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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 235.
Crime, Drama
After a dice game one night in the Oklahoma oil town of Richfield, out-of-work engineer Buzz Doyle is broke. Another gambler, Reno Sebastian, has been cleaned out too, but hostess Terry Miller tips them off that her boss Walter Karns, the big winner, was cheating with loaded dice. Reno has a ranch and an oil well that has not yet produced.
romantic comedy
Switchboard operator Marie Lawson is conned by admirer Nicky, who tells her it is just a practical joke, into redirecting a phone call. However, Nicky uses what he learns to his own benefit, costing the intended recipient a lot of money. When the victim complains to Marie's boss, telephone repairmen Terry Riley and John are called in to see if the phone was tapped.
Drama, Gangster Film, Noir
Matt Brady comes home from World War I to a city where his older brother Tim is a political kingpin. Matt meets an old friend, Bob Herrick, but an argument leads to a fistfight. He ends up late for a date with Elsie Reynolds, who is furious.
Action Comedy, buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime
Crime, Mysterie, Social Drama
A rookie Los Angeles police officer, Chris O'Brien, is partnered with a hard-edged officer, Nora Hugosian. They develop a relationship at the same time that Hugosian is suspected of being a serial killer that is roaming the city.
Action, Crime
A Mexican drug lord escaped from prison to retrieve $15 million, but two cops (Sheldon Robins and Kristofferson) are sent after him.
Crime, docudrama, Drama, trial film
Undercover officers of the Boston Tactical Patrol Force (TPF) are instructed to watch for two tall black suspects in an earlier armed robbery. During their stakeout surveilling the presumed getaway car, officers Duggan (Michael O'Hare) and Mooney (Paul O'Brien) check their guns and joke about the upcoming violence. Reporter Dave O'Brian (Anthony Heald) and a photojournalist are in the back seat of the stakeout car to write an article about the TPF team, and they take detailed notes about what happens.
Crime, Drama
Molly McKinley, a former nun now employed, and grossly underfunded, as a rape counselor. A teenager named Sophie seeks out Molly's help after she is raped by the scion of a wealthy family. Refusing to release a confidential file that would reveal Sophie's past promiscuity, and thus seriously compromise her case against her assailant, Molly is sent to jail.
Crime, Drama, Noir
James Nevill, a financially ruined businessman, hires his boyhood friend Paul Kirby to kill him within five days so his wife Andrea can collect on his life insurance policy. Kirby refuses at first, but Nevill forces him to take the job by threatening to tell the police about a murder Kirby had committed years earlier. Nevill's business takes a sudden upswing however, and he changes his mind, but he must find Kirby (who has suddenly disappeared) and tell him to cancel the hit before Kirby gets to him first.
Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film
Action, thriller film
Colonel John Sykes orders his men to massacre a village where they were sent to rescue hostages, but decides to get payback when they find them dead. When Sykes returns to the U.S. to be court-martialed he is forced to make a plea agreement where he receives all the blame in order that his men will be honorably discharged and receive all of the benefits they are entitled to.
Crime, LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, thriller film
Late one night, Donald Strachey is meeting a new client in a dark alley—one Paul Hale. Hale is very nervous, and before Strachey can calm what seems like paranoia, an incoming van approaches. Hale hands the private eye a $5,000 check for a retainer just before the speeding van separates the two.
Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Romantic drama
A liberated woman tempts a local police officer into a romantic entanglement with tragic consequences.
Crime, Drama, hood film
Drug dealer, Flash (Dylan Duffus) receives a phone call from Angel (Yohance Watson) announcing that he is being released early from prison and wants the £500,000 he has left Flash for safekeeping during his incarceration. Flash is £100,000 short of the full amount and is pushed for time. Flash is forced to strike a deal with a rival gang member and drug dealer, Evil (Duncan Tobias) who more than lives up to his name.
Crime
In 1928 Chicago, two gangsters kill a store owner. Mobster Big Ed sends top henchman Bugsy Welch to place his trademark white carnation on the corpses to suggest that he is responsible for the murders. The police rush to arrest Big Ed, but he has an alibi: he has been in the park, where he encounters Ruth Manning, a country girl who came to Chicago to be a singer but is now a children's governess.
Crime, Noir
Told in flashback, the film recounts how gambler Harry Lane (Castle) ended up accused of murder: Returning from the war he took up his old job working for bookmaker Marty Floyd (Keane). Dispatched by his boss to deliver $20,000 to a contact in Las Vegas, he foolishly loses some of the money at the gambling tables, then loses the rest of it to a conman (Gaines). His attempts to recover the money result in him accidentally killing the conman.
Crime, Drama
Insurance salesman Ralph Hollio (Marjoe Gortner) gets arrested for heroin smuggling in Acapulco. Captain Carl Solborg (Robert Lansing) breaks him out of jail to get his help to sail a boat to Hawaii.
Action
In the post-World War II era, Michael, a big wheel in the organized crime world, and his head man Mickey Moran devise a plan to steal a shipment of uranium-238. The theft is a success, but one of their henchmen named Blackie is caught. Radar Patrol sends Bill Travis, head of its OX-3 division, to find more information about the stolen radioactive material.
Science fiction
Stanley Stanfield is the inventor of the Vanishing Ray, a wearable device which, when active, leaves only the user's shadow still visible. After meeting with fellow scientist, Carl Van Dorn, a prototype Ray is built. Stanley intends to sell bonds to finance his invention.
Crime, Science fiction
Detective Matthew Sikes and his Tenctonese partner George Francisco investigate a group of Tenctonese called the Eenos. The subplot involves Tenctonese binnaum Albert Einstein and his new bride May attempting to have a child (with George's help) -- a reversal of the Alien Nation episode "Three to Tango".
Ghost, Horror
Ghost hunter Carter Simms is offered $5,000 to stay a weekend in the Masterson house to investigate paranormal activity. The owner of the house also hires Colin Green as the videographer and Yvette Sandoval as a journalist. Together they set up equipment and begin searching for evidence of ghosts or paranormal activity.
Crime
Jake Winter is just released from prison, where he has been working undercover for an insurance company, in cooperation with the police. He is approached by Laura Vane who asks him to steal a letter from a blackmailer who has targeted her husband. At her apartment Winter is drugged, and on waking finds himself alone with the body of a woman.
Mysterie
Katherine Sullivan, a severe agoraphobic, witnesses the murder of her husband and speaks with the investigating detective. Then both the body and the detective disappear. Katherine hires private investigator Jack Mize to figure out, only Mize isn't so sure that Katherine's version of reality is the truth.
crime drama film
Two siblings are driven to heroic extremes by childhood trauma.