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Anatole Litvak – Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Mobster Tommy Gordon isn’t worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole. A troublesome prisoner, he finally concedes that his friends...
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Mario Caiano –…a tutte le auto della polizia aka Calling All Police Cars (1975)
Synopsis:At the core of Without Trace is a story about a young girl who is the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his...
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Various – See prang AKA Phobia AKA 4bia (2008)
Synopsis:4BIA is a Horror Anthology. The first segment, “Happiness” is about a lonely girl who corresponded with a stranger over hand phone text messaging and soon discovered something strange about...
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Roger Corman – The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967)
Synopsis:Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city’s boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with...
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Jean-Claude Lauzon – Un Zoo la Nuit aka Night Zoo (1987)
Marcel, recently released from prison, attempts to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he’s been away on a long trip...
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Lee H. Katzin & Bernard Girard – What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
Quote:Not-so-grieving widow Claire Marrable is horrified to hear that her supposedly wealthy husband has apparently left her penniless. But, being a practical (and resourceful) type, she hits on a...
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Edwin H. Knopf – The Law and the Lady (1951)
The Law and the Lady is the third film version of the venerable Frederick Lonsdale stage play The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Greer Garson follows in the footsteps of Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford as a...
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Richard Brooks – In Cold Blood (1967)
Synopsis:In meeting in Kansas, ex-cons Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are breaking several conditions of their respective paroles. The meeting, initiated by Dick, is to plan and eventually carry out a...
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Don Siegel – Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Geoff Andrew, Time Out wrote:A classic of the genre, almost documentary in approach – low budget, no stars, Folsom Prison locations, inmates as extras – and boiling up an explosive violence kept under...
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Gwok-Ming Cheung – Dian zhi bing bing aka Cops and Robbers (1979)
Quote:Cops and Robbers depicts a city where ordinary citizens hold little trust for the police; far removed from the post-ICAC Hong Kong of today. “Can’t even look after their own guys,” a man...
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Arthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Synopsis:1934. Young adults Bonnie Parker, a waitress, and Clyde Barrow, a criminal just released from prison, are immediately attracted to what the other represents for their life when they meet by...
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John Sturges – The People Against O’Hara (1951)
Synopsis:Jim Curtayne, formerly a successful criminal defense attorney and currently a recovering alcoholic, has turned to civil law because of his problems with the bottle, daughter Ginny delays...
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Henri Decoin – La chatte aka The Cat (1958)
Synopsis: Paris 1943. After her husband’s death, killed by the Germans, Cora joins the résistance under the pseudonym “La Chatte” (the she-cat). Very skillfully she succeeds in a dangerous mission....
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Various – Les plus belles escroqueries du monde AKA The World’s Most...
This anthology helmed by four talented filmmakers, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Hiromichi Horikawa, and Roman Polanski, allows viewers to meet and observe four international con artists. Each...
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Anthony Mann & Laurence Harvey – A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
In West Berlin at the height of the Cold War, British spy Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) is tasked with the dangerous assignment of finding and assassinating the treacherous KGB agent Krasnevin, who has...
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Robert Florey – Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Synopsis:In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women...
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John Cromwell – Caged (1950)
Synopsis:Pregnant nineteen-year old Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker) is sentenced to prison as an accessory to robbery. The warden, Ruth Benton (Agnes Moorehead), dedicated to reforming even the most...
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Allan Moyle – Weirdsville (2007)
Royce and Dexter are two slackers who live in the strange little town of Weedsville. When Royce’s girlfriend Matilda overdose’s on their stash and dies, they decide to bury her in an abandoned...
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Pierre Chenal – Crime et châtiment aka Crime and Punishment (1935)
Pierre Blanchar plays the murderer Raskolnikov, and Harry Baur is the police inspector on his trail… Quote:Crime et châtiment is one of the overlooked masterpieces of 1930s French cinema, an early and...
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Roy William Neill – The Scarlet Claw (1944)
Quote:When a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human...
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