Crime-fighter
see all genres ›Be they cops, detectives, vigilantes or superheroes, the protagonists in these eventful tales want to make certain that crime does not pay.
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Genres / Crime / Crime-fighter
SUB-GENRES · Detective · Police · District Attorney
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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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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...Watch Movie
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Referenced in Tarantino’s KILL BILL VOL. 2, UOMINI SI NASCE POLIZIOTTI SI MUORE (LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN, 1976) opens with an insane motorcycle chase that was filmed in rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission from the local authorities. To top it off, this is one...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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The Attic
A month after Emma Callan and her family move into their seemingly picture-perfect Victorian home, Emma starts to have ghastly visions of a girl who appears to be her twin but is pure evil. Co-starring Elisabeth Moss, John Savage and Catherine Mary Stewart, this riveting film from the director of...Watch Movie
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Cops
One of Buster Keaton's greatest and most famous comedies, COPS is universally enjoyed for the inventive comedy and amazing chase sequences. However, its darker aspects (Keaton's use of an anarchists bomb risked painful reminders of the horse and wagon, similar to the one Buster drives, that...Watch Movie
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Small Town Murder Songs
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake (the victim of a brutal and violent crime), Walter, an aging small town police officer (Peter Stormare), is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by...Watch Movie
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Shoot First, Die Later
Desperately sought after, the tough, exciting, dramatically potent, action packed film SHOOT FIRST, DIE LATER is known as one of the most impressive Italian crime/police movies ever made. Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as a highly regarded police detective who...Watch Movie
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The Tracker
The year is 1922. The Tracker has the job of pursuing the Fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen: the Fanatic, the Follower and also the Veteran across the outback. The Tracker, a mysterious and enigmatic figure whose true character...Watch Movie
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Death in Small Doses
Government agent Tom Kaylor (Peter Graves) is assigned the task of investigating the illegal use of amphetamines by long haul truck drivers. He goes under cover as a trucker to find the suppliers and crack the drug ring. Directed by Joseph Newman, this slice of fifties action...Watch Movie
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Creature with the Blue Hand
The inimitable Klaus Kinski plays twin brothers (one of whom is found guilty of murder and sent to an insane asylum in the prologue) and he is not even the creepiest part of this colorful murder mystery. Based on a novel by British author Edgar Wallace, this is from the...Watch Movie
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Attack of the Giant Leeches
After a local slackjaw reports shooting something in the swamp that "weren't nothin' nature put out there," an apparent love-triangle-gone-bad reveals a darker mystery in the Everglades. The 1959 swamp horror ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES is a boilerplate Roger Corman-produced...Watch Movie
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Hafford's Saloon
This is a short video I made while doing research for my new feature, TOMBSTONE RASHOMON. It was shot on the streets of Tombstone and in a Western movie set, Old Tucson. It details, in real time, how long it took the Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday to walk from their saloon...Watch Movie
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is an impoverished Parisian medical student who overhears Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) saying that he wished somebody would murder his wealthy aunt so he could collect the inheritance. Radek decides to kill the old lady and her maid but is surprised...Watch Movie
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Cave of the Living Dead
The police cannot solve the mystery of seven murders which have alarmed the inhabitants of a small village. They call in Inspector Doren (Adrian Hoven) of Interpol but the only clue the town's chief constable can give his young and famous colleague is the fact that each time a...Watch Movie
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Dirty Like an Angel
Georges Deblache, a despondent middle-aged cop who suspects he has cancer, falls for his partner's wife. Didier, his partner, is only recently married, but beds women he encounters while on the job. Georges takes a keen interest in his partner's unrealistically appreciated...Watch Movie
