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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 282.
Crime, Drama
After trying to save a mortally wounded detective's life, Dr. Condon flees for his own life because of gangster Jim Craven's intention to eliminate him, an eyewitness to the crime. Condon moves to another town and changes his name.
Crime, Drama
Crime
Murderous international master criminal Dumetrius specialises in providing false travel documents. He flies to London from post-war Berlin to retrieve twelve million dollars in counterfeit cash. With the aide of his confederate Hedy, a redheaded cabaret singer, he covers his tracks and kills one passenger retrieving an identifying photograph and frames another man for the murder.
Crime
In London following the First World War, a criminal masquerades of a financier who had gone missing in action with the intent of stealing large sums of money.
Crime, Drama
Rich and beautiful Helen King is about to marry Steve Carlyle, a wealthy young professional. Unknown to Helen and her family, Steve is a legal advisor to a megalomaniac gangster Goldie Gorio. Steve wishes to leave the rackets but Goldie reintroduces him to his future father-in-law, a rival gangster where both parties see the marriage as a symbol of peace and an end of violence in their transactions.
Crime, romance film
Crime, Drama
Jamie is the getaway driver for a gang of robbers, but when the robbery goes wrong he drives off and makes his way by car and then train to a rural village, Welford, in Devon, where his estranged uncle, Kit, lives alone. Although Kit is not particularly pleased to see Jamie, he allows him to stay for a couple of days. A couple of days' stopover turns into an indefinite period, as Jamie, all the while sneering at Kit's rural life, gets a job at the local garage and eats Kit out of house and home.
Action, boxing film, Crime, Drama
After four years, boxer champion Artyom Kolchin has reached all conceivable peaks and became a national hero. He no longer appears in the ring, preferring coaching and a lively social life with constant appearances on television, parties and intrigues. At home during the mornings he is joined by his daughter Pauline and wife Vika, who no longer recognizes in him the Artyom with whom she once fell in love with.
Crime, Drama, silent film
Crime
A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and her rescuer again as they're going for a walk. This time they succeed in kidnapping the rescuer.
Crime, mystery film
Grant Naylor is unhappy because the woman he loves, Ann Randall, wants to instead marry Stephen Danby, a scoundrel. All are surprised during a performance of The Great Gambini when the magician predicts Ann and Danby will never be wed. His prediction comes true when Danby's dead body is found.
Crime, Drama
The daughter of a newspaper owner is sought for murder by the police. One of the reporters on the newspaper goes into hiding with her hoping to get a scoop.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
Crime, musical film
Newly elected mayor Judy Joyner takes charge of a growing but corrupt small town.
Crime, Drama
Captain Matt Denant is a former army officer who had been pursued by Germans during the war. He is riding at a hunt and, though he enjoys the sport, he empathises with the fox who stands little chance against the hounds. Later, after a dinner in London he decides to walk on his own through a busy Hyde Park.
Crime
While doing time in prison for a violent offense, Nick Burke (Mark Pellegrino) is visited by his wife who informs him that after waiting for seven years, she is divorcing him and has taken out a restraining order against him to prevent him from seeing their daughter. Sometime later, after accepting the parole board's condition that he relinquish all custodial rights of his daughter, he is given his freedom. Now in his mid-forties and determined to start a new life, Nick tries to find his way back into society and move beyond his violent criminal past.
Crime
After one of the partners in a haulage company is murdered, his brother is arrested on suspicion of the crime. A solicitor sets out to prove his innocence.
Crime
Ben Arkwright and (Cedric) Ricky Gallen are partners in the firm of Arkwright and Gallen; however, Ricky is having an affair with Ben's wife, Anna. Anna talks Ricky into killing her alcoholic husband, but things do not go according to plan.
Crime, Drama
Members of the Capper gang rent a room from a blind man and his daughter and help them restore their farm. Another member of their gang arrives and orders their return, leading to a conflict.
Crime
Long-established cosmetics company Venetia Beauty Preparations is in serious financial trouble, having been taken from success to near-ruin by the unscrupulous actions of the devious Mitchell Logan and his wife Pauline, who have inveigled their way to become business partners of the elderly founder Bernard Curzon. Against Curzon's wishes, Logan engages the services of a professional arsonist to burn the factory down, intending to claim on the insurance. But his plan goes horribly wrong.
Crime
Beautiful Dorothy Bronson has a big thirst for luxury, perfume and furs, due to this, she turns thief Freddie Martin into a notorious armed robber for her needs, and eventually gets him sent to Alcatraz.
Crime
Crime
Lorraine Connors manages the (real-life) wrestler, Gorgeous George. Taking a special interest in George's match is a police lieutenant, Ron Peterson, who is keeping an eye on everybody: mobster Al Merlo, his moll Colette LaRue and another wrestling star, Sammy Menacker, who is dating Lorraine. A quarrel between the wrestlers erupts and Peterson suggests they settle it in the ring.
Crime, Drama
When a convicted drug smuggler leaves prison after 22 years for one youthful mistake, he just wants to start over and obey the law. But, unable to find work, he's forced to take a supposedly legitimate job with his old crime partners. And they have big plans for their newest employee.