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Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 222.

The Wannabes (2003)

Comedy

Danny (Nick Giannopoulos) is a talentless, yet clumsy, and therefore awkward entertainer who is hired by Marcus (Russell Dykstra) and his motley crew to turn them into the biggest kids' group since the Wiggles, the Hooley Dooleys, Hi-5, Bananas in Pyjamas, Play School, and Barney the Bear (a knock-off of Humphrey B. Bear). But while Danny is training them to become The Wannabes, they're secretly planning to use their new identity as cover to pull off a heist of a diamond necklace from the very rich Aurora Van Dyke (Lena Cruz).

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Cedar Boys (2009)

Crime, Drama

Tarek a young working class man living in Sydney's tough western suburbs, wants to help his imprisoned older brother, Jamal but cannot afford the costs. His mate Nabil, a cleaner, persuades Tarek to steal drugs from a drugs depot, and their drug-dealing friend Sam helps in distribution. Meanwhile, Tarek has met Amie, an Anglo-Australian young woman who likes to party and to snort cocaine.

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Dorothy Mills (2008)

Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller

The film follows Dorothy Mills, a young girl from a small Irish island who has been accused of trying to murder a baby while babysitting. She lives in an institution run by Eileen McMahon, a local, and has been assigned a psychiatrist from the mainland. The psychiatrist, Jane Morton, is in mourning for her son David, who died accidentally.

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House of Secrets (1936)

mystery film

Barry Wilding and Julie Kenmore meet on a ship on their way to England. Upon reaching there, Barry learns that he has inherited a house that belonged to his ancestors. To see how it looks, he goes there one night but finds that it has been occupied by an old man and his daughter, the same girl he met on the ship.

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The Black Widow (1951)

thriller film

Mark Sherwin is driving in the country when he notices a man lying at the side of the road. Assuming the man is the victim of a hit-and-run, he stops to offer assistance, only to be coshed and left stunned while his wallet and car are stolen. On recovering his senses, he staggers towards a nearby farmhouse where he collapses.

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I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

Drama, romance film

San Diego Standard reporter H. Joseph Miller has been covering the city's seedy waterfront for the past five years and is fed up with the work. Dogged by the lack of progress of his current assignment investigating the smuggling of Chinese into the country by a fisherman named Eli Kirk, he longs to escape his grim life and land a newspaper job back East so he can marry his Vermont sweetheart.

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Woman in the Dark (1934)

Crime, Drama

Released from prison on parole, John Bradley plans to live alone quietly in a cabin in the country. He is visited there by the sheriff's daughter, Helen Grant, on whose account he had got into a fight and accidentally killed a man in the past. While he is trying to persuade her to leave, a beautiful disheveled woman in evening dress bursts in.

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The Last Hit Man (2008)

Crime

After he botches a hit, an aging hitman (Joe Mantegna) discovers that he's dying and decides to hide the truth from his daughter, who's also his business partner and getaway driver. When a younger hit man is sent to clean up the mess, he ends up impacting their lives in more ways than initially intended.

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The Family Secret (1951)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Law student David Clark kills best friend Art Bradley in self-defense after an argument. He flees but later confesses to his father Howard, who is a lawyer. The next morning, Howard expects his son provide an explanation to Redman, the district attorney, but instead David merely asks whether he can be of any help after another man, Joe Elsner, is arrested.

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The Scarlet Clue (1945)

mystery film

Government agent Charlie Chan and a police investigator are tracking down the theft of radar secrets. When the man they are tailing is murdered, a clue left behind is a footprint in blood. An automobile on the scene, reported stolen, leads Chan—accompanied by Number Three Son Tommy and chauffeur Birmingham Brown—to a radio station.

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Pretend You Don't See Her (2002)

Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film

Lacey Farrell (Emma Samms), a young rising star on Manhattan's high-powered and competitive real estate scene is in the course of selling a luxurious apartment when she becomes the witness to a murder and hears the dying words of the victim, a woman convinced that her attacker was after a journal kept by her recently deceased daughter Heather up until the day she died in a hit-and-run, what everyone believes to be a tragic accident.

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South of 8 (2016)

Action, Crime, crime thriller film, Detective, Drama, Dystopian, girls with guns, Heist, Mysterie, Police Film, Road Movie, Science fiction, thriller film, Time travel

San Diego in the 2040s has unemployment and crime at an all-time high. Government surveillance, mass poverty and drought has decimated much of the population. Revolutionary groups and economic divide has caused society to be on the brink of another Great Depression in the United States.

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Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1992)

Martial arts, prison film

Jimmy Boland (Don Wilson) has been sentenced to a California maximum-security prison for a murder that he didn't commit. When he sees some black prison inmates sodomizing his friend, he flies into a rage and kills the gang leader. The prison warden, in an effort to do Jimmy in, transfers him to the black wing of the prison, where he is sure the black prisoners will dispatch him quickly.

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The Sign of Four (1932)

Crime

Jonathan Small, a prisoner serving a lengthy sentence on the Andaman Islands cuts a deal with two army officers, Major Sholto and Captain Morstan, in command of the prison. He reveals the location of a stash of loot in exchange for their help in helping him to escape from jail. The proceeds are to be split equally between the three of them.

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Dance Hall Racket (1953)

Action, Adventure, Crime

A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line. A merchant marine seaman is found murdered at the place and suspicion quickly falls upon the operator of a dime-a-dance honky tonk joint. A federal undercover agent is planted in the place to gather evidence, and he soon learns that the dive is only a cover-up for diamond-smuggling activities, and that one of the operation's henchmen, who is handy with a switch-blade knife, is the actual killer.

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Doing Money (2018)

Crime

The film documents the story of 'Ana', a Romanian student training to be a nurse who is kidnapped in broad daylight from the streets of London and ordered to work as a prostitute in a number of brothels in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Casting for the film was announced in August 2018. The film was broadcast as part of the BBC's Why Slavery?

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