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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 231.
Crime
Under pressure to clean up crime in the streets, Abe Rowan, chief of police, assigns Capt. "Danny" Danforth to take charge and restore order. Danforth assures wife Pat the dangerous assignment is strictly temporary, determined to get out of police work for good.
LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film
17-year-old, Valerie Smith, newly graduated from high school, heads off on a road trip to San Francisco with her friend Joleen. They have just started out when Joleen's car breaks down, but one of Joleen's friends, Buddy (Sam Bottoms) pulls up and offers to take Valerie the rest of the way. He is overly familiar; Valerie does not know him and is reluctant to accept the offer, but is ultimately pressured into accepting the ride.
Crime, Drama
English industrialist Richard Howard visits Bordeaux, France to buy cotton for his mills from Sarah Bonheur, He becomes enamoured of Sarah and spends much of his business trip sight-seeing. When his younger brother, John arrives to close the deal, he also is attracted to Sarah, and after a whirlwind courtship, marries her. When living a lonely existence in John's grand house in Manchester, England, Sarah confides to Richard that she is depressed by her marriage.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Tara McCormick is sent to prison for the attempted murder of a local drug lord named Tommy Stompanato. Inside, she befriends Josie and is approached by an agent of the government to finish the job she started in exchange for her freedom.
Crime, thriller film
Emmett Young is a Philadelphia police detective who has recently been promoted to the homicide division. While investigating the murders of several young women, he is diagnosed with a terminal illness that his doctor says will cause an increasingly painful death. Unwilling to endure the progression of the disease, Emmett approaches the enigmatic Jack Marlow and asks him to arrange his death.
Crime, Drama
Joe (Palminteri) is a small-time con-man and dice-hustler who works with a group of men with similar interests. They shave cards and dice, doing small-time cons at card games and union picnics. He's in a long-term relationship with Janice (Lahti) and has a son with Down syndrome, Joe Jr.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
The Man is the accomplice of Marian Forbes, the spurned mistress of a tycoon. She coaches The Man in impersonating the voice and appearance and habits of the intended victim. The Man begins his masquerade in a Mexican resort, where he meets Corey Scott and moves on to contemplating the murder of his tutor, but things begin to go awry.
Crime, Drama
Parvaneh (Tanaz Tabatabai) goes to her brother-in-law Hojjat (Javad Ezzati)'s refinery garage and asks him to stop his brother Hashem (Amir Aghaei). Hashem has gone to a swimming pool with his henchmen for revenge and is destroying it because a video of Parvaneh swimming in the swimming pool is published on the Internet. On the way back from the pool, Hashem kills Parvaneh.
Crime
Crime novelist Robert Southley murders the man who has been blackmailing him. Returning after his manufactured alibi, he is alarmed to see his friend, Inspector MacDougall with his secretary Linda, but Mac is actually there to invite Southley to accompany him on the investigation, to see what police work really entails. The other detective on the case is John, Linda's boyfriend, who doesn't like Southley, but is it because Linda is so blindly loyal to him or because he senses something of Robert's true character?
Crime, pornographic film, Sex Film
A pair of Mafiosos try to confront Roger Amsford and his wife at a lounge, wanting to discuss a $20,000 debt Roger owes, but the Amsfords evade them. The men follow the Amsfords to their home, and as his associate beats Roger, Spike rapes Mrs. Amsford.
Crime
A secret vigilante society's nine members pass judgment on others. They meet to decide the fate of a wealthy businessman they have been keeping under surveillance known as “The Man Who Has Lived Too Long” and vote to dispatch him with a homemade bomb concealed in a cigar case. Members Forrest and Farallone are both in love with the sole woman in the group, Lilith.
Action, Crime
When Los Angeles Police Department officers kill a young bank robber after a brutal bank heist, the slain criminal's father, mob boss Vincent Sloan, unleashes a blood bath on the police force. One by one, Detective Ray Morgan's partners are gunned down, but when his family is murdered, Morgan has nothing left to live for - except revenge. Becoming an unstoppable one man army, Morgan goes on the ultimate hunt for justice.
Crime, Drama
Shelly Saltemeir is an overachieving senior student in her last year of high school in a small Texas town. She works part-time to provide for her family, which consists of her 14-year-old sister Tanya and her deadbeat stepmother, Ruby. She occasionally visits her mother's grave and hangs out with her best friend Raymond.
Crime, mystery film, Noir
Ann Gorman, a persistent young female reporter, is investigating a murder spree committed by a mysterious strangler, known only as "The Judge". She meets with Lieutenant Harry Grant and Sergeant Art Collins at a bar. Both men leave the bar after receiving a phone call about the Judge's latest criminal act, and Gorman follows them.
Comedy drama, Crime, Satire
In a cell under the Old Bailey, two men meet. One is Wilfred Morgenhall, a single barrister who never gets any cases and is overjoyed to have won this dock brief, the defence of an accused individual with no lawyer (at public expense). The other is his client Herbert Fowle, an insignificant man who just wants to plead guilty to murdering his wife and get it all over.
Crime
Schoolteacher Bradley Wells is wrongly accused of murdering a girl pupil, and is nearly lynched by angry townspeople. With the help of his art teacher girlfriend Janet he discovers the real murderer, and works with Janet to clear his name and save the school from another tragedy.
Crime, Drama
In post-war China, court-martialed pilot Brad Dunham (George Raft) now flies smuggled goods into the country. He attempts to force his immediate superior, Ramon Perez (Marvin Miller), to pay him more, but Perez resists, so Brad steals the cargo back. The boss of the black-market operation is Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc), who agrees to Brad's demand of a 50% cut of the operation and fires Ramon as a show of good faith.
Crime, thriller film
A female friend Judy Fenton asks the Saint for help and tells him that her fiance Keith Merton is being blackmailed by gangsters. She soon after ends up dead in a suspicious car accident. The Saint sets about investigating and discovers the involvement of the River Mob, a gangster organisation involved with a floating casino barge.
Action, Crime, Drama
Burke Wyatt (Johnny Messner) is a hardened ex-cop with a seasoned history of extreme and over-the-top methods during his time with the police, but having been dismissed for the past three years after drastically subduing a criminal, he wades through a rough stretch in his life; separated from his wife (Charlotte Ross), he plays a part-time father to their only son, Tommy (Uriah Shelton). He quietly harbors a desire to return to the force, and he gets the chance when approached by his old partner and friend, and now a successful FBI agent, Steve James (Derek Webster), who visits Burke to talk about an investigation into the suspicious and…
Crime, Drama, Erotic Thriller, neo-noir
In the evening, while returning to his home, Vincent Harris (Reedus) passes a taxi coming from his house. When he arrives, he finds his wife Ashley has been brutally murdered. Three years later, Vincent moves to New York, and his neighbor, Alice Parker (Béart), is frantically in love with him, but Vincent's obsession with discovering his wife's killer, leaves him oblivious to her interest.
Horror
Giulio, a film student, spies on Sasha, an attractive neighbor, and rents Fritz Lang films for his thesis. He sees Sasha at the video store. She tries to rent Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train at the same time as another woman, Federica.
Crime
The film is about a young security agent, Kevin Burke, who is employed by a multinational banking firm. He intends to ask his girlfriend Rosalind to marry him. Interpol suspected Jorgensen's firm of money laundering, based on anonymous tips.
Crime, mystery film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Sally Randall, daughter of a rich Hawaiian planter, marries Philmore, the man of her father's choice, thereby jilting her lover P.J. Madden. Tearing from her throat the priceless pearls that are her father's wedding gift, Madden declares that one day he will buy her at the same price.
Crime, mystery film
Charlie Chan arrives in Shanghai at the behest of the U.S. government to help stop an opium smuggling ring. He receives a warning aboard ship not to stop in Shanghai.