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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 283.
Crime, Noir
Framed by another man, truck driver Johnny Morrison serves a year in prison. After his release, Johnny confronts the man, Mitch Mitchell, who plunges off a roof to his death. Johnny then learns that his former employer, Hackett, was the one who set him up as a fall guy.
Crime
Ignoring Inspector Farraday's friendly advice to stop helping women, Boston Blackie goes to the rescue of a female being attacked by two men. She is Geraldine "Gerry" Peyton, an old flame of his. She begs him to help protect her baby from her husband John, who has just been paroled.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, romance film
When the dead body of a gangster is tossed out of a moving car in front of Police Headquarters, Police Chief Murphy is annoyed to see meek, mild Cosmo Jones taking photographs at the scene. An arrest and grilling only reveals that Cosmo is an amateur criminologist who has taken an interest in the case. Cosmo gets in deeper when he witnesses a failed kidnap attempt of heiress Susan Fleming.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
In New York, the East Side youth gang, consisting of: Muggs McGinnis, Danny Collins, Glimpy Stone, Scruno, Skinny, and Peewee are falsely arrested on the wharf because the truck they are playing in was stolen. They are remanded to Wilton Reform School, where Muggs, the wise-cracking leader of the gang, is dubbed "Mr. Wise Guy" by the brutal guard Jed Miller.
Crime
Crime
Crime
A girl is killed by a criminal gang. Reporter Arden refuses to write the story, since she does not believe the police have found the real culprit and gets fired for it. Apparently, the firing is fake, and she goes undercover to catch the real killers with stolen jewelry supplied by the investigator.
Crime
Security guard Richie Liddle (Ross Kemp) is an ordinary family man with four kids to support. Money is tight and tension is high as his wife Alison (Maggie O'Neill) constantly nags him to get a better job and move them away from their troubled estate. In addition, his eldest daughter Donna (Lara Bruce) suffers from bullying due to a facial disfigurement.
Crime, Drama, Noir
A bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare because he fits the description of a maniac killer.
Crime, Drama
An African immigrant from the DR Congo working in a bank in Dublin city whose family is kidnapped by a gang of criminals who force him to be the inside man on their robbery of the bank.
Crime, Drama, Secret Agent, war film
The former naval lieutenant Chris Waring is awakened by the police late time and delivered to Admiral Curtiss, his former commander. The admiral asks Waring for his support in an undercover operation. The op is about the shipowner Arnold Debrock, who sold ships to the United States but later got manipulated by enemy powers in a mysterious way.
sport film
A Canadian horse trainer, Joan, is the adopted daughter of horse trainer and breeder Ma Dawson. She buys an unwanted thoroughbred colt named Stormalong. Joan nurses the horse back to health with the help of Ma's son Tommy, and Stormalong starts to win races.
Crime, Mysterie, thriller film
Former romance author Jean Harper (Turner), who is lonely, signs onto a matchmaking website. Jean agrees to meet her correspondent, but she finds him dead at his home.
Crime
Joan Summers (Louise Currie) enters the office of jewel merchant Montclaire closely followed by Kendal Wolf. Each recognizes the other to be a jewel thief, and wordlessly they team together to steal a $30,000 diamond. Searched and questioned when the gem is missed, they are released ...
Crime
Pat and Danny McGlone are twin brothers raised by Mrs. Dean, a longtime family friend. Though inseparable in childhood, the brothers have grown into very different men.
Crime
Frankie Fraser finds out his father Luke has committed a theft netting $250,000. The boy is forced to go along with Fraser and his three accomplices, missing school. Lt.
Crime
A district attorney is blackmailed after a photograh of hi daughter, a sorority member, is taken with criminals in illegal gambling dens.
Erotic Thriller, thriller film
Comedy
Pete Smith tells his harrowing story of one evening at midnight being alerted by a telephone call from his Aunt Tilly in distress at the old deserted Smith mansion. The man drove the two hours to the isolated mansion to find that it was haunted by various creatures after him. Smith is attacked by a witch, a skeleton, an Indian warrior, an archer, and Frankenstein's monster (Ed Payson).
Crime, Drama
Four bandits rob a California bank, Gibbs, the mastermind, Sidney who is a gunman and Randall a blackballed airplane pilot. Charlie Hartman is also part of the gang. They pulls off a daring robbery in broad daylight and flee with $98,000.
Crime
A gangster hires men to do some work, states they are going to the bank then holds up the bank (unknownst to the workers). The gangster, "Stuff" Nelson, leaves the workers wondering what happened. A 16-year-old boy visits his father's girlfriend, who loves furs.
Crime
Action, Adventure, Crime
Tim Kerry (Harry Carey), a veteran cop in the district of Hell's Kitchen, welcomes his son Ritzy (Bruce Cabot) after spending two years in prison. Ritzy has good friends, and his former wife Julia (Julie Bishop) is hopeful that things will go on the right track. But the head of the gang, Morelli (Wynne Gibson), knows that Ritzy has good talent for crime and makes a great offer that is very hard to refuse.
Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
A young lawyer has problems with a case that he's been working on for over a year. The district attorney's niece helps him by first blackmailing, then plotting the murder of the D.A., while having a sexual relationship with the young lawyer, who eventually discovers the truth about her.