liquid found that resembled chloroform.
The Evictors (1979)
Crime, Horror
In 1928 in rural Louisiana, the Monroe family face foreclosure on their farmhouse, leading to a violent shootout with police on the property. In 1942, real estate agent Jake Rudd sells the home to young couple Ben and Ruth Watkins. Shortly after moving in, Ruth finds a threatening note in the mailbox reading: "I want you to move." Ruth soon witnesses a strange man prowling on the property, and is alarmed upon learning that the home's previous owners were murdered in 1934.
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
Crime
While dancing at a San Francisco New Year's party, the Saint spots an agent of Valerie Travers preparing to shoot someone, so Templar guns him down first at the stroke of midnight. Templar is placed by witnesses at the scene, so the San Francisco police request the assistance of Inspector Henry Fernack (Jonathan Hale) of the NYPD. Before Fernack can leave, the Saint arrives in New York and accompanies him to the West Coast.
3 Blind Mice (2003)
Crime
A computer specialist witnesses the murder of his online friend through her webcam. Though he is unaware of her actual name or location, he becomes a suspect when her body is found in Amsterdam.
Miles from Home (1988)
Action, Crime, Drama
The Roberts family farm in Iowa is a prosperous one. Frank Roberts, Sr. and his two young sons are even visited there by Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet Union premier's tour of the Midwestern United States in 1959.
Cage of Gold (1950)
Drama
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiancé, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame the dashing, but roguish, former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan gets her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father cannot offer him financial support. Two years later, she having been told that Glennan is dead – has married Kearn, and they keep Glennan's son.
My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)
Comedy, musical film
Con artist Al is trying to promote Steve Laird's career. Steve is booked by a local television station and is spotted by a film producer. He is offered a contract and heads to Hollywood along with friends Irma, Jane and Seymour.
True Confession (1937)
Crime, Crime Comedy, Daffy Comedy, screwball comedy film
Helen Bartlett is married to Ken Bartlett, a lawyer with high principles. She is a fiction "writer" but is not making any progress on her book. It is unclear why, but currently, Ken's criminal law practice is in a slump; still, he refuses to defend anyone whom he knows is guilty.
Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
Crime, Drama, Noir
Johnny Mansell has fled to the Yorkshire steel town of Rawborough, once his home town, after racking up large gambling debts in London. He moves into a cramped boarding house where his brother Dave, a clerk in a local steel mill, was already living; Dave has a girlfriend Calico, a hostess in a local nightclub, who lives close by and their flats have neighbouring flat roof spaces, which the three often use. Johnny discovers that Dave has been stealing money from the mill where he works, spending the money on Calico.
Motherland (2010)
documentary film
Motherland is a documentary about the African continent from Ancient Egypt to the present. It is an overview of African history and contemporary issues but with the African people at the centre of the story.
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Comedy drama, Crime Comedy
The unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will, and often provides phony claimants in order to collect his fee. When his former girlfriend Joan Martin, who left him because of his lack of ethics, accepts a position at the allegedly legitimate firm owned by Charles Wallingham, Corrigan investigates Wallingham's background and discovers his rival is even more crooked than he is. He exposes Wallingham as a phony and promises Joan to go straight if she will come back to him.
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)
Crime, Drama
Thugs working for union boss Al Dahlke ambush and shoot Solly Pitts, an honest man who hires longshoremen on the docks. Solly is wounded and hospitalized, looked after by wife Madge, who trusts Lt. Tony Vosnick to see that justice is done.
Big City Blues (1932)
Crime, Drama
Bud Reeves is a naive young man who lives in a small town in Indiana. After inheriting $1,100 ($ today) from his aunt, he decides to use the money to move to New York City to find a job and start a new life. His dog Duke follows him to the railroad station, and the station agent says he will take care of the pup but only as a loan, because he is certain that Bud will return home in a month or less, having spent some time in the city himself and being well aware how tough life can be there.