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Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 307.

The Rocks of Valpre (1935)

Crime

During the mid-nineteenth century, in a quaint coastal village in France, a young English woman finds herself captivated by the charms of a French cavalry officer. Unfortunately, their passionate love story takes an abrupt turn when she is abruptly sent back to England to complete her education in a convent. Simultaneously, her paramour is unjustly accused of espionage by a rival officer, leading to his imprisonment on Devil's Island.

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The Third Eye (1920)

Crime, Drama, mystery film, serial film, silent film

As described in a film publication, Curtis Steele (Oland), a society man at a film studio, has been pursuing actress Rita Moreland (Percy) and confronts her at the studio with the intention of having sex with her. She repulses him and during the struggle shoots him. Steele staggers forward and collapses.

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The Last Curtain (1937)

Crime

Insurance assessor Bob Fenton is investigating a series of robberies. He uncovers the burglars living in a bakery, where the jewels are hidden in doughnuts. Pretending to be a villain, Fenton is hired by the gang's boss, Joe Garsatti, to surveil the actor Sir Alan Masterville, who fences the jewels.

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Delinquent Parents (1938)

Crime

In the closing days of the Great War, Edith Ellis secretly marries Charles Wharton Jr., a young army lieutenant from an influential family. The Armistice of 11 November 1918 occurs just prior to her husband's sailing to France, his influential family successfully seeks to have their weakling son's marriage annulled. Edith is injured in an automobile accident with Edith and her family keeping her pregnancy secret, putting her child up for adoption.

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Journal of a Contract Killer (2008)

Crime, Drama

Stephanie Komack was a big-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. She now was working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven-year-old daughter, the Mob tracks Stephanie down and persuade her to do one final job. That when the hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the reality of her failure.

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Chick (1936)

Comedy, Crime

Chick Beane is University porter who inherits an Earldom. He is pounced upon by a gang of villains running a fraudulent financial oil scheme, thinking his honest face and title would be useful as Chairman of their crooked business's board. The crooks are foiled when they try to escape with their takings, and it turns out that their land, while barren of oil, has valuable mineral waters.

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