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Charles Guggenheim & John Stix – The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
Synopsis by Eleanor MannikkaBased on an actual bank heist (and even using the St. Louis policemen who took part in thwarting the original robbery), this fairly ho-hum caper film stars Steve McQueen as...
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William A. Berke – FBI Girl (1951)
Quote:A governor planning to run for U.S. Senate has a secret past that could prove damaging to his political aspirations: he’s a convicted murderer, and that will come to light if the FBI does an...
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A. Barr-Smith – The Hangman Waits (1947)
This 1947 semi-documentary style featurette shot around the news of the world press, is astory of grisly murders by a cinema organist. A fascinating film produced by Five Star Filmsusing the mediums...
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Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Miller’s Crossing (1990)
From IMDB:A highly styled ‘genre’ film which can perhaps be seen as a pastiche of all gangster movies. Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at...
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Nathan Juran – Highway Dragnet (1954)
Synopsis:Mrs. Cummings, a free-lance magazine photographer and a recent widow after her husband committed suicide, and her model, Susan, are on an assignment to cover resorts California and Nevada....
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Stuart Rosenberg – Brubaker (1980)
Quote:When Brubaker (Robert Redford) comes to a small state prison to be its new warden, he’s horrified by what he sees. Prisoners are sold as slaves, and even decent food can’t be obtained without...
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John Cassavetes – The Killing of a Chinese Bookie [108 minute cut] (1976)
Quote:The killing of a Chinese Bookie was released in 1976 after what Cassavetesdescribed as a very rushed editing period. The film was a commercial failureand was pulled from the theaters after seven...
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Margarethe von Trotta – Tatort: Unter uns (2007)
Quote:The former owner of a craftsman’s business, Wolfgang Kunert, who has been unemployed for a long time, is waiting at the job agency. When it is his turn after four hours of waiting time, which...
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Lewis Gilbert – The Good Die Young [Export cut] (1954)
Quote:Three good men – a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an Air Force Sergeant married to a faithless actress – are corrupted by Miles “Rave”...
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Leos Carax – Mauvais sang aka The Night Is Young (1986)
Quote:In Paris of the not-too-distant future, a mysterious new disease named STBO is killing young people who make love without emotional involvement. A serum has been developed, but it is locked away...
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Robert Wise – Odds against tomorrow (1959)
Quote:Odds Against Tomorrow, a crackling crime caper with an undercurrent of racial tension, combines the desperation of three men–two of whom hate each other–and the culmination of that desperation...
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Ewald André Dupont – On Such a Night (1937)
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence. 821MB | 1h 12m | 640×480 | avi https://nitroflare.com/view/87116A3E4682EDA/On_Such_a_Night_(1937).avi...
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William Castle – The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
Plot: This is the sixth movie in the Boston Blackie series. An ex-thief helps some fellow ex-cons adjust to life as defense workers, only to get involved with a robbery investigation. 407MB | 1h 05m |...
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James Glickenhaus – Shakedown (1988)
PlotA crooked cop tries to stick up a drug dealer in Central Park, and is shot dead. The drug dealer is brought to trial, but Weller becomes convinced that he didn’t fire first, and that the incident...
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Pou-Soi Cheang – Gau ngao gau AKA Dog Bite Dog (2006)
Plot Synopsis from beyondhollywood.comAlthough many Hong Kong thrillers like to style themselves as being gritty and nihilistic, “Dog Bite Dog” is one of the few with the guts to actually follow...
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Alberto Lattuada – Il bandito AKA The Bandit (1946)
A contingent of Italian prisoners of war arrive on a train from Germany after World War II to Turin. The city where Ernesto lives has been bombed, his mother is dead and his sister has gone missing....
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Jacques Tourneur – They All Come Out (1939)
A “Crime Doesn’t Pay” morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals. 795MB | 1h 09m | 704×528 | mkv...
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Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra – Pájaros de verano AKA Birds of Passage (2018)
An audacious saga centred on the experience of the Wayúu indigenous people of north-eastern Colombia between the late 60s and early 80s, as the trade in marijuana takes hold of their culture. The film...
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Orson Welles – The Stranger (1946)
The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles’ most “traditional” Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college professor named Charles Rankin, who lives in a pastoral Connecticut town...
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Shinji Sômai – Hikaru onna AKA A Luminous Woman (1987)
Synopsis: A mountain man from Hokkaido comes to Tokyo in search of the woman he loves, but has to brave the city’s dystopic underworld of gladiatorial fights and underground opera to rescue her....
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