Joseph Sargent – The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Synopsis:Right under everyone’s noses, a determined gang of four colour-coded and armed-to-the-teeth criminals manage to take over New York City’s Pelham 1-2-3 subway train. In a confined metro rail...
View ArticleWilliam Castle – Voice of the Whistler (1945)
Synopsis:The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, “The Whistler”, finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long...
View ArticleRobert Aldrich – The Grissom Gang (1971)
Synopsis:Barbara Blandish, a young Kansas City heiress, gets kidnapped by some inept local hoodlums for the diamond necklace she is wearing, and then gets kidnapped a second time by the Grisson gang...
View ArticleClaude Bernard-Aubert – L’affaire Dominici AKA The Dominici Affair (1973)
Synopsis:In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston...
View ArticleUmberto Lenzi – Il Giustiziere Sfida la Città AKA Syndicate Sadists (1975)
Synopsis:A biker’s brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy...
View ArticleOlaf de Fleur Johannesson – Borgríki AKA City State [+extra] (2011)
Set in modern day Iceland, an immigrant vows revenge after losing his unborn child in an attack by a crime syndicate, thereby binding his fate with a troubled policewoman, her corrupt police...
View ArticleTod Browning – The Blackbird (1926)
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart. 1.43GB | 1 h 26 min |...
View ArticleW.S. Van Dyke & George Cukor – Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Orphans Edward “Blackie” Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Bookworm Wade becomes a...
View ArticleMichel Deville & Charles Gérard – Une Balle dans le Canon AKA A Bullet in the...
Synopsis The story concerns a couple of ex-servicemen who engineer a robbery, only to run afoul of professional criminals. Dick et Tony, parachutistes rapatriés d’Indochine ont accepté de rendre un...
View ArticleJack Conway – The Unholy Three (1930)
In his last film – and only Talkie – Lon Chaney recreates one of his famed Silent roles: the scheming ventriloquist Prof. Echo. Disguised as Grandma O’Grady, Echo heads a robbery ring that includes a...
View ArticleSatyajit Ray – Chiriyakhana AKA The Zoo (1967)
Chiriakhana or Chiriyakhana (Bengali: চিড়িয়াখানা; English: The Zoo) is a 1967 Indian Bengali-language crime thriller film, based on the story of the same name by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, directed...
View ArticleGilles Grangier – 125 rue Montmartre (1959)
Pascal makes a modest living selling newspapers on the streets of Paris. He may have a surly temperament but he is a good natured soul at heart, always ready to help a fellow creature if he can....
View ArticleJacques Rouffio – 7 morts sur ordonnance AKA Seven Deaths by Prescription (1975)
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means. Especially a well-known operating surgeon Pierre Losseray, which wants to operate...
View ArticleArthur Marks – Bucktown (1975)
Synopsis:WHATEVER YOU WANT THEY’VE GOT… AND BUCKTOWN IS WHERE YOU’LL FIND IT! Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay...
View ArticleMichael Anderson – Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
Synopsis:A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an...
View ArticleChristopher Coppola – Deadfall [+Extras] (1993)
When Joe Dolan (Michael Biehn) accidentally kills his father in a scam gone bad, his dying words lead Joe to his Uncle Lou (James Coburn). Lou is working on a con worth more than $2 million in...
View ArticleIvan Nagy – Deadly Hero (1975)
Synopsis:When disturbed cop Lacy rescues Sally, a beautiful cellist, from deranged killer Rabbit by shooting Rabbit in cold blood, he sets off a spark of publicity that brands him the city’s hero....
View ArticleRobert Wiene – Raskolnikow AKA Crime and Punishment [Italian] (1923)
Synopsis:Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg, driven to utter desperation by grinding poverty and near-starvation, formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker...
View ArticleJohn H. Auer – City That Never Sleeps (1953)
Synopsis:Uniformed Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, Jr., who originally joined the force to make his policeman father happy, has grown restless in the job and has decided to resign the next day. He allows...
View ArticleDietrich Haugk – Der Kommissar – Als die Blumen Trauer trugen (EP 39) aka The...
Dr. Trotta is shot at night in his garden. He was a fan of the odd band “Joker Five” among which Keller suspects the perpetrator. The female singer of this band, a friend of Trottas son Peter, died a...
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