Movie | United States | 08/10/1990 | Crime | Mystery
This sequel to the classic Chinatown finds private detective Jake Gittes still haunted from the events of the first film. Hired by a man to investigate his wife's infidelities, Jake once again finds himself involved in a complicated plot involving murder, oil, and even some ghosts from his past.
Movie | United States | 09/19/1997 | Crime | Noir
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films. Based on the multi-layered James Ellroy novel.
Movie | United States | 08/22/2014 | Crime | Noir
Some of Sin Citys most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Movie | Czech Republic | 03/08/1946 | Crime | Noir
Movie | United States | 05/26/1994 | Crime | Noir
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to Chicago, where she ensnares her next conquest, insurance man Mike Swale (Peter Berg). After getting a job at his insurance company, Bridget convinces Mike to run a scam -- but things take a deadly turn when she recruits him to help get rid of her husband.
Movie | United States | 04/23/1958 | Crime | Noir
Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town.
Movie | United Kingdom | 11/25/1947 | Crime | Noir
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Movie | United Kingdom | 08/31/1949 | Crime | Noir
An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.
Movie | United Kingdom | 07/29/1957 | Crime | Noir
Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
Movie | United States | 09/24/1945 | Crime | Noir
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
Movie | United States | 09/15/1989 | Crime | Noir
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Movie | France | 10/21/1960 | Crime | Noir
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena...
Movie | United Kingdom | 01/09/1948 | Crime | Noir
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as Pinkie – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
Movie | United Kingdom | 12/02/1958 | Crime | Noir
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Movie | United States | 09/17/1954 | Crime | Noir
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Movie | United Kingdom | 06/13/1986 | Crime | Noir
George has just been released from prison, and manages to get a job driving an expensive call girl from customer to customer. Initially they don't get on - he doesn't fit in with the high class customers Simone services. Will they ever get on?
Movie | France | 09/02/1942 | Crime | Noir
A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montes, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1.
Movie | United States | 10/06/1972 | Crime | Revenge
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he'll discover who killed his father.
Movie | United States | 12/25/1973 | Crime | Heist
Set in the 1930's this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Movie | United States | 06/22/1979 | Crime | Prison
A dramatization of the one possibly successful escape from the notorious prison.
Movie | United States | 04/07/1974 | Crime | Spies
The Conversation is a Francis Ford Coppola thriller from 1974 about a professional surveillance man who is hired to record the conversations between two workers. Yet it looks like he’s gotten into more than he’s getting paid for as information about a murder may have been recorded.
Movie | United States | 10/02/1973 | Crime | Gangsters
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Movie | United States | 02/08/1979 | Crime | Gangsters
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Movie | United States | 03/12/1971 | Crime
Movie | United States | 03/10/1972 | Crime | Road Trip
Based on \Sister of the Road,\ the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30's meets up with rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly and they team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment and she is even
Movie | United States | 06/11/1975 | Crime
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
Movie | United States | 09/24/1975 | Crime | Conspiracy
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.