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Thievery
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 / Thievery
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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 Burglar on the Roof
J. Stuart Blackton and Albert Smith emerged as important filmmakers and exhibitors in the spring and summer of 1898. When they were caught duping Thomas Edison's copyrighted war films, they seemed to have no choice but to become licensees and acknowledge Edison's patents. With audiences tiring of war...Start your free trial to watch
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The Decoy
A rather complex interweaving of romance and crime is squeezed into one reel. A "respectable" couple of city "card sharpers" invite a distant country relative to visit, then use her as a pretty, unwitting decoy to lure rich victims. They flee town a step ahead of the law. At a resort, the innocent girl falls in love with the...Start your free trial to watch
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Dixie Dynamite
Moonshine Tom and his two down-home daughters Dixie and Patsy (Jane Anne Johnstone and Kathy McHaley) enjoy an idyllic existence in a backwater Georgia town until the sheriff (Christopher George) and the Feds bust his still. In the excitement, old Tom is “accidentally” killed. When Dixie and Patsy hear the news about their...Start your free trial to watch
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The Elusive Diamond
A one-reel crime drama with crooks, ruses, kidnapping, escape and a twist, all wrapped in a coherent narrative. Screenwriter Lloyd Lonergan’s amazing versatility served equally well in several genres. There is successful pictorial telling of the setup and attempted theft, and a little cross-cutting as the...Start your free trial to watch
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Eye for an Eye
Han Suk-kyu (SHIRI) and Cha Seung-weon headline director K.T. Kwak's (TYPHOON) crime thriller concerning an aging police captain who's lured back to the job on the eve of retirement, following a most peculiar crime. Capt. Baek Seong-chan (Han) was about to turn in his badge and run a grocery store when a criminal commits a...Start your free trial to watch
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FBI Girl
Fingerprints don't lie, which is why a state governor with a hidden criminal past wants a file card with his prints stolen from FBI headquarters. Not so fast: guardians of the law Cesar Romero and George Brent are there to make America secure! Raymond Burr at his sinister peak and an exciting helicopter-motorboat chase keep...Start your free trial to watch
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The Flesh and the Fiends
The notorious Burke and Hare, a lowlife duo convicted of robbing graves and murdering sixteen people in 1828 Edinburgh, has inspired numerous film treatments. They've been portrayed by everyone from Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (in Robert Wise's THE BODY SNATCHERS released in 1945) to Simon Pegg and Andy...Start your free trial to watch
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A Fool and His Money
"Sam Jones is a laborer, a wielder of the white-wash brush. he's in love with Lindy Williams. Having saved up quite a little money, Sam buys some swell second-hand clothes and goes to Lindy's home. Lindy's people are quite prosperous, her father having retired from his job as "Public Porter." - Moving...Start your free trial to watch
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
A country boy (Glenn Tryon) arrives in Hollywood and encounters a strange collection of characters, including a clueless hotel detective (Oliver Hardy) and a cross-dressing thief (Stan Laurel). This is Laurel and Hardy's first collaboration under Hal Roach.Start your free trial to watch
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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
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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
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The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BANK ROBBERY is the story of master thief George Fowler (Steve McQueen) and his rogue band of thieves and criminals. The gang plans on robbing the richest bank in Missouri, which is also one of the richest anywhere in America. Their plans become altered when a sibling of one of the...Start your free trial to watch
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Hi-Jacked
Parolee/truck driver Jim Davis now wants to stick to the straight-and-narrow, but finds himself riding a highway of terror when his truck is hijacked and police suspect him because of his past record. The hijackers will stop at nothing to frame him and even frame his wife, unless fugitive Davis can deliver them to justice...Start your free trial to watch
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Hideout in the Sun
Psycho bank robber Duke and his brother Steve make off with a bundle of money following a daring midday heist. The plan to cool their heels in Cuba takes a shocking and unexpected turn: right to a nudist camp in sunny Miami with a kidnapped ultra-vixen named Dorothy in tow. Duke plans an ocean getaway but...Start your free trial to watch