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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 213.
Crime
Duncan McLeod, a gentleman artist and former Naval officer, assisted by his crewman Lefty Brown, engages in smuggling contraband liquor between France and Britain across the English Channel. Duncan and Lefty store the liquor at "The Quiet Woman", a pub in a coastal town on the edge of Romney Marsh in Kent, only to one day find that its complicit owner has moved away without telling them. The pub is now being run by Jane Foster and her friend Elsie.
Crime, mystery film
Charlie and Jimmy Chan are traveling by plane to San Francisco. Jimmy befriends insurance executive Thomas Gregory. Charlie's friend, novelist Paul Essex, dies aboard the aircraft after receiving a radiogram warning him not to ignore "Zodiac".
Crime, Drama
A young solo mother (Elliott) loves her son and his needs are foremost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother (Turner), even as her fundamentalist mother cruelly rejects her. But when the brother is responsible for a woman's broken neck, during his burglary of her house, families are changed as crisis amplifies and at times the young mother seems to be the only adult.
Crime, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film, Zombie
Lugosi plays a psychology professor by day who, secretly and under an assumed name, runs a Bowery soup kitchen by night called the Bowery Friendly Mission. Lugosi's character uses his soup kitchen as a means to recruit members of a criminal gang, of which he is also secretly the head. Throughout the film, one of Lugosi's henchmen, a doctor who seems to be an alcoholic drug addict, alludes to having plans for the corpses of henchmen Lugosi has had killed.
Crime, Drama
Òlòturé, a young and naive Nigerian journalist goes undercover to expose the dangerous and brutal underworld of human trafficking. Based in Lagos, it depicts how sex workers are recruited to be exploited overseas.
Crime, documentary film, mystery film
Spanning over several decades, Santoalla tells the story of the Dutch couple Margo Pool and her husband Martin Verfondern as they settle into a village known as Santoalla (also written as Santa Eulalia) in the remote mountainous region of Galicia in northwest Spain. The village, largely abandoned and slowly crumbling into ruins, gradually comes to be occupied by only one other family, the Rodríguez. At first amicable, tensions begin to rise between the two families as disputes over land usage, cultural differences, and misinterpreted intentions culminate into the mysterious disappearance of Martin Verfondern in 2010.
documentary film
The film depicts Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong and his legal problems with the Department of Justice. Filmmaker Josh Gilbert follows the tale of Chong as he becomes a target in a government sting, code named "Operation Pipe Dreams". Tommy Chong was the only defendant without a prior conviction to receive a jail sentence.
Crime, mystery film
Detective Charlie Chan's daughter prepares to give birth to his first grandchild. While Chan waits at the hospital, his "number two" son Jimmy intercepts a message intended for Charlie about a murder aboard the freighter Susan B. Jennings.
Crime, Drama
The story begins with an indifferent Mary Martin sitting in a courtroom on trial for murder. As the jury leaves to deliberate her fate, the story depicts flashbacks on Mary's hard life as a woman living in a large city of the 1930s as well as on the two lusty men—a gangster, Leo Darcy, and a lawyer, Tom Mannering, Jr.—with whom she is involved.
Erotic Thriller, thriller film
Julia Robbins (Kim Delaney) is an emerging fashion designer returning home to Los Angeles after a sales trip in San Francisco. She passes a hitchhiker or a drifter (Miles O'Keeffe) on her way back to the 5. They lock eyes but she drives on.
Action, Crime
P.C. 49 – Police Constable Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby – infiltrates a gang specializing in stealing loads of whisky from lorries. He adopts the alias Vince Kelly, but one of the gang members (Skinny Ellis) recognizes him as a cop.
Action, Crime, Heist, spy film
Criminal mastermind Mr. Smith (Keir Dullea) is being pursued by Malcolm Philpott (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), the head of an international peace organization. Smith draws together a team for a heist including weapons expert Mike Graham (ex-CIA) and thieves Sabrina and Clarence.
Crime
The plot revolves around a hitman (Sutherland – known simply as "The Confessor") and a priest (Hurt) discussing good and evil in a confessional on a snowy night. The confessor tells the priest that he has killed many people, and he is not sorry for it, because they deserved to die. He also states that he will kill tonight, unless the priest hears his confession.
Drama
Pennsylvania transplant Tom Meyer begins working as an EMT in Los Angeles. He is paired with utterly self-assured veteran Jimmy Warzniak, who has apparently gone through many partners in his time. As a rookie, Tom is initially overwhelmed and impressed by Jimmy's competence to deal with the high-pressure job.
Crime
Big Tim Channing is a small-time racketeer who makes a living supplying old, out-of-date slot machines to businesses. Gangsters Di Bruno and Finetti are his main competition. He finds that many gamblers are using slugs rather than coins to play his machines.
Crime, Drama
Eleven-year-old Des and his friends engage in a variety of illegal activities including vandalism, stealing, lighting fires, mugging people and using drugs. In Canada the age of criminal responsibility is twelve. Des takes advantage of this law because he knows that the police cannot charge him until he reaches that age.
Crime, Drama, neo-noir
To the horror of her husband, Kate Barker, known as "Ma," teaches her four young sons to steal money from the collection plate in church. Her husband tries to convince her to stop using her sons to commit crimes, but is ignored. Ma expresses her contempt for "sissies" and says that "guts" is the only virtue.
Crime, Drama
Terry Nelson, born Emily King, is visiting Taos, New Mexico to see the father who abandoned her, famous author Preston King, but she does not know where he lives. After Preston left his family when Terry was two years old, her mother, also named Emily, began resenting men and constantly berated her daughter for saying that her father loves her and for having a boyfriend as a teenager. Terry eventually grows up resenting her father, and formulates a plan to find him, to seduce him into an incestuous relationship, and to finally humiliate him as revenge for abandoning her.
Action, thriller film
A rape victim, comic book artist Lisa Roberts is given the runaround by the New York City Police Department. Tired of city life, she heads for the wide open spaces of Arizona. Not long afterward, she is propositioned by lowlife Randall Atkins.
Crime, Road Movie, thriller film
A wife's husband is cheating on her. She decides to go on a road trip with her husband's other woman. While driving the two women pick up a hitchhiker.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Christopher Kelvaney is a crooked police officer who takes bribes and payoffs from criminals and other nefarious folk. His brother Eddie is a young member of the police force who is honest and loyal. In a penny arcade, a drug dealer is stabbed to death by a man who claims the territory for himself, and Eddie witnesses the murderer flee.
Crime, Drama
Handguns figure in the intertwining lives of nine people. Warren (Jeff Daniels) shoots his wife Helen's (Joan Allen) lover and his defense is that he thought he was shooting an intruder. She leaves him and her lawyer (Andre Braugher) helps her find a job working with a nutty, reclusive computer wizard (Gary Sinise) who waves a pistol, sometimes at Helen.
thriller film
Cargo tells the tale of a young man who has gotten into trouble in Africa and because of this he decides to stow away on a cargo ship leaving for Europe. During this voyage, sailors on the ship began to disappear with no apparent reason and the ship's depraved captain seems to have the answers.
Action
Donna Taylor is a young prostitute recruited by a criminal organization known as "the Syndicate" to help blackmail their latest target, a politician. She agrees to carry out their plan of meeting him in his hotel room, drugging his drink, and having pictures taken of him while he is unconscious. She soon finds out the drug she administered was not a simple sedative as she had been told by Sandra and Erica, the two members of the Syndicate accompanying her, but a lethal poison.