The misadventures of an gangster who escapes from prison and who wants to quit the crime world. Having killed a criminal as pay-back, he goes to Marseille to head abroad with his girlfriend. But a lack of money forces him to accept a job, a hold-up, to settle accounts with the victim’s brother, all this with the cops on his tail.Read More »
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Alain Corneau – Le deuxième souffle AKA The Second Wind (2007)
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Patrick Jamain – L’affaire Crazy Capo AKA The Crazy Capo Affair (1973)
1971-1980CrimeFrancePatrick JamainThrillerJean Diserens has a double life: he is both a real estate developer and a drug dealer. He is looking for new ways to make money. But his superior, Crazy Capo, does not see things the same way.Read More »
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Fritz Lang – Spione aka Spies (1928)
1921-1930Fritz LangGermanySilentThrillerWeimar Republic cinemaSynopsis: Spies (Spione) was the first independent production of German “thriller” director Fritz Lang. The years-ahead-of-its-time plotline involves Russian espionage activity in London. The mastermind is Haghi (Rudolph Klein-Rogge), a supposedly respectable carnival sideshow entertainer. Heading the good guys is Agent 326 (Willy Fritsch), with the help of defecting Russian spy Sonya (Gerda Maurus). The film moves swiftly to several potential climaxes, each one more exciting than its predecessor. Haghi’s ultimate demise is a superbly staged Pirandellian vignette. Anticipating Citizen Kane by a dozen years, director Lang dispenses with all transitional dissolves and fade-outs, flat-cutting territory from one scene to another. The film was co-scripted by Lang and his then-wife Thea Von Harbou. – Hal Erickson (AMG)Read More »
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John Frankenheimer – Black Sunday (1977)
1971-1980ActionJohn FrankenheimerThrillerUSABlack Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance.Read More »
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Ferenc András – Dögkeselyü AKA The Vulture (1982)
1981-1990CrimeFerenc AndrásHungaryThrillerQuote:
Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself. In his search he sinks deeper and deeper into the Hungarian crime world. He becomes a criminal and then his rampage begins until the unpredictable climax.Read More » -
William A. Graham – Sleeping with the Devil (1997)
1991-2000DramaThrillerUSAWilliam A. GrahamA woman recovering from a domestic-violence relationship finds out that her former partner still wants her–even if it means killing her.Read More »
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Martin Kitrosser – Daddy’s Girl (1996)
1991-2000DramaMartin KitrosserThrillerUSAA girl’s bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.Read More »
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Tony Spiridakis – Noise (2004)
2001-2010DramaThrillerTony SpiridakisUSAJoyce Chandler (Trish Goff), a young divorced woman and recovering alcoholic, moves into a Manhattan apartment that seems a bit too secluded to be true. It is: Upstairs lives Charlotte Bancroft (Ally Sheedy), a woman with a wall of obliviousness who can turn even an ‘apology’ into a guilt trip, Charlotte persists in making Joyce’s nighttime hours a living hell. As the torture continues, Joyce starts to lose her grip on her job, her health and her sanity. It’s a heck of a price to pay for having your own place.Read More »
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Lou Antonio – Passport to Terror AKA Dark Holiday (1989)
1981-1990DramaLou AntonioThrillerUSAAn American tourist on vacation in Turkey is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn’t want; then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.Read More »