Lady Cocoa (1975)
Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama
The film tells the story of Coco who is released from jail for 24 hours prior to testifying against her ex-boyfriend Eddie and is placed in police protection for that timeframe.
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 211.
Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
Crime, Noir
FBI agent Zach Stewart is assigned three new cases by his boss, John Ripley, which are added to his existing case load. One involves wanted fugitive Joe Walpo, who has killed a gas-station attendant. Another concerns a department store fashion buyer, Kate Martell, who is being extorted by a man threatening to kill her daughter.
Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000)
Drama
Chicago college student Max Hanson (Jackson) is a talented artist and hockey player. Though more interested in the latter, he is under pressure from his mother, Sophie (Williams) to pursue a career in art, influenced by the fact that she put her own career aside to raise the family and has just landed a coveted position with a local art gallery. Max's father, Ed (Colm Feore), is a tax attorney with a more laid-back approach to his son's future, just wanting him to be happy.
The Secret Place (1957)
Crime, Drama
In a badly bombed district in the East End of London after the second world war, a gang carries out a diamond robbery. An adolescent boy, Freddie Haywood, has a crush on a kiosk attendant, Molly Wilson, who is engaged to Gerry Carter, a member of the gang. After the robbery, from a jeweller's in Hatton Garden, Gerry hides the diamonds inside Molly's record player.
The Comeback Trail (1982)
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Two down-on-their-luck film producers, Eastman and Kodac, decide to make a Western film with Duke Montana, a veteran cowboy star, in hopes that he will die and they will collect the insurance money.
Little Annie Rooney (1925)
Comedy, Drama
Annie Rooney is a young girl who spends her days wreaking havoc in the tenements with a gang of children and their rival gang, the Kid Kellys. They fight in the streets, accidentally scaring a fruit vendor's horse in the process. Annie's father is a respected neighborhood police officer, but her brother, Tim, is a member of the Big Kellys, a gang of older boys led by Joe Kelly.
Hitman's Run (1999)
Action
A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list of new names for individuals in the FBI witness protection program. The list includes his dad, who separated from his mother years before and hadn't been seen since.
World for Ransom (1954)
Drama, Noir
Mike Callahan is an Irish national and war veteran working in Singapore as a private detective. He takes a case from a former flame, now a nightclub singer, who suspects that her husband Julian March is involved in criminal activities. Callahan learns that a man named Alexis Pederas has involved Julian in a plot to kidnap prominent nuclear scientist Sean O'Connor and hold him for ransom to the highest bidder.
Murder in a Blue World (1973)
Crime, Dystopian, LGBTQ-related film, Science fiction
Anna Vernia, a beautiful young nurse, receives a medal of recognition for her outstanding dedication to her patients at the medical center where she works. She is going out with Victor Sender, a doctor working in the same hospital. Victor is deeply involved in a project that employs electro-shock therapy in violent criminals in an effort to turn them into model citizens.
Sex and Lies in Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal (2008)
Biography, Crime
The film details the events surrounding the death of Las Vegas casino owner Ted Binion. It follows the ensuing investigation of Binion's life and the people in it, such as Binion's sister Becky, his girlfriend Sandy Murphy, and Sandy's lover Rick Tabish.
Jack Falls (2011)
Crime
Surviving a murder attempt in Amsterdam, former undercover police officer Jack Adleth returns to London to seek revenge and settle some old scores, but he soon finds himself in danger not just from his former criminal associates, but his old police colleagues too. As he battles to stay alive, he must also deal with the guilt from the consequences of his undercover life.
Deadline Auto Theft (1983)
Crime, thriller film
After the attempted theft of his daughter's fiance's car, LAPD Captain Gibbs declares war on master car thief Maindrian Pace. Meanwhile, Pace is hired to steal 40 cars, and must do so without being caught.
Phantom Halo (2014)
Crime, Drama, thriller film
This Was a Woman (1948)
Crime, Drama
Sylvia Russell is a woman who likes to get her own way. With a huge ambition to exercise power, she has had to be content with manipulating and demoralising her sweet natured husband and controlling the lives of her children, all while presenting the appearance of a devoted wife and mother. When her daughter Fenella announces that she is going to marry Val, Sylvia is furious at this sign of independence and while pretending to welcome Val into the family, does everything she can to undermine the marriage, eventually splitting the couple up.
Code of the Secret Service (1939)
Action, Crime, Drama
United States Secret Service Lieutenant Brass Bancroft (Ronald Reagan) and his partner, Gabby Watters (Eddie Foy, Jr., producer Bryan Foy's brother), seek engraving plates stolen from the U.S. Treasury Department by a counterfeiting ring in Mexico. Fellow Secret Service agent Dan Crockett informs Bancroft that the leader of the gang is a peg-legged man named Parker, but he is killed and Bancroft is falsely blamed for the death.
Daughter of Darkness (1948)
Crime, Drama, Horror
In the small Irish town of Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the fair comes to town, she encounters Dan, a handsome young boxer – and lays his face open with her fingernails when he attempts to seduce her. Urged by the village women's jealousy and forebodings, Father Corcoran, reluctantly sends Emmy to friends, farming family, in Yorkshire, and Emmy endeavours to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and revulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex.
As Good as Dead (2010)
crime thriller film, Justice Drama, Psychological Thriller
Ethan Belfrage is a photojournalist who is separated from his wife. One afternoon he is confronted by two men, Aaron and Jake, who proceed to attack and kidnap him. They lock Ethan up and accuse him of being responsible for the death of their cult leader and pastor, who is the father of a third attacker, Helen Kalahan.
The Spider's Web (1938)
Crime, Superhero
"The Octopus," a masked crimelord, is bent on crippling America with a wave of terror. He demands tribute from railroad magnates and other captains of industry. Richard Wentworth (Warren Hull), an amateur criminologist who is friendly with the police and is secretly "The Spider," a masked vigilante, is equally determined to destroy the Octopus and his gang.
The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
Crime, Crime Comedy, mystery film
Gwen Parker meets her former boyfriend Philip Seymour at the local aquarium, and asks him for some money so she can leave her husband, stockbroker Gerald Parker; but Mr. Parker receives an anonymous telephone call tipping him off to the rendezvous. When he confronts the pair, Seymour knocks him out with a punch.
Dark Honeymoon (2008)
Drama, Horror, thriller film
After a brief courtship, a man marries an enchanting woman, and then things begin to go terribly wrong. During their honeymoon on the foggy Oregon coast, he discovers her shocking secrets as those around them begin to die horrible and violent deaths, one by one. He soon learns that you really don't know someone until you marry them.
That Woman Opposite (1957)
Crime
In a town on the French coast, English antiques dealer Maurice Lawes is a witness to the night-time murder of a gendarme. The killer spots Lawes at his window, and realises he has been seen. The following evening, Lawes' daughter Janice finds her father also murdered.
There's Always a Woman (1938)
Crime, Crime Comedy
Bill Reardon's (Melvyn Douglas) private detective agency is not making any money, so he decides to swallow his pride and return to work for the district attorney as a special investigator. His wife Sally (Joan Blondell), who persuaded him to start his own business, decides to keep the agency going herself. Sally is quickly hired by Lola Fraser (Mary Astor) to investigate Anne Calhoun (Frances Drake), a former girlfriend of Lola's husband Walter (Lester Matthews) who has been in contact with him.
Moving Violation (1976)
Action, Crime, exploitation film
Drifter Eddie Moore arrives in the small oil town of Rockfield, where he is picked up and harassed by the town's corrupt sheriff Leroy Rankin and deputy Tylor for violation of town ordinance against hitch-hiking. They dump him at the oil field and order him not to return to the town ever again. Eddie wanders to a drive-in, where he buys an ice cream and falls in love with shopgirl Camille "Cam" Johnson.
Taken in Broad Daylight (2009)
Crime, Drama
On April 6, 2001, Anne Sluti , an all-American 17-year-old teenager, is seen running track at her high school as her boyfriend, Gary, and her best friend, Paige, watch. Gary gives Anne a teddy bear for their anniversary. Anne then departs with her best friend, but before she does so, she promises Gary that she'll pick up his CD at the mall.