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Amir Naderi – Tangna AKA Strait (1973)
Plot summary on imdb Naderi’s second film is set in the slums of Tehran. Hanging out in a pool hall, Ali Khoshdast becomes involved in a brawl with three brothers, and accidently kills one of them. He...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Kawaita hana AKA Pale Flower (1964)
Quote: Like Imamura and Oshima, Shinoda Masahiro was a university-educated intellectual who was employed by Shochiku as an assistant director in the early 1950s and felt stifled by the company’s...
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Nimród Antal – Kontroll (2003)
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception likeable characters, a rival ticket inspection team, and racing along the tracks… And a tale about...
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William A. Wellman – The Public Enemy (1931)
Quote: A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster’s accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. Review from filmsite: Spoiler: The Public Enemy...
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Sidney Lumet – The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Synopsis wrote: A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building. What he...
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Éva Gárdos – Budapest Noir (2017)
Quote: A journalist specialising in criminal cases, trained in the United States and very well-connected in police circles, Zsigmond Gordon (the incredible Krisztián Kolovratnik) has no interest in...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Taiyô no hakaba AKA The Sun’s Burial (1960)
In Osaka’s slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi,...
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Samuel Fuller – White Dog (1982)
Quote: Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties; today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring...
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Sam Peckinpah – Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia [+2 Commentaries] (1974)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Spanish: Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García) is a 1974 American cult action film directed by Sam Peckinpah and featuring Warren Oates. Made in Mexico on a low...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Hogaraka ni ayume AKA Walk Cheerfully (1930)
ü Quote: Kenji is a small thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him ‘until he becomes an...
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Lawrence Schiller – The Executioner’s Song (1982)
Quote: The Executioner’s Song is one of the best films about crime and punishment ever made. Far from being lurid or simpleminded, it paints a stark picture of how it must have been to live around...
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W.S. Van Dyke & George Cukor – Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama film, produced by MGM, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, and starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. The movie also provided one of the earliest...
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Samuel Fuller – Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
Synopsis: Erik Gregersen, imdb wrote: Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly...
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Fritz Lang – Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Quote: Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana...
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Dennis Hopper – Colors (1988)
Colors is a 1988 American police procedural crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, and directed by Dennis Hopper. The story takes place in South Central, North West and East Los Angeles, and...
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Joseph H. Lewis – A Lady Without Passport (1950)
Synopsis: There is a problem with foreign nationals using Cuba as a convenient jumping off point for illegal entry into the United States. So U.S. Immigration Service Agent Peter Karczag (John Hodiak)...
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Maurice Pialat – Police (1985)
Quote: A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme. Quote: In a contest for unfussy opening credits,...
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Sidney Lumet – The Offence (1972)
PLOT: In Sidney Lumet’s harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson has been with the British Police Force for 20 years. In that time, the countless murders, rapes and other...
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Jacques Audiard – Un Prophète AKA A Prophet (2009)
Synopsis Malik El Djebena is just 19 when he is sent to prison for six years. Immediately, he falls in with a group of Corsican prisoners who rule the roost. From his experiences with these hardened...
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Abel Ferrara – China Girl (1987)
Janet Maslin from NY Times SLEAZE has few champions, but Abel Ferrara is one of them, having made some of the liveliest exploitation films (among them ”Ms. 45” and ”Fear City”) in recent years. Mr....
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