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Drama
The movie presents life in a prison where men are on death row. Some of them are wrongfully accused and convicted; there is nothing in their future but the electric chair. Richard Walters is condemned to death for a crime he claims he did not commit.
Crime, Drama
A federal agent falls in love while on assignment in Mississippi. He helps his lover escape a local thug, and follows them to Harlem where they become involved in the assassination of a Cuban racketeer.
Crime, mystery film
Hired to deliver a valuable necklace for Sally Jordon, a wealthy Honolulu resident for whom Charlie Chan had worked as a houseboy decades earlier, the detective shows up at the desert ranch estate of P.J. Madden, posing as a servant. In his servant guise, Charlie monitors the comings and goings of a number of suspects as it becomes apparent that a murder has taken place at the Madden estate.
Crime
Dick Tracy and his allies find themselves up against a villain known as The Ghost, with the impossible ability of becoming invisible.
Crime, Drama
A train driver on his last journey before retirement thinks his fireman is having an affair with his wife. The driver intends to kill himself and his passengers by crashing the train. The train is filled with colourful characters, including a psychoanalyst who persuades the driver not to do it.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama
Jesse Crowder is hired by the wife and brother of a fugitive named Pickens, who is on the run because he had just robbed a bank, and uses this money to embezzle it, where from Crowder decides to take the case and follows the fugitive from Los Angeles to San Francisco, California. Pickens is on the run with his girlfriend Candy. Crowder pursues his targets by following small clues, while causing a whole mess of trouble with a gangster named Bernie.
Crime, Western
Crime, Drama
Baxter Grant, an American soldier in West Berlin, deserts and goes on the run when faced with false drug trafficking and murder charges. He takes shelter with cabaret singer Lilli Hoffman, whom he manages to persuade to help prove his innocence.
Crime
Mild-mannered bank clerk Geoffrey Dent is persuaded by his nagging, gold-digging girlfriend, Laura, to embezzle money. When an attempt is made on Laura's life, Geoffrey runs away with the cash to avoid being blamed. With the killer and a detective hot on his heels, Geoffrey hides out in a Cheltenham boarding house, where he becomes the murderer's next intended victim.
Crime
Police Sgt. Whitey Brandon works for the Vice Squad and is determined to beat corruption in the city. He encounters Carol Hudson who is working as a model.
Crime, Noir
Vaudeville dancers Tom Quinn and his wife Ann are barely getting by on her job at a dance hall. He anxiously awaits her return from work, where she is often delayed by a generously tipping customer she calls "Santa Claus", who turns out to be police detective Clint Judd. Depressed and anxious, Tom impulsively throws his only pair of tap dancing shoes at howling cats outside his window.
Crime
Crime, Noir
When loner Bill Jackson prevents a robbery at the bar where he works, the ensuing media attention reveals that he is actually Richard Kinkaid, a fugitive wanted in connection with a 12-year-old murder case. Public defender Paul Bennett believes that Kinkaid is innocent but lacks fresh evidence to solidify his case. With an innocent man's freedom in the balance, Bennett must find and interview the crime's original seven witnesses.
Mysterie, mystery film
Bela Lugosi stars as Mr. Wong, a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr.
Crime, independent film
Crime
We pick up the story when the editor of the New York Chronicle sits on New Year's Eve 1923 awaiting news on the theft of legendary Mrs. Reginald Thorndyke's jewelry, a bracelet worth about $50,000. Meanwhile, Tom Gaynor, Captain of the Detective Bureau, finds out that the jewel thief in fact is none other than the notorious Harry "Heliotrope" Melton.
Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, thriller film
A typical suburban couple are actually working for the Mob. Tom Harrison (Don Murray) runs a company manufacturing toys, but in reality he travels the country secretly acquiring companies in order to launder the tremendous profits of The Syndicate. His picture perfect wife, Eve (Inger Stevens), is an ex hooker/junkie who was assigned to him for "cover".
Crime, Drama
The film follows three friends, a cop, a priest and a kid from the neighborhood who wants to handle the family business. Then a man named Philly enters the picture and suddenly things become difficult.
Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Drama, Family Drama
An ex-member of the French Foreign Legion holds the German government responsible for the death of his family and goes on a killing spree to stop the operation of a nuclear plant. The police are helpless and so the ex-instructor of the killer is brought to Germany to hunt the killer down.
Crime, Drama
Crime, Drama
Crime
John Marsden is conducting an affair with Frenchwoman Michele Cartier, but their hopes that his wealthy invalid wife will soon die are thwarted by her recovery. Pressured by his lover, Marsden begins planning a perfect crime to murder his wife at the family home while he is supposed to be sailing on his yacht between Newhaven and Le Havre in Normandy. However, his hopes of getting clean away from the crime are threatened by the persistent investigations of Detective Inspector Walker.
Action, Crime, spy film, thriller film
In 1972, an abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from The Washington Post. Dzerzhinsky holds explosive evidence against the CIA; information he will trade for asylum in the United States.
Crime, Noir
The Office of Dependency Benefits, O.D.B., is a U.S. government agency in charge of payment and financial support to women who have husbands serving in World War II. Even after the war, the office still handles all these issues.