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Crime
In a small seaside town in Southern England Jerry Marsh, a young reporter and amateur motorcyclist, investigates sightings of a hooded black figure on a motorbike. It turns out that a gang of smugglers use a haunted castle as their base, deterring curious locals by pretending to be ghosts.
Drama, Noir
At the behest of a pretty reporter, an amorously forward private detective goes undercover as a patient in a private sanitarium in search of a judge hiding out from the police. The two plan to split the $10,000 reward for the judge's capture. As the reporter and detective begin to fall in love, the detective also falls deeper into danger from an abusive attendant and difficult inpatients.
Crime, Drama, hood film
After a quick narration by director Stabile, as well as a flash forward, the film's story gets underway by showing Zane, Mikey, Ray and Chicken spending a Saturday night in Ray's basement. Throughout the film, the backgrounds of the four young men are explored by Stabile via past exposition: Ray's parents died while he was young, and he had a very bitter and contentious relationship with his older brother and new guardian Mark. Zane grew up without a father, and had trouble staying in school before ultimately being kicked out of his mother's house due to his behavior.
Drama
Robert Lowery stars as a park ranger who helps hide his ex girlfriend who has unknowingly married a gangster
Science fiction, thriller film
Physics professor Zach Shefford (Grayson McCouch) has regarded his telekinetic gifts as a curse rather than a blessing. This sentiment is obviously not shared by ruthless Pentagon agent Raymond Addison (Louis Gossett Jr.), who recruits Shefford for a dangerous mission in which his "second sight" talents will be taxed to the utmost. It seems that, back in 1977, Addison had overseen Project Momentum, wherein dozens of telekinetics were brought together ostensibly for the purpose of benefiting mankind.
Crime, Drama
Augustus ("Augie") Cortona is released from prison and opens a modelling school and photographic studio that serves as a front for amateurs to take erotic photographs. It's a blackmail set-up: the participants are photographed through a one-way mirror. Scotland Yard investigate Cortona and send undercover officer Mildred Eyde to enrol as a model.
Comedy drama, Crime
Jack, Steve and Goat are East End London "spivs" (British slang for a black marketeer) who spend their days wheeling and dealing whenever and wherever they can. But not until they are landed with the juicy payoff they have been waiting for, involving a shady character who calls himself Villa, do they realize the trouble they have got into. After opening a truck door they discover they were not smuggling merchandise, rather they were smuggling people.
Crime, Drama
Detective Chief Inspector Gregory from Scotland Yard, and his partner, Sergeant Conway, are called in to investigate the shotgun murder of a woman at Rosehill Cottage, a remote Surrey cottage. The victim appears to be Ann Rogers, wife of womanising artist Howard Rogers. Her face is so badly disfigured by the two shotgun blasts that it is hard to be sure of her identity.
Mysterie, mystery film
Charlie postpones his trip home from service with the government to Honolulu to help with the investigation of murder involving Number One Daughter (Frances Chan) and an easily spooked chauffeur (Mantan Moreland). Mr. William Bonner is murdered in the middle of a seance with a total of 8 witnesses, seen and unseen, present.
Crime, Noir
An obsessive California lawman (Barry Sullivan) chases an escaped fugitive (Vittorio Gassman) through the Louisiana bayou.
Crime, Drama
A young hoodlum becomes enamored of a college coed in this tale of five longtime friends in Providence, R.I.
Crime, Drama
thumb|left|thumbtime=15|The Blackbird (1926) A title card introduces the setting as London's Limehouse district, "with its lust, greed and love, a sea of fog, a drama of human faces.” A cheap music hall is overseen by the tough Dan Tate, who also manages a small gang of thieves under the alias "The Blackbird." As a cover, though, Tate also poses as his own deformed and noble twin brother, affectionately known as the "Bishop of Limehouse," who supposedly lives above an adjoining mission for the poor. When police arrive at the mission and accuse The Blackbird of robbery, he offers the alibi that he had been sleeping in his room and goes to…
Crime, thriller film
Sam Higgins alights at the train station for the Welsh village of Tan-Y-Bwlch to take over the North Stack lighthouse, which is believed by the locals to be haunted. There, he meets Alice Bright. She asks him to take her along to the lighthouse, explaining that she belongs to a "psychic society" and wants to investigate the "legend of the phantom lighthouse".
Adventure, Crime, Treasure hunt
Comedy, Crime, fantasy film
Peter lands a job at a big New York City newspaper and while on assignment gets framed for a murder. Arriving in New York City with dreams of being a star reporter, Peter has to begin as a harried copy boy. Luckily, he is able to find a small apartment in the Little Italy section that has an attached stable for Francis.
Drama, exploitation film, teen film
Joyce Martin is a transfer student at her new school. On her first day, she is sized up by the leader of the Hellcats, Connie. For her first test of initiation, Joyce is tricked into wearing slacks to school even though it is verboten by school policy.
Drama
A policeman's corrupt partner is killed by a hitman. The policeman gets involved with the criminal gang responsible for the killing in order to seek revenge and to bring down the gang's boss.
Crime, Mysterie
Drama
The elderly Morgan-Vaughan sisters Gertrude, Maude and Isobel live in a decaying and claustrophobic mansion in a Welsh mining village. Gertrude is blind, Maude is almost deaf and Isobel is crippled by arthritis. The coalmine from which the family made their fortune is almost worked out, and its tunnels and shafts are dangerously unstable.
Crime, Drama
Eddie Miller (Robert Forster) is a traveling salesman, servicing towns in Pennsylvania.
Crime, Drama
An innocent young woman arrives in London looking for work and walks into an ambush, in which gangsters knife an accomplice who has cheated them. The wounded man staggers with her to a cheap hotel, where he dies after begging her to tell his brother at The Green Cockatoo club. Going there, she is followed by police and hides in an upstairs room.
Crime, spy film
A brilliant scientist suffering from amnesia is hunted by Communist agents in search of a secret formula.
Crime
"Shorty" Matthews, having recently been released from prison, visits his girlfriend in London, only to discover that she has been murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit, he disappears among the long-distance lorry-driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, an unassuming ex-schoolteacher named Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women.
Crime Comedy
A teenage girl, her boyfriend and her uncle, face off against a pair of burglars.