Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 264.
Crime, Drama
Illinois, 1876: Tom Muldoon turns up in the capital city of Springfield, telling an old acquaintance, undertaker John Langley, that he has just gotten out of prison in Joliet. He shows Langley a new $50 bill created by a counterfeiter who had been his cellmate. Muldoon proposes a scheme.
Drama
Buck Rankin is a shady carnival promoter who falls in love with Helen and decides to go straight and sell the carnival. However, a fight over a con game causes a melee at the carnival, during which Rankin accidentally kills a man. He is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Crime, Drama, romantic comedy
The scar-faced gangster Slade is on the loose. Lieutenant Bill Mason travels to a hotel in New York to try and track her down. In New York Lt.
Crime, Drama, romantic comedy
In this drama based on Rian James' novel, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a sophisticated Broadway gossip columnist. He finds himself smitten with Broadway starlet Frances Dee.
Crime
At the trial of the alleged killer of the city's mayor, fingerprint expert Jim Stover provides evidence that seems likely to seal the killer's conviction and execution. Stover strongly believes in the validity of fingerprint evidence but begins to harbor doubts about the guilt of the accused man. With the assistance of the dead mayor's daughter Carolyn, Stover starts his own investigation to discover whether the defendant is being framed.
Crime
Following a bitter row, writer Stephen Holt (Derek Farr) walks out on his wife Jan (Patricia Plunkett) and goes to drown his sorrows at a nightclub. A drunken Steve ends up returning home with the club's wily hostess, Grena (Joan Dowling). Just then Jan calls, and announces she is returning that night to the flat.
Crime, Drama
Colonel March, Head of the Department of Queer Complaints at Scotland Yard, is an investigator of unusual criminal cases and activities. The film sees him solve a bank robbery, for which an innocent man was framed, and two murders involving complex tricks and disguises.
Crime Comedy
Crime
Boston Blackie and his sidekick The Runt are called, first to a Manhattan apartment where there's $60,000 waiting in a safe, then to Hollywood, by Boston's old friend Arthur Manleder to bail him out of gangster trouble. Naturally the police are suspicious and trail him every step of the way.
Crime
Crime, Heist
A gang plots the robbery of an armored-car company headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it's not long before the gang members are fighting among themselves over everybody's share of the loot and trying to avoid capture by the police, who are pouring all their resources into capturing the robbers. Based on a real-life 1950 Brinks Armored Car Co.
Crime, Drama
A gang of criminals, led by sociopath Max Brant, escape from France and set up a counterfeit operation to make British £5 and American $20 notes, in the cellar of a large English country house now owned by Louie Bernard. Brant forces Bernard, who worked for the British Government during WW2 making foreign counterfeit currency, to make the master die plates by holding his daughter, Carole an artist, as a hostage. When Bernard finds out that Brant has tried to rape his daughter and has killed his housekeeper, Gerta, because she witnessed the attempted rape, he anonymously posts one of the forged £5 notes to the police with a letter…
Drama, Noir
When Joe Reynolds confronts a cantankerous baker who has confiscated his son's toy hatchet, Kenny the baker is killed in the scuffle. Three witnesses see Joe raising the hatchet and assume that he has used it to kill Kenny, but Joe insists that Kenny died when his head struck an oven. On trial, Joe is sentenced to death on the strength of the witnesses' testimony.
Crime, Drama, romance film
A newspaper reporter, Bruce Corey, returns from World War I to New York City. After reporting to his job at his old newspaper, Corey finds that his old editor doesn't like his new ideas. Corey and his war correspondent friends start their own down-market newspaper which will feature "the news before it happens." Corey gambles with a mob boss and wins the money to start up his paper, the New York Mercury, an instant success.
Crime
Johnny Breakes is an ex-convict who has just finished serving a prison sentence in a South American jail after being falsely accused and framed for a crime. He returns to England determined to find the man who put him away, Lewis Osborne, the person responsible for his trumped-up charges. Upon arriving at Osborne's home to confront him, Johnny discovers that Osborne has already been murdered.
Crime, Drama
Police officer Steve Murtaugh is blackmailed for having an extramarital affair. Moving with his wife from Chicago to Portland Oregon, the blackmailer follows.
Crime, LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film
Private Investigator Donald Strachey is under the impression he is tailing an unfaithful housewife for evidence that she is cheating on her husband, but it turns out that the "housewife" is actually an undercover cop who promptly arrests him. After six hours of questioning, the cop, Officer Gina Santer, and Detective 'Bub' Bailey let him go, but instruct him to turn over any information he obtains on the client that claimed Santer was his wife. Most of the info on file at Strachey Investigations about this mystery client is fake.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Newlyweds Paul Lester (Ireland) and his wife Nancy (Randolph) are invited to visit Paul's friend Ed Stevens. They arrive to find Stevens gone and a mysterious phone call gets Paul to the other end of town. While he's away, Nancy is assaulted by a would-be burglar.
Crime
The much-valued Tahara diamond is looted during its opening showcase. A suspicious Inspector Crane suspects reformed jewel thief and current private detective Michael Lanyard, alias the "Lone Wolf," to be the perpetrator and promptly arrests him. In actuality, the true masterminds are Steve Taylor and Joe Brewster.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Jan Foley (Lederer), an amnesiac Czech pianist, is a victim of Nazi torture for playing a banned song. Living under a new identity on the island of French-governed Guadalupe, Jan tries to recall his past life while working for refugee smuggler Angelo (Alexander Granach). To the melancholy island of Guadalupe come a band of refugees, stripped of their friends and their country by the war.
boxing film, Crime
A young boxer is framed for murdering his crooked manager. His only option is to escape from jail and find the real murderer himself.
Crime
left|thumb|180px|Drive-in advertisement from 1958 Vera (Mara Corday) runs a nightclub that's really a front for her secret operation: an all-female crime ring that's been pulling off heist after heist. The gang does a major job with the help of Agnes (Abby Dalton), a new recruit and insider with access to a bank's payroll. But then the nervous Agnes threatens to squeal, so Vera has her rubbed out.
Crime
Showbiz reporter Mike Roberts and diplomatic correspondent Lee Fisher tackle Communist agent Boris Altovitch and his mob, who have kidnapped the daughter of a nuclear scientist, to force him to reveal information. The pair triumph, and fall in love.
Crime, Drama
Englishman Ronald Quayle was accused of murdering his father and, based on testimony offered by his stepmother Caroline, was found guilty and imprisoned. Managing to escape, he fled to the United States and found work in an oil field, where an explosion scarred his face. After undergoing plastic surgery, he returns home under the alias Robert Crockett, determined to prove Caroline and her lover Jack Utterson really killed his father.