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Jean-Pierre Melville – Bob le flambeur (1956)
Bob, a middle-aged gambler and thief, plans a complicated heist. He deals with a number of underworld characters while planning the robbery of the Deauville Casino. Bob eventually hires a gang that...
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Michael Curtiz – The Scarlet Hour (1956)
Pauline ‘Paulie’ Nevins is cheating on her husband Ralph Nevins, a land developer, with his sales manager E.V. ‘Marsh’ Marshall. When Paulie and Marsh meet up for a secret rendez-vous in a lovers’...
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Shion Sono – Shinjuku suwan AKA Shinjuku Swan (2015)
Quote: Shiratori Tatsuhiko (Go Ayano) is a no-good bum and a loser. Wandering the streets one day, he meets Matora (Yusuke Iseya), a blond-haired devil who introduces him to a talent agency called...
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Georges Franju – Judex (1963)
Quote: Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by “Judex”, demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at...
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David Greene – Bella Mafia (1997)
IMDB plot summary : When Sofia marries into a Mafia family, she doesn’t know what she’s getting into. When her husband, all her brothers-in-law, and her father-in-law are murdered by a rival family,...
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Lynne Ramsay – Morvern Callar (2002)
Willow Maclay wrote: In Ramsay’s close-ups on Morton’s face, you can see a woman who’s breaking under the pressure, overloading her life with potent but fleeting experiences. In doing so, she remains...
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Alvin Rakoff – Passport to Shame AKA Room 43 (1958)
Synopsis by Michael P. Rogers Before Eddie Constantine became a French pop icon as the slapdash “Lemmy Caution,” he played Johnny, a straightforward London taxi driver. When his new taxi is smashed...
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Thomas Carr – Bobby Ware Is Missing (1955)
This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish search for their son. The police are contacted, and a ransom letter is received....
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Claude Sautet – Max et les ferrailleurs aka Max and the Junkmen (1971)
An ex-magistrate (Michel Piccoli) intent on justice joins the police force, then sets up a prostitute (Romy Schneider) and her small-time criminal boyfriend (Bernard Fresson). Author – dbdumonteil...
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Zoran Tadic – Ritam Zlocina AKA Rhythm Of Crime (1981)
A single teacher allows a stranger to share his home with him before it is to be torn down by developers. The stranger has a fascination with statistics, and claims he can predict crimes based on...
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Boris Ingster – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Plot Synopsis: Though he doesn’t speak his first line of dialogue until the film’s final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the fascinating RKO melodrama Stranger on the Third Floor. The...
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Henri Verneuil – Le Clan des Siciliens aka The Sicilian Clan [+Extras] (1969)
Plot Outline : With the help of the Malanese family (a.k.a. the Sicilian Clan), a convicted crook and murderer, Roger Sartet, escapes from a police van which is transporting him to prison. When he...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Das Kleine Chaos AKA The Little Chaos (1966)
Description: Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery....
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Billy Wilder – Double Indemnity (1944)
Quote: Billy Wilder only made one proper film noir, but it was a doozy: Double Indemnity is one of the most unrelentingly cynical films the genre produced, with a pair of career-changing performances...
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Howard Hawks & Richard Rosson – Scarface (1932)
Plot Synopsis [AMG] Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail’s novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great talkie gangster flicks, but it was held up for release...
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Ralph Murphy – The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated–and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who’s been trying to nail her finally comes...
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Philippe de Broca – Tendre poulet AKA Dear Detective (1978)
Synopsis: “A near-fatal collision between a car and a motorcycle brings about the happy reunion of Lise Tanquerelle, a busy career woman, and Antoine Lemercier, a professor of Greek at the Sorbonne....
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Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Blood Simple. (1984)
Quote: If a little pearl-handled .38 goes off in the middle of the night and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Blood Simple invites such sardonic musings from the viewer. This is a...
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Phil Karlson – The Phenix City Story (1955)
synopsis Based on actual events, The Phenix City Story tells the tale of a wide-open “Sin City” in Alabama (across a bridge from Columbus, GA, and just a stone’s throw from the Ft. Benning Army base)...
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Harold D. Schuster – Loophole (1954)
Synopsis: Everything’s going right for Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan). He came home after the war, married his gal, got a regular job as a bank teller in Hollywood, makes payments on a house in the...
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