Crime
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
SUB-GENRES · Courtroom · Mystery/Whodunit · Prison · Crime-fighter · Transgression · Criminal · Krimi · Poliziotteschi
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Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown supplements her meager income as a stewardess by smuggling cash into the U.S. for gun runner Ordell Robbie — until the day an ATF agent and an L.A. cop bust her at the airport. The cops pressure her to help them bring down Ordell, threatening prison if she refuses. With a sympathetic...Watch Movie
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Black Sunday
In one of the most auspicious directorial debuts in movie history, Mario Bava bridged the gap between the gothic horror picture and the European art film with BLACK SUNDAY (aka LA MASCHERA DEL DEMONIO or THE MASK OF SATAN). Made in 1960 and now considered a cult classic, it continues to...Watch Movie
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A Bay of Blood
One of the most influential horror films of all time, Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD (aka TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE) is the spurting artery from which all future slasher films would flow. When crippled Countess Federica is murdered at her isolated mansion, a gruesome battle ensues to secure the...Watch Movie
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A Shock to the System
A middle-aged advertising executive loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man. In frustration, he accidentally pushes a panhandler in front of a subway train... and gets away with the death. Realizing that committing murder might be a little easier than he previously...Watch Movie
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The Unbelievable Truth
A comedy of errors surrounding a beautiful college bound girl disturbingly preoccupied with the threat of nuclear destruction in THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH. Nevertheless, she falls in love with a handsome ex-con who is rumored to have murdered, many years before, the father of his...Watch Movie
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Blood and Black Lace
An unscrupulous business operating under the guise of a top fashion house becomes a murder scene after someone is pushed to the edge. The saga begins when a beautiful model is brutally murdered and her boyfriend is suspected of the crime. But is he guilty or is someone waiting...Watch Movie
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The House that Dripped Blood
A review of the files of the local policeman shows that everyone who has owned a particular mansion has died in a horrible fashion. In one instance, "Method for Murder," the obsessions of a mystery writer provide his wife with an opportunity to do him in. In a second,...Watch Movie
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
An American writer (Tony Musante) traveling in Rome is the only witness to an attempted murder by a sinister man in a raincoat and black leather gloves, though he is powerless to do anything to stop him. With a feeling that something is not quite right about the scene he has...Watch Movie
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The Beach Girls and the Monster
A time capsule from one very odd moment in film history when beach-party movies began to lumber, fake-monster-like, into a then-untested realm of horror crossover (with familiar maneuvers from daytime television). Jobbing B-movie actor Jon Hall, in his directorial debut, plays...Watch Movie
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Elena
Winner of Cannes' Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, ELENA is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller. Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment (he's a still-virile, wealthy businessman; she's his dowdy former nurse who has clearly...Watch Movie
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Lisa and the Devil
Regarded as Mario Bava's most personal and unconventional film, LISA AND THE DEVIL is a diabolical thriller flavored with the dreadful imagery and tormenting logic of an endless nightmare. Elke Sommer stars as a tourist in Spain who, upon seeing the image of a bald, grinning...Watch Movie
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Private Property
Two homicidal Southern California drifters (played to creepy perfection by Warren Oates and Corey Allen) wander off the beach and into the seemingly-perfect Beverly Hills home of unhappy housewife Kate Manx, in this long-lost film noir gem written and directed by THE OUTER...Watch Movie
