Crime

  • Victor Saville & George White – My Gun Is Quick (1957)

    1951-1960CrimeGeorge WhiteMysteryUSAVictor Saville

    Million-Dollar DAMES…A Million-Buck HEIST!…A Million Volt SHOCKER!

    Detective Mike Hammer’s investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.Read More »

  • Gene Fowler Jr. – Gang War (1958)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaGene Fowler Jr.USA

    Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
    In a seminal version of his Death Wish characterization, Charles Bronson plays Alan Avery, a mild-manned L.A. schoolteacher who elects to stay mum after witnessing a gangland slaying. Forced to testify against the killers by the cops, Avery is turn terrorized by the Mob, who subsequently bring about the death of Avery’s pregnant wife Edie (Gloria Henry). Meek and mild no longer, the outraged Avery embarks upon a one-man vendetta against the villains. The climax occurs in the posh mansion of gang boss Maxie Matthews (John Doucette)–who, as it turns out, isn’t really worth killing. Based on a novel by Ovid Demaris, Gang War was one of a group of inexpensive second features released by 20th Century-Fox for the drive-in crowd.Read More »

  • Peter Lorre – Der Verlorene AKA The Lost One (1951)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaGermanyPeter Lorre

    Shortly after the end of the war in 1945 in Germany: the doctor and former scientist Karl Rothe (Peter Lorre) works under a false name in a refugee and reception center. He is a “lost” man who has taken personal guilt on himself. He meets a newcomer named Nowak (Karl John). This was already in the war year 1943 his coworker and is actually Hösch. In flashbacks one learns that Rothes then fiancée, Inge Hermann (Renate Mannhardt) spied for the Allies and forwarded information to England. She agreed to an affair with the opportunist Hösch. Rothe killed his lover, more out of jealousy than loyalty to the line. But he was not punished for this crime. Hösch covered him out of “higher” interest. His research was more important to the Nazis than the atonement of murder. The terrible beginning of a deadly spiral …Read More »

  • Dominik Graf – Tatort: Der rote Schatten (2017)

    2011-2020CrimeDominik GrafGermanyThriller

    Christoph Heider is caught as he abducts the body of his wife from the cemetery chapel. Marianne Heider allegedly died in a bathtub accident, but Heider considers her current partner Wilhelm Jordan guilty and would like to have her autopsied again abroad.Read More »

  • Koji Wakamatsu – Singapore Sling (1993)

    1991-2000AsianCrimeJapanKoji Wakamatsu

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    Japanese directors rarely fare well when they venture outside their home turf, the 80s and 90s weren’t really Wakamatsu’s best eras either. Just to say that expectations were pretty low when I started Singapore Sling. I wasn’t really prepared for a film this bad though, it is by far the worst thing I’ve seen from Wakamatsu up until this point.

    Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he’s imprisoned without a chance of ever getting out again. His wife tries her best to launch an appeal, but it’s Tatsuya’s inmates who are his best chance of escaping his current predicament.Read More »

  • Amitabh Reza Chowdhury – Aynabaji AKA Mirror Game (2016)

    2011-2020Amitabh Reza ChowdhuryBangladeshCrime

    Plot:
    Ayna is an actor and the prison is his stage. He slips into the characters of the powerful convicted in exchange of money and take their place in prison. This strange profession is borne out of a society that doesn’t give him a chance to follow his passion of acting, but forces him to act in the real life. Falling in love with the girl next door changes his life equation and he decides to end this career with one last performance. But this one takes him too deep in the rabbit hole. The story unfolds on how an underdog survives in a society that is merciless and struggles his way out from the clutch of crime game in which he is a part too.Read More »

  • Peter Welz – Burning Life (1994)

    1991-2000ComedyCrimeGermanyPeter Welz

    IMDB review by: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    In the unified Germany, the aspirant of singer Anna (Maria Schrader) drives her old Russian car to a small town trying to get the job of singer in a bar. Meanwhile, the twenty years old Lisa (Anna Thalbach), who is disturbed with the suicide of her father, arrives in the same town. They meet each other by chance in a bank, where they begin a successful career of bank thieves. A nasty detective from the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in charge of the investigation starts a touch chase trying to catch them and destroy the empathy of the population for them.Read More »

  • Juliet Berto & Jean-Henri Roger – Cap Canaille (1983) (DVD)

    1981-1990CrimeCultFranceJean-Henri RogerJuliet Berto

    Marseille, the 80s. Criminal fires, real estate business.
    A burnt hill belongs to Paula Baretto, her only goods and heritage from her murdered father, ex-chemist of the French Connection…Read More »

  • Haruhiko Mimura – Amagi goe AKA Amagi Pass (1983)

    1981-1990CrimeHaruhiko MimuraJapanMystery

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    Based on novel by MATSUMOTO Seicho
    The year is 1926. Unhappy with his drunken father and the constant bickering, 15-year-old Takichi runs away from home to Mt. Amagi. During his lonely escapade, he meets interesting characters, including a beautiful prostitute named Hana. They stumble upon a drifter who is later found dead. Hana is implicated in the murder, but she is released for the lack of evidence. Thirty years later, they’ve gone on with their separate lives. Takichi hears of Hana’s whereabouts from a retired police investigator. He embarks on yet another journey to find her…Read More »

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