Thirty-year-old Jérémie returns to Saint-Martial to attend an old friend’s funeral. In this village full of things left unsaid, he finds himself the target of rumour and suspicion, to the point he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.Read More »
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Dr. Timothy Kane knows Broadway well. A dying man he once sent to prison asks him to find his daughter and give her his fortune. Shady characters want to get their hands on it.Read More »
Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedding of his brother. In the two days he recounts his neighborhood in a section of Sevilla.Read More »
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This low-budget, independent picture’s most significant point of interest is its writing pedigree — it’s based on a novel by hard-boiled favorite Ed McBain, with a screenplay by the best-selling novelist Harold Robbins. This contributes to a very schizophrenic result. The influence of the former is obvious in the police procedural framework, with some interesting shot-on-location scenes in Spanish Harlem and other NYC locales. The latter’s heavy hand is apparent in the overblown melodramatic scenes which especially mar the last couple of reels.Read More »
Description: Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he’s innocent and asks the town’s most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.Read More »
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn’t commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.Read More »
The mob wanted to make him a corpse… The public wanted to make him a hero.
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
He earned the nickname ‘Squizzy’ due to a droopy left eyelid and the fact that he ran in a ‘squizzy’ motion.Read More »
After short time in London, a murder has happened with a bullet in the form of a black widow for the second time, provides the drinkable journalist Welby to investigate. It turns out that the victim had attended a Mexico expedition several years ago, whose director Avery allegedly came through the bite of a black widow killed. After also former expedition members lose their lives, the suspicion of the attractive daughter Avery falls.Read More »
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In Bangkok, in a low-budget hotel called “Heaven”, the fates of four guests are interconnected due to a theft in a room: Sean, a paranoid English drug dealer, who is dealing with a powerful local drug lord; the British psychologist Rosa, who is grieving the loss of her son and conducting research with poor children in Thailand; a seriously wounded killer, hired to kill the mobster; and Wit, an abused thirteen-year-old bellboy, who steals from the guests. In the end, we see that it is almost impossible to control life and, sometimes, a subtle incident may lead to fatality. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilRead More »