Henry Hathaway – Kiss of Death (1947)
Quote:Small-time crook Nick Bianco gets caught in a jewel heist and despite urgings from well-meaning district attorney D’Angelo, refuses to rat on his partners and goes to jail, assured that his wife...
View ArticleArturo Ripstein – La perdición de los hombres AKA The Ruination of Men (2000)
Quote:In “La perdición de los hombres”, Ripstein once again enters the world of misery, though his characters are not precisely outcasts as the fat nurse and her gigolo lover. This time he returns to...
View ArticleYves Robert – Le retour du grand blond AKA The Return of the Tall Blond Man...
Cambrai, a modest captain in the French secret service, discovers that his superior, Colonel Toulouse, was responsible for the death of his rival Milan. To cover his tracks, Toulouse immediately sends...
View ArticlePierre Foucaud – Série noire (1955)
Mariani, a Corsican gangster, sympathizes with his cellmate, Léo, a police inspector who poses as an inmate. When Léo is to be released, Mariani hand him a letter to bring to his wife Elaine. serie...
View ArticleKira Muratova – Nastroyshchik AKA The Tuner (2004)
PLOT: A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them. The.Tuner.2004.Kira Muratova.SD.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.mkv...
View ArticleBaltasar Kormákur – Mýrin aka Jar City (2006)
A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad. Jar.City.2006.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.PTP.mkv General Container: Matroska...
View ArticleRuss Meyer – Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968)
Paul, the owner of a topless go-go bar on the Sunset Strip, isn’t having a good day. His girlfriend, unbeknownst to him, is planning to rob his club, and his wife is having an affair with the hunky...
View ArticleMickey Rooney – My True Story (1951)
Plot Synopsis by Hal EricksonMickey Rooney made his directorial debut with My True Story. Per its title, the film is based on an article which first appeared in the pages of True Story magazine. Jewel...
View ArticleRaoul Walsh – Manpower (1941)
Synopsis:Electric company foreman Hank McHenry (Edward G. Robinson) works with his friend Johnny Marshall (George Raft). Upon the death of an older worker in an accident, Hank and Johnny visit the...
View ArticleGilles Grangier – Un cave AKA A Loser (1972)
PLOT: Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape… Un.cave.1972.Gilles.Grangier.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264.mkv General...
View ArticleLászló Kardos – The Tijuana Story (1957)
Quote:Kit Parker Films and Mill Creek Entertainment continue their deep dive into what might be thought of as the substratum of film noir with this third collection culled from the Columbia catalog....
View ArticleJean-Pierre Mocky – Le piège à cons (1979)
imdb.com wrote:Ten years after the French political upheavals of 1968, a maturing “soixante-huitard” falls in with some young radicals who are influenced by a book he had written. But does he still...
View ArticleSidney Lumet – The Offence (1973)
Synopsis:In Sidney Lumet’s harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson has been with the British Police Force for 20 years. In that time, the countless murders, rapes and other...
View ArticleMike De Leon – Batch ’81 (1982)
PLOT: Sid Lucero, a 26-year old pre-Med student is an aspiring neophyte of the Alpha Kappa Omega fraternity. Over a six-month initiation period, he and six other neophytes are subjected to severe...
View ArticleJulien Duvivier – Diaboliquement vôtre AKA Diabolically Yours (1967)
A provocative French thriller places a wealthy man (Delon) at the center of an extraordinary plot after a car crash leaves him unable to remember who he is. With his wife (Senta Berger) convinced he...
View ArticleHenri Verneuil – Le Casse AKA The Burglars (1971) (HD)
Le Casse (US title: The Burglars) is a 1971 French-Italian neo noir crime film directed by director Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Omar Sharif. It is based on the 1953 novel by...
View ArticleDamiano Damiani – Perché si uccide un magistrato AKA How to Kill a Judge (1975)
In How to Kill a Judge, Nero plays filmmaker Giacomo Solaris, whose latest film features a judge corrupted by the mafia and who is later found murdered. The real judge the character is based on seizes...
View ArticleRino Di Silvestro – Diario segreto da un carcere femminile AKA Women in Cell...
Although this is basically a WIP movie, it differs greatly from both the popular Corman produced US/Filipino versions and the much sicker European variant typified by the work of Jess Franco. It is a...
View ArticleNikos Nikolaidis – Glykia Symmoria AKA Sweet Bunch (1983)
Synopsis:The diary of the life and death of a group of “amoral” young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to the...
View ArticleVernon Sewell – Soho Incident AKA Spin a Dark Web (1956)
A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. He meets the sister of a local mob leader, and she soon draws him into the gang’s activities. When he finds...
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