Caper/Heist
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The Frightened Man
Charles Victor, the owner of a small furniture and antique shop, uses extra cash from handling stolen goods to put his son through Oxford. However, the son gets himself kicked out and comes home to sponge off the old man. The son wants more faster and gets himself involved with some heavy duty bad guys....Start your free trial to watch -
Full Contact
Unsurpassed action-packed set pieces, dazzling direction and one of Chow Yun-Fat's most explosive performance fuel FULL CONTACT, a first-rate, high-octane tale of revenge and retribution. To help his buddy Sam (Anthony Wong) settle a gambling debt, Jeff (Chow Yun-Fat) reluctantly agrees to join forces with Judge (Simon Yam)...Start your free trial to watch -
The Garth Method
In 2001, unemployed actor Garth Petridis was imprisoned for one of the most unusual crimes in Australian history. Desperate for success, he kidnapped members of the public and forced them to perform, at gunpoint, in scenes for a bizarre movie intended to make Garth a household name.Start your free trial to watch
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Ghost of a Chance
In the casino there is only one queen: the small ball that spins on the roulette table. None of the players pay the slightest attention to the female dealers. But Takis, a medical student, doesn't go to the casino to win millions but rather to earn a day's wages. Vera works in a gym but gets a second job...Start your free trial to watch -
The Girl and Her Trust
A telephone operator (Dorothy Bernard) working an isolated railroad outpost is besieged when two tramps try to steal a cash delivery. After telegraphing for help, she heroically gives chase to the thieves on their getaway handcar. A thrilling railroad chase commences when her engineer love interest...Start your free trial to watch -
Going Places
A shockingly hilarious sex comedy, GOING PLACES exposes the outrageous desires of a pair of perpetually horny twenty-something brutes. Jean-Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) live on instinct, spending their days harassing women and committing petty crimes. Their amorous adventures lead them to a frigid...Start your free trial to watch
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The Great Jesse James Raid
Jesse James (Willard Parker), retired and living under a differnet name in St. Joseph, Missouri, agrees over the protests of his wife Zee (Barbara Woodell) to join Bob Ford (Jim Bannon) and Sam Wells (Richard Cutting) in a Colorado gold raid. Jesse rounds up gunman Arch Clements (Tom Neal) and demolition...Start your free trial to watch -
The Great Train Robbery
More than a crucial historical artifact, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY reveals the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise. Known for using such innovative filming techniques such as double exposure, cross-cutting and camera movement, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY is...Start your free trial to watch -
Gunfire
Bank, train and stagecoach heists, plus plenty of ridin' and shootin', pepper this sagebrush saga of a reorganized Jesse James gang terrorizing the Old West, now under the leadership of a man (Donald Barry) impersonating Jesse's brother Frank James. Can sheriff Robert Lowery pierce Barry's disguise and put the renegades...Start your free trial to watch
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Her Torpedoed Love
Keystone comedienne Louise Fazenda plays another hick with a heart of gold, one ill-used by her layabout husband but fully appreciated by the elderly invalid who employs her as his cook. When it's discovered the latter will leave her his considerable fortune, his scheming butler (Ford Sterling) plots to...Start your free trial to watch -
Juve vs. Fantômas
Driven by greed and sheer malice, ruthless criminal genius and incomparable master of disguise Fantômas (René Navarre) weaves a path of death and destruction across Paris while trying to remain a step ahead of his resourceful nemesis, police inspector Juve (Edmund Bréon) in JUVE VERSUS FANTOMAS, the second...Start your free trial to watch -
Landscape no.2
A heist thriller in the tradition of INSIDE MAN and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, LANDSCAPE… tells the story of two burglars, Sergej and Polde, who steal a valuable painting, “Landscape No.2”. By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of World War II that may hide secrets that the owner of the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Train Robbery
In this parody of THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, Edwin S. Porter burlesqued his own landmark film by substituting children for adults and using a miniature railroad and playhouse as sets. The young robbers don't take money but candy and dolls. Perhaps unintentionally, this film supported the argument made by...Start your free trial to watch -
Love the Hard Way
On the heels of his Academy Award® triumph, Best Actor Oscar® winner Adrien Brody is electrifying as Jack, a dark hearted, smooth operating con-man with a poet's soul. By night, Jack and his partner Charlie (Jon Seda) masquerade as vice cops to pull risky scams on Manhattan tourists. By day, Jack secretly...Start your free trial to watch
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Moran of the Lady Letty
MORAN OF THE LADY LETTY, based on the novel by Frank Norris, casts Valentino as Ramon Laredo, a pampered aristocrat who is shanghaied in contemporary San Francisco by Captain Kitchell (Walter Long), the brutal commander of a smuggling schooner bound for Mexico. The Moran of the title is a beautiful young...Start your free trial to watch



