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Bill Duke – Deep Cover (1992)
Plot Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his dope-addict father, whom he saw die in a liquor-store robbery. DEA...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot – Manon (1949)
Quote: Henri-Georges Clouzot (“The Raven”/”The Wages of Fear”/”“Diabolique”) directs one of his lesser efforts and co-writes with Jean Ferry an adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s 18th century lusty classic...
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Pilar Miró – El Crimen de Cuenca AKA The Cuenca Crime (1980)
The Cuenca Crime (79) became a cause celebre for critics of the limitation on freedom of expression in Spain (the film is set in 1912 and is about an innocent peasant tortured by two members of the...
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Guillaume Nicloux – Le poulpe AKA The Octopus (1998)
“Le Poulpe” is adapted from one of a series of French crime novels, each written by a different author. They are quick reads and often of dubious quality. This film adaptation by Guillaume Nicloux is,...
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Houda Benyamina – Divines (2016)
A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down. Isabel Stevens (Sight & Sound) wrote: From the opening...
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Seijun Suzuki – Tantei jimusho 23: Kutabare akuto-domo aka Detective bureau...
Japanese director Seijun Suzuki solidified his growing cult following with this offbeat adaptation of Haruhiko Ooyabu’s crime novel. Jo Shishido stars as Det. Tajima, a smug investigator who nabs a...
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne – La fille inconnue AKA The Unknown Girl...
Quote: In Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s very best films, you know exactly what you’re getting — until the quiet dramatic pivot that gently ensures you don’t. In “The Unknown Girl,” only the first...
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Kostas Manoussakis – O fovos AKA The fear (1966)
Plot: A socially isolated young man (Anestis Vlachos) attacks the family’s deaf-mute adopted daughter, whom he abuses sexually and then kills. His parents, even though they discover his crime and are...
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Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah – Black (2015)
A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. The city of Brussels, plagued by high rates of youth...
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Lev Kulidzhanov – Prestuplenie i nakazanie AKA Crime and Punishment (1969)
Plot Synopsis This Russian adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment packs nearly every pivotal event from the mammoth novel into its 200 minute running time. Georgi Taratorkin stars as...
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Seijun Suzuki – Tôkyô nagaremono AKA Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Quote: Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most acclaimed films of Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan’s most talented maverick directors. A colorful riot of an action...
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Takashi Miike – Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha (1999)
Quote: Handed a tedious script about a turf war in Shinjuku’s Kabuki-cho entertainment district (a maverick Chinese gang pulls a robbery which upsets organised crime; a care-worn cop lumbers towards a...
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William Friedkin – Cruising (1980)
A 1980 psychological thriller film directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name, by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, about a...
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Phil Karlson – 5 Against the House (1955)
Synopsis: Four college buddies enjoy a night at a Reno casino and overhear a cop saying that robbing the casino “cannot be done.” That gets the brainiest rich kid among them thinking up a plan for the...
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Marcel Carné – Le Jour se lève aka Daybreak (1939)
Le Jour se lève (or Daybreak) is a 1939 French film directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert, based on a story by Jacques Viot. It is considered one of the principal examples of the...
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Karel Reisz – Night Must Fall (1964)
Quote: Albert Finney stars in this 1964 psychological thriller, as a psychotic killer who murders a woman then becomes the handy man at a local house where his girlfriend works. Once there he proceeds...
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Andrzej Zulawski – L’Amour braque AKA Limpet Love (1985)
Synopsis: Inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot and intended as “a homage to the great writer,” this film is set in modern France rather than 19th century Russia. This is a story of Léon (Francis...
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András Jeles –Így fog leperegni Aka This Is How It Will Run (1970)
Interesting crime story about woman-prisoner, incest and murder.. http://nitroflare.com/view/FF596262E0FFD37/Igy_fog_leperegni_%281970%29.mkv...
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Terence Young – Bloodline (1979)
Synopsis: Sam Roffe, president of a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, is killed while mountain-climbing. It is first determined to be an accident, but Inspector Max Hormung later deduces that...
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Toshio Masuda – Sabita naifu AKA Rusty Knife (1958)
Synopsis: Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an...
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