Jules Dassin – Up Tight! (1968)
Synopsis:“Uptight” is an updated remake of John Ford’s 1935 film, “The Informer”. Dublin becomes the Cleveland ghetto and the Irish Republicans are replaced by black revolutionary fighters. Days after...
View ArticleFrançois Leterrier – Un roi sans divertissement AKA A King Without...
In the nineteenth century, a young police captain, Langlois, is sent to a remote snow-covered village to investigate the disappearance of a girl. He is helped in his investigation by a local...
View ArticlePerry Henzell – The Harder They Come [+Extras] (1972)
Quote:Review (Popeye Pete, The Deuce: Grindhouse Cinema Database)Director/Producer Perry Henzell created one of the most popular films to come out of Jamaica. The Harder They Come was a triumph for...
View ArticleAndré De Toth – Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Eastman Museum writes:According to Quentin Tarantino, his eighth and latest film not only pays homage to that peculiar brand of the western set not in dust but in snow, but also an even more peculiar...
View ArticleGhyslaine Côté – Elles étaient cinq AKA The Five of Us (2004)
In Montreal, the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of Sophie’s parents nearby a lake, the girls decide to...
View ArticleJack Smight – Harper (1966)
Synopsis:Lew Harper is a Los Angeles based private investigator whose marriage to Susan Harper, who he still loves, is ending in imminent divorce since she can’t stand being second fiddle to his work,...
View ArticleArnaud Desplechin – Roubaix, une lumière (2019)
IMDB:A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered. 2.18GB | 1 h 59 min | 720 x 384 | mkv...
View ArticleJohn Guillermin & Dan Cohen – The Whole Truth (1958)
Movie producer Max Poulton is having an on again, off again affair with Gina Bertini, the temperamental leading lady in his latest movie which is filming in the French Riviera. Gina and Max’s current...
View ArticleVittorio De Sica – Caccia alla volpe AKA After The Fox (1966)
Released in the US as “After The Fox”, Caccia Alla Volpe is a 1966 collaboration of Vittorio De Sica and Peter Sellers. In this light romp Sellers plays Italian Master Thief Aldo Vanucci who escapes...
View ArticleWilliam Wyler – How to Steal a Million (1966)
Based on the short story “Venus Rising” by George Bradshaw, How to Steal a Million features a rather contrived plot about a wealthy art forger (Academy Award winner Hugh Griffith, Ben Hur) and his...
View ArticleLeonid Gaidai – Kavkazskaya plennitsa AKA Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1966)
Leonid Gaidai’s irreverent comedy updates a Leo Tolstoy story for modern Soviet times, in the Caucasus region. Shurik, a naive Russian student mired in his own clumsy Soviet culture, sets off to the...
View ArticleSilvio Narizzano – Loot (1970)
Synopsis:This adaptation of Joe Orton’s play focuses on a motley bunch of characters crammed inside a small hotel owned by Mr. McLeavy (Milo O’Shea). While the body of McLeavy’s wife lies freshly dead...
View ArticleJoseph Losey – Modesty Blaise (1966)
Monica Vitti is Modesty Blaise, fabulous international spy-slash-jewel thief. She is hired by Sir Gerald Terrant (Harry Andrews) of the British government — I think, but I’m not sure, for reasons I’ll...
View ArticleJohn Gilling – Interpol AKA Pickup Alley (1957)
After his sister is murdered while trying to pass on information about a drug dealer, FBI agent Charles Sturgis (Victor Mature) dedicates himself to tracking down international drug kingpin Frank...
View ArticleGodfrey Grayson – Innocent Meeting (1959)
PLOT: ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi A troubled teen discovers that reform isn’t always easy in this drama. The lad is on probation for robbery when he falls in love with a wealthy young girl. Wanting to help...
View ArticleRoger Vadim – La jeune fille assassinée AKA The Assassinated Young Girl (1974)
Charlotte is better known by its original French title, La Jeune Fille Assassinee. The film combines Roger Vadim’s overriding twin fascinations: eroticism and death. Charlotte (Sirpa Lane) dreams of...
View ArticlePierre Granier-Deferre – Adieu, Poulet AKA The French Detective (1975)
Synopsis:When political thugs murder an opponent’s volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat’s pursuit...
View ArticleMike Hodges – Get Carter (1971)
Synopsis:A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother’s funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother’s death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex...
View ArticleNorman Jewison – In the Heat of the Night (1967) (HD)
An African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town. 6.56GB | 1 h 50 min | 1280×688 | mkv...
View ArticleFrançois Ozon – Les amants criminels AKA AKA Criminal Lovers (1999)
French bad boy director François Ozon, who caused a stir with his controversial first feature Sitcom (1998) and his shorts A Summer Dress (1997) and See the Sea (1997), creates a dark and brooding...
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