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Brunello Rondi – Prigione di donne AKA Riot in a Women’s Prison (1974)
Prigione di donne (1974) Synopsis:Gorgeous young French tourist Martine gets arrested while on vacation in Italy. After being found guilty of a trumped-up drug possession charge, Martine finds herself...
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Nikos Nikolaidis – Ta Kourelia Tragoudane Akoma… AKA The Wretches are Still...
Ta Kourelia Tragoudane Akoma… (1979) Synopsis:Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he...
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Jean-Pierre Melville – L’aîné des Ferchaux AKA Magnet of Doom (1963)
L’aîné des Ferchaux (1963) One of the frequent themes in the films of Melville is loyalty between men, so it should come as no surprise to Melville fans that Michel and Ferchaux develop an usual, and...
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William Castle – The Mark of the Whistler (1944)
The Mark of the Whistler (1944) PLOT: A drifter’s (Richard Dix) claim to a dead bank account interests a newswoman (Janis Carter), storekeeper (Porter Hall) and two brothers....
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Jacques Deray – La piscine AKA The Swimming Pool (1969)
La piscine (1969) Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As they frolic in a swimming pool in St. Tropez, she...
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Robert Morin – Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur AKA Whoever dies, dies in...
Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur (1998) Synopsis:A botched police raid on a crack house turns into a 36 hour long siege in which the junkies share their perspective to the cameraman of a reality...
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Aleksei Sidorov – Brigada AKA The Brigade (2002)
Brigada (2002) SYNOPSISBeing the most notorious TV-product of post-Soviet Russia, “Brigada” is an epic story about a company of bosom friends that, step by step, is transformed, leading by ambitions...
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Sergio Leone – Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) With the vivid memory of his long-gone childhood friends Max, Patsy, and Cockeye etched in his mind, his ferociously loyal partners-in-crime during their rise to...
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José Padilha – Tropa de Elite AKA Elite Squad (2007)
Tropa de Elite (2007) In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits. Tropa de Elite...
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Josef von Sternberg – The Docks of New York (1928)
The Docks of New York (1928) The ship on which Bill Roberts is a stoker has just put into port, giving the crew one night ashore. The ship’s bad-tempered third engineer orders the stokers to clean up,...
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Josef von Sternberg & Arthur Rosson – Underworld (1927)
Underworld (1927) Boisterous gangster kingpin ‘Bull’ Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out ‘Rolls Royce’ Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two become confidants, with Rolls...
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Jun’ya Satô – Bakuto kirikomi-tai AKA Gambler’s Counterattack (1971)
Bakuto kirikomi tai (1971) Synopsis (from Letterboxed):Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still...
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Sidney Lumet – Family Business (1989)
Family Business (1989) Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and...
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William Castle – Mysterious Intruder (1946)
Mysterious Intruder (1946) PLOT: A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder....
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H.C. Potter – Blackmail (1939)
Blackmail (1939) John Ingram, successful oil field firefighter, is really a chain gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him. Quote: Edward G. Robinson plays John Ingram, a very successful...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot – Les espions AKA The Spies (1957)
Les espions (1957) PLOT: Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are...
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Svend Wam – Lasse og Geir AKA Them and Us (1976)
Lasse og Geir (1976) Teenagers Lasse and Geir are arrested after making trouble on a night bus into town. After a night in the slammer they go home to Geir’s alcoholic mother and to Lasse’s father,...
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Jean Dréville – Copie conforme AKA Carbon Copy (1947)
Copie conforme (1947) Quote:A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is...
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Bob Rafelson – Poodle Springs (1998)
Poodle Springs (1998) Set in 1963, an aging Philip Marlowe (James Caan) is supposedly giving up his wild times to get married to a younger socialite (Dina Meyer). However, as might be expected crime...
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Michael Powell – The Night of the Party AKA The Murder Party (1934)
The Night of the Party (1934) Quote:A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the...
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