Crime
see all genres ›Elaborate, often stylized games of cat-and-mouse play out in the minimalist policier, the lavish gangster epic and everything in-between. Justice, in the conventional sense, may or may not be served. Crime movies regularly feature anti-heroes (though police protagonists are as common as criminal ones).
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Genres / Crime
SUB-GENRES · Courtroom · Crime-fighter · Criminal · Krimi · Mystery/Whodunit · Prison · Transgression
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The High Sign
THE HIGH SIGN was Buster Keaton's first independent effort but he believed the film retained too much of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's style of comedy and not enough of his own. He shelved the film and made ONE WEEK instead. THE HIGH SIGN was released only after Keaton broke his ankle and Joseph M. Schenck needed a film to...Start your free trial to watch -
The Higher Force
David, a low-life debt collector in Reykjavik, Iceland, becomes the main man of his paranoid debt collector gang by pretending to know a renowned crime lord, a neighbor of his who happens to be a lonely school teacher with illusion of grandeur and troubles at work. As the gang goes about their business,...Start your free trial to watch -
Highway 13
It's murder on wheels when a trucking company loses several vehicles in a series of mysterious crashes, and a company honcho dies in a road accident that is equally inexplicable. Truck driver Robert Lowery soon finds himself enmeshed in the whodunit, which involves a cafe truck stop, an ex-gangster mechanic and indications of...Start your free trial to watch
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Highway Patrolman
Against his father's wishes, Pedro, a naive kid from Mexico City, joins the Federal Highway Patrol. His simple desire to do good rapidly comes into conflict with the reality of police work in a lonely rural environment populated by poor farmers, rich drug dealers, beautiful women and his father's ghost.Start your free trial to watch -
His Last Game
Baseball intersects with Native American culture in this unique dramatic short from 1909. As usual, the plot centers around the pitcher of a Choctaw baseball team. Also as usual, someone wants him to throw a game. Deviating from the usual, though, the pitcher takes matters into his own hands and things don't quite work out as...Start your free trial to watch -
Hit Man File
Violent and sensual, HIT MAN FILE is a unique new Asian action film with a distinctive Thai identity. HIT MAN FILE's story of ambition, revenge, murder and sacrifice reveals hypnotic beauty beneath the flash and grit of Bangkok's underworld and explores an unending cycle of life and death that can either destroy or redeem...Start your free trial to watch
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The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher
A duo of serial killers creates a tidal wave of terror in tinsel town! A depraved sex maniac posing as a nudie photographer is strangling young, sexy models at an alarming rate. At the same time, a psychopathic slasher (Carolyn Brandt of RAT PFINK and BLOOD SHACK) is slicing her way through the down and...Start your free trial to watch -
Home to Danger
This trim Brit noir casts prim "English rose" type Rona Anderson as the estranged daughter of a reprobate Colonel who dies under circumstances that ought to bring more suspicion than they do. Left to distribute a small fortune to charity after his death, she's protected by an upper-class suitor (stork-like Guy Rolfe) as well...Start your free trial to watch -
The Hooded Terror
This drama/thriller is both classy and suspenseful. No one suspects a millionaire stamp collector to be the head of the country's most notorious and feared organized crime ring. It's up to an amateur detective to track him down with little cooperation from the police.Start your free trial to watch
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Horrors of the Black Museum
London is fear-struck and Scotland Yard is baffled by a series of strange murders plaguing the city. Through his stories of the atrocities, crime journalist Edmond Bancroft (Michael Gough) comes to his own conclusions while clues of the crimes continue to elude the police. This is because Edmond is...Start your free trial to watch -
House by the River
Victorian ne'er-do-well Stephen Byrne (Louis Hayward) assaults and murders his wife's virginal housekeeper. With the reluctant assistance of loyal brother John (Lee Bowman), Stephen remorselessly consigns the girl's corpse to the river. But as John's affection for Stephen's wife Marjorie (Jane Wyatt),...Start your free trial to watch
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The House of Cards
THE HOUSE OF CARDS is designed to culminate in a confrontation between a sheriff ("Rattlesnake Jim") and a man who has gambled away someone else's money. Both love the same woman and they stage a duel where the victor will be determined by a rattlesnake. The movie critic for the New York Dramatic Mirror...Start your free trial to watch -
The House of Suh
One of Chicago's most famous murder cases surrounded sister and brother Catherine and Andrew Suh, first-generation Korean Americans, who conspired against, shot and killed Catherine's former boyfriend. Over a decade later, director Iris Shim revisits the case and opens a Pandora's box of family secrets...Start your free trial to watch -
I Love Budapest
Aniko, a nineteen year old country girl, moves to the city to fulfill her dream of a better life. Guided by her friend, Moni, she gets work at a factory and starts hanging out with Moni's friends, including Miki, a handsome security guard. Moni's boyfriend Krisztian seems to have it all and when he offers Miki a job, he...Start your free trial to watch
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I Shot Billy the Kid
Sheriff Pat Garrett (Robert Lowery), a lawman charged with the task of rounding up the terror of the plains, Billy the Kid (Don Barry), faces a moral dilemma: the Kid once saved him from death at Indian hands. Billy must also make a decision: turn himself in, in exchange for a break from the prosecution,...Start your free trial to watch




