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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Citizen Juling
How did a young idealist, Buddhist art teacher Juling from the far North, end up lying comatose in a pool of blood at a village kindergarten school in the deep Islamic South? Colorful human rights activist and senator Kraisak Choonhavan goes on the road to understand what happened and why. Definitely not a straight enquiry...Start your free trial to watch -
Clean
Maynard Yates is trying to clean up his life when chance gives him a job as a limousine driver. He is soon chauffeuring the Hollywood elite and finds himself submerged in the dark, seedy underbelly of celebrity. When his own bad habits return, Maynard is unwillingly led into a downward spiral and slowly realizes that he may...Start your free trial to watch
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Le combat dans l'île
A hidden gem of 1960s New French Cinema, Alain Cavalier’s LE COMBAT DANS L’ÎLE is as coolly modern as it is tensely gripping. Filled with thrilling plot twists, jazzy gun battles and stormy betrayals, this scintillating neo-noir unfolds against a backdrop of ’60s political turmoil and is strikingly shot in...Start your free trial to watch -
Connected
Bob, a single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector, is trapped by his easy-going helpful nature. He’s under tremendous stress to become a better father and a better person. All these things are about to change when Bob receives a mysterious call. Loosely based on CELLULAR, this movie will have you jumping out of your...Start your free trial to watch -
Convict 13
CONVICT 13 pushes boundaries with the darkness of its comedy, particularly the scene in which Buster Keaton is about to be hanged in prison while his fellow inmates sit as spectators cheering on the proceedings with concessions sold as if it were a baseball game.Start your free trial to watch
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Cop Unbowed
Hong Kong police inspector Lam (Alex Fong) has to leave the force against his will when he defied orders and rescued his girlfriend who had been kidnapped by the mob. Hoping to live a new life, Lam moves to a small island and becomes a restaurant owner but the past continues to haunt him ten years later as the mob has put a...Start your free trial to watch -
The Copper
Though many audiences are initially familiar with the extraordinary German actor Hans Albers from his role in Josef von Sternberg's THE BLUE ANGEL, his reputation was enhanced (and his fame soared) after his starring role in DER GREIFER (THE COPPER) released the following year. Nearly three decades later, Albers again starred...Start your free trial to watch -
Cops
One of Buster Keaton's greatest and most famous comedies, COPS is universally enjoyed for the inventive comedy and amazing chase sequences. However, its darker aspects (Keaton's use of an anarchists bomb risked painful reminders of the horse and wagon, similar to the one Buster drives, that carried a bomb into New York city's...Start your free trial to watch
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A Cottage on Dartmoor
A COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR is perhaps the most significant rediscovery. A tense, shocking thriller that stylistically evokes the early films of Alfred Hitchcock and the masterworks of Russian and German silent cinema, it is also an innovative work in its own right. From the dramatic opening night scenes on the...Start your free trial to watch -
The Count of Monte Cristo
A complete performance of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO filmed as a stage play with curtains between the five acts: Act I. "The Sailor's Return," Act II. "Twenty Years Later," Act III. "Dantes Starts on His Mission of Vengeance," Act IV. "Dantes as the Count of Monte Cristo," Act V. "Dantes Accuses His...Start your free trial to watch -
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
When enemy agents obtain leaked secrets about a guided missile reservation, the chief of America's counterspy division (Howard St. John) and Scotland Yard's best investigator Ron Randell get on an investigative trail which quickly leads to a reservation secretary (Gunsmoke's Miss Kitty, Amanda Blake).Start your free trial to watch
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Cover Girl Killer
Set in the sleazy world of a backstreet 1950s nightclub, a serial-killer is believed to be murdering the models of a glamour magazine. When cover-girl Gloria Starke (Bernadette Milnes) is found dead after going on an assignment with mysterious bespectacled television producer, Spendosa (Harry Corbett),...Start your free trial to watch -
Coyote
When two best friends, the white-collar Steve and the Mexican-American Jay, find out that their undocumented buddy Pablo has been deported, they decide it might be fun to try and smuggle him across the border. They build a hidden compartment in the back of their truck, pick Pablo up, and simply drive him straight through the...Start your free trial to watch -
Crazy 'n the City
Eason Chan, pop diva Joey Yung and Francis Ng star in this police action comedy. Jack (Chan) is a Hong Kong beat cop who is getting weary of his mundane job routine until a new cadet, Liu (Yung), comes along and becomes his partner. Liu's dedication and devotion to her line of duty changes Jack's outlook...Start your free trial to watch
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Crossed Wires
In the spirit of the enormously popular mystery and crime pulps of the day, CROSSED WIRES is a suspense picture with a flair for good storytelling and stylistic innovation, strikingly similar to the later filmmaking style of Hitchcock. An innocent man is accused and convicted of murder, and when the facts finally surface, the...Start your free trial to watch



