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John Paddy Carstairs – Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Synopsis:Espionage agents Valya (Jean Kent) and Zurta (Albert Lieven) break into an embassy in Paris to steal a diary filled with crucial political secrets. The spies pass the diary on to accomplice...
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Robert Hamer – Kind Hearts and Coronets [+commentary] (1949)
Quote:Film Forum writes:Poor relation Dennis Price, ninth in line to the Dukedom of Chalfont, coolly narrates from prison his ascent to the peerage via serial murder, bumping off one D’Ascoyne after...
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Romolo Guerrieri – Liberi armati pericolosi AKA Young, Violent, Dangerous (1976)
Synopsis:Paul, Joe and Louie go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul’s girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian) . The group...
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Dae-min Park – Geu-rim-ja sal-in AKA Private Eye (2009)
Synopsis:The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of...
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Don Siegel – Dirty Harry (1971)
Quote:When a madman calling himself “the Scorpio Killer” (Andrew Robinson) menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is assigned to track...
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Barbet Schroeder – La virgen de los sicarios AKA Our Lady of the Assassins...
Quote:A Colombian writer returns to his native Medellín to mourn his lost youth and, while he’s at it, pick up a new one. That, more or less, is the tale that Barbet Schroeder’s new movie has to tell....
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Shane Meadows – This Is England (2006)
Quote:Set in the Midlands of Britain in the summer of 1983 and scored to the exhilarating reggae bounce of Toots and the Maytals, This Is England is a classic coming-of-age story.Shane Meadows’...
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Walter Forde – Rome Express (1932)
Synopsis:Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood’s Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various passengers of a European express train. On this particular run, the...
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William Friedkin – The Brink’s Job (1978)
The Brink’s Job tells the real-life story of a group of small-time, working-class robbers in Boston, who came together and pulled off the largest robbery in US history, taking the Brink’s security...
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Alexander Mackendrick – The Ladykillers (1955)
Quote:A gang planning a ‘job’ find themselves living with a little old lady, who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill Mrs Wilberforce, they run into one problem after another, and...
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Stanislav Govorukhin – Voroshilovskiy strelok AKA The Rifleman of the...
A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. Three young men lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake...
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Yair Hochner – Yeladim Tovim AKA Good Boys (2005)
17-year-old Meni wears only the most fashionable clothes, interested in music, loves the cinema and works as a rent boy. He had a baby from Mika, a young drug addict prostitute. He has an adoptive...
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Edward Dmytryk – Crossfire (1947)
Quote:Homicide Capt. Finlay finds evidence that one or more of a group of demobilized soldiers is involved in the death of Joseph Samuels. In flashbacks, we see the night’s events from different...
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John Farrow – Where Danger Lives (1950)
Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes’ protegees, made her film debut in 1950’s Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays Margo Lannington the wife of Frederick Lannington (Claude Rains), an elderly...
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Nai-Hoi Yau – Gun chung AKA Eye in the Sky (2007)
Plot summary: (from Variety.com)A Hong Kong police surveillance unit finds itself caught up in the rough-and-tumble of underworld violence in smart action-thriller “Eye in the Sky,” helming debut of...
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Jean Delannoy – Maigret tend un piège AKA Maigret Sets a Trap AKA Inspector...
Synopsis:For some time now, women coming home at night have been savagely murdered by a mysterious serial killer. Inspector Lagrume thinks he has found the culprit in the person of Barberot, a local...
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Eliseo Subiela – Rehén de ilusiones AKA Hostage of an Illusion (2012)
Synopsis:Pablo is a 60 years old writer. He meets by chance an ex pupil, Laura. Now, she is an attractive 35 years old woman. She was very much in love with him, when he was her professor at college....
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Anthony Mann – Side Street (1950)
Joe Norson, an expectant father and a New York City postman of modest means is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money. New Crime StoryThe respectable but somewhat...
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Samuel Fuller – The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Synopsis:Thirty years before Arizona achieves statehood, scam artist James Addison Reavis (Vincent Price) cooks up an elaborate scheme to claim the territory as his own. Reavis convinces Mexican...
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Joseph H. Lewis – The Undercover Man (1949)
“The Inside Storyo of a Great U.S. Criminal Investigation”Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. The agent struggles to put together a...
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