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Crime, Drama
John Arthur "Silk" Lennox is an underworld chieftain who runs a nightclub where society patrons come to rub elbows with the criminal set. He is nicknamed Silk because of his fondness for the expression that things are "fine as silk". From the club he directs a violent $50,000 bank heist and cheekily invites in two detectives, using them to establish his alibi.
Drama
Government agents William Dennis and Joan Bradley are undercover, working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" of the many dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty. Dennis sets himself up as a theatrical booking agent, and shows his power by the opening and closing of Miranda's Paradise Club at will.
Two women and eight men are shipwrecked on a South Pacific island. There is a murderer amongst them. Only the murderer and the ship's captain know his identity but the captain has lost his memory.
romantic comedy
Lambert T. Hunkins (Frank McHugh) works at a linoleum company. When his boss, Oxnard O.
Crime, Drama
Auto racing teammates Wally and Robert compete for the romantic attentions of a sponsor's daughter. Their intense rivalry turns tragic when their in-race wheel lock-up result in Robert's death and nets Wally a homicide conviction.
Crime
Crime, Drama
Trapeze artist Harry is wrongly convicted of murder after his partner falls to her death. He escapes from jail and hides out in a country pub, on a mission to uncover the identity of the real killer.
Crime
Crime
Crime
Secretary Victoria Ainswell marries her wealthy elderly boss. Soon after the wedding he dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances, and the autopsy reveals that the police have a murderer on their hands. Everything points to Victoria as the only person with means, opportunity and motive, and as she can provide no sensible explanation as to who else could have killed her husband, she is arrested and put on trial for murder.
Crime
Frank Sutton employs ex-convict Captain Leslie in his office. Sutton is engaged to Beryl Steadman, but Beryl and Leslie fall in love. Seeking to put an end to this relationship, Sutton's secretary, Millie Trent, frames Leslie for a jewellery robbery.
Crime
Walter Jordan returns to his family, in which there is a history of insanity, after his honeymoon with his wife, Sonia. His sinister butler Cedric has great affection for his master, but also wields great power over him. When Walter becomes suspicious of his family doctor and friend Trevor's relationship with Sonia, he attempts to murder her.
Crime, Drama
Danny Ortego (Manuel Garcia) is released from prison after a seventeen-year-long term for shooting his mother's abusive boyfriend moments after he raped Danny's childhood friend Natalie. He returns to Houston, Texas, and is shocked to learn that drug barons and other bosses of crime have taken over his beloved hometown. His criminal record and appearance hinders the job hunt.
Crime
A ring of truck hijackers is organized by Joseph Valkus, run by Red Deegan and fronted by Rena Terry, a woman who pretends to be helpless, tricking truckers to trust her before their shipments are stolen. Out to bust up the racket, the FBI assigns agents Bob Anders and Tom Benson to go undercover. Pretending to be drivers, then thieves, they gain Valkus's trust.
Crime
A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.
Action, Crime
Synopsis From Screen Australia: "Nobody believed the stone was really cursed. It was just another gem in the eyes of the thieves who stole it. But like all great mystery thrillers, things are not as they seem.
Action, Crime
Ultimate Hero follows a man named Han Feng as he attempts to stop a gang of arms smugglers in Africa, from getting their hands on a very rare new energy ore stone.
mystery film
A man tries to clear the name of his uncle who is wrongly convicted of a murdering the squire in a picturesque English village.
Crime
A young woman becomes involved in a racket in which beautiful young models marry for money.
The story takes place before the early year of 2000 when Laughing is an undercover cop, but because of a drug case, Inspector Poon has been trying to track him down. Laughing is supposedly an undercover cop who has infiltrated a triad organization. However, before he became a cop, Laughing was a member of the triads and worked for the triad leader Lai Tin Yat aka Brother One .
Crime
silent film
An embezzler, Bill Marsh (Arthur Greenaway), works with his daughter Paula (Marie Lorraine), who serves as a bait, robbing wealthy people. Bill also seeks revenge on a businessman, John Travers (John Faulkner), but Paula falls in love with Travers' son Lee (Josef Bambach) and begins to have doubts about her life of crime. Eventually, Paula reforms and marries Lee.
neo-noir
Bucky and Earl are the two man team that collect and dispose of road kill for the county. A new, specially designed carcass removal truck forces them to choose which one of them gets to keep his job and who is let go. Earl comes up with a plan so they can both keep their jobs, but it means working at night.
Crime
A dancer known to everyone by the name Nylon has been working in Morocco at a somewhat disreputable nightclub owned by Paul Morales, who gets into some trouble with police. Nylon decides to set sail for Gibraltar on the North Empress, which docks along the way in Tangier. Tens of thousands of dollars are reported missing from the ship's safe.