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American cinema: Crime/Thriller
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Robert Florey
Paris, 1845. One day, medical student Pierre Dupin takes his girlfriend Camille to a street carnival where the main attraction is Dr Mirakle and his giant ape Erik...
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Robert Florey
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
Henry Koster
Southern England in the 1830s. In his early twenties, Philip Ashley lives on the large Cornish estate of his cousin Ambrose whilst the latter, his guardian since childhood, resides in Florence for health reasons...
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Henry Koster
The Naked City (1948)
Jules Dassin
One hot summer evening in New York City, playgirl Jean Dexter, is murdered, downed in her bathtub by two assailants. Detective Lieutenant Dan Muldoon is assigned to investigate the killing, assisted by his less experienced colleague Jimmy Halloran...
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Jules Dassin
Niagara (1953)
Henry Hathaway
Ray and Polly Cutler arrive at Niagara Falls, where they hope to spend their belated honeymoon in peace. The holiday gets off to a bad start when they learn that their cottage is occupied by another couple, George and Rose Loomis...
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Henry Hathaway
The Nickel Ride (1974)
Robert Mulligan
Cooper is a middle-aged crime boss who successfully manages a number of warehouses in Los Angeles which store stolen goods...
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Robert Mulligan
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Charles Laughton
It is the Great Depression and for most ordinary Americans life is unbearably hard. Desperation drives Ben Harper, a young father, to rob a bank, but in the attempt he kills two men... [More...]
Charles Laughton
It is the Great Depression and for most ordinary Americans life is unbearably hard. Desperation drives Ben Harper, a young father, to rob a bank, but in the attempt he kills two men... [More...]
Nightfall (1957)
Jacques Tourneur
One evening, commercial artist James Vanning makes the acquaintance of Marie Gardner in a cheap bar. She claims to be a model and offers to pose for him, but on leaving the bar Vanning is seized by two thugs and bundled into a car... [More...]
Jacques Tourneur
One evening, commercial artist James Vanning makes the acquaintance of Marie Gardner in a cheap bar. She claims to be a model and offers to pose for him, but on leaving the bar Vanning is seized by two thugs and bundled into a car... [More...]
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Nicholas Ray
Jim Wilson is a hard-bitten detective who has no qualms about using violence and underhand methods when it comes to dealing with the city's lowlife... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
Jim Wilson is a hard-bitten detective who has no qualms about using violence and underhand methods when it comes to dealing with the city's lowlife... [More...]
Out of the Past (1947)
Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Bailey is leading a contented if uneventful life as a petrol station owner in a backwater town when his murky past suddenly catches up with him... [More...]
Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Bailey is leading a contented if uneventful life as a petrol station owner in a backwater town when his murky past suddenly catches up with him... [More...]
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Elia Kazan
When a dead body is found on the New Orleans waterfront, its gunshot wounds leave no doubt as to the cause of death. But the man would have died even if he had not been shot, as he was infected with pneumonic plague, a lethal strain of bubonic plague... [More...]
Elia Kazan
When a dead body is found on the New Orleans waterfront, its gunshot wounds leave no doubt as to the cause of death. But the man would have died even if he had not been shot, as he was infected with pneumonic plague, a lethal strain of bubonic plague... [More...]
Party Girl (1958)
Nicholas Ray
Chicago, in the early 1930s. Thomas Farrell is a lawyer who makes a healthy living defending the town's mobsters, most notably the feared gangster boss Rico Angelo... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
Chicago, in the early 1930s. Thomas Farrell is a lawyer who makes a healthy living defending the town's mobsters, most notably the feared gangster boss Rico Angelo... [More...]
The Pearl of Death (1944)
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes makes the blunder of his career when he unwittingly allows master criminal Giles Conover to steal a priceless pearl which is on display at a London museum... [More...]
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes makes the blunder of his career when he unwittingly allows master criminal Giles Conover to steal a priceless pearl which is on display at a London museum... [More...]
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Archie Mayo
Alan Squier, a failed British writer, ends up hitchhiking his way across North America. Whilst crossing the Arizona desert he comes across a diner when he strikes up an immediate rapport with Gabrielle, the daughter of the eatery's owner... [More...]
Archie Mayo
Alan Squier, a failed British writer, ends up hitchhiking his way across North America. Whilst crossing the Arizona desert he comes across a diner when he strikes up an immediate rapport with Gabrielle, the daughter of the eatery's owner... [More...]
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Samuel Fuller
Pickpocket Skip McCoy finds himself in greater trouble than he could ever have imagined when he steals a woman's purse containing microfilm of government secrets... [More...]
Samuel Fuller
Pickpocket Skip McCoy finds himself in greater trouble than he could ever have imagined when he steals a woman's purse containing microfilm of government secrets... [More...]
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Blake Edwards
Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position... [More...]
Blake Edwards
Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position... [More...]
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Tay Garnett
Frank Chambers, an unemployed drifter, is touring the backwaters of California when he comes across a roadside café which has a vacancy for a handyman... [More...]
Tay Garnett
Frank Chambers, an unemployed drifter, is touring the backwaters of California when he comes across a roadside café which has a vacancy for a handyman... [More...]
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Quentin Tarantino
When a group of drugs dealing college kids attempt to double cross him, Los Angeles gangster boss Marsellus Wallace sends two of his henchmen, Jules and Vincent, to pay them a house call and collect a mysterious briefcase... [More...]
Quentin Tarantino
When a group of drugs dealing college kids attempt to double cross him, Los Angeles gangster boss Marsellus Wallace sends two of his henchmen, Jules and Vincent, to pay them a house call and collect a mysterious briefcase... [More...]
Pushover (1954)
Richard Quine
When hoodlum Harry Wheeler pulls off a bank robbery, detective Paul Sheridan is tasked with maintaining a 24 hour surveillance on his girlfriend, Lona McLane... [More...]
Richard Quine
When hoodlum Harry Wheeler pulls off a bank robbery, detective Paul Sheridan is tasked with maintaining a 24 hour surveillance on his girlfriend, Lona McLane... [More...]
Rage in Heaven (1941)
W.S. Van Dyke
England, 1936. After a chance meeting, Phillip Monrell invites his old college friend Ward Andrews to his grand family home... [More...]
W.S. Van Dyke
England, 1936. After a chance meeting, Phillip Monrell invites his old college friend Ward Andrews to his grand family home... [More...]
Rear Window (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock
Injured on one of his assignments, magazine photographer L. B. Jefferies - known to his friends as Jeff - finds himself confined to his New York apartment with his leg in plaster and only his nurse Stella and girlfriend Lisa to keep him company... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Injured on one of his assignments, magazine photographer L. B. Jefferies - known to his friends as Jeff - finds himself confined to his New York apartment with his leg in plaster and only his nurse Stella and girlfriend Lisa to keep him company... [More...]
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Quentin Tarantino
Eight men take breakfast together at a Los Angeles diner, their last meeting before they participate in a daylight jewel robbery... [More...]
Quentin Tarantino
Eight men take breakfast together at a Los Angeles diner, their last meeting before they participate in a daylight jewel robbery... [More...]
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Raoul Walsh
Returning to New York after World War I, Eddie Bartlett has difficulty finding honest work. The introduction of Prohibition gives him his first break - he makes easy money by delivering illicit alcohol... [More...]
Raoul Walsh
Returning to New York after World War I, Eddie Bartlett has difficulty finding honest work. The introduction of Prohibition gives him his first break - he makes easy money by delivering illicit alcohol... [More...]
Rogue Cop (1954)
Roy Rowland
After honest cop Eddie Kelvaney witnesses a stabbing in a penny arcade, gangster bosses Beaumonte and Ackerman put pressure on his brother Chris, another cop, to ensure the murderer is not brought to justice... [More...]
Roy Rowland
After honest cop Eddie Kelvaney witnesses a stabbing in a penny arcade, gangster bosses Beaumonte and Ackerman put pressure on his brother Chris, another cop, to ensure the murderer is not brought to justice... [More...]
Rope (1948)
Alfred Hitchcock
In their top floor New York apartment, two well-heeled students, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, have just strangled one of their college chums, David Kentley, with a rope... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
In their top floor New York apartment, two well-heeled students, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, have just strangled one of their college chums, David Kentley, with a rope... [More...]
The Saint in London (1939)
John Paddy Carstairs
On his return to London, high class thief Simon Templar, alias The Saint, investigates the suspicious activities of Bruno Lang, a society gambler who appears to be implicated in a plot to print one million pounds in foreign currency... [More...]
John Paddy Carstairs
On his return to London, high class thief Simon Templar, alias The Saint, investigates the suspicious activities of Bruno Lang, a society gambler who appears to be implicated in a plot to print one million pounds in foreign currency... [More...]
Scarface (1932)
Howard Hawks
Chicago in the late 1920s. Alcohol prohibition has bred a new scourge - gangland crime - yet the authorities are helpless in preventing its spread... [More...]
Howard Hawks
Chicago in the late 1920s. Alcohol prohibition has bred a new scourge - gangland crime - yet the authorities are helpless in preventing its spread... [More...]
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are in Quebec to attend a conference on the occult chaired by the eminent specialist in the field, Lord Penrose... [More...]
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are in Quebec to attend a conference on the occult chaired by the eminent specialist in the field, Lord Penrose... [More...]
Scream (1996)
Wes Craven
Shock and fear descend on a small American town when two high school students are brutally killed by a masked psycho-killer... [More...]
Wes Craven
Shock and fear descend on a small American town when two high school students are brutally killed by a masked psycho-killer... [More...]
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Alfred Hitchcock
Young Charlie Newton is delighted when she receives a telegraph from her Uncle Charlie notifying her that he intends spending some time with her family in the peaceful American town of Santa Rosa... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Young Charlie Newton is delighted when she receives a telegraph from her Uncle Charlie notifying her that he intends spending some time with her family in the peaceful American town of Santa Rosa... [More...]
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Roy William Neill
During WWII, Musgrave Manor serves as a convalescent home for officers wounded in the war. When one of his colleagues is attacked by an unknown assailant one evening, Dr Watson invites his friend Sherlock Holmes to the house to investigate... [More...]
Roy William Neill
During WWII, Musgrave Manor serves as a convalescent home for officers wounded in the war. When one of his colleagues is attacked by an unknown assailant one evening, Dr Watson invites his friend Sherlock Holmes to the house to investigate... [More...]