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Crime, Drama, independent film
After his father dies, Esper Harte learns that he may collect on his father's insurance. However, his mother and a crooked cop want to get rid of him so that they can take the money. Desperate to escape their problems, Esper and his girlfriend, Donna Huffman, decide to cook their own methamphetamine.
Crime, Drama
During Boys' Week at racially integrated North High School, students Steve Smith, Gus Ruffo and Billy Anderson are elected to temporarily hold the city offices of district attorney, judge and chief of police. After Jewish tailor Herman refuses to pay protection money to Louis Garrett, Garrett's gang bombs his store. Herman and the student who was with him survive the blast, but Herman is later murdered by Garrett after he again refuses to pay.
Action, Crime, mystery film
When millionaire Jimmy Pewter names model Della Dainton as his sole beneficiary, she decides to murder him with the help of her lover Victor Palentine. They kill Pewter and make it seem like an accident, but PC49 and his girlfriend Joan smell a rat. After gathering some evidence against Palantine, Joan is kidnapped but later found in Palantine's car and rescued by PC49.
Crime, Drama
A leading American lawyer travels to a village in England to help an old friend from the Second World War who is facing a charge of murder.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
During her divorce, Dr. Lila Coletti (Gina Gershon), a criminal psychiatrist, loses custody of her two daughters, partially because her job working with the criminally insane is dangerous. At about the same time, a supposedly cured psychopathic patient, Ed Baikman (Sean Patrick Flanery), is released.
Crime, mystery film, thriller film
Charlie Chan and Number One Son, Lee, are passengers aboard a commercial airliner headed for San Francisco. Also on board are two insurance couriers who are carrying a shipment of $250,000. Minutes after drinking coffee that was served, everyone on board the plane falls asleep, including the crew.
Action, Crime, Mysterie
Jonathan Anselme, a young English academic, teams up with Max Böhm, an amateur ornithologist, to follow storks on their migration from Switzerland to Africa. Max wants to find out why some birds never return from this journey. However, after Max is found dead in mysterious circumstances, Jonathan decides to make the trip alone, never suspecting that he will find himself caught up in an international web of intrigue.
Crime, Drama
American archeologist Howard Stevens recovers the ancient crown of the Queen of Sheba; the priceless artifact is shipped to the San Francisco Museum. Ostensibly on vacation, Mr. Moto shows up to guard the crown from a notorious master thief, whom everyone assumes is dead.
Gangster Film
Saving God follows ex-convict turned pastor Armstrong Cane (Ving Rhames) as he returns to his family neighborhood to preach. As he attempts to rebuild the now crime-ridden area, he also tries to help a young drug dealer named Norris (Dwain Murphy) turn his life around.
romance film
In 1931 Paris, Nicole Picot, a model for a fashionable dress shop, is hired by nearly-penniless Stefan Orloff to help persuade a financier to fund his ambitious plans. By 1934, Stefan has established an investment bank; in gratitude, he provides the capital that Nicole needs to set up her own business as successful dress designer (though she insists on paying him back). Her friend Suzanne warns Nicole against Stefan, saying this will all end badly, but Nicole doesn't listen.
Crime
Seeking vengeance for newspaper articles written about him, crooked Soho nightclub owner "The Duke" kidnaps crime reporter Jack Moir and frames him for theft. While serving a two-year prison sentence Moir plots his revenge and, upon release, embarks on a scheme to clear his name.
Crime
Simon "The Saint" Templar finds a dead man on his doorstep. Soon the ace investigator finds himself mired in more murder, smuggling and a South American mine.
Crime, Drama
A #12 double-decker bus headed for Harlesden drives through London and stops in Shepherd's Bush. An elderly man disembarks and is mugged by a young man in an alley. At the Adam and Eve Club, where girls perform erotic dances on stage, club lobby car mechanic and petty criminal Terry Collins speaks with Joe Lucas at the outer bar and asks to see the owner, gangster Jacko Fielding, who is with his main girl, Sue.
Crime
Inspector Sparrow is a provincial detective. When crooks accidentally kill a shop cashier while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works, Sparrow takes his annual leave and works on the case unofficially. He successfully tracks down the criminals and turns them over to Scotland Yard.
Crime, giallo, Horror
Craig Mannings (Michael Moriarty) is a respected doctor living in the United States, who begins to experience strange visions of women being murdered. Before long, he begins to suspect that these visions are the result of a psychic connection with his twin brother Keith (also Michael Moriarty), who supposedly died in a house fire in Cleveland at the age of 17, but who is now engaged in a murder spree. Recognizing the scenery in one of the visions, Craig travels to Hamburg, Germany to find and stop his brother, over the protests of his girlfriend Julie Warren (Penelope Milford).
Action, Crime, Drama
Crime, Drama
thumb|The full film A busker playing a violin is harassed by a group of street punks until Police Officer Mehaffy (Paul Hurst) chases them away. The intoxicated violinist passes out. When Mehaffy is about to arrest him for vagrancy the powerful Mahlon Keane (Robert Armstrong) places $50 in the violinist's pocket and has the officer place him in the next taxi where Keane will pay for a night's accommodation at the YMCA for him to sleep it off.
thriller film
David Garrett is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, working on tracking Russian rocket launches. He meets up with an old mentor and friend, Frank Melnicker, who is playing multiple games of chess at a display of simultaneous play at a temperance hall. Garrett is confused by the apparently secretive way that one player, Richter, transfers the knight chess piece to Melnicker.
Crime, Drama
Maggie Rohrer (Lorraine Bracco) is a seductive con-artist scamming the rich in Miami Beach. When she picks the wrong mark, Jack Shanks (Christopher Walken), he blackmails her into working with him on the ultimate scam in Jamaica. He wants to use her talents in a much bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files.
crime thriller film
Mikki Levy is stunned when he's granted an early release from an Israeli prison, and he soon moves in with his uncle in New York City. Unfortunately, he eventually becomes embroiled in a conflict with the Russian mob, which elicits memories of the lengths he went to in order to survive in prison.
Crime
Crime
Following the infamous tragedy in Waco, Texas, in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (A.T.F.) found themselves in a battle with an armed militia, the organization, led by director Maggie Hale (Kathy Baker), finds itself in a new fight. Agent Robyn O'Brien (Amy Brenneman) goes undercover to infiltrate a militia selling illegal street-sweeper guns, dismissing Hale's orders to stay away. When O'Brien gets held prisoner inside the militia's compound, the A.T.F.
Crime, Drama, Mysterie, mystery film
The opening credits roll over images of a father playing with his young son in a wood and sailing a toy yacht on a pond. We then jump to Liverpool during the Blitz in the Second World War. A woman (it is implied she is a prostitute) tells a man she is pregnant, then he goes home to see his wife and children.
Crime
Lawyer Brad Walker is having a bad day. His girlfriend Sasha has left him for a mate of his. And he's lost his job.