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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 238.
Crime, Noir
A narcotics agent convinces a convict he helped send to Alcatraz to go undercover with him to help expose a heroin drug smuggling ring. The unlikely pair travels from San Francisco to Vancouver and finally to a dude ranch in Tucson which is run by mob bosses. They end up getting help breaking the case from the gang leader's girlfriend (Winters), who falls for the narcotics agent during the sting.
Drama, Noir
Mary Adams is a waitress in a waterfront bar run by a man who had swindled her father years before. One night, she climbs in the man's bedroom window and steals $25,000 from under his pillow. The police arrive the next morning, and to escape pursuit and the reprisal of the bar-owner, she confesses to the crime.
Crime, Drama
A private detective is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping tycoon who is suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships in order to claim the insurance money.
Crime
Private investigator Scott Weston makes a living investigating other people's lives. A businessman, Clay Reynolds hires him to follow his wife, Anne because Clay suspects that she might be unfaithful. Scott falls in love with Anne.
Crime, Mysterie, neo-noir
In 1955, a toy salesman and his wife turn a business trip into a brief vacation by planning to visit Disneyland, which has just opened. They stay at the Sunset Motel in Anaheim, California, where affairs and sexual crimes among the motel guests and staff quickly develop and cause trouble.
Crime
College football hero John Hawks lets himself be goaded by wealthy socialite Alison Corning into forgoing a job coaching the college team to be "a real man, and make real money" in the big city with her father, Stephen Corning, on Wall Street. He soon has more than he can stomach, making money by bilking the poor out of their meager savings with junk bonds. Mr.
comedy thriller, Crime, Crime Comedy, thriller film
Clarence is an awkward young man in love with a bartender named Alex. Despite frequenting the bar multiple times and enduring an awkward encounter, Alex doesn’t seem to notice him, partly because she is preoccupied with her ongoing divorce proceedings. To get her attention, Clarence enlists the help of Patrick, a patron at another bar known for his ability to charm any woman he wants.
Crime, Mysterie
Zarnoff, an international spy in the employ of "The Three Powers" (presumably a fictionalized reference to the Axis) is captured by Dick Tracy at the start of the serial, tried and sentenced to death. However, through the use of a rare drug embedded by his agents in the evening newspaper, he escapes from the gas chamber. His men pick up his "corpse" by ambushing the hearse and administering another drug to counter the effects.
Action, Crime, Drama
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Dirt Merchant is a young man who struggles finding a job after getting fired from the mailroom at a record company where he dreamed of becoming assistant director. Eventually he becomes a summons server but gets in trouble when a rock star overdoses and he is framed for murdering him. He has to solve the case and deal with his feelings for his ex-girlfriend Angie while also dealing with the rock star's porn star girlfriend Holly So Tightly.
Crime, Drama, Noir
A private detective is pursued by both police and a mysterious killer.
Crime
The film starts with a junkie going to buy some drugs from a dealer. It then flashes forward to the present to show that the junkie is actually an undercover police officer who is seeing a therapist. It then flashes back even further into the past to show that the police officer is Detective Sergeant Daniel Miller.
Crime, Drama
Jessica Wells is a beautiful and talented actress, returning to the stage after a three-year absence. Although her triumphal return seems certain, family and friends are shocked when Vance, her long-lost husband with a criminal past, shows up at the family home. He immediately exerts his influence on the vivacious Jessica, and she becomes a sleepwalking automaton blindly obeying orders.
Drama
On a cold winter's night outside Happy's Nightclub, Irish-American police officer Ryan chats with African-American doorman Tim Washington, who is worried about his critically ill wife. Inside, club owner Happy is arguing with his shrewish but glamorous wife Jill and welcoming frequent customers Ed Powell, a crooked gambler, and Michael Rand. Rand is a wealthy college boy who watched his mother kill his father after catching him with another woman, a case widely covered by the tabloids.
neo-noir
After a mysterious year-long absence, Samuel Kim (Sung Kang) returns to Los Angeles determined to find redemption from the past. His mentor and only friend, Don Osa (Tom Bower), is a retired gangster with a parallel desire to leave the former world behind. But as Sam tries to balance revenge with reconciliation, he is drawn back to the shadowy world he left behind.
Crime
Journalist Rex Banner finds his friend Gospel Joe murdered. In the corpse's hand is a newspaper cutting about a jewel robbery. When Banner realises he is being framed for the murder, with the aid of his wife he sets out to find the real murderer and at the same time get a good story.
Crime, Drama, Heist, Noir
Five men carry out an elaborate plan to rob a gold shipment from a San Francisco-bound US mint train. To throw the police off the track, they split up and drive off in three different directions. Two of the gang's gold-laden trucks are captured by the police, but the third makes it all the way to Los Angeles, where Eddie (Raymond) melts down the gold and disguises it as fittings for his luxury car.
Crime
Crime
Aboard a ship, newspaper reporter Jim Moore falls for passenger Sandy Vantine and meets her uncle Paul, who is in possession of a small wooden chest that he believes could be a copy made by the mysterious Black Parrot, a notorious art forger. Scotland Yard inspector Colonel Piggott is also aboard, presumably on the Parrot's tail. Jim proposes to Sandy and meets her relatives and family acquaintances.
Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Drama, Political Thriller
Rosario Saracini, a judge and chief prosecutor of Siena, is about to retire and receives an old film in Super 8 format, which was shot years earlier. The film contains footage of Moro's kidnapping which took place in via Fani, Rome, in April 1978. Saracini reveals this secret to his colleague, Fernanda Doni, and his bodyguard, Branco.
Crime, Drama
Attorney Hugh Allison is appointed Special Prosecutor to investigate and strike down gangster John "Czar" Martin's racketeering scheme in the trucking industry. This is Martin's first step in controlling New York's produce market. However, Alison is unable to get testimony from witnesses because of Martin's brutal coercion.
Crime, documentary film, Documentation, Drama
Takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.
docudrama, thriller film
After serving time for the attempted murder of his first wife, the main character, a doctor, begins plotting to kill his second.
Crime, Drama, prison film, romance film, trial film
Joe Bell (John Garfield) becomes embittered after he is jailed for 16 months for a burglary he did not commit. Later, while riding in a boxcar with two brothers, he gets into a fight with a robber (played by an uncredited Ward Bond) and is sentenced to a work farm for 90 days. There, he becomes friends with Mabel Alden (Priscilla Lane), which displeases Charles Garreth (Stanley Ridges), her stepfather and the farm's foreman.