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Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 259.

Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)

Crime

Diane Parrish is impatient for the sale of her statue of Augustus Caesar, as she needs the money to help her sick brother. Joe Buchanan, one of the art dealers handling the auction, asks her to stay away, claiming that an emotional attachment to the work might cause her to make a scene. She shows up anyway, and notices that the statue is not hers, but a fake.

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The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)

Crime, Drama

Tom Lawrence, known to the police as the "amateur detective" The Falcon, is enjoying his vacation at the Hollywood Park Racetrack. There he meets an old nemesis, paroled mobster Louie Buchanan -- the Falcon's testimony in court convicted him. Local police inspector McBride greets the Falcon suspiciously, and two strange women impose upon the suave sleuth, resulting in one stealing a purse from the other.

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The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943)

Crime, Drama

Jane Harris, a student at the Bluecliff Seminary for Girls, asks Tom Lawrence, aka the Falcon, for his help to investigate a death predicted by her unstable roommate, Marguerita Serena, a clairvoyant. Professor Jamison has recently died, with uncertainty as to whether it was suicide or homicide. The Falcon gets a ride from town to the seminary with the three daughters of the caretaker, the "Ughs", by the school driver.

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Urge to Kill (1960)

thriller film

While making her way home from the cinema one night in a particularly grey and drab town, a young woman is murdered in an unusually brutal and sadistic manner. Local suspicion immediately falls on Hughie, a strangely behaved and not very bright local youth who has a habit of wandering aimlessly around the town at all hours randomly collecting stray bits and pieces, with a particular fondness for broken glass – which unfortunately for Hughie happens to have been one of the weapons used in the fatal attack. Hughie lives in the lodging house run by his aunt, along with a selection of boarders including a kindly elderly gent with a penchant…

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Already Dead (2007)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Thomas Archer (Ron Eldard), a disconsolate man, is led to an underground room by a distorted male voice on his mobile phone. In flashback it is shown that his wife had been attacked and his son killed for no apparent reason. When he reaches the underground room he finds a man hooded and tied to a chair and told by the distorted voice that this is the man responsible for the attacks.

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The Finger Points (1931)

Crime, Drama

Breckenridge "Breck" Lee (Richard Barthelmess) is a young, naïve kid from the South who comes to a big city to get a job as a newspaperman. After getting hired by The Press, his first assignment is to expose the existence of a newly opened gambling parlor. Gangster Louis J.

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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)

Crime, Drama

Molly Louvain is a young woman who has a baby out of wedlock. She falls in with a career criminal and, after he is shot by police, she hides out with a former bellhop who wants to marry her and make her "respectable." But, instead, she falls in love with Scotty Cornell, a fast-talking cynical newspaper reporter, who does not realize that she is, in fact, the very gun moll that he has been writing about in his columns. As she is about to go to prison, he discovers her identity, but pledges to stick by her nevertheless.

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These Dangerous Years (1957)

Crime, Drama, musical film

Tough gang leader and wannabe rock star Dave Wyman, from the slums of Liverpool, gets called up for National Service. He undergoes basic training, finds the discipline surprisingly suits him, and emerges stronger. When his best friend from training is killed by the camp bully, Dave takes revenge, and eventually ends up marrying his singing partner.

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Birds of Prey (1930)

Crime, Drama, mystery film

At his country estate, Arthur Hilton is regaling his dinner guests with his exploits as a police officer decades earlier in Africa. He keys in a case where he had to track down a gang of three men who were suspected of a series of murders. He comes across them, but they end up capturing him.

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The Riverside Murder (1935)

Crime

Robert Norman is shot dead at his home. Inspector Winton arrives on the scene to investigate the murder and finds that it has occurred shortly before an important meeting between a group of five financiers of whom Norman was one. Budding journalist Claire Haines also manages to talk her way into the house in an attempt to impress her editor by gathering exclusive news on the murder.

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They Gave Him a Gun (1937)

Crime, Drama

A young man named Jimmy unexpectedly becomes a World War I hero by killing all the Germans in a machine gun nest. But he is severely wounded, and spends time in a hospital being cared for by a nurse, Rose, with whom he falls in love. But she is really in love with Jimmy's buddy, Fred, a carnival barker.

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Repo Jake (1990)

Action, Crime

Jake Baxter, an ex-Marine and a former racer, moves from Minnesota to Los Angeles, California, to earn money as a repo man, hoping to make at least $60,000 in three months in order to pay off his lot that is to be repossessed. He stops a thief from stealing the purse of Jenny, an aspiring actress, and the two have dinner. Working for a repo company managed by a man named Bulldog, Jake meets his co-workers, who include Jam, Lippy, Blondie, Amos, Waldo, and Skidmark.

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