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Crime, Horror
A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon, he finds that he does it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits savage acts against those in his life.
Crime, Drama
An Irish Traveller is relentlessly pursued by a policeman after accidentally killing a gamekeeper.
Mysterie, mystery film
At her family's rural manor in Germany, Irene von Helldorf celebrates her twenty-first birthday with her father Robert, her suitor Thomas Brandt, and Thomas's two rivals, Walter Brink and Frank Faber. Thomas challenges Walter and Frank to each spend a night in a mysterious locked blue room in which several murders had occurred years before, each at exactly one hour past midnight. The first victim was Robert's sister, followed by his best friend and, later, a detective who attempted to solve their deaths.
Crime, romance film
Mary Gray and Dick Mercer elope, since Mary's wealthy parents would never approve of the marriage. In Atlantic City, they arrive at the humble efficiency hotel room Mary has taken. Dick is not impressed, and would prefer they stay in a fancier hotel.
Action, Drama
Scott is a US Marine who serves in the US embassy in Paris. One day he gets a message that his long unseen sister Kim, who works as a model in Spain, is in serious trouble; he asks for a dismissal from his outpost and travels to Spain to help her. Unfortunately she's murdered before Scott's arrival.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Crime
Michael McCall is a former World War II pilot who was blinded while imprisoned by the Nazis. While imprisoned he was betrayed by one of his fellow officers. As he is now unable to identify the traitor by sight, McCall is aided in his search by model Janet Hillyer.
Crime, thriller film
Author Peter Duncan investigates the circumstances of a damaged yacht and its crew who are taken under tow off the English coast, and the subsequent disappearance of the crew before they reach land. The mast is somehow radioactive but after replacement a geiger counter still picks up a strong reading. When they try to find the old mast on the junk heap, it has disappeared.
Crime, Drama, Horror, Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
When the participants of an internet chat room are brutally murdered in succession, one person's past holds the key to the gruesome mystery.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Set in then contemporary post-war London, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancé and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. The normally gentlemanly and urbane Nigel Patrick is cast as a cockney spiv. The gangs hang around Bason's Gymnasium and Sugiani's nightclub, The Blue Moon.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, Noir
When the remains of a woman's body are found after a fire consumes the stables on the estate of wealthy Barbara Carlin, it is assumed to be her, especially since she was wearing Barbara's diamond necklace. However, after the funeral, Barbara secretly contacts Michael Dunn, the family lawyer. He advises her to notify the police immediately, but she suspects someone is trying to murder her and wants to investigate first.
Crime, Drama
When New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend cheating on him, he travels to Atlantic City to drink away his troubles. Jake is saved from a bar brawl by small-time mobster Frankie. Jake befriends Frankie and eventually falls in love with his girlfriend Melissa.
Crime, Drama
On the first day of freedom, a grizzled ex-con must reconnect with his troubled son before his violent past catches up with them.
Crime
Action, thriller film
Teenager Mark is the son of police officer Trevor Goddard who, against the objections of his partner, allows his son to accompany him on patrol, as he wants him to one day join him on the force. During an altercation with some criminals loitering on a pier, one of the thugs recognizes the senior Goddard and warns him that word is out on the street that somebody wants him dead. Later at his house, contract killers barge in, looking to murder the entire family.
Crime
The film begins with narration by Dave Greene about how he and Blueboy Harris had saved up enough money to quit their jobs as waiters and move to Arkansas with the intention of starting a numbers racket. He foreshadows that he wished he had never gone to El Dorado, as he is seen walking in a jazz funeral. The remainder of the film is a flashback to the illegal business with his partner and mentor, Blueboy, their struggles with the mafia, the KKK and a corrupt police force.
Comedy, Crime
Following their military service, the Stooges opt to pursue tertiary education, specializing in the field of criminology. Despite completing their studies with the attainment of the lowest academic honors, the trio subsequently integrate into law enforcement ranks, entrusted with the task of apprehending a notorious bandit known as the Eel, poised to perpetrate a robbery at the esteemed Biltless Hotel. Their endeavors, however, prove futile, as they fail to apprehend the criminal or recover the pilfered funds, resulting in their expulsion from the police force.
Crime
Popular radio presenter Carroll Levis, and Kay Sheldon find themselves entangled in a web of smuggling and murder. When a priceless "brass monkey" is stolen from a Japanese temple and smuggled into England, Levis encounters the eccentric Mr. Ryder-Harris, a Buddhist art connoisseur who's chasing the artefact, and will apparently stop at nothing to get it.
Crime, Drama
Committed to find the killer of a mother, Sgt. Jack Reed (played by Brian Dennehy) finds a trail of lies, corruption and murder.
Drama, thriller film
In the fictional Adelaide suburb of Sunshine Hills, three teenage girls have disappeared: Jenny Wells (found in a dumpster with her body cut open), Teresa Fields (found impaled and hanging from a clothesline), and Amanda Howatt, who disappeared three days earlier. 14-year-old Danny Hobson is a loner, who lives with his police officer father Alan and stepmother Sherrie. He is obsessed with his 17-year-old neighbour, Suzy Thomson.
Crime, Drama, Tragicomedy
Élisabeth (Danièle Gégauff) sends telegrams to her ex-boyfriend Ben (Dallesandro) in New York City and to her younger sister Léo (Schneider) in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate. On the day of their respective arrivals, Élisabeth fails to show up at the airport. Ben is initially lost, being barely able to speak any French; he meets Léo, who happens to be fluent in English.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Crane Stewart (Charles D. Brown), the editor of the New York Star, while playing poker with his friends, tells a story about a cop involved in a murder investigation. In flashback, the editor tells the tale of police lieutenant Tony Cochrane (William Gargan), a family man who cheats on his wife with socialite femme fatale Jill Merrill (Janis Carter).
Crime, Drama, spy film
A U.S. Army colonel Robert Taine living in the English countryside shoots at a man he takes to be a poacher on Taine's rented property in Dorset. The man named Reimann, has been mortally wounded but Robert is unaware that a foreign spy named Hiart simultaneously shot Reimann.
independent film
Strangers opens in Berlin during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Rana Sweid (Lubna Azabal), a Palestinian from Ramallah currently living in Paris, meets Eyal Goldman (Liron Levo), an Israeli who grew up on a kibbutz, after they accidentally switch bags on a train. They eventually strike up a friendship and decide to watch the World Cup together.