Crime

A Brooklyn couple suspects foul play when their rent controlled neighbor suddenly drops dead.Read More »

A juror on a murder case begins to believe that the man on trial is innocent of the crime – and then discovers that the real killer is her own husband.Read More »

The true story of a woman’s suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.Read More »

By no means a great work, this television movie – a pilot for a series that was never made – does have some strong moments.

The plot focuses on a team of Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles trying to take down a mobster and a corrupt civil servant. James Olmos plays the straight arrow US Attorney, David Canary is his younger assistant, and Robert Pine (later to land a starring role in CHiPs), the naïve young law school graduate. Together they doggedly pursue Mafia boss Dominic Leopold (Gilbert Roland), piece by piece.Read More »

Criminal defense attorney Arthur Jamison wants to get a divorce from his wife Louise Jamison. He knows that the downside would be the hefty alimony payments his wife would receive from him. Instead of facing this monetary dilemma, he comes up with an imaginary alter ego to help him plan the perfect murder of his wife.Read More »

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Actor Lawrence Harvey made his debut as a writer and director with this downbeat drama. Sean McKenna (Harvey) is awaiting execution in a prison in Tangiers after being convicted of murder. McKenna was trying to prevent the crime in question but was instead made the scapegoat. With his life hanging in the balance, McKenna’s girlfriend Catherine (Sarah Miles) and his brother Dominic (Robert Walker Jr.) engineer an escape plan, and McKenna is able to beat his date with the hangman. However, McKenna’s reunion with Dominic and Catherine proves not to be as joyous as he had expected when he discovers that they have been having an affair. Harvey was to direct only two more films, the second of which, Welcome to Arrow Beach, would prove to be his final work.Read More »

After three long years the young secretary Bodil is reunited with her former love, Carsten. Unfortunately, she has in the meantime approached the skirt-chaser Hugo. If she wants to have a future with Carsten she has to find a solution but it’s not easy.Read More »

Realising that times have changed, five unscrupulous crooks decide it is time for a reappraisal of their line of business. Prostitutes are demanding the right to strike, workers now dismiss their bosses rather than the other way round, and the world is being refashioned by political and social revolutions. For Lino, Jacques, Simon, Charlot and Aldo, the days of robbing banks are a thing of the past. Now they decide to make an active participation in this brave new world, by hijacking aeroplanes and kidnapping high-profile public figures, starting with the rock singer Johnny Halliday. It proves to be a very lucrative enterprise, until one of their victims turns the tables on them…Read More »

Leonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date. And if he disapproves of them, he probably will have them killed to get them out of his daughters’ life.Read More »