Transgression
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 / Transgression
SUB-GENRES · Blackmail · Caper/Heist · Espionage · False Accusation · Home Invasion · Kidnapping · Murder · Prostitution · Smuggling · Terrorism · Thievery
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Accattone
The first of Pier Paolo Pasolini's highly acclaimed films and the winner of numerous film festival prizes, ACCATTONE uses a talented cast to present a vivid picture of the Roman slums. Based on one of the filmmaker/poet's novels, this story of a pimp, his friends, his enemies and his girls is realism at its earthiness. It is...Start your free trial to watch -
Accomplice
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. Featuring Jordana Maurer and an ersatz appearance by Jean-Luc Godard along with the voices of DJ Mendel, Professor David Poeppel and David Bordwell.Start your free trial to watch -
The Adventures of Dollie
D.W. Griffith's cinematic debut was already laced with dramatic irony, dynamic staging and deft parallel editing. The film opens with mother and daughter enjoying a summer day by the water. A gypsy merchant disrupts their idyll, first offering items for sale and then trying to make off with the woman's...Start your free trial to watch
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Alias
Eva and Patti are unwitting witnesses to the suicide death of a beautiful young girl as she plunges naked to her death out of a fourth story window. Even more shocking, they’ve captured it all on video! Later, the girls are nearly robbed of their camera but the mysterious Dieter comes to their aid. Eva finds herself intrigued...Start your free trial to watch -
Alice Solves the Puzzle
Little Margie Gay, who would go on to play Alice in more than half of the Alice Comedies, made her first appearance in ALICE SOLVES THE PUZZLE (The title introducing her was lettered by Ub Iwerks, who was not only the studio's lead animator but also its lettering specialist). And this short also marked the...Start your free trial to watch -
Alice the Jail Bird
In this offbeat entry, Alice and her friends steal a pie from a windowsill and wind up on the wrong side of the law. The sight of a Disney character in prison stripes may seem incongruous today, but in fact this film anticipates a Mickey Mouse short, THE CHAIN GANG, produced five years later. Note that...Start your free trial to watch
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The Ambassador's Daughter
An innocent attaché in love with the ambassador's daughter is framed for espionage. But the girl successfully exposes the real spy. Although the New York Dramatic Mirror criticized the picture for its "visibly forced or overdrawn situations," it was felt to have strong appeal, "for it has been well...Start your free trial to watch -
Among Brothers
Based on real events, AMONG BROTHERS retells the story of the mysterious death of a college girl. While the police determined her death was an accident, the autopsy and other evidence, compiled by her family, tell a different story. On November 9th 1994, Jennifer Matthews, a senior at Bergan State University, was found dead...Start your free trial to watch -
Any Gun Can Play
This is a strong, virile action picture produced in the blood-and-guts tradition of the DOLLARS westerns. A crooked banker, a bandit and a bounty hunter known only as "the stranger" are the heroes, the plot of which revolves around a million dollars in gold stolen from a train by the bandit's gang.Start your free trial to watch
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Are Crooks Dishonest?
Trickery abounds in this one-reel romp involving jewel thievery and soothsaying. Harold Lloyd and 'Snub' Pollard deal in gems while Bebe Daniels assists her seer father in crystal. When the three ne'er-do-wells hook up, it’s the equation for mayhem!Start your free trial to watch -
Asphalt
Gustav Froelich, best known as the young protagonist of METROPOLIS, stars as Holk, a strait-laced traffic cop who has the simple task of escorting a diamond thief to the police station. However, the thief is the exotic and beautiful Else (played by Betty Amann), which makes the task far from simple. The stage is thus set for...Start your free trial to watch
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Asso
On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local bar, and wins a handy amount of money. As Ace heads home to his waiting bride Silvia (Edwige Fenech), he is killed by a hired gun. When he reappears to see his wife, he has a hard time convincing her...Start your free trial to watch -
The Avenging Conscience
D.W. Griffith indulged his lifelong fascination with Edgar Allan Poe in this ambitious amalgam of the writer’s poetry and prose: “Annabel Lee” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” flavored with shades of “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Conqueror Worm." Poe’s tales are interwoven in one...Start your free trial to watch -
Avida
Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, co-directors of the 2005 cult favorite AALTRA, return with AVIDA, another eye-popping dark comedy. The loony French filmmakers appear in leading roles as two of the three men whose plan to kidnap a wealthy woman's dog goes horribly awry. Instead of nabbing the dog, the "kidnappers" are...Start your free trial to watch
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Away We Go
Bobby Vernon was a talented comic actor during the silent era, who became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, when the sound era arrived. Here Vernon stars with Duane Thompson, Lila Leslie and Victor Rodman in a 1924 classic originally released as RENO OR BUST.Start your free trial to watch -
Bad Blood
BAD BLOOD is one of the most hauntingly dramatic depictions of a real-life human tragedy ever made. Set in New Zealand in 1938, BAD BLOOD tells the story of Stanley Graham and his wife Dorothy. They're outcasts in the small village community because of their rude, antisocial behavior and their accumulation of financial...Start your free trial to watch




