Crime

  • Robert Hendrickson & Laurence Merrick – Manson (1973)

    1971-1980CrimeDocumentaryRobert HendricksonUSA

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    Documentary on Charles Manson and his family. Has a number of insightful interviews with many family members most notably Squeaky and Sandy (Blue and Red). There is also a history of Manson from his birth to the family formation to the Tate/La Bianca murders. Plenty of footage of the family playing at Spahn Ranch.Read More »

  • Montgomery Tully – Clash by Night (1963)

    1961-1970CrimeDramaMontgomery TullyUnited Kingdom

    britmovie.co.uk wrote:
    Excellent British co-feature that develops briskly and is slightly longer than usual for this sort of film. Despite its length, Montgomery Tully’s crime drama is well adapted from Rupert Croft-Cooke’s novel and contains fine characterizations from a strong cast.
    Ernie Peel (Arthur Lovegrove) is a prison bus driver bribed to take a detour en-route to jail so as to enable a gang of crooks to free their boss Bart Rennison (Tom Bowman).Read More »

  • Tim Blake Nelson – Eye of God (1997)

    1991-2000CrimeDramaTim Blake NelsonUSA

    We see two stories told over four time lines, which wind down to a devastating ground zero collision, as we watch a double tragedy unfold in a small Oklahoma town. The two stories are told out of normal time sequence, showing us brief glimpses of the beginning, middle and end of the two stories in seemingly random order. One story concerns Ainsley DuPree, who meets and marries her prison pen pal Jack. The other story begins with the discovery of a mute and bloody teenager, found wandering and in shock in the middle of the night, and the efforts of the town sheriff to determine what happened to him. As the film unfolds these tales, the viewer is confronted with questions of the existence and mercy of God and the hopelessness of being alone and adrift in an indifferent world.Read More »

  • Anders Thomas Jensen – Adams æbler AKA Adam’s Apples (2005)

    Anders Thomas Jensen2021-2030ComedyCrimeDenmark

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    Danish black humour takes a sinister and thought-provoking turn with Jensen’s mature directorial opus, Adam’s Apples.

    Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen) is a village priest with an unquenchably tolerant and forgiving attitude. He is accompanied by the pugilistic neo-Nazi Adam, the thieving Gunnar, and the would-be terrorist Khalid. An apple tree outside the church offers Adam the chance to complete a constructive task – baking a pie – but the apple tree is beset by misfortune. The storyline will be enough to make the most unshockable squirm and includes jokes about disability, rape, and cruelty to animals just for starters. Whether you feel the end justifies the means or you plump on the side of condemning it as bad taste may be to do with your sensibilities and how you look at such issues.Read More »

  • Anthony Neilson –  Debt Collector (1999)

    1991-2000ActionAnthony NeilsonCrimeUnited Kingdom

    Edinburgh cop Gary Keltie pursues violent 1970s debt collector Nickie Dryden, seeking revenge for his brutal crimes against locals. Their conflict escalates into a final violent confrontation on the city streets.Read More »

  • Todd Morris – A Gun for Jennifer (1997)

    1991-2000CrimeExploitationQueer Cinema(s)Todd MorrisUSA

    After deciding that violence against women in New York City has gone too far, a group of Manhattan strippers form a vigilante society to fight back as ruthlessly as possible. As the media hones in on the string of murders and castrations that the posse leaves in its wake, two women become drawn to the renegade group in very different ways.Read More »

  • Peter Godfrey – Please Murder Me (1956)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaPeter GodfreyUSA

    A lawyer suffers a guilt complex after getting a murder acquittal for his client, and then finding out she did commit the crime.Read More »

  • Edward L. Cahn – Betrayed Women (1955)

    USA1951-1960CrimeDramaEdward L. Cahn

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    The governor appoints lawyer Jeff Darrow to open an investigation on the reported cruelties inflicted on the inmates of the Bayou Reformatory For Women. The investigation is opposed by Mrs. Ballard, head of the prison, whose moronic brother, Cletus, is keeper of the prison bloodhounds. Nora Collins, once engaged to Jeff, but now an inmate because she had stolen to protect her brother, is resentful of prison methods and particularly bitter against the sadistic methods of a brutal prison guard named Darcy. Honey Blake and Kate unsuccessfully try to use Cletus in an escape attempt. But they try a second escape using Jeff, Nora and Mrs. Ballard as hostages. Mabry, Kate’s gangland lover, hears of the escape and knowing she will go where she had hidden $50,000 gets there ahead of her.Read More »

  • Yoshio Inoue – Onna koroshiya: Mesu inu (1969)

    1961-1970ActionCrimeJapanYoshio Inoue

    A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman…Read More »

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