Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when “the red light is on” at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis’ younger brother is a police informer.Read More »
Crime
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Gilles Grangier – Le rouge est mis AKA Speaking of Murder (1957)
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Douglas Jackson – Natural Enemy (1996)
1991-2000CanadaCrimeDouglas JacksonDrama

A businessman (Donald Sutherland) has a hotshot young new partner (William McNamara). What he doesn’t realise is that his new partner is the son of his second wife, adopted into an abusive family at birth and now a raving psychopath out to murder his natural mother for whom he blames the miseries of his lifetime.Read More »
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Chûsei Sone – Jokôsei: Tenshi no harawata AKA Angel Guts: High School Coed (1978)
Chûsei Sone1971-1980CrimeExploitationJapanKawashima, Kajima, and Sadakuni spend their days riding motorcycles and terrorizing/raping young girls. Kawashima is overly protective of his little sister, Megu, who does not know about her brother’s terrible activities.Read More »
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Stuart Cooper – Out of Annie’s Past (1995)
1991-2000CrimeDramaStuart CooperUSAAnnie’s goat a secret past she’s eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret. As the stakes increase, though, so do the ruthless and brutal actions of all those involved. Soon, deaths of some major players in the game change the stakes from dollars and cents to life and death. An original USA made for cable movie.Read More »
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Alfred Hitchcock – Dial M for Murder (1954)
Crime1951-1960Alfred HitchcockMysteryUSAStoryline
In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned.Read More » -
Shaohong Li – Xuese Qingchen AKA Bloody Morning (1992)
1991-2000ChinaCrimeDramaFifth Generation Chinese CinemaShaohong LiPlot: The young teacher Li Mingguang is to be murdered in the north of China because of having taken the virginity from the young girl Li Pingwa. The whole family wants to take revenge on him for that, even the whole village.Read More »
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Yôichi Sai – Tomo yo shizukani nemure AKA Let Him Rest in Peace (1985) (HD)
1981-1990AsianCrimeJapanYôichi SaiTsuyoshi Shindo came to the town of Tamari to prove the innocence of his friend, Sakaguchi. Sakaguchi was accused of attacking the president of Shimoyama Kensetsu, a local construction company, with a knife. Shindo knew Sakaguchi was not capable of committing such a crime. During his investigation, Shindo discovered the town and its police force to be under the control of Shimoyama. That made Shindo a marked man, with Shimoyama’s henchmen attacking in an effort to force him to end his investigation and leave town.Read More »
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Ferenc András – Dögkeselyü AKA The Vulture (1982)
1981-1990CrimeFerenc AndrásHungaryThriller

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Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself. In his search he sinks deeper and deeper into the Hungarian crime world. He becomes a criminal and then his rampage begins until the unpredictable climax.Read More » -
Carlo Lizzani – Barbagia (La società del malessere) (1969)
1961-1970Carlo LizzaniCrimeItaly

This film, like ‘Pelle di Bandito’ (and probably ‘I Protagonisti’) is a fictional dramatisation of the life and times of the real life bandit Graziano Mesina (Lizzani only changes the surname)Read More »





