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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 243.
Crime, Science fiction
The inventor of a burglar alarm attempts to get back at the man who stole the profits to his invention (Hinds) before he goes blind. The device is then subverted by gangsters who apply pressure to the inventor and use his device to facilitate burglaries.
Crime
William Fitch is a seedy lawyer who finds himself marked for assassination by a forger whom he previously defended unsuccessfully. He teams up with an incompetent solicitor to try to prevent the deaths of others involved. The film climaxes with a sequence where Fitch hangs from the hands of the clock face of Big Ben in an attempt to prevent a time bomb being detonated.
Crime
A cargo ship unloads a clutch of nondescript wooden cases onto the nighttime London docks. A fracas is instigated, and in the ensuing chaos a shady figure makes off with one of its crates. A man watching it all from a distance, Paul A.
Crime, Drama
Lonnie Wilson, the son of sharecropper Zuba Wilson, returns to his small southern hometown of Clinton, Louisiana after spending six years on a chain gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son Davey in an automobile accident. He revives his love affair with Melinda Marquand, who married Dr. Ned Thomas while Lonnie was serving time for the accident that she had actually caused.
Crime, thriller film
Kojak is on a new case, the bodies of two young boys are found in the Harlem river. Their mother (Kate Nelligan) is the main obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past, but Kojak believes that she is innocent. Soon afterward the boys' father (Pat Hingle) kills himself.
Crime, Drama, prison film, Romantic drama
A young adolescent Bobby (Gary McCleery) decides to accompany his brother along for a drive in his vehicle. While on this venture, associates of his sibling steal from a drugstore and kill a police officer who was investigating the break-in. The suspects are apprehended, and the protagonist is found guilty of the crime and jailed for his actions.
Crime, Drama
A woman enlists the help of two friends in avenging the abuse her girlfriend has suffered at the hands of an ill-tempered husband.
Crime, mystery film
Charlie Chan is attending a police convention in New York City; he is an intended murder victim here, but avoids death by chance. To find his would-be-killer(s), Charlie must outguess police reps from both Scotland Yard and New York City Police.
Crime, Drama
Ricky Flint dreams of escaping working-class Bethnal Green, where he works in a cigarette factory and shares a crowded terraced house with his middle-aged parents Matt and Lil; his pregnant sister Betsy, who soon gives birth; and Betsy's husband Jim. In order to get the money to leave, Ricky agrees to help a local gangster, Jack Ellerman, to rob the cigarette factory, and also gets Jim, a lorry driver hoping to buy an expensive transport licence, to join the plot. Ricky finds himself attracted to Catherine "Cat" Donovan, who has been dating Charlie Batey, another member of Jack's gang.
Crime, Drama
Crime, Drama
An American returns for a reunion in the United Kingdom, where he served as a pilot during the Second World War, but finds himself framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Comedy drama
Set in Cuba in 1958, the last year of Fulgencio Batista regime, the plot revolves around a boy who is torn between his friendship with a blonde American named Julia and the strife facing his family as a result of the revolution and turmoil in their nation.
Crime, Drama, Noir, Police Film
A union official named Blane is framed for the murder of another union official. The crime syndicate actually responsible for the killing is free to continue its activities. District Attorney Jim Fremont's plan to run for governor can be helped by a conviction of Blane, but thanks to Blane's fiancée Laura Barton he begins to suspect that Blane has been set up, launching a new investigation.
Crime, Drama, Noir
A young Puerto Rican-American named Miguel (played by John Saxon) returns to his home in a poor section of Harlem, determined to leave his life of gang involvement behind. However, his father (played by Joseph Calleia) still sees him as a hoodrat delinquent, which motivates Miguel to prove he can change. As he struggles to resist the temptation of returning to crime and earn his father’s respect, he also tries to win over Sarita (played by Linda Cristal), an undocumented immigrant.
Action
US Customs agent Alex Brooks uncovers the plot of Russian arms dealers who planned to smuggle nerve gas into the U.S. In order to avoid publicity, the boss of the small customs station in Alaska decides that the dangerous barrels should be sent to a safe compound by train. Meanwhile, a Russian General turned terrorist who is responsible for the smuggling, Simeonov, is being delivered via plane to Washington until a group of his henchmen rescue him.
Crime
After inviting guests to a dinner party the ruthless press baron Lord Studholme is found murdered during a party game. The investigating detectives have to work out which of the guests had the motive to murder him.
thriller film
Cactus is a road movie centred on a kidnapping. Plot The movie begins with John Kelly pulling Eli Jones (David Lyons) from his city residence, drugging him and driving across regional Australia for three days. On the journey, John and Eli begin to interact and talk, as well as having a run-in with a rogue cop and encountering "Thommo", a trucker.
Crime, Drama, Romantic drama
Loosely based on the true story about Laura Upthegrove and John Ashley. Laura's mother, Emma Upthegrove tells the story of her daughter and John Ashley. John goes into a life of crime after he accidentally shoots a Seminole, Desoto Tiger.
Neshoba explores the history and changing racial attitudes of Neshoba County, Mississippi four decades after the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner during Freedom Summer. The film captures the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who granted the filmmakers "extraordinary access".
Horror
Joe Saxon (Joe Bardo) is an aspiring actor whose outlandish parties and spending worry his wife, Liz (Liz Renay). In another scene, we see a young, Greek immigrant named Dennis Kesdekian (Atlas King) kisses his wife and family good-bye as he leaves for another day at work. Kesdeckian sees a hitchhiker (Steckler) and offers to give him a ride.
Drama
The Shadow in The Whispering Shadow is an underworld mastermind. He has invented a device that allows him to kill by radio control. He, along with several other persons, seeks the Czar's jewels.
crime thriller film
A number of people, the last Westerners in Shanghai, are interned in a hotel by Major Ling Wu and his men. The Chinese government refuses to let anyone go until identifying a spy in their midst. When an assassin named Sun Lee breaks into the hotel and tries to kill one of the hostages, Dan Maynard, a doctor, and Knuckles Greer, a sailor, manage to intervene.
Crime, mystery film
Lamont Cranston, alias The Shadow, has to clear his name of the murder of a blackmailing newspaper reporter by solving the crime himself.
thriller film
The family of Tom Williams takes a vacation in California and is later kidnapped by Eddie, his girlfriend Lonnie and Franklin Ross. They want 1.2 million dollars.