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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 -
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 -
Dead Man's Memories
Along a stretch of the Portuguese coast, a man's body is found. Police detective Pinto (Miguel Guilherme) then finds a tantalizing clue: a video camera in a car parked nearby with a tape of a young woman (Sylvie Testud) who was unaware she was being filmed. Pinto tracks down the woman and questions her but...Start your free trial to watch
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Death of a Snowman
Master criminals meet violent death in Johannesburg, South Africa, a city wrought with organized crime. Steve Chaka (Ken Gampu), an ambitious news reporter, learns that these deaths are from the hands of an all-black vigilante group known only as “War on Crime." Teaming up with Lt. Ben Deel (Nigel...Start your free trial to watch -
Eye in the Sky
Johnnie To produces this crackerjack thriller directed by To's longtime screenwriter Yau Nai-Hoi with an all-star cast. Hong Kong Police's elite SU (Surveillance Unit), led by its veteran leader Wong (Simon Yam), has been monitoring Shan (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), the criminal mastermind whom Wong suspects may have been involved...Start your free trial to watch
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Haldane of the Secret Service
In his final film as an actor, Harry Houdini stars as Heath Haldane, an undercover operative assigned to infiltrate a band of counterfeiters within the dark alleys of New York’s Chinatown. Virtually unseen since its 1923 release, HALDANE OF THE SECRET SERVICE has been mastered from a 35mm print and retains...Start your free trial to watch -
Highway Patrolman
Against his father's wishes, Pedro, a naive kid from Mexico City, joins the Federal Highway Patrol. His simple desire to do good rapidly comes into conflict with the reality of police work in a lonely rural environment populated by poor farmers, rich drug dealers, beautiful women and his father's ghost.Start your free trial to watch -
Inquest
In this courtroom drama, a young woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. She enlists the support of a King's Counsel to help prove her innocence. It was based on a play by Michael Barringer which had previously been adapted as a film in 1931.Start your free trial to watch
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
In the dead of night, a group of men (among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect) drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The...Start your free trial to watch -
Le petit lieutenant
A gripping police noir, LE PETIT LIEUTENANT tells the story of Antoine, an ambitious young cop from the provinces who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris. Antoine spends his days eagerly awaiting his first assignment, drinking with his fellow detectives and developing an unlikely relationship with his...Start your free trial to watch -
Sherlock Holmes
When a young prince is accused of a crime that could embroil him in international scandal, debonair supersleuth Sherlock Holmes comes to his aid and quickly discovers that behind the incident lurks a criminal mastermind eager to reduce Western civilization to anarchy. Adapted from the hugely popular stage version of Arthur...Start your free trial to watch
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Tell Me Something
Korean cinema superstar Han Suk-gyu (Shiri) stars as Lieutenant Cho, a cop on the edge who, while under investigation for graft and mourning the recent death of his mother, is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly impenetrable mystery. Dismembered corpses are being found in garbage bags around Seoul....Start your free trial to watch -
The Trial
Adapted from the novel by Franz Kafka, THE TRIAL stars Anthony Perkins as Joseph K., an innocent victim charged with an unnamed crime. Masterfully directed by Orson Welles, who sets a riveting, maddening and brilliantly disturbing pace. While the source for THE TRIAL is described as "restored" it is still admittedly less than...Start your free trial to watch -
Western Pacific Agent
The railroad assigns its top agent Rod Kendall (Kent Taylor) to investigate a payroll robbery and the murder of a paymaster. Meanwhile, the felon's father (Morris Carnovsky) is also desperately trying to convince the wayward boy (Mickey Knox) to forsake his life of crime. Set in 1951, the year WESTERN...Start your free trial to watch
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Wo Hu: Operation Undercover
The stars from INFERNAL AFFAIRS return for this powerful undercover action thriller. Worried that the triads are becoming too powerful, the Hong Kong police launches Operation "Wo Hu" (Undercover) and assigns 500 to 1,000 cops as undercover agents to infiltrate the gangs. When the three main triad leaders...Start your free trial to watch -
Your Witness
Made in the Hitchcock style (and produced by longtime Hitchcock partner Joan Harrison), this witty English-made mystery/courtroom drama stars Robert Montgomery (who also directed) as a New York lawyer who comes to England to help a wartime pal (Michael Ripper) wrongly accused of murder. Who is the mysterious missing witness...Start your free trial to watch




