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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 209.
Crime, Drama
Newspaper reporter, Bill Martin, is assigned to investigate a crime ring working out of a carnival. Martin's boss is killed and Martin is framed for the murder, while the victim's girlfriend Janet goes undercover as a burlesque dancer for Lil's carny revue while running from the gangster behind the scheme.
Action, Crime, hood film
Dreamer (Enrique Almeida) is being questioned by Detective Gramm (Resmine Atis). We flash back to Dreamer and Shaggy sitting in a car when another car pulls up and does a drive-by shooting. The drive by kills Shaggy and the bullet passes through and into Dreamers head.
Drama, Noir
After five years in San Quentin prison, former policeman Steve Rollins is released. Unjustly convicted of manslaughter in an arrested man's death, Steve is met by a friend from the force, Dan Bianco, and by wife Marcia, whom he shuns because she has been unfaithful to him. Steve goes to the San Francisco waterfront looking for a fisherman named Rogani who supposedly has proof that can clear his name.
Crime, Drama
A government agent's son, who is a veteran of World War II and a former juvenile delinquent, is offered the opportunity to clear his prison record by helping to break up an international counterfeiting ring. A friend of his with whom he shared both a jail cell and time in the army was involved in the ring and had been murdered in Germany at the end of the war.
Action, Drama, thriller film
Frank (Jon Foster) is an active member of fictional fraternity Sigma Zeta Chi, and hazes pledges for initiation by forcing them to believe they are going to rob convenience stores. Adam (Trevor Morgan) and Kevin (Lou Taylor Pucci) are pledges who go with Frank to rob the stores. Before they enter the store, another active brother gives them the money and reveals it was a break designed to test their bravery.
Crime, mystery film
Aboard an ocean liner bound for Samoa, United States Treasury agent Scott Pearson confidentially asks Charlie Chan for help; he is on the trail of stolen currency and art treasures plundered from Philippine banks during the Japanese invasion. Two attempts have been made on his life. Chan rescues him from a third, but not the fourth (a knife in the back).
Action, Drama, mystery film, Noir
A woman whose husband is declared missing in action after Pearl Harbor flies to Hawaii after the war to conduct her own investigation. Her husband, ex-racketeer Chet Chester (Corey), is actually still alive but changed his identity due to his own criminal activities. However, he is being blackmailed by his former criminal partners, including Roger Kong.
Action, thriller film
Gina Hayes is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, while shopping with him for a Halloween mask, her son is accidentally shot through the chest by a Japanese gunman who is trying to kill an opposing gang of bus operators. Gina notices that the gunman has a picture of a blue tiger tattooed on his chest.
Crime, Noir
An American gangster deported back to his native Italy woos a countess in a plot to bring loot into the country.
Crime, musical film
thumb|left|The Paradise Night Club dressing room in Broadway thumb|Broadway ad from The Film Daily, 1929 thumb|thumbtime=1:33|Broadway (1929) Roy Lane and Billie Moore, entertainers at the Paradise Nightclub, are in love and are rehearsing an act together. Late to work one evening, Billie is saved from dismissal by Nick Verdis, the club proprietor, through the intervention of Steve Crandall, a bootlegger, who desires a liaison with the girl. "Scar" Edwards, robbed of a truckload of contraband liquor by Steve's gang, arrives at the club for a showdown with Steve and is shot in the back.
Crime, mystery film
In London an English woman, Heather McMara, asks for help from a visiting American writer, Philip 'Phil' O'Dell, to find out who has killed her brother, Danny, who was run over in a heavy nighttime fog. Having no evidence, the police will take no action. O'Dell and McMara visit Peggy's nightclub which Danny frequented, and there they learn Danny's last address.
Mysterie, thriller film
The main character of the movie is Sara Novak, a college student who, along with comic book store owner named Vern (played by Adrian Paul), spend their time solving riddles. The movie takes a twist when the riddles lead to the death of her friend Jeremy (played by Jay Baruchel), leaving Sara to fear whether she is someone else's game.
Crime, Drama
A woman named Jennefer runs away from her abusive boyfriend, gives her baby up for adoption, and takes the next bus out of town. She ends up on the streets during a grim and cold winter in Toronto. She's taken in by a prostitute named Ola.
Comedy, Crime, Political Satire, thriller film
The film opens with the words: “A true story. Unfortunately.” Wolf, a biological weapons expert and Federal Intelligence Service (BND) agent, is obsessed with the idea that anthrax is still being produced in Iraq despite UN inspections. One day, his superior, Schatz, assigns him as the case officer for the Iraqi asylum seeker Rafid Alwan, who claims to have been part of Saddam Hussein’s secret biological weapons programme as an engineer.
Crime, thriller film
American Clay Douglas travels to England to discover the truth behind his brother's death during the Second World War.
Crime, mystery film, silent film
Crime
The story concerns the uneasy relationship between Scotland Yard Detective John Edward Johnnoe, and Squad Chief Alec Bestwick, over the formerly traditional use of "snouts" (paid informants). Despite being told that these should no longer be used and to adopt more scientific principles of detection, Johnnoe continues to do so until Jim Ruskin, one of his informants, is murdered. He again disobeys orders and pursues his own lines of inquiry but as he closes in on the villains, they frame him for corruption and he is arrested and held in prison.
independent film
Beth Needham (Tracy Nelson) works the graveyard shift at a convenience store, and is becoming increasingly fed up with her job. To pass the time, she listens to a late-night San Diego radio show hosted by Dr. Lindsey Roland (Shanna Reed).
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Crime, Drama
Danny Dunkleman (David Strathairn) is a Jewish humanist and a lawyer who works for the court system in Canada. He is assigned to defend Mike Downey (Andrew Walker), a neo-Nazi skinhead who is accused of a brutal, racially motivated murder. Behind prison walls, the two have a clash of ideologies as Dunkleman attempts to put his professional beliefs before his personal beliefs, and his client clings to his hateful beliefs.
Action, Crime, Drama, Heist, thriller film
In Los Angeles, the gambler Paul Weston (Henry Thomas) is a loser, and owes a lot of money to the dangerous mobster Freddie (Rae Allen). When he is brutally beaten and the life of his former wife is threatened by Freddie, his acquaintance bartender Vinnie (Gary Busey) sends him to Dr. Charlie Brooks (Vera Farmiga), and then convinces him to participate in a heist in the jewelry district, with the professional thief Gene (Bruce Dern), to raise the necessary money to pay off his debt.
Action, Comedy, Crime
The film is set in the Pacific island country of Fiji and tells the story of rock band Status Quo becoming entangled in a local mafia operation.
Crime, thriller film
The film is centred almost entirely on the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits train the Rome Express, travelling between Paris and Rome. Just as the train is departing from a station in Paris, Zurta and his colleague Tony just manage to board the train. They have found out that someone they want to see is on board.
Crime, Mysterie
A man is stabbed to death in London's Soho district. Sergeant Hallam reports to Scotland Yard chief Sir Philip that £100 and an African wooden figurine were found in the victim's pockets. Chief Inspector Patton, an expert on Africa, takes charge of the case.