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Crime, Noir
Gangster Joe Farrow kills a man after a game of craps. He offers gambler Marc Fury $50,000 if he will take the rap and stand trial. When Farrow tries to renege on the payment, Fury steals a ledger with information that could implicate Farrow.
Crime
Magda Doon, who works at a luxury Bond Street dress shop, is murdered. It turns out that the poison which killed her was in fact intended for her unpopular colleague Agnes Gregory. Detective Charlesworth investigates, finding that every member of the staff seems to have something to hide.
Crime
Horror, Noir
Attorney Wayne Fletcher intends to divorce his wife and marry his secretary, who comes from a wealthy family. When the wife is found suffocated to death, he naturally becomes the suspect. As others are killed in the same manner and a phony medium also claims Fletcher is guilty, Fletcher begins to imagine his dead wife is communicating with him, making it even more difficult for him to prove his innocence.
Crime, Drama
A telephone line repairman named Joe Graham lives in Los Angeles. One night, he is offered a promotion, but declines, telling his boss that he is happy being a "trouble shooter" working out in the field, solving problems. Later, Joe's coworker and partner, Dan Sutter, cannot work the night shift, so Joe has to work with a new repairman called Casey, who has an aptitude for practical jokes.
Crime
A family of thieves plan a jewellery store robbery. One of them is the safecracking expert, and when he is arrested and jailed, they spring him from prison so he can take part in the job.
Noir
In an attempt to combat police corruption, newly graduated rookie cops are recruited to serve undercover to find information on a complex illegal betting network in Brooklyn. One of these officers, ex-Marine Pete Harris, formerly with Military Intelligence in Japan, is tasked to make the acquaintance of a woman whose husband was recently murdered by the Mob over gambling debts.
Crime, Drama
Drama
At the Penyon mansion, Bob Penyon gives his fiancée Joan Bradley a very valuable diamond necklace, a family heirloom. Rose Waverly telephones Clay Beaudine to let him know that the couple have just left with the necklace. Peter Rennick, the husband Joan thought was dead, would rather blackmail his wife, but Beaudine wants the necklace.
Crime, Drama
Starting with a wordless jewel heist pulled-off by thief Peter Curran and locksmith John Bain, Curran then double-crosses his accomplice, dumps his lover Gianna and escapes with his ill-gotten gains. In the aftermath Gianna teams up with Bain and the two of them decide to even the score with Curran, developing feelings for each other along the way.
Crime
Luigi, the owner of a Soho pin table saloon, is romancing an unhappily married socialite, Barbara Gale. He is accused of the murder of his former girlfriend Angela, who was found stabbed in his apartment. He evades the police and asks his friend Limpy for help, but Limpy is revealed to be Angela's killer.
Action, Crime, spy film, thriller film
Crime, Drama
Toni Bradley comes to New York from Iowa to take over her late father's business, most of which involved gambling. Her father's former associates plan to take the business away from her but with the help of one of them, Steve Gordon who changes sides and a songwriter, Pinky Tomlin, she manages to fight back.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Margie Moore, a miserable San Francisco woman, turns in desperation to jewel robbery. She narrowly escapes apprehension in a heist and moves to Los Angeles, where she takes an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles resume when she falls in love with smooth-talking Mitch Foster, who reveals his true colors by stealing all of her money and then informing the authorities about her.
Action, Crime, Drama, girls with guns, thriller film
Sophie Zen has master-minded a bank robbery. What she doesn't know is that one of her crew, Seth George, is an undercover cop. George is a maverick; even his police bosses don't know whether he's still on their side, and the undercover man is starting to fall for Sophie...
mockumentary
At the very beginning of the film, Bill Gates (played by Gates double Steve Sires) walks onto the stage of the pavilion in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, California on Thursday, December 2, 1999, to give a check for one million dollars to "Literacy For Life" as part of the "Bill Gates Foundation." (The filmmakers intentionally avoided mentioning Gates' family members in the film; thus, they refrain from naming the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.) Upon reaching the stage, Gates is shot dead by a sniper, first in the right shoulder, then the head. While chasing after the unknown sniper through an abandoned building, a rookie police officer…
Crime, Drama, musical film
In antebellum Louisiana in 1854, young orphan Timothy Reid Jr. inherits a plantation and its slaves. However, lawyer Martin Dill is made the executor of the estate.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Upon seeing his mother Linda terrorized by three thugs, young Petey (Jerry Mathers) is traumatized and wanders off. Truck drivers find him and the boy is taken to police headquarters, where he is recognized as the son of detective Tony Atlas (Philip Carey). Petey is in shock and cannot even recognize his dad, much less explain what happened.
Action, Crime
The city is terrorized by a crime wave masterminded by the elusive, soft-spoken Professor Mortis (Ralph Morgan) from his base in a forgotten cavern beneath the rails of the city's subway line. He declares over the radio that The League of Murdered Men will exact revenge upon the city unless all the city officials, especially the mayor and Chief of Police, are turned out of office. Mortis's gang members were officially pronounced dead in prison after having supposedly committed suicide (in reality taking a drug that suspended animation) but later revived by medical genius Mortis, who recruited them to do his bidding.
Crime, Detective, Drama
John Brent is an executive, working under Charles Standish at the London head office of a shipping company. His marriage is in trouble because he is always short of money; his wife Nicole, certain he is spending it on another woman, leaves him and takes up with Clive Lang, a decorator they have hired. What Brent's employer does not know is that his real name is John Wilson and he was once imprisoned for embezzlement.
Crime, thriller film
The film, which has many humorous moments, is set in Berlin, and concerns a burnt-out (and somewhat corrupt) police detective Alex Glass (Armin Mueller-Stahl), and his glamorous new assistant, Shirley May (), who are on the trail of a drug ring, the leader of which, Miskowski (Frank Stallone), is suspected of several murders. First is a 16-year old ballet dancer Ines Berger (Constanze Rahn) who has been killed with a heroin overdose. The second is Monica (Allegra Curtis), stepdaughter of his old friend, police prosecutor Michael Carstens (Michael York).
Crime Comedy, Heist, romantic comedy
A thief, Reese Halperin, and his accomplice, computer expert Norman Barrie, devise a scheme to break into a Vancouver bank. While carrying out the bank's blueprints, Reese is inadvertently photographed by Stacey Bishop, who is taking pictures for the bank's advertising campaign. Reese and Stacey meet, and, complicating the burglary somewhat, fall in love.
Crime
A gang of dwarves team up with a gangster's mistress, played by Angel Tompkins, to go on a crime spree.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
An American insurance executive seeks vengeance for the death of his wife and child in Ireland.