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Richard Wilson – Al Capone (1959)
Small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone’s rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and...
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Alex Cox – The Winner (1996)
When it is discovered that a man is having luck in the casinos in Las Vegas, people start attempting to take his money. Alex Cox wrote:In 1995 I was asked to direct a film based on A DARKER PURPOSE, a...
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Francis Girod – René la Canne AKA Rene the Cane (1977)
SynopsisParis, 1942. Having been arrested and tried for armed assault, René Bornier feigns insanity to gain admittance to a psychiatric asylum, from which he intends to make his escape. Here Bornier,...
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Jorma Nortimo – Kuollut mies kummittelee AKA Dead Man Walks Again (1952)
Third film in the “Dead man” trilogy, following “Kuollut mies rakastuu” (1942) and “Kuollut mies vihastuu” (1944). A murder in Paris kicks off the story, where an international man of mystery, colonel...
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André De Toth – Crime Wave (1953)
Quote:Before your shocked eyes – the city blasted SIN-SIDE OUT!Reformed ex-con Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson) has built an honest life with his devoted wife, Ellen (Phyllis Kirk). But that fragile American...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Fumô chitai AKA The Barren Zone (1976)
imdb:After 11 years in Siberia as a war criminal, a man joins a corporation making fighter planes to sell to the government but other corporations are competing with his firm for the enormous profit...
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William A. Wellman – The Iron Curtain (1948)
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against...
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Pierre Chevalier – Les impures AKA The Impure Ones (1954)
Synopsis:‘When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout...
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Marvin J. Chomsky – The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
The Deliberate Stranger is a 1986 American crime drama television miniseries directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. Based on the 1980 book Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger by Richard W. Larsen, the film...
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Chris Kin-Sang Li – Suo ming AKA Back for Your Life (1996)
imdb wrote:After she and her son were kidnapped by a man who lost his family due to drug traffickers, a woman sympathizes with her kidnapper and finds herself involved in his quest for revenge....
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Michael Curtiz – 20,000 years in Sing Sing (1932)
Description: Tom Connors is sentenced to Sing Sing believing his influential friends will soon have him out on parole. A trouble maker, he gets ninety days in solitary and no parole. His girlfriend...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky – Le témoin AKA The Witness (1978)
Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian art-restorer working at a cathedral in France. An old friend of his, Robert (Philippe Noiret), lives there. Robert is a banker who has married into money. A...
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Josef von Báky – A varieté csillagai aka Stars of Variety (1939)
An early Hungarian crime film with a true all-star cast and an authentic portrayal of Budapest’s prewar variety-theater world, written by the screenwriter of Metropolis. DescriptionAn early Hungarian...
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David Drury – Hostile Waters (1997)
Letterboxd:We were seconds from death and we didn’t know it.Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could...
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Tadashi Sawashima – Umon Torimonocho: Jigoku no kazeku-ruma AKA Case of Umon:...
Quote:Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Okayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as suspects in several recent murder cases. To prove their...
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Özgür Yildirim – Chiko (2008)
Chiko, a young Turkish-German of the third generation, wants to be on top. He dreams of money, respect, power – and a fast car. Together with his buddies Tibet and Curly he turns the drug scene of...
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Seppo Huunonen – Karvat AKA The Hair (1974)
A middle-aged man becomes deeply involved with the affairs and criminal connections of a mysterious girl. Director: Seppo HuunonenWriters: Seppo Huunonen, Lionel WhiteCast: Mikko Majanlahti, Arja...
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W. Lee Wilder – The Pretender (1947)
Synopsis:A man whose business is failing decides to marry his legal ward, in order to get his hands on her money. The only problem is that she is in love with a young doctor. The businessman hires a...
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Jorge Ileli – Amei um Bicheiro AKA I Loved a Bookie (1952)
SynopsisIntent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun… Director: Jorge Ileli, Paulo WanderleyWriters: Jorge Dória, Jorge Ileli,...
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Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
Synopsis:The Coen brothers peer into the existential abyss of the atomic age in this coolly riveting, drolly profound noir thriller. In a performance of masterfully calibrated understatement, Billy...
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