Crime

  • Nabil Ben Yadir – Animals (2021)

    2021-2030BelgiumCrimeDramaNabil Ben YadirQueer Cinema(s)

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    Brahim is a young man, his mother’s joy. One day he will find the love of his life. He will become a family man, he will make everyone proud. One day he will be mature and fulfilled. One day.Read More »

  • Ken Hughes – Joe MacBeth (1955)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaKen HughesUSA

    Plot: Shakespeare (more-or-less) in modern gangster setting. Lily MacBeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new “kingpin” himself. Success is short- lived, however, as he confronts Lennie, a mobster whose father and wife are Joe’s murder victims.Read More »

  • Eloy de la Iglesia – El pico 2 (1984)

    1981-1990CrimeDramaEloy de la IglesiaSpain

    Paco, son of the commander of the Guardia Civil Evaristo Torrecuadrada, has been involved in Bilbao in the murder of a drug dealer couple. His fathers’ efforts in suppressing evidence have nothing to do when the crime appears in the press. Paco is arrested and goes to prison, where he return to do drugs.Read More »

  • Eloy de la Iglesia – El pico AKA Overdose (1983)

    1981-1990CrimeDramaEloy de la IglesiaSpain

    Bilbao, 1980. A right-wing Civil Guard Commander discovers that his 17-year-old son Paco, who he hopes to enter Military Academy, is a heroin addict like Urko, Paco’s best friend and the son of a leftist leader. Paco runs away from home taking a gun from his father. While the Commander initiates the search of his son accompanied by the father of Urko, he begins to discover an unknown world and little by little important changes take place in him.Read More »

  • William A. Wellman – Safe in Hell (1931)

    Drama1931-1940CrimeUSAWilliam A. Wellman

    Sought by the New Orleans police for accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a woman flees New Orleans for a Caribbean island. Surrounded by lecherous criminals, she awaits the return of her fiancé and seems to be holding her own until the treachery of the local police chief leaves her but one choice to gain her freedom.Read More »

  • Dan Curtis – The Kansas City Massacre (1975)

    1971-1980CrimeDan CurtisDramaUSA

    Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.Read More »

  • John Baxter – Judgment Deferred (1952)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaJohn BaxterUSA

    A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made “trial” in the crypt of a ruined church.Read More »

  • Walter Grauman – The Golden Gate Murders (1979)

    USA1971-1980CrimeMysteryWalter Grauman

    In San Francisco, a police detective, aided by a Catholic nun, investigates the case of a priest who falls to his death from the Golden Gate bridge.Read More »

  • Sidney Lumet – Deathtrap (1982)

    1981-1990CrimeMysteryQueer Cinema(s)Sidney LumetUSA

    To make Sidney’s slump all the more painful, Clifford Anderson, a student of one of Sidney’s writing seminars, has recently sent his mentor a copy of his first attempt at playwrighting for Sidney’s review and advice. The play, “Deathtrap,” is a five character, two act thriller so perfect in its construction that, as Sidney says, “A gifted director couldn’t even hurt it.” Using his penchant for plot, and out of his desperate desire to once again be the toast of Broadway, Sidney, along with Myra, cook up an almost unthinkable scheme: They’ll lure the would-be playwright to the Bruhl home, kill him, and market the sure-fire script as Sidney’s own. But shortly after Clifford arrives, it’s clear that things are not what they seem! Indeed, even Helga Ten Dorp, a nosey psychic from next door, and Porter Milgram, Sidney’s observant attorney, can only speculate where the line between truth and deception lies.Read More »

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