Crime

  • Nick Grinde – Public Enemy’s Wife (1936)

    1931-1940CrimeMysteryNick GrindeUSA

    Cesar Romero, (Gene Moroc) is a con serving time in prison and also has a wife named Margaret Lindsay, (Judith Maroc), who served time for her husband by not revealing any information to the police. Judith was released from prison after serving her time. However, her husband told her when he gets out he is going to kill her and does not want her to marry anyone. Pat O’Brien, (Lee Laird) and Robert Armstrong,(Gene Ferguson) are FBI Agents who are interested in getting information from Judith. However, Judith changes her name and appearance and she becomes a Public Enemy’s Wife, she has met another man and plans to marry him. Great story with some laughs and truly a great 1936 Film Classic with all great actors.Read More »

  • Jesús Franco – Midnight Party AKA Heisse Berührungen (1976)

    1971-1980BelgiumCrimeEroticaJesus Franco

    Pierre-Alexandre Buisson from IMDb writes:
    It all begins with Lina Romay dancing in chromed pants on a stage in some cheap bar. She hooks two playboys and ends up with an invitation to their midnight orgy. Her communist rock star bearded lover shows up in her dressing room and starts shouting slogans. Her husband pays her a visit. And then she talks directly to the camera, explaining to the viewer she has to get dressed for the party.

    Definitly one of Franco’s numbest and most chaotic features where he plays a sadistic wooden-legged private eye with his trademark black sunglasses. You can see all you want from Romay, who spends most of the movie running around naked. The plot doesn’t seem to be very important and the jokes fly low. If you like Franco you’ll laugh to death watching this one but if you’re a newcomer, you may wonder where the hell can we get some drugs as effective as the ones they used to write this.Read More »

  • Jûzô Itami – Marusa no onna 2 AKA A Taxing Woman’s Return (1988)

    Jûzô Itami1981-1990ComedyCrimeJapan

    yoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.Read More »

  • Jun’ya Satô – Tabi ni deta gokudo AKA Yakuza on Foot (1969)

    1961-1970ActionCrimeJapanJun'ya Satô

    Quote:
    An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.Read More »

  • Jerome Salle – Anthony Zimmer (2005)

    2001-2010CrimeFranceJérôme SalleThriller

    Synopsis:
    Francois has fallen madly in love with a sublime woman. Then he discovers that she is manipulating him, pretending that he is her husband, Anthony Zimmer, a man on the run from hitmen and the authorities. Even though Francois knows that Chiara has lied to him, that she is familiar with the people hunting them, he would give everything he owns – maybe even his life – to know the joy of holding her in his arms once more.Read More »

  • Yannick Andréi – Au-delà de la peur (1975)

    1971-1980CrimeFranceYannick Andréi

    A group of outlaws takes a man’s wife and child hostage. He must walk a fine line between working with the police to rescue his family and not angering the kidnappers to the point where they might hurt or kill them.Read More »

  • Saeed Roustayi – Metri Shesh Va Nim AKA Just 6.5 (2019)

    2011-2020CrimeIranSaeed RoustayiThriller

    The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.Read More »

  • Peter Yates – Bullitt (1968)

    1961-1970CrimePeter YatesThrillerUSA

    Johnny Ross works for Chicago mobster Peter Ross, his brother. In April 1968 Johnny Ross escapes two attempts on his life and flees to San Francisco, where he is placed in protective custody by politician Walter Chalmers, who hopes to use Ross to further his own national aspirations. To protect Ross, Chalmers asks the SFPD to assign Detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt and his partners, Sergeants Don Delgetti and Carl Stanton, to guard him at a flophouse near an overhead freeway. It looks like a simple assignment, but at 1 AM the next day it all goes awry in a blast of a shotgun, leaving Stanton and Ross fighting for life at San Francisco General. Bullitt gets what information he can, but breathing down his neck is the angered Chalmers who vows to ruin Bullitt’s career should Ross die. Bullitt gets a break when the gunman appears at the hospital to finish off Ross, and Bullitt gets a good look at him; now Bullitt must smoke out the gunman and his backup man before Chalmers carries out his threat, leading to a high-speed pursuit, a fiery crash at a gas station, and a fingerprint check that leads to a stunning discovery about Ross, and about a couple staying at a swanky hotel in San Mateo.Read More »

  • Pasquale Squitieri – Il prefetto di ferro AKA I Am the Law (1977)

    1971-1980CrimeDramaItalyPasquale Squitieri

    The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man has been sent by the government to be the governor in that region. He has been given wide-ranging power and authority and is not afraid to use it.Read More »

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