Plot:
When a resentful brother organizes a prank kidnapping, he unwittingly hires career criminals who have plans of their own.
Tag: Crime
London Boulevard 2010 • Movie
Plot:
An ex-con with a reputation tries to go straight by working as a handy man for a reclusive actress but this is unfortunately not the wish of London’s underground crime lord.
Another Chinese Cop 1996 • Movie
Plot:
A man married to a beautiful young woman is pressured by her into staging a kidnapping to make some money, which puts him in conflict with his former kung-fu partner, who is now a policeman.
Death at a Broadcast 1941 • Movie
Plot:
When an actor is murdered at the BBC Inspector Gregory finds he has many suspects to choose from.
Cat Chaser 1989 • Movie
Plot:
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when he becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
Miss Nobody 2011 • Movie
Plot:
A mild-mannered secretary discovers that she has a talent for murder as she ascends the corporate ladder.
Women Who Kill 2017 • Movie
Plot:
Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect Morgan’s new love interest is a murderer.
A Man, a Woman and a Bank 1979 • Movie
Plot:
The two least likely bank robbers in the known universe plan and execute… kind of… the ultimate heist.
Mute Witness 1995 • Movie
Plot:
A mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture.
Gone with the Pope 2010 • Movie
Plot:
Famed nightclub performer Duke Mitchell is Paul, a paroled gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the Pope and ‘charge a dollar from every Catholic in the world’ as the ransom. Shot in 1975, GONE WITH THE POPE was unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell’s death in 1981, and finally completed in 2009 from a rediscovered, unfinished print.
The Boys of Ghost Town 2009 • Movie
Plot:
Danny Ortega is imprisoned for a crime of justice at a very young age. After 17 years in prison, he returns to his town of Houston to find that crime and drugs have overturned what he once called home. When he attempts to rebuild his life, the lust for power overtakes him and launches him into the world that he always dreaded.
My Favorite Spy 1951 • Movie
Plot:
A burlesque comic, who resembles an international spy, is recruited by the government and sent to Tangier to retrieve a sensitive microfilm before it’s captured by hostile foreign agents.
The League of Gentlemen 1961 • Movie
Plot:
A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision.
A Bullet Is Waiting 1954 • Movie
Plot:
After their small plane crashes in the wilderness, a sheriff’s deputy and his prisoner take shelter at an isolated farm.
After the Thin Man 1936 • Movie
Plot:
Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora’s cousin, Selma.
Poker Night 2014 • Movie
Plot:
When a new detective is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, he must use the knowledge he learned from some of the best detectives at Poker Night, then match wits against his captor.
The Ark of the Sun God 1984 • Movie
Plot:
A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a secret cult.
A Small Town in Texas 1976 • Movie
Plot:
A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.
Naked Killer 1995 • Movie
Plot:
A young woman is trained by a martial arts specialist to become a professional assassin.
The Night of the 12th 2022 • Movie
Plot:
It is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara.
The Desperate Hours 1955 • Movie
Plot:
Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
A Single Shot 2013 • Movie
Plot:
The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.
The Snow White Murder Case 2014 • Movie
Plot:
A young woman who works at cosmetic company becomes the prime suspect after her beautiful co-worker is murdered.
Vietnam, Texas 1991 • Movie
Plot:
A priest learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Texas in the Little Saigon quarters. Searching for them, he also finds massive prejudice against the Vietnamese people, particularly among the fishing community in which they are trying to work. Setting out to right the wrongs, the priest tends to use more fisticuffs than friendly, priestly persuasion.
Read My Lips 2002 • Movie
Plot:
She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Revenge of the Pink Panther 1978 • Movie
Plot:
To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Clouseau. Once news of his “death” has been announced, Clouseau tries to take advantage of it and goes undercover with Cato to find out who tried to kill him.
Rakhta Charitra 2 2010 • Movie
Plot:
After avenging the death of his father and brother, a man must now content with another vengeful male.