Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 224.
Crime
Rikki Rennick and her drug-addicted brother Bud own a bar where she catches a poker player cheating. After a confrontation leads to an accident that leaves Bud disabled and uninsured, Rikki turns to shady insurance millionaire Mal Connery for a loan. After a man she just met, Phil Trask, is brutally murdered by masked intruders, Rikki unknowingly ends up with a diskette containing evidence of Connery's crimes.
Crime, mystery film
An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband, who is bringing important visitors to their country home.
Crime, Drama
At Woodward University, a football-oriented California school, Lyn McKenna is raped by her best friend's abusive, controlling boyfriend, football star Ron Cooper. Lyn is hesitant to reveal this information as she fears that doing so will create social backlash and worsen the aftermath of her experience. However, continued threats from Ron and his fellow football teammates drive Lyn to desperate action.
Crime, Drama
John Graham, a World War II veteran and head of the Foreign Office cypher group, seeks revenge on the driver and passenger of a hit-and-run automobile that struck and killed his pregnant wife, Carol. The two people in the car (Mickey and Lorna) were fleeing a robbery when they heedlessly ran over Graham's wife. Graham takes a leave of absence from his job so that he can track down and kill the hit-and-run couple.
Crime
Fred Morrow, an average Los Angeles citizen, witnesses a gang murder when he stops in a café to use a telephone. Aware that he is the only witness against them, the gang members, led by young motorcycle rider "Cowboy" Tomkins, seek out his identity and terrorize his family and him to keep him from testifying against them. A police detective, Torno, fears he will lose his only witness, but Fred stands up to the gang, despite wife Ann's hysteria.
thriller film
Safe-designer Richard Logan awakens late one evening on a patch of suburban waste ground. He has no idea how he got there. He returns home to wife Julie to apologise for being late from work.
Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Michael Lanyard, the "Lone Wolf," is kidnapped off a Washington, D.C. street and taken to a man whose face is hidden in darkness. The mystery man offers Lanyard a job: breaking into a safe.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
Charlie Chan is engaged by an heir to solve a mystery on a boat. Miss Nodbury seeks a pirate treasure on Cocos Island, and her ship has recently hosted a museum of pirate lore. For safety, she has split her map into four pieces, which she gave to some of the passengers whom she has invited, but tells no one who they are.
Heist
When Gilbert Barrows disobeys his boss and tries to refit an old Liberty Ship for cargo use instead of scrapping it, he inadvertently puts it into the hands of a colorful group of crooks led by good-hearted screw-up Bugsy G. Fogelmeyer and brainy sociopath George M. Wilson.
Crime Comedy, thriller film
Crime, mystery film
The famed detective seeks to unmask a killer on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean. It begins harmlessly enough, with Papa Chan catching No.2 and No.7 Sons in his office;trying to destroy a bad report card from school. They are ordered to leave when retired Scotland Yard man Inspector Duff arrives—they leave, but they eavesdrop.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime
Action, Crime
Crime
Investigative reporter Ken Marshall, who finds evidence implicating political boss Stuart Gaines, is framed for vehicular manslaughter despite the efforts of his editor Bob Leeds. He escapes from prison and, with the help of kindly doctor Phillip Black, starts a new life as a small town newspaperman with his wife Ruth and baby girl Penny. A few years later, Ken's prison cellmate Clubby Blake is released, blackmails Ken and then shoots him.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Businessman Frank Deane is found dead with his face and hands burned beyond recognition. Detective Patrick (Langton) pursues and arrests Deane's girlfriend, nightclub-singer Eden Lane (Payton). She makes little effort to deny her involvement in the death and is convicted of the crime.
Action, Crime, Drama
Former British soldier Major Pickering flies into Cairo on a phony passport. He has had years in a German prison to develop a foolproof plan to rob King Tut's jewels from the Egyptian Museum. He contacts Nicodemos, a shady casino operator and brother of his con artist ex-cellmate, and lays out his bombshell.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film
The son of a Japanese billionaire is injured in an abandoned steel mill he bought in a Pennsylvania town. The police discover it might not be an accident when they start questioning the people in the town.
Crime, documentary film, Drama
The documentary is about a child rape case in China (involving a government official) and the protests against it by activists Ye Haiyan, Shan Lihua, Tang Jitian, Wang Jianfen, Jia Lingmin, Wang Yu, and Huang. A photograph of Ye holding a sign that says "Principal, get a room with me and leave the schoolgirls alone" goes viral on Chinese social media, thus raising awareness about the case. Subsequently, Ye is the victim of severe harassment by policemen and thugs (who, the succession of events imply, act on behalf of Chinese authorities).
Crime, Drama, thriller film
A young man is erroneously sentenced to life in prison for killing two children. He is released after DNA evidence proves his innocence. After his release, a vengeful prison gang abducts and claims to murder his daughter.
Crime, Drama, neo-noir
Los Angeles vice detectives Bill Holt and Nin have entered the gangster and drug scenes and have allied with drug kingpin Truman Rickhardt. As he tries to stop Holt, Nin narrates the events that led Holt to torture Truman's brother Sean by chaining him inside an iron box that's slowly filling with cement. Cops on the take, missing money, Holt's tempting wife Lyndel, dead police officers are implicated in the events.
Crime, Drama
Alan York is stunned when his dear friend, skilled jockey Bill Davidson, is killed during a simple steeplechase. Convinced Davidson's death was no accident, York begins an investigation with a suspicion that Davidson's racehorse, Admiral, was drugged in a murderous act of sabotage. Assisting him as he delves into this world of high stakes, horses and gambling is Davidson's devoted widow, Laura.
Crime
A customs officer captures a gang of drugs smugglers, assisted by a birdwatcher.
Action, Adventure, Crime
In Africa, pilot Mike Patton is persuaded by his business partner, Bob Simpson, to conduct a search for a missing heiress whose plane supposedly went down in the jungle, resulting in her never being seen again. Encountering an indigenous tribe of natives, Bob recklessly shoots a man. He is taken before a woman, Greta, who is being treated like a high priestess.
Crime, Drama
West Indian Victor Conway, suspected of murder, is in hiding but is chanced upon by young Danny Willard. Believing him to be innocent, Danny and his grandfather try to help him. Learning the true identity of the murderer – drug dealer Matthew Johnson – Danny is kidnapped, but Victor rescues him, the murderer is killed during the struggle, and Victor is exonerated.