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Janusz Majewski – Sprawa Gorgonowej aka The Gorgon Case (1977)

Dramatic reconstruction of the case of a Polish woman named Emilia Margerita Gorgonowa who was tried for the murder of Elzbieta Zarembianka, the sixteen year old daughter of a successful architect in...

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Joseph Losey – Time Without Pity (1957)

Quote:One of the powerhouses of the 1950s, Time Without Pity is the first film that Joseph Losey signed with his own name after being blacklisted and fleeing the U.S. In effect, it’s the film in which...

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Ossie Davis – Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

Synopsis:Harlem’s African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O’Malley (Calvin Lockhart), who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When...

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Duccio Tessari – La morte risale a ieri sera AKA Death Occurred Last Night...

Synopsis: A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, intellectually disabled woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the...

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Dennis Hopper – Colors [Unrated Version] (1988)

Quote:A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the...

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James Hill – A Study in Terror (1965)

Synopsis:In this Sherlock Holmes tale, Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary 19th-century British sleuth (John Neville) is on the trail of Jack the Ripper. In the dark alleys of London, the notorious Ripper...

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Oxide Chun Pang – Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale AKA One Take Only (2001)

Mak, a street urchin in Bangkok, dreams of being a tough gangster. He earns some money as a drugs runner. One day he meets a young prostitute, who turns out to live nearby and they fall in love. After...

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Michael Mann – Thief (1981)

Quote:Coming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the Mafia, who has other plans for him. 2.78GB | 2 h 4 min | 1024×552 | mkv...

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Taylor Hackford – Bound by Honor AKA Blood In, Blood Out (1993)

Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East...

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Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai AKA Battles Without Honour and Humanity...

Synopsis:In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) and his buddies find themselves in a new war between fractious and ambitious yakuza. After joining boss Yamamori,...

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Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai: Hiroshima shito hen AKA The Yakuza...

Synopsis:Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji, who went on to star as Rhett Butler in the Tokyo stage version of Gone with the Wind),...

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Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai: Dairi sensô AKA The Yakuza Papers, Vol....

Synopsis:The successor to Hiroshima’s most powerful yakuza family, the Muraokas, is whacked in broad daylight on a busy city street. What unfolds is a yakuza succession crisis, as the weaseley...

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Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai: Chojo sakusen AKA The Yakuza Papers 4:...

Synopsis:As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families...

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William Lustig – Vigilante (1982)

When his wife and son are brutalized by thugs and a corrupt criminal justice system puts the perpetrators back on the street, a New York City factory worker turns vigilante to find some measure of...

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Rowan Woods – The Boys (1998)

The Guardian wrote: Rewatching director Rowan Woods’ chilling suburban drama The Boys (1998) feels like spending time with creepy acquaintances you hoped to never meet again. The story is based on a...

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Peter Collinson – The Italian Job (1969)

Synopsis:Charlie is just out of the prison when he learns about his friends’ failed attempt at carrying out a heist in Italy. Now with the Mafia close on his heels, he intends to carry out the job...

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Olivier Marchal – 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)

Paris. For some months now, a violent gang has been operating with complete disregard for the law. Head of the Judicial Police, Robert MANCINI lays down a challenge to the two men who work directly...

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Noboru Tanaka – Ushimitsu no mura AKA Village of Doom (1983)

Little known 1980’s exploitation flic with violent ending During the Second World War, a young man from a secluded village is denied the chance to serve in the Japanese army through his tuberculosis....

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Ulu Grosbard – True Confessions (1981)

Synopsis:In Los Angeles, circa 1940, an embittered, once-corrupt cop named Tom Spellacy is investigating two murders: that of a priest found dead in a whorehouse, and that of a mutilated woman in a...

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Terence Young – Triple Cross (1966)

Eddie Chapman (Christopher Plummer) is a smooth operator, blowing up safes under the noise of a back firing car outside of the buildings and leaving a calling card before absconding with the pick of...

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