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Ralph Nelson – Once a Thief (1965)
Quote:Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal, has a steady job, a wife and daughter and he puts a down payment on a boat. He also has a police detective and brother after him, the first believes Eddie shot...
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Edward Dmytryk – The Sniper (1952)
Synopsis:Apparently rejected by women all his life, a loner with a high-power rifle starts on a trail of murder. The police are baffled by the apparently random killings until their psychologist comes...
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Cecil B. DeMille – This Day and Age (1933)
During Boys’ Week at racially integrated North High School, students Steve Smith, Gus Ruffo and Billy Anderson are elected to temporarily hold the city offices of district attorney, judge and chief of...
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Ray McCarey – The Falcon’s Alibi (1946)
Plot:A wealthy woman’s secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer’s jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. The Falcon is blamed when the jewels are stolen and murders ensue....
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Erricos Andreou – Anazitisis… AKA The Jet Set (1972)
A beautiful, rich and bored lady, Elena Chrysou, decides to have an adventure with a busy but lonely millionaire, Thanos Vergis. He mistakes her for a call girl, one of those whom Mrs. Natasa, manager...
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Yi’nan Diao – Nan Fang Che Zhan De Ju Hui AKA The Wild Goose Lake (2019)
SYNOPSISSet in the nooks and crannies of densely populated Wuhan, The Wild Goose Lake follows the desperate attempts of small-time mob boss Zhou Zenong to stay alive after he mistakenly kills a cop...
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John Trent – Vengeance is Mine AKA Sunday in the Country (1974) (HD)
Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint....
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Jindrich Polák – Hra bez pravidel AKA A Game Without Rules (1967)
The rules are merciless: when a police detective kills a jewelry robber in self-defense, he doesn’t get any awards, but gets fired instead. He then keeps on surviving as a taxi-driver, and yet keeps...
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Emil E. Reinert – Quai de Grenelle AKA The Strollers (1950)
Synopsis:‘Jean-Louis catches vipers he sells to the laboratories. A trivial incident causes his descent into hell: he forgets to use the pedestrian crossing and the policeman is cross. Who could have...
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Francis Girod – Le Trio Infernal AKA The Infernal Trio (1974)
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who...
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Arthur Penn – The Chase (1966)
Quote:Preceding Bonnie and Clyde by a year, Arthur Penn’s (Mickey One) acclaimed film boasts enviable pedigree – produced by the legendary Sam Spiegel, with a screenplay by Lillian Hellman from the...
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Richard Quine – Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Music Box Theatre writes:Before becoming famous for creating PETER GUNN and the PINK PANTHER movies, Blake Edwards scripted this extraordinary, if virtually unknown, ’50s film noir, which casts a...
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Leonid 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...
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Marc Lawrence – Daddy’s Deadly Darling AKA Pigs (1973)
Synopsis:Lynn Hart is a disturbed young woman who escapes from a mental hospital where she was committed for killing her abusive father who raped her. Stealing a nurse’s uniform and car, Lynn ends up...
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Patricia Mazuy – Paul Sanchez est revenu! (2018)
Synopsis / Review from CINEUROPA: With only four feature films to her name over the past 30 years and a propensity to always go where you don’t expect, from the rural drama of Peaux de vaches...
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Michael Apted – The Squeeze (1977)
Synopsis:Scotland Yard’s Jim Naboth (Stacy Keach) battled the bottle instead of London’s seedy underworld and lost. But he finds one chance to get out of life’s gutter when the mob kidnaps his ex-wife...
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Bob Quinn – Poitín AKA Poteen [+extra] (1978)
Quote:Poitin is widely regarded as a classic of Irish cinema. It tells the story of a Conamara moonshiner, his daughter and two cheating agents who they outwit and bring to a tragic end. The story has...
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Richard Fleischer – The New Centurions (1972)
Synopsis:A group of new police recruits takes to patrolling the streets of Los Angeles. Roy Fehler is a law student with a family and has joined the LAPD until he can complete his degree. He’s...
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Jean Dréville – Copie conforme (1947) (HD)
Synopsis:No one would think that Manuel Ismora, an esteemed society photographer, is an audacious thief and con artist. The newspapers are ?lled with accounts of Ismora’s criminal exploits, which...
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Francis Veber – La chèvre AKA The Goat AKA Knock on Wood (1981)
Synopsis:When the accident-prone daughter of a French businessman disappears in Mexico and the detective sent down to find her returns empty-handed, the businessman’s company psychologist comes up...
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