Crime

  • Michael Mann – Thief (1981)

    1981-1990CrimeMichael MannThrillerUSA

    Quote:
    Coming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the Mafia, who has other plans for him.Read More »

  • Oxide Chun Pang – Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale AKA One Take Only (2001)

    2001-2010CrimeDramaOxide Chun PangThailand

    Mak, a street urchin in Bangkok, dreams of being a tough gangster. He earns some money as a drugs runner. One day he meets a young prostitute, who turns out to live nearby and they fall in love. After he has delivered a large batch of drugs to a rich man on the other side of town, they can suddenly afford new clothes, luxury mobile phones and expensive sunglasses. Made reckless, Mak and his partners use the girl for an even bigger delivery to the same rich man. But then everything goes terribly wrong…Read More »

  • James Hill – A Study in Terror (1965)

    1961-1970CrimeJames HillMysteryUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    In this Sherlock Holmes tale, Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary 19th-century British sleuth (John Neville) is on the trail of Jack the Ripper. In the dark alleys of London, the notorious Ripper has committed a series of gruesome murders when Holmes takes on the task of solving these horrific crimes. The process takes Holmes from the lowest rungs of society all the way to the peak of the aristocracy, discovering blackmail and family insanity everywhere he goes.Read More »

  • Dennis Hopper – Colors [Unrated Version] (1988)

    1981-1990ActionCrimeDennis HopperUSA

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    A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.Read More »

  • Duccio Tessari – La morte risale a ieri sera AKA Death Occurred Last Night (1970)

    1961-1970CrimeDuccio TessariGialloItaly

    Synopsis:

    A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, intellectually disabled woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the killers before the grieving father does.Read More »

  • Ossie Davis – Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

    1961-1970CrimeCultOssie DavisUSA

    Synopsis:
    Harlem’s African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O’Malley (Calvin Lockhart), who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) look into O’Malley’s scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. But the police, O’Malley and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.Read More »

  • Joseph Losey – Time Without Pity (1957)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaJoseph LoseyUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    One of the powerhouses of the 1950s, Time Without Pity is the first film that Joseph Losey signed with his own name after being blacklisted and fleeing the U.S. In effect, it’s the film in which Losey proclaimed himself a Brit, as eager and willing to skewer the establishment there as he had done on the other side of the Atlantic. It’s the one with Michael Redgrave, in a bravura performance, as the alcoholic father in a race against the clock to save his son, whom we know is innocent, from being executed for murder. The film takes aim at capital punishment.Read More »

  • Janusz Majewski – Sprawa Gorgonowej aka The Gorgon Case (1977)

    1971-1980CrimeJanusz MajewskiMysteryPoland

    Dramatic reconstruction of the case of a Polish woman named Emilia Margerita Gorgonowa who was tried for the murder of Elzbieta Zarembianka, the sixteen year old daughter of a successful architect in Lvov at the beginning of the 1930’s. Based on material in the Cracow archives, pertaining to the two trials as well as the diaries and notes of people closely connected to the case. The film attempts to discover why Gorgonowa was vilified and condemned by the public which had an effect on the outcome of the trial. It aims to present a faithful and documented picture of the events accompanying both trials.Read More »

  • Samuel Fuller – The Baron of Arizona (1950)

    1941-1950CrimeSamuel FullerUSAWestern

    Synopsis:
    Thirty years before Arizona achieves statehood, scam artist James Addison Reavis (Vincent Price) cooks up an elaborate scheme to claim the territory as his own. Reavis convinces Mexican immigrant Pepito (Vladimir Sokoloff) that his daughter is the heir to a barony of land granted by Spain, and then departs for years of patient efforts to create a false paper trail. He returns years later to claim the now-grown heir, Sofia (Ellen Drew), as his wife, but will his plan withstand scrutiny?Read More »

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