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Crime, Drama
Phyllis Tredman is shocked when her husband Lloyd, a decorated Korean War U.S. Air Force pilot, sends word to her after his discharge from military service requesting a divorce. She tracks him down in Madrid, Spain, where it turns out Lloyd is drinking and gambling heavily.
Crime, Horror, Mysterie
Set in the fictitious New Zealand small town of Klynham in the early 1950s, teenagers Ned Poindexter (Jonathan Smith) and his friend Les (Daniel McLaren) start raising chickens, only to have them stolen. While stealing them back from Victor, the school bully, they inadvertently cross the path of a murderer who had slain a girl in the woods. When more girls in the town are killed, and Ned's 16-year old sister, Prudence (Tracy Mann) becomes the new target, Ned begins to suspect that an unsettling town newcomer – travelling magician and hypnotist Hubert Salter (David Carradine), who is living at the undertaker’s place, is responsible.
Mysterie, thriller film
Charles Lattimore, an English professor played by Brosnan, gives his class an assignment to plot a murder, but after a student and someone else dies, he becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Realizing that the theoretical murder plot has been used to set him up, he is faced with finding a way to foil the plan he helped create.
Adventure, Crime, Drama
Sent by the British Museum to take charge of the shipping to London of important artefacts, David Redfern's route along an isolated Tunisian road is blocked by a landslide. During a heavy rain he makes his way to the town, but not before witnessing a gun-running operation. At the café in the town he meets Anna, a young Frenchwoman who with her brother Max had moved to North Africa during the wartime German occupation of France.
Action, Crime, Drama
A Los Angeles hit man, Corrado, is given the task of eliminating the aging kingpin Vittorio Spinello. He readily accepts the job and is about to perform the hit when he is interrupted by Spinello's new nurse, Julia. He shoots the aging Spinello by accident, instead of suffocating him as intended, and flees the scene.
Crime, Drama
Suburban Madness is loosely based on the true story of 44-year-old Clara Harris, a successful Texas dentist and mother of young twins, who hired private investigator Bobbi Bacha to spy on her philandering orthodontist husband. Clara discovers that her husband is cheating with a new secretary at the dental office, Lisa, who is recently divorced from her husband. Lisa, who is noticeably much more attractive than Clara has no trouble capturing all of David's attention.
Crime, thriller film
A gang of criminals, Joe Lawson, Vince Clayton and Eddie Holden, rob a suburban bank. Lawson then wants to rob a city bank and enlists the services of safe cracker Philip Bowman, who is just out of prison and is about to marry his girlfriend, Ruth. The thieves manage to rob the bank but Inspector Rankin interrogates Holden about the earlier robbery.
Crime, Drama, Marital Tragedy, romance film
Maria and Paul, a couple in their forties, and their young daughter travel through Spain with Claire, a younger woman. On their way to Madrid, they stop in a small town and learn that a local man who has killed his wife and her lover is on the loose in the area. There is a massive thunderstorm and the group has no choice but to stay in the town's only hotel, which is jammed beyond capacity with other travelers in the same situation.
Action, Crime
A modern-day retelling of the story of 1930s bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde where two teenagers, Bonnie and Clyde, are drawn to a life of crime. The two young lovers begin with shoplifting and work their way up to wanted felons as they make a run for the Mexican border.
Crime, silent film
A barber named Sweeney Todd slits the throats of his unsuspecting customers, robs them and then dumps their bodies down into his cellar through a trapdoor. He and his partner in crime, Mrs. Lovett, cut up the bodies and use the pieces to make meat pies which she then sells in her bakery shop.
Drama
Annie Herron is abused by her husband, Simon, whilst his brother, George, was seemingly helpless to intervene. The film hits an interesting twist when Simon is murdered. Annie is convinced that she is the murderer, even as she gets herself admitted to the jail in the Fort.
Crime, Drama
After Tom Carver, a photographer, loses his son to a hit-and-run car collision, he and his wife Rachel divorce, and he descends into self-destructive abuse of alcohol and drugs, unable to let go of his grief. His friend Ed, a tabloid journalist, investigates a murder blamed on local gangs, and, while on a job photographing children at a local school, Carver himself meets a young boy, Jimmy, whose brother was murdered. As Jimmy and Carver bond over their shared loss, Carver learns that Jimmy is interested in photography and tutors him.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Crime, Drama, Noir
After World War II, immigrants in Cuba who are refused visas try to sneak into the United States illegally with the help of a human smuggling ring run by Palinov, a Levantine café owner. Following the death of one immigrant, American operative Pete Karczag is sent to Havana, where he poses as a Hungarian in need of Palinov's services. During his dangerous undercover investigation, Pete meets Marianne Lorress, a penniless Austrian refugee of the Buchenwald concentration camp who is waiting to be smuggled into the U.S.
Crime
A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss' daughter.
Crime, Drama
Four young compulsive gamblers waste their lives on booze, broads and bookies. David (Jason Priestley), the heavy-drinking ladies man. Mike (Kane Picoy), a degenerate gambler.
Crime, Drama
Millionaire and Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel heir Benji 'Ben' Novack, Jr. (Lowe) marries a stunning stripper, Narcisa 'Narcy' Véliz Pacheco (Vega). But their kinky-infested relationship, soon becomes tarnished by a sea of love and distrust.
Crime
A former football player, "Big Tom" Kupfen, despondent over his glory days being behind him, drinks and uses drugs with a coterie of sycophants that includes a piano player called Kicks Johnson, a drifter named Gage Freeposter and a naive young woman known only as "Honey". On a whim, the group decides to go after a wealthy socialite, Erica London, and rob her home. They end up taking Erica and her fiancée, naval officer Arthur Mitchell, captive at an amusement park, with dire consequences for all.
Crime, Drama
“...Our story opens following the death of Hop Li, member of the powerful Lem Sing Tong, and we see his funeral procession passing down DuPont Street”... A huge dragon banner unfolds, declaring war. People panic: men sharpen hatchets; shops are shuttered.
Crime, Science fiction
The plot follows human detective Matthew Sikes and his Tenctonese partner George Francisco as they investigate a mind-altering Tenctonese artifact being used to lure followers into a deadly cult. The artifact used in this film was the same one from Alien Nation episode Generation to Generation.
Crime Comedy
Good Humor delivery driver Biff Jones is in trouble with the law after being falsely connected with a $300,000 robbery of the cash safe at work and an apparent murder. He is in love with neighborhood gal Margie Bellew, who lives with her younger brother Johnny. Biff and Margie, with the help of Johnny and all of the neighborhood kids, absolve Biff by fighting and capturing the gangsters who committed the crimes.
Crime
On a train trip, lawyer Richard Grant tells fellow passengers that, based on his long experience both prosecuting and defending murder cases, murder is sometimes justified and a clever man should be able to commit it undetected. Grant is traveling to the isolated estate of his wealthy client and friend Gordon Rich. His young adult daughter Barbara surprises him at the train station, where she informs him that she has already been there for a week.
documentary film, Slasher
The film is a historical and critical look at slasher films, which includes dozens of clips, beginning with Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Prom Night. The films' directors, writers, producers, and special effects creators comment on the films' making and success. During the Ronald Reagan years, the films get gorier, budgets get smaller, and their appeal diminishes.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
Drummond is called out of retirement by Scotland Yard to infiltrate a ruthless London crime outfit. After three robberies are pulled off with military precision, Inspector McIver asks Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond to give Scotland Yard a hand. As an ex-officer, Drummond knows how the suspected military mastermind would think.