Henri Verneuil – I… comme Icare AKA I as in Icarus (1979)
Quote:Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the...
View ArticleSidney Lumet – Q & A (1990)
Dirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course....
View ArticleElmo Nüganen – Apteeker Melchior AKA Melchior the Apothecary (2022)
In medieval Tallinn, the famous knight of the Order who freed the Baltic Sea from pirates is murdered. The hero’s head is chopped off and his mouth is stuffed with coins. The gold chain he bought the...
View ArticleGert Fredholm – Terror (1977)
When one of the members of a gang of young criminals wants out, he is put under severe pressure. Terror.1977.DVDRip.Fansubbed.x264 24fps.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1 h 44 min Size: 1.38...
View ArticleKôji Wakamatsu – Ware ni utsu yoi ari AKA Ready to Shoot (1990)
Quote:Kabukicho, Shinjuku. A woman chased by a yakuza appears in front of Katsuhiko Goda, the master of the snack “Kashkash`. The woman’s name is Yang Meyrin, a Taiwanese. At that time, the chief of...
View ArticleAndré Cayatte – L’amour en question AKA Question of Love (1978)
PLOT: In the French legal system, a judge-magistrate conducts criminal investigations. In this story, Suzanne Corbier (Annie Girardot) is one such magistrate who is called upon to determine whether...
View ArticleJacques Besnard – Estouffade à la caraïbe AKA The Looters (1967)
One for all the Serge Gainsbourg and Jean Seberg completists. Guy Bellinger wrote:Morgan, a lapsed burglar, is drugged and shanghaied on board a yacht by beautiful Colleen. When he comes to, the...
View ArticleCharles Crichton – The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson a businessman who asks for her...
View ArticleKostas Manoussakis – O fovos AKA The Fear (1966)
PLOT: In this disturbing family drama, a prosperous middle-aged farmer takes up gambling and whoring at the expense of his devoted second wife. Meanwhile, his son the pervert becomes fascinated with...
View ArticleRenato Polselli – Delirio caldo AKA Delirium [Italian version] (1972)
Criminal psychologist Dr. Herbert Lyutak (Mickey Hargitay of BLOODY PIT OF HORROR and THE WILD, WILD WORLD OF JAYNE MANSFIELD) is a deranged sex maniac who murders young women. His beautiful wife (the...
View ArticleHugo Fregonese – One Way Street (1950)
PLOT: After stealing a gangster’s money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out. One.Way.Street.1950.Hugo.Fregonese.576p.BluRay.AAC2.0.x264.mkv General Container:...
View ArticleJonathan Glazer – Sexy Beast (2000)
Brutal gangster Don Logan recruits “retired” safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them. Sexy.Beast.2000.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1h...
View ArticleSebastián Silva – Rotting in the Sun (2023)
PLOT: Follows social media celebrity Jordan Firstman as he starts a search for filmmaker Sebastian Silva who went missing in Mexico City. He suspects that the cleaning lady in Sebastian’s building may...
View ArticleAnthony Mann – The Tall Target (1951)
Quote:A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a...
View ArticleDon Siegel – Charley Varrick (1973)
Charley Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), makes plans to rob a small bank in New Mexico. Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a...
View ArticleSergei Solovyov – Assa (1987)
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster’s (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century...
View ArticleDamiano Damiani – Un uomo in ginocchio AKA A Man on His Knees (1979)
Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off....
View ArticleSergiu Nicolaescu – Un comisar acuzã AKA A Commissar Calls (1974)
Director Sergiu Nicolaescu also stars in this film about a police inspector in Rumania who is sent to discover the truth about a prison massacre of communists by a visiting delegation of fascist...
View ArticleHenri Decoin – L’affaire des poisons AKA Hangman and the Witch (1955)
The Marquise de Montespan is a scheming adventuress who hopes to become the favoured mistress to King Louis XIV of France to advance her social status. However, she is thwarted by the young Angélique...
View ArticleHenri-Georges Clouzot – Manon (1949)
PLOT: A classical tragic romance transposed to a World War II setting, Clouzot’s film follows the travails of Manon (Cécile Aubry), a village girl accused of collaborating with the Nazis who is...
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