Kô Nakahira – Chizu no nai machi AKA The Jungle Block (1960)
Chizu no nai machi (1960) A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result. Quote:One of the...
View ArticleJosef von Sternberg – Sergeant Madden (1939)
Sergeant Madden (1939) A highly respected Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in rewards than in upholding the law. When he shoots a...
View ArticleStuart Heisler – Straight from the Shoulder (1936)
Straight from the Shoulder (1936) Curt Hayden (Ralph Bellamy), a witness from the mob, is hidden away in a remote mountain cabin for his own safety. Accompanying Hayden is his young son Johnny (David...
View ArticleWalter Grauman – They Call It Murder (1971)
They Call It Murder (1971) A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler’s murder and a possible insurance scam....
View ArticleFrancis Ford Coppola – The Outsiders (1983)
The Outsiders (1983) When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs,...
View ArticleBob Rafelson – Blood and Wine (1996)
Blood and Wine (1996) A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes....
View ArticleLloyd Bacon – Racket Busters (1938)
Racket Busters (1938) Manhattan gangster Pete Martin enters the trucking business in an effort to control the produce market. When he catches popular trucker Danny Jordan robbing the gang’s office to...
View ArticleJan Batory – Spotkanie ze szpiegiem AKA Rendezvous with a Spy (1964)
Spotkanie ze szpiegiem (1964) Quote:On the Koszalin coast, secret agent Bernard is about to land information on the deployment of Polish missile bases. Autotranslated from Film Polski:A film made in...
View ArticleMichel Deville – Eaux profondes AKA Deep Water (1981)
Eaux profondes (1981) Jean-Louis Trintignant’s sinister yet subtle performance as a man who gives the most insane proof of love to his wife enlivens this adaptation of the novel Deep Water by Patricia...
View ArticleJack Bernhard – Decoy (1946)
Decoy (1946) A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies. Decoy.1946.Jack.Bernhard.DVDRip.DD1.0.x264.mkv General Container: Matroska...
View ArticleKarel Reisz – The Gambler (1974)
The Gambler (1974) Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that...
View ArticleS. Roy Luby – Race Suicide AKA Victims of Passion (1937)
Race Suicide (1937) A district attorney goes after an illegal abortion ring that preys on desperate young girls. Victims of Passion (aka Race Suicide).avi General Container: AVI Runtime: 1h 23mn Size:...
View ArticleUlli Lommel – B.T.K. Killer (2005)
The B.T.K. killer harasses a news reporter with threatening letters as he ponders about the murders he committed 30 years ago. B.T.K.Killer.2005.x264.DVDRip.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1h...
View ArticleJames Foley – At Close Range (1986)
SynopsisOne of the overlooked films of the 1980s, perhaps because it is such a downbeat tale of an amoral family. Sean Penn plays a kid whose small-time criminal impulses are stoked to a new level...
View ArticleConstantine Giannaris – Apo tin akri tis polis AKA From the Edge of the City...
Apo tin akri tis polis (1998) A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city’s repulsive face and an...
View ArticleCarl Franklin – One False Move (1992)
One False Move (1992) Carl Franklin made his directorial bow with the story of three LA drug dealers who, after committing a rather messy murder, hide out in a rural Arkansas town. Assuming that the...
View ArticleGillies MacKinnon – Small Faces (1996)
Small Faces (1996) Quote:Life in the tough end of Glasgow in the late 1960s is delightfully and sometimes painfully presented here. This is clearly a work of well-observed autobiography by the...
View ArticleLana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski – Bound (1996)
Bound (1996) Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet’s crooked boyfriend Caesar....
View ArticleJohn Herzfeld – 2 Days in the Valley (1996)
2 Days in the Valley (1996) by Mark DemingA variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven...
View ArticleClaudio Giovannesi – La paranza dei bambini AKA Piranhas (2019)
La paranza dei bambini (2019) Quote:Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano (“Gomorrah”), Piranhas follows fifteen year-old Nicola (newcomer Francesco Di Napoli) who lives with his mother and younger...
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