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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
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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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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
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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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Beast from Haunted Cave
A group of thieves arrive in the snowbound town of Deadwood, South Dakota, and they have no intention of vacationing. They’re planning a giant gold heist! Exploding a bomb in a nearby mine to create a diversion, they successfully rob the local bank and unknowingly unleash a creature from the bowels of Hell...Start your free trial to watch
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Bet to Basic
Gambling, luck and romance all come together in this hilarious comedy starring superstar Jordan Chan (INITIAL D) and Yuen Wah (KUNG FU HUSTLE)! Down-on-his-luck gambler Flying Dragon pairs up with his unbelievably lucky cousin, Roy, in order to halt his losing streak. When a ruthless mahjong rival schemes to defeat Roy and...Start your free trial to watch
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Blind Shaft
BLIND SHAFT tells the story of two itinerant miners (Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang) who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. In the dark caves of one of the many illegal Chinese coal mines, Song and Tang murder a co-worker whom they have convinced to pose as...Start your free trial to watch
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Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant
Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does indeed steal an elephant from a circus. However, an elephant is a bit more than one kid can handle. The elephant has ideas of its own and, soon enough, decides it can do anything a person can do. Perhaps even...Start your free trial to watch
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The Burglars
Alice Guy's brief THE BURGLARS takes a classic cops-and-robbers set-up and places it upon the roofs of Paris circa late-1800s (albeit a Méliès-like set that approximates the city skyline). Second-story men have considerable difficulties once the French police get involved!Start your free trial to watch
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Charlie the Ox
Nothing is quite as it appears in CHARLIE THE OX. Is Charlie a second-rate safecracker or is he one step ahead of the crime syndicate that seeks to squeeze him out of a substantial payoff? Directed by Sundance award-winning filmmaker Scott Smith, CHARLIE THE OX is a consistently clever caper starring Cory McAbee, Jon Polito...Start your free trial to watch
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An Eastern Westerner
Rural comedy abounds in this romp as young upstart Harold (Harold Lloyd) is shipped to his uncle’s ranch out west. There, he meets Mildred (Mildred Davis), assists her in staving off the unwanted affections of rogue Young (Noah Young) and, after a wild altercation with a gang of bandits, single-handedly...Start your free trial to watch
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The False Magistrate
In THE FALSE MAGISTRATE, Louis Feuillade's fifth and final film in the Fantômas series, Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon) once again battles false accusations from behind bars (though this time in a plan of his own devising). It is all part of a fiendish plot of multiple disguised identities in order to...Start your free trial to watch
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Fantômas in the Shadow of the Guillotine
Based on the phenomenally popular French pulp novellas, Louis Feuillade's outrageous, ambitious FANTOMAS series became the gold standard of espionage serials in pre-WWI Europe and laid the foundation for such immortal works as Feuillade's own LES VAMPIRES and Fritz Lang's DR. MABUSE films. In the first of...Start your free trial to watch
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Fantômas vs. Fantômas
Evildoer Fantômas (René Navarre) operates uninhibited as his rival, Inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon), battles false accusations in prison in FANTOMAS VS. FANTOMAS, the fourth film in the series. Director Louis Feuillade's five Fantômas films feature surrealistic horror, cold-blooded murder and startling plot...Start your free trial to watch
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The First 7th Night
Map King (Gordon Lam) is a taxi driver who can get to any destination imaginable. One evening, he was dispatched to guide a cargo truck to a place where only he knows how to get to, the Moon and Sun Village. The remote village is known for the tragic accident of a widow named Fong (Michelle Ye), her chubby...Start your free trial to watch
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Fish in a Barrel
Imagine, if you will, every heist film that you've ever seen. Now imagine a hybrid of all of them recast as a comedy. Four petty thieves (a paranoid control freak, a constipated soul searcher, an apathetic drunk and a sugar-fiend kleptomaniac) somehow manage to steal $4 million worth of cut diamonds. Add...Start your free trial to watch