A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
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A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
A detective is seeking an assassin in a murder that has not yet occurred, only to discover that it is his destiny to become that assassin.
In South London an elite force of men terrorize the streets. Step into a world of violence, chaos and carnage. Step into the world of BLOKES.
The Callbox Mystery (1932) is a British quota quickie crime film about a detective investigating murders linked to a mysterious callbox, likely involving suspects from a will, with a newspaper woman assisting and uncovering deeper secrets behind the apparent financial motives.
A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together.
An enraged detective's wife kills her husband by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled.
When an absorbing new manuscript finds its way across his desk, Marcus Walwyn (Gideon Turner), an impressionable young publisher, befriends the book's author (Peter Davison) and suddenly has trouble leaving his work at the office. Intrigued by the volume's step-by-step instructions on how to stalk and murder an unsuspecting victim, Marcus grows obsessed with becoming an expert. This made-for-television drama is based on the book by M.S. Power.
Set in late-1970s Dundee, Schemers is based on writer-producer David McLean’s early years in the music business. After a run in with a local gangster, a fledgling promoter and his two friends raise their ambitions to booking major bands in order to escape their debt.
Close as two crossed fingers, twins Didi and Gigi set for fame and fortune as their modelling career takes off. Didi meets love while her sister's career is cut short by an accident. Jealousy, fury and passion leads Gigi to extreme measures
A young ex-seminarian named José is doing his military service in Córdoba. There he meets Carmen, a beautiful flamenco dancer who falls madly in love, to the point that he steals to get money for her, so he will be imprisoned. José does not support the separation and, when he is driven by the Civil Guard on a train, he runs off by jumping out the window. He then left for Madrid in search of Carmen, who now lives in the company of his uncle, the lame, master of dancers. The woman welcomes José coldly, although they engage in a strange and tense relationship behind the back of El Morao, her former pimp, who lives with her again.
With astonishing access, BBC Three explores how gang members are using teenage drug runners to sell large amounts of crack and heroin miles away from home.
In order to preserve his inheritance, Mr. Herbert Wilson must marry by a specific date. He has a fiancée in Miss Mabel Lexington, but also a rival in Dr. Mors.
Daniel, the leader of a criminal youth gang, views new guy Victor first as a threat, then as possible addition to his gang. When Victor refuses, but sets his eyes on Daniel's Sister Nancy, Daniel orders her to get close to Victor so she can persuade him to join the gang. Daniel does not expect that instead the relationship with Victor makes Nancy longing for a life without crime. A juvenile-delinquent-crime-musical!
Outside a courthouse in Berlin, pensioner Margarete Altenburg shoots homeless man Hellmer, who manages to escape unharmed. The lawyer Joachim Vernau offers his help and travels to the woman's home town to retrieve her personal belongings. When he returns to Berlin, the old lady has died. Then the homeless man is also found dead. Vernau then investigates on his own. The trail leads him back to the time of the "Wende".
A hardened criminal rescues a little girl after a hit goes wrong and decides to get her to safety while his former associates hunt them.
Secret agent Traveller works for an organization known only as The Bureau. Having failed his last mission, Traveller is given one last chance with a cryptic objective: find the mysterious Sterns. On his journey, Traveller must contend with the ghosts of his past and mine his way through traps set by enemy operatives in his search for the answer to the ultimate question: who is Sterns?
A crook kidnaps the son of his own son's benefactor.
A detective has to work on a murder he himself committed
This gripping, atmospheric crime thriller from Austrian-born director Paul Stein stars Oscar nominee Raymond Massey as a man at the centre of a multiple murder investigation – a case that sparks a sensationalist press frenzy when it becomes clear that the killer only strikes when there is a full moon.
A young man plots the assassination of a half-pig, half-man politician.
After serving his prison sentence, Dickie Gray wants to leave his life as a petty criminal behind for good. However, he didn’t count on his old partner Marty: Marty has spotted a jeweler in London who looks exactly like Dickie and immediately starts planning the big heist. Dickie is initially reluctant, but eventually slips into the role of the jeweler after Marty kidnaps him.
A German scientist drowns while on vacation in Bulgaria. The GDR state security authorities become involved in the investigation, suspecting a political murder.
Holmes receives a mysterious telegram from Cyril Overton, the captain of the Cambridge University rugby team. Overton later explains that one of the best players on his team, a young man named Godfrey Staunton, went missing while in London for an important game. Holmes follows a trail of clues back to Cambridge.
Headrush is a crime comedy about two disillusioned youths, struggling through a haze of cannabis, who hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a consignement of drugs for a local gangster. It's set in the present day in Dublin, Ireland against the backdrop of the end of the Celtic Tiger: the bursting of the bubble of this economy boom that's supposed to have done wonders for us all.
Birgit tries to be a good housewife, but she and her boyfriend are threatened by a group of gangsters.
A murder mystery.
While the Torete rob banks, the Heifer, another delinquent who has not noticed it, enters the same place to rob him. After failing the coup, both decide to associate.
A doctor poisons his dying friend and is framed by his valet for poisoning his wife's first husband.
Based on a real story, this Dominican drama is an intriguing account of the murder of Amin Abel Hasbun, a brilliant student leader in the Dominican Republic accused of kidnapping US Embassy official, J. Crowley. Hasbun was one of many young leftists fighting against the government of Dr. Joaquin Balaguer, who favored a repressive regime.
A tired lawyer receives a challenging new case. An obvious suspect, obvious motive. As Sebastian and Olivia work to prove her innocence their lives become entwined as something darker is revealed.
Poliziottesco directed by Francesco Arminio
A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
A man is investigated for the murder of a person, even though he was in the company of a girl in a nightclub at the time; However, the young woman is afraid to testify for fear of retaliation, so she asks the man's family for a large sum of money in order to tell the truth to the police. Subsequently, other murders follow one another, including that of the real murderer, who was only a hitman, of the witness and of the witness's best friend. The suspect thus thinks that it is his business partner who wants to get involved but the truth turns out to be even more tangled.
A wealthy entrepreneur from Rimini, a seriously ill mother from Munich - the beginning of a story of love and death.
Eric had a breakdown after his daughter, Stella, had disappeared in a tragic car accident. He makes friends with David, a mysterious individual, who is going to help him to get on his feet; but the latter teaches him a terrible secret about his daughter. Éric, who did not think of knowing the worse pain, is going to understand that Stella's death was only the beginning.
During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons program.
Frank, a man without a criminal record, attacks a money transporter and then turns himself in to the police. His behavior is a mystery. In prison he meets the unscrupulous and suspicious Arab Fuad, who is protected by his clan. To get closer to Fuad, Frank intervenes in the drug business within the walls and gets caught between the two rival groups of German and Arab inmates. It is only the prison guard Susanna with whom Frank will be able to build a relationship of trust, not knowing that she is part of Fuad’s business and has a sexual relationship with him. However, they come emotionally close. What only Frank knows is that his wife and his daughter died in a car accident. Fuad was the hit-and-run driver that remained unpunished. Frank seeks revenge.
A crucial few hours in the life of a would-be London gangster
A corpulent two meters tall man goes to Turin for a fair. There, by chance, he finds the daughter of two people he knows "walking the streets". With various expedients, he convinces her to return to her native land
Two crash pilots from BravoAir have to fight crime with their dim-witted mechanic, the beautiful daughter of a beaten-up police inspector, and the mechanic's 15-year-old godson. Not only are the three of them and the little one clumsy, but so are the gangsters and the police.
A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.
The love of his life, Svetlana, chose suicide twelve years ago. At that time, Stein resigned from the Federal Intelligence Service. Since then, the ex-agent no longer searches for criminals, but is a professional hunter on the prowl. One morning, Stein comes across explosive secret documents in his hunting ground. They reveal the name of the man who had Svetlana on his conscience: Like Stein, Mooser worked for the BND in the CSSR and was in love with Svetlana. Out of wounded vanity, he blocked her exit visa and thus drove the Czech woman to her death. Stein senses an opportunity for the final shot. But Mooser also knows how to lay traps...
A story centered around four people whose lives intersect in a criminal underworld.
Five friends united by a secret, the ghost of a dead woman who has apparently committed suicide and the search for the truth by a friend who is searching for her own identity.
Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man.