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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 216.
Action, buddy film, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Nate and Skylar, sons of sheriff Bloom Towne, are involved in the accidental death of Mayor Cavanaugh's son Dick in a hunting accident. Older brother Nate fired the deadly shot, but to protect him, younger Skylar, still a minor, takes the blame. Owning most of the town's businesses, the Cavanaugh family itself is wealthy and influential.
Horror, Noir
John Raden, heir to the fortune of his textile magnate father, returns to the family estate for his father's funeral. John had been estranged from his father for twenty-five years. There, he meets his widowed stepmother, Elaine, and is shocked upon learning that his twin brother, Paul, whom he believed died at age ten, is in fact alive and has been kept hidden inside the family manor, largely overseen by the Radens' African American caretaker, Pompey.
Crime, Drama
The body of policeman Dan Grady is recovered in the San Francisco Bay lifeless and with clear indications of an execution. His good friend Captain Street, very touched by the tragedy, asks for the help of Mr. Wong and the journalist Bobbie Logan to solve the mystery.
Crime, Drama, trial film
Attorney Paul Held is defending his friend, Walter Bernsdorf, who has been charged with the murder of his wife Lucy in Vienna. By Walter's account, Lucy was unfaithful to him during their marriage. After a court hearing, Paul returns home to his wife, Maria, and watches her as she applies make-up at her vanity.
Crime, thriller film
Gloria (Dominique Swain) is the spoiled daughter of a Brazilian businessman who is bankrupt. Her father asks her to take Marcos (Sebastian DeVicente), the son of her father's business partner, out for a swim in the ocean. She does so, using her father's yacht and accompanied by her boyfriend Danny (Scott Bairstow) and their buddy Jeffrey (Henry Thomas).
Crime, Horror, mystery film
Crime
Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter working for a secret agency designed to covertly document the compromising activities of important public figures. His latest task is to investigate member of parliament Douglas Jenner, who has reportedly been cheating on his wife with a mistress, Angela Richardson. Meanwhile, Harry finds he has a new neighbour – primary school teacher Lisa Talbot, whose daughter, Sarah, is being tormented by an abusive boyfriend, Joe.
Crime, romance film
When a grand jury becomes dissatisfied with the efforts of District Attorney Bradley Wayne (Otto Kruger), it requests a special prosecutor, Robert Larrimore (Brian Aherne). Wayne, who is in league with crime boss Frank McCoy (Barry Sullivan), assigns Larrimore the difficult Johnson case. McCoy blackmails the best defense lawyer around, Paula Rogers (Constance Bennett), into defending Johnson.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Crime
When wealthy Lucille Ainsworth is found strangled on Hampstead Heath, Detective Inspector Marshall is put on the case. Lucille's husband Robert suspected her of being unfaithful, and had been following her. But he is just one of many suspects with a motive for murder.
Action, Crime, Drama, exploitation film
In California, a homeless and mentally ill man, Rex, comes to believe he is a gunfighter from the American Old West, and heads for Los Angeles. While travelling, he begins a murder spree, and his victims include police officers. He becomes fixated on Los Angeles police officer John Shepard, who is in the news after killing a drug dealer in a shootout, and news anchor Maggie Hewitt, who broke the story.
Crime, Drama
Naval officer Larry Ellis bears a striking resemblance to counterfeiter Steve Chancellor and is mistakenly arrested in his place. Chancellor is killed in a car crash and Ellis goes undercover to impersonate the dead man, to lead the police to his gang who plan to inundate the UK with huge amounts of forged bank notes. Ellis devises a plan for smuggling the counterfeit notes into England, but his impersonation is rumbled.
Crime, Drama, Noir
A vicious loan-sharking ring has infiltrated a tire factory and is terrorizing workers who borrow money from them. After several men are beaten, a union leader and the plant owner ask recently released convict Joe Gargan, who has been referred for a job in the plant by his brother-in-law, who is employed there, to help dismantle the gang. Joe refuses because he wants a clean, straight life and a relationship with the owner's secretary.
Action, Crime, Drama, Treasure hunt
Adventurer Al Colby is persuaded by Anna Luz and her antiquities-collector husband Thomas Berrien to help them smuggle a parcel into Mexico where its true value can be ascertained. Warned that a man named Jefferson, who is traveling on the same freighter, might try to steal the parcel, Colby forms a partnership with Jefferson following Berrien's fatal heart attack aboard the ship. Jefferson betrays and shoots Colby, but Colby saves himself and the rare documents in time.
Action, Crime, Drama
mystery film, thriller film
When Beth (Mitchell) opens her remote roadside diner, she expects another slow day. But almost immediately, Jack (Watson), a handsome drifter bursts in, bleeding and on the run. Within moments, the three surfers Jack claims are chasing him appear and the stage is set for a deadly game of cat and mouse as Beth must decide who to trust.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
Thomas Harley, an ex-convict, is wrongfully arrested for a bank robbery he did not commit. The police have found fingerprints on the crime scene, incriminating Harley. Harley claims to have been summoned to a theatrical warehouse by Dave Wyatt, an old cellmate—but Wyatt has been dead for eight years.
Crime, Drama
Five childhood friends deal with their own hardships in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. Their livelihood is tied to a ruthless Irish mob boss. They all soon find themselves tested between their lifelong friendship to each other and their loyalty to a coldblooded killer.
Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy
At 55, small-town criminal Jos finds himself utterly sidelined. His daughter shows him no respect, his wife lacks trust in him, and his friends mock him openly. While frantically trying to salvage a botched drug deal, Jos desperately seeks to understand who or what is causing his misfortune.
Comedy, Crime
The Drews relocate to the country in an effort to clear a family friend of a murder charge. Upon arrival Carson Drew meets the charming Edna Gregory, triggering an intense jealousy in Nancy as she fears losing her father to the woman's advances. When the disinterested local sheriff refuses to consider the family friend's innocence, it's up to Nancy and reluctant boyfriend Ted Nickerson (whose family is vacationing at a nearby lake) to find the real murderer and clear “Uncle Matt’s” name.
comedy television program, fantasy film
The death of millionaire Oscar Kohlmeyer leaves an inheritance to a talking cat called Leo Kohlmeyer. Leo's inheritance is worth five million dollars while Oscar's nephew (Mr. Rigsby) gets twenty-five thousand dollars on the condition he doesn't contest the will.
Comedy
A crooked lawyer brings together some of the clients he's gotten off and schemes to rob a bank vault. However, after the robbery, he discovers that the "goods" he's stolen is actually a top-secret microchip that foreign powers are after, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
Crime, Science fiction
It follows the television series format of two parallel storylines. The first plot is about a seemingly human-Tenctonese hybrid child involved in a sinister experiment with a Newcomer (a euphemism for Tenctonese) scientist disguised as a human. The subplot is the budding relationship between Matt Sikes and his Tenctonese neighbor, Dr.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Ruby Bruce, an attractive young bookshop clerk, catches ex-con Jeff Hart trying to steal a rare book. Instead of turning him in, she accepts a date with him. Working late next day, Ruby initiates a kiss with the shop manager Harman, who responds for a moment, then stops, horrified at his behaviour.