Crime

  • Fred Olen Ray – Armed Response (1986)

    Fred Olen Ray1981-1990ActionCrimeUSA

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    One of Tanaka’s underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade goes down bad and Clay Roth is killed. This angers Roth’s brothers and father, all combat veterans, and they go after the people responsible.Read More »

  • Bernd Eichinger – Das Mädchen Rosemarie AKA A Girl Called Rosemary (1996)

    Bernd Eichinger1991-2000CrimeDramaGermany

    A historical drama set in the 1950s, based on real-life events. Rosemarie Nitribitt comes out of a remand center, runs away from her foster parents, and ends up working as a barmaid in a Frankfurt nightclub. A wealthy French businessman offers to set her up in return for tape-recordings of her sex sessions with German VIPs.Read More »

  • James Gray – Little Odessa (1994)

    James Gray1991-2000CrimeDramaUSA

    The film follows the personal relationship between a father and his two sons, one of whom is a hit-man for the Russian mafia in Brooklyn.

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    Harmonious yet cold as ice, “Little Odessa” is built through melancholy, kinship, and violence, violence that comes from every place, at any time, and against anyone and everyone. Once in contact with it, the vicious circle starts with a point of no return, leaving adversity and many casualties behind.Read More »

  • Walter Hill – Extreme Prejudice (1987)

    Walter Hill1981-1990ActionCrimeUSA

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    Modern-day Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) was once the best friend of local drug kingpin Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe). At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack’s lover Sarita (Maria Conchita Alonso), Cash’s former mistress. When Sarita tires of Jack’s Spartan lifestyle, she returns to Cash as a voluntary hostage to make certain that Jack keeps his hands off Cash’s operation. The film comes to a head during a meticulously planned drug bust, in which both Jack and Cash butt heads with CIA-funded paramilitary Maj. Paul Hackett (Michael Ironside, who isn’t all he seems to be).Read More »

  • Joseph Sargent – Kojak: The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973)

    Joseph Sargent1971-1980ActionCrimeUSA

    This film is based on a real case, the Wylie-Hoffert murder. A case that led to a fundamental change in US law. 
Two young girls are found murdered in their apartment in East Manhattan and Theo Kojack heads up the investigation. When a young black man is arrested and confesses to the murder Kojack is suspicious. Getting a lead from a junkie, Kojack goes on to prove the innocence of one man and the guilt of another.Read More »

  • John Mackenzie – Act of Vengeance (1986)

    John Mackenzie1981-1990CrimeDramaUSA

    In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.Read More »

  • Alberto Gout – Aventurera (1950)

    1941-1950Alberto GoutCrimeMexicoMusical

    Synopsis
    One of the most popular Mexican films ever made, the cult sensation AVENTURERA is a famous example of a cabaretera, a curious film noir and Carmen Miranda-styled musical hybrid wildly popular in Mexico in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Shades of MILDRED PIERCE in this melodramatic rise and fall of a beautiful, popular nightclub star with a dark past. Delirious, delicious, and dangerous. Don’t miss!Read More »

  • Philippe Labro – La crime (1983)

    Philippe Labro1981-1990CrimeFranceThriller

    A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.Read More »

  • Tonino Valerii – Sicilian Connection AKA Shatterer (1987)

    Tonino Valerii1981-1990ActionCrimeItaly

    Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. In hopes of avoiding paying either ransom or life insurance, the head of the Japanese insurance company hires an American detective to apprehend the kidnappers and retrieve the executive. The detective involves a Japanese racing driver in pursuit of the case.Read More »

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