Crime

  • José Giovanni – Un aller simple AKA One Way Ticket (1971)

    José Giovanni1971-1980CrimeDramaFrance

    A small-time criminal wants to give up his life of crime. He performs a robbery with a friend, with similar feelings, and things go sour.Read More »

  • Wai-keung Lau & Siu Fai Mak – Mou gaan dou II AKA Infernal Affairs 2 (2003)

    Wai-Keung Lau2001-2010CrimeDramaHong KongSiu Fai Mak

    IMDb wrote:
    In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.Read More »

  • Robert Siodmak – Deported (1950)

    Robert Siodmak1941-1950CrimeDramaUSA

    An American gangster sent back to his home country falls in love with a widowed countess.

    Letterboxd review
    ★★★½ Watched by Reza Said 04 Sep 2021

    Deported (Robert Siodmak, 1950) 7/10

    Atmospheric B-movie is very loosely based on events in the life of Lucky Luciano. An Italian-American gangster (Jeff Chandler) is deported to Italy after spending five years in jail for a robbery in New York. The tough, cynical man finds that the local people in his village look up to him, the street urchins love him and the local Countess (Märta Torén), a widow, is enamoured of him and likes his company. A local cop (Claude Dauphin) is suspicious and lies await for the crook to get the stolen loot across from America. Siodmak, back in Europe after many years in Hollywood, creates an interesting little film which also turns out to be an Italian travelogue with scenes shot by the great William Daniels in Naples, Siena and Tuscany. There is great chemistry between Chandler and Märta Torén while lovely Marina Berti adds to the local colour.Read More »

  • Wallace Worsley – The Penalty (1920)

    Wallace Worsley1911-1920CrimeSilentUSA

    In a role that established him as one of the most dynamically terrifying performers of the silent screen, Lon Chaney stars in THE PENALTY, a grotesque thriller from director Wallace Worsley (The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

    When an incompetent doctor amputates the legs of a young boy, he has no idea that the youth will grow up to be the immoral and embittered Blizzard, a criminal mastermind who orchestrates a bizarre and heinous plot to avenge himself upon his malefactor. THE PENALTY teems with irony and sexual menace as Blizzard befriends the surgeon’s daughter and serves as an artist’s model for her sculptural rendition of Satan, waiting for his moment to show the depth of his demonic desires.Read More »

  • Herbert Ross – The Last of Sheila (1973)

    Herbert Ross1971-1980CrimeMysteryUSA

    A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.Read More »

  • Ringo Lam – Hok Haau Fung Wan AKA School on Fire (1988)

    1981-1990ActionCrimeHong KongRingo Lam

    A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong (Fennie Yuen) becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she testifies in court over a triad beating. When this news reaches the triad leader Brother Smart (Roy Cheung), Yuen Fong must pay him protection money for what she has done as events begin to escalate.Read More »

  • Kenji Misumi – Sakura no Daimon AKA Internal Sleuth (1973)

    Kenji Misumi1971-1980AsianCrimeJapan

    When 150 guns are lost from the Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective tries to find out the truth.

    Review by kagetsuhisoka:
    Kenji Misumi’s nihilistic cop movie has finally been subbed. This is an amazing (and in my opinion) superior companion piece to Shintaro Katsu’s The Big Boss, which I uploaded not long ago. dimax9 provided me with a copy of the movie. Subs were timed and commissioned by me (thanks TheCatacomb as always). chapaev patched the DVD.Read More »

  • Cy Endfield – The Secret (1955)

    1951-1960CrimeCy EndfieldDramaUnited Kingdom

    Plot Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
    In this crime drama, an American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear. Just before he talks her into helping him, she is pushed off of a cliff. He becomes the prime suspect and mayhem ensues when he gets the jewels, but then loses them to a gang of thieves. Fortunately, by the story’s end, he proves his innocence, and brings the gang to justice.Read More »

  • Petr Václav – Cesta ven AKA The Way Out (2014)

    Petr Václav2011-2020CrimeCzech RepublicDrama

    Cesta Ven tells a story of a young Romani couple, Zaneta and David, the parents of little Janicka. Their efforts to live a decent and dignified life run up against the “Romani social trap,” which is racism, the society’s prejudices.Read More »

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