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John G. Blystone – Great Guy AKA Pluck of the Irish (1936)
Plot:It’s the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for…organized by crooked city alderman Marty Cavanaugh,...
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Derek Tsang – Shao nian de ni AKA Better Days (2019)
Quote:When it is time for the Chinese gaokao, a two-day national college entrance exam, the entire country comes to a standstill. For nearly ten million high school students, this exam not only...
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Corey Yuen – Huang jia shi jie AKA Yes, Madam (1985)
Yes, Madam! was the first starring role for Malaysian-born actress and action superstar Michelle Yeoh, and the feature film debut of American martial arts expert Cynthia Rothrock. It was also the 2nd...
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Terence Fisher – The Last Page (1952)
Quote:The Last Page was the original British title for the 1952 murder meller Man Bait. Hollywood’s George Brent plays a married bookstore owner who is blackmailed by scheming Diana Dors. The...
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Bahram Beizai – Sagkoshi AKA Killing Mad Dogs (2001)
Author Golrokh Kamali has left her husband and has been living with her parents in the provinces for the past year. When she returns to the capital city, she finds out that her husband has gone...
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Hao Ning – Wu ren qu AKA No Man’s Land (2013)
Being shelved for four years over censorship issues sounds like a death knell for any film, and yet in the case of Ning Hao’s No Man’s Land, it may actually have been a considerable boon : indeed, the...
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Petr Václav – Cesta ven AKA The Way Out (2014)
Cesta Ven tells a story of a young Romani couple, Zaneta and David, the parents of little Janicka. Their efforts to live a decent and dignified life run up against the “Romani social trap,” which is...
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Cy Endfield – The Secret (1955)
Plot Synopsis by Sandra BrennanIn this crime drama, an American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the...
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Kenji Misumi – Sakura no Daimon AKA Internal Sleuth (1973)
When 150 guns are lost from the Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective tries to find out the truth. Review by kagetsuhisoka:Kenji Misumi’s nihilistic cop movie has finally...
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Ringo Lam – Hok Haau Fung Wan AKA School on Fire (1988)
A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong (Fennie Yuen) becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she testifies in court over a triad beating. When this news reaches the triad leader Brother...
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Herbert Ross – The Last of Sheila (1973)
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real...
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Wallace Worsley – The Penalty (1920)
In a role that established him as one of the most dynamically terrifying performers of the silent screen, Lon Chaney stars in THE PENALTY, a grotesque thriller from director Wallace Worsley (The...
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Robert Siodmak – Deported (1950)
An American gangster sent back to his home country falls in love with a widowed countess. Letterboxd review★★★½ Watched by Reza Said 04 Sep 2021 Deported (Robert Siodmak, 1950) 7/10 Atmospheric...
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Wai-keung Lau & Siu Fai Mak – Mou gaan dou II AKA Infernal Affairs 2 (2003)
IMDb wrote:In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy...
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José Giovanni – Un aller simple AKA One Way Ticket (1971)
A small-time criminal wants to give up his life of crime. He performs a robbery with a friend, with similar feelings, and things go sour. 4.24GB | 1h 56m | 1920×1080 | mkv...
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Jean-François Davy – Traquenards AKA Erotique (1969)
SynopsisHans Meyer and Roland Lessafre are a couple of buddies who get mixed up with a white-slave trader. Pursued by a pair of mob-connected brothers, Lessafre is killed. Meyer retaliates by killing...
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Stuart Heisler – I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring – by robbing a resort hotel. 1.85GB | 1h 49m | 841×358 | mkv...
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James W. Horne – The Shadow (1940)
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray. Chapter 1: “The Doomed City”Chapter 2: “The...
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Fritz Lang – You and Me (1938)
Quote:An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan...
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Richard Fleischer – Trapped (1949)
Quote:Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double cross them....
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