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Crime, Drama
Med student Ralph Sawyer operates on Diana Wayne, victim of a vehicular accident, saving her life. Later, Sawyer opens a medical practice with buddies Frank Blake and Peter Piper. Even though Sawyer woos Diana, she falls for Blake.
Crime, Drama
A woman is blackmailed by a criminal, who has discovered that her brother was shot as a coward during World War I.
The autobiography written by Gabrielle Carey tells her story of how she made the 'mistake' of falling in love with Terry Haley, a prison inmate at Parramatta Gaol. The character's names were changed for the movie, in which, Jessica Taylor (McClements), a young journalist, is sent to a maximum security prison to watch a debate and gather up information for a story she is writing. It is there that she meets long-term prisoner Billy Carter (Burgess), and after a while, the pair fall in love and want to get married.
Crime, Drama
Antiques shop owner Alan Peters is convicted of the murder of his client Dick Lennox. In Italy, hospital worker Carlo Raffone overhears a delirious patient, John Sullivan, confess to a murder. Raffone steals effects from Sullivan including a statuette.
Crime
Set over the course of one night, the story takes place in and around a London theatre. A series of contemporary acts are seen both performing on stage and socialising backstage. The murder of a ventriloquist takes place and two policemen, who happen to be at the theatre tracking a banknote forger, set to work finding the culprit.
Crime, musical film
A gangster, Dollar Bill Richards, seduces a wealthy widow, Minnie, to get his hands on her money.
Crime, Drama
The plot follows Ann Gray, a woman wrongfully convicted of murder. After escaping from a prison transport, she becomes a fugitive, determined to prove her innocence. While on the run, Ann meets Tony Baxter, a young attorney who eventually becomes entangled in her plight.
Crime, thriller film
During the height of a Cold War, a drunken reporter from Sweden disappears without a trace while on a business trip in Budapest. Meanwhile, the tabloid for which he was writing sounds an alarm, with the Swedish government trying to avoid direct confrontation with the Hungarian police. Martin Beck, a detective, takes the case, and is sent behind enemy lines as a private citizen, to find the reporter and bring him back to Sweden.
Crime, Drama
Tom Cardigan is a near-alcoholic defense attorney who handles a lot of cases for his childhood friend, gangster Valentine "Vanny" Powers. Powers thinks it would be a good idea for Cardigan to become Attorney General so his friend could do an occasional favor in return for Powers delivering the votes. Cardigan warns him that if Cardigan goes over to "the other side," Powers can expect no favors from him.
Comedy, Crime Comedy, trial film
Comedy, Crime, musical film
Jimmie, a shady bookie, meets Pearl, a taxi dance hall girl. He takes her out on several dates, pretending to be a high profile producer. She is happy to spend his money extravagantly but refuses to be his girlfriend.
Crime, Western
Fur trappers have been killed, and their furs stolen, so Corporal Rod Webb is sent to investigate. Corporal Webb finds another trapper who’d been shot, but is still alive. With the help of his dog Chinook Webb tracks down the man who attempted to kill the trapper.
Ex-hooligan Ray Knight (Steven Mackintosh) is a normal everyday family man living and working as a security guard at a large investment bank in Canary Wharf. He is a highly protective father to his teenage daughter Nikki (Sadie Thompson), who lives with her alcoholic mother Sadie (Camille Coduri) at their flat in a run down estate. After a failed attempt to help Nikki and Sadie move into a new housing development, which is being competed for between Whites and Asians, and discovering that Nikki is involved in heroin addiction with her Asian neighbour and only friend Rashel (Sadiqul Islam), Ray's anger drives him to join the far-right…
Crime, Drama
Living in a small Louisiana Bayou community known as "The Pit", Cajun newlyweds Pierre and Lili must deal with family conflict compounded by the arrival in their lives of a mysterious seductress who calls herself "Minette" and claims to be fleeing from trouble. Not convinced she is being truthful, the couple find out that her real name is "Nina" and that she is impersonating a woman who had earlier committed suicide after having discovered that Nina was having an affair with her husband, Clay. Meanwhile, Pierre's brother Jacques, has fallen in love with Nina, to the disapproval of his family.
Crime
Nina Stewart and her wealthy husband return to their apartment to find the police waiting for them. Their maid has been found dead, and there are signs the safe has been cracked. Nina checks the safe and reports nothing has been stolen.
Crime, Drama
The notorious jewel thief Sophie Lang wants to leave her life of crime behind and go straight. To do so, she fakes her own death and retires to London. There, she finds work as a companion to a wealthy elderly woman who is also a jewelry collector.
neo-noir
Aging gambler Benny Walsh dies in a suspicious car crash after the biggest poker win of his life. His son Clyde comes to the Nevada town in search of answers. He discovers that each of his father's gambling buddies had ample reason to want him dead.
Crime, Drama
The film is begins in a large country mansion owned by the Hingstons and is set just after the Second World War. Lady Hingston starts to recall her youth to a young granddaughter, Sylvia. The story is then told in flashback, returning firstly to around 1900.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail. Full review at https://pre-code.com/the-king-murder-1932-review-with-conway-tearle-and-natalie-moorhead/
Crime
Despite feeling that women are unsuited to journalism, Fleet Street newspaper editor Frank McSweeney hires Stella Mason as a reporter at the Daily National. Stella starts a hugely popular gossip column, gaining the nickname 'Paper Orchid'. When her husband dies, Lady Croup becomes the new proprietor of the Daily National.
Crime, Drama
Crime, Western
Corporal Rod Webb and his dog Chinook reach a cabin and find a hanged man inside. The corporal believes it is murder and not suicide, and he follows a trail that leads to killers looking for treasure hidden in a Native burial ground. The corporal is helped by both a Native girl the murdered man’s sister.
Comedy, Crime
Crime
When enemy agents obtain leaked secrets about a guided missile system, American spy David Harding and British investigator Simon Langton work together to find the source.