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crime thriller film
Detective Sam Dietz (Leo Rossi) must yet again find and stop another serial killer who kills women in ritualistic executions. Detective work for Dietz is tough, as he has to juggle two women. One of them is his new female partner Jessica (Colleen Coffey), and the other is psychiatrist Sara Lee Jaffee (Famke Janssen) who holds the key to the case.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime
Courier Jefferson Bolt is asked to take a briefcase from Hong Kong to Mexico City, but he is not told what is in it or the identity of the man who asks him, a man named Griffiths. Convinced he will get good pay and see a few good places, Bolt takes on the job, while looking out for anything suspicious. Soon he does find exotic places, beautiful women, and ruthless gunmen interested in the briefcase.
Crime
Seventeen-year-old Toby Kellogg returns home early to Los Angeles from the Interlochen Center for the Arts' Interlochen Arts Camp, a classical-music summer camp in Michigan, where his father had sent him, to discover that his family is missing and his house is empty of all furniture. Unbeknownst to Toby, his father has become a federal informant against his father's former boss, and thus his family has entered the federal witness protection program. Toby's father's boss is involved in a mob-directed corporate operation handling drug money, and Toby would have joined his parents in hiding had he not gone to music camp.
Crime, mystery film
When gunshots are heard next door, the three children of widowed mystery novelist Marian Carstairs try to help the police help their mother solve the case or solve it themselves. Polly Walker, an actress, runs from the neighbors' house, telling police lieutenant Bill Smith that she had gone there to see Flora Sanford and found her dead. Flora was an agent who represented Polly as well as Marian, whose books feature a detective character with the same name as Bill's.
Crime, Drama, musical film
The action starts at a nightclub where The Platters sing two songs. A bitter man called Shorty is kicked out of the club after arguing with a couple. He goes to a nearby bar owned by Al, who is wary about Shorty.
Crime, Mysterie
Scientist Henry Krasker (Aldo Farnese) experiments in speaking with the dead. He is also an occasional consultant for the Los Angeles Police Department, and has solved numerous cases through extraordinary means. He lives in a rooming house that's convenient to his laboratory and is also home to others from various walks of life.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Ex-convict Casey Martin is caught heisting a truck shipment. After he discovers the depths of drug addiction his sister, Lucille, has fallen into after working for mobster Dutch Becker, Casey accepts the deal police have offered him. He goes to work undercover to nail Dutch and his gang; if he survives and is successful, Casey will receive immunity from prosecution.
Action, crime thriller film, Horror
NBI special crimes division agent Tony encounters an evil entity which is bent on killing and torturing beautiful women, one of which was his girlfriend, years after he thought to have killed the spirit. People close to Tony are placed in danger, including his partner Jane, who has a romantic interest towards him with everyone in the agency aware of this fact except for Tony. The spirit, who has killed many people in Japan, is thought to be targeting women from a certain clan of samurai.
comedy thriller, Crime Comedy
Pete Maynard (Neil Morrissey) and Andy Jarrett (Adrian Dunbar) are two con men down on their luck. They are holed up in a Chicago boarding room with their landlady harassing them for her long overdue rent. While attempting to scam someone he thinks is a businessman, Pete intercepts a briefcase full of cash intended for mobsters Terry Malloy (Donnie Wahlberg) and Tommy O'Brian (Michael Rapaport) as a payoff for a planned hit, as well as a key to a swank hotel room.
Crime, Drama
Wealthy and charitable Mary Herries (Aline MacMahon) is tricked by aspiring artist Henry Abbott (Basil Rathbone) into letting him and ill wife Ada (Justine Chase) stay in her stately home. When he invites friends Mr. and Mrs.
Crime, Drama, Psychodrama
Charles Van Horn, a tormented artist, wakes up in a Paris hotel room with blood on his hands and no memory of what happened. Fearing for his sanity, he calls for help his former university professor and trusted friend, Paul Régis. Paul agress to monitor Charles and accompanies him to his family mansion in province, where he meets Charles' father, the wealthy tycoon and local benefactor Théo Van Horn.
Crime
Lynn Brennon learns that her husband of three months, nightclub owner T.J. Brennon, has been killed in a car crash. When she returns to their apartment, she finds three men fighting on her balcony.
Crime
Tom Penney returns to his village after serving three years in prison for an assault that he did not commit, determined to take his revenge on those who framed him. He meets hostility from most of the village including his father, but his mother is glad to see him, and his former girlfriend, Susan, who is about to be married that day, finds her old feelings for him resurface. Amy Jordan, the flirtatious married woman he is supposed to have assaulted three years ago, is found dead in nearby woods just as the wedding is due to begin, and Susan runs from the church when she hears the news.
Crime, mystery film
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail and murder. The messenger for millionaire Victor Karnoff is ambushed and murdered, and $1,000,000.00 worth of bonds go missing. The Chans' taxicab breaks down and they decide to proceed on foot.
Crime, Science fiction
The plot introduces the idea that among the Tenctonese slaves, there was a resistance movement called the Udara who were implanted with hypnotic suggestions to act as sleeper agents. Now, here on Earth, someone has found a way to activate these sleeper agents, and send them out as assassins.
Adventure, Crime
The L & R Railroad is in competition with an airline for lucrative transport contracts. When the "Hurricane Express" is sabotaged and involved in a train wreck, one of his victims is Larry Baker's father, Jim. A mysterious figure known as "the Wrecker" is responsible for the train crashes.
crime thriller film, thriller film
Expert safecracker Arthur Clutten masterminds heists for a criminal syndicate he belongs to. But after witnessing the brutal methods of persuasion being meted out by gang leader, Ignatius Smith, Clutten decides to quit. But he realises the gang would sooner see him killed than quitting.
Action, Crime, Drama
Crime, Drama
Two destitute New Yorkers meet in Central Park to then get separated after getting involved with some gangsters. The gangsters pose as police officers to make money. The two New Yorkers are reunited in the end.
Comedy drama, Crime, Crime Comedy, Drama
Brash detective Butch Saunders is demoted from the robbery division to the bureau of missing persons. Captain Webb, his new boss, is unsure whether Butch will fit in or is on his way out of the police department. Webb assigns Joe Musik to show Butch around.
Drama
A courtroom drama, it sees an American scientist charged by the British police for his supposed role in the death of a secret agent who had been posing as his wife.
Crime, Crime Comedy, romantic comedy
Baroness and concert pianist, Caroline DuLac, steals three jewel-encrusted Fabergé eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs are demanded as ransom for her kidnapped fiancé in Latin America. She boards a plane for the Latin American city of Ladera, as per instructions, and is met by a drifter named Mike Chambers.
Crime, trial film
Nicholas "Nicky" Talbot attends the London debut of his wife, opera singer Philippa Shelley, at Covent Garden. After her successful performance, Nicky runs into former girlfriend Elizabeth Rusman backstage, a musician in the orchestra, who asks for his help. She gives him her address (and keeps his personalised pencil) before Philippa appears.
Crime, Drama
Dr. Welling, a doctor in a small rural town who has been suffering ill-health, asks young Dr. Boswell to move there and become a partner in his medical practice.