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American cinema: Crime/Thriller

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stanley Kubrick

Alex DeLarge is a Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent who spends his evenings indulging in orgies of violence with his droogies...   [More...]

A Double Life (1947)
George Cukor

Anthony John is a renowned stage actor who, against his better judgement, allows himself to be coaxed into playing the lead role in Shakespeare's Othello...   [More...]

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Charles Crichton

London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West...   [More...]

The Ace of Hearts (1921)
Wallace Worsley

The members of a secret society meet and agree to execute a man who has become a danger to the civilised world. A pack of playing cards is dealt, the member who draws the ace of hearts being the one who will carry out the assassination with a bomb disguised as a cigar case...   [More...]

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Alfred L. Werker

When Professor Moriarty is acquitted of a murder charge, his arch-nemesis Sherlock Holmes vows to bring him to book. Moriarty rises to this challenge by concocting what he believes will be the crime of the century...   [More...]

And Then There Were None (1945)
René Clair

Eight men and women, all unknown to each other, accept a mysterious invitation to an island estate. They are welcomed by two domestic servants, Mr and Mrs Rogers, who appear to be as ignorant of the reason for the meeting as the guests are...   [More...]

The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Sidney Lumet

Once he has completed a ten year stretch in prison for burglary, John Anderson returns to his girlfriend Ingrid, who now resides in an upmarket New York apartment block, at the expense of her latest admirer...   [More...]

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Michael Curtiz

Jerry Connolly and Rocky Sullivan are two kids growing up in a poor area of New York. Their first attempt at robbery ends in failure - Jerry escapes but Rocky is caught and sent to a reform school...   [More...]

Armored Car Robbery (1950)
Richard Fleischer

Dave Purvis leads a gang of hardened criminals who plan to ambush an armoured car when it makes a collection outside a baseball station in Los Angeles...   [More...]

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Frank Capra

Mortimer Brewster returns to Brooklyn to visit his elderly aunts Abby and Martha with the news that he has just got married...   [More...]

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
John Huston

Within hours of leaving prison, criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider is preparing his next robbery. To clean up on a million dollars' worth of jewels, he recruits a safecracker, Louis Ciavelli, getaway-driver Gus Minissi and hoodlum Dix Handley...   [More...]

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Jay Roach

In 1967, Britain's top secret agent and number one hipster, Austin Powers, is on the trail of his deadly archenemy Dr Evil, the world's greatest criminal mastermind...   [More...]

Badlands (1973)
Terrence Malick

Some time in the 1950s... In a small South Dakota town, 15-year-old Holly lives a dull but contented life with her father, a sign painter...   [More...]

Beat the Devil (1953)
John Huston

Billy Dannreuther and his wife Maria are on their way to make their fortune in Africa, but are held up in an Italian port whilst their steamboat undergoes some repair work...   [More...]

The Big Clock (1948)
John Farrow

George Stroud is the editor-in-chief on Crimeways, a magazine that has a reputation for hunting down criminals more successfully than the police...   [More...]

The Big Combo (1955)
Joseph H. Lewis

Police Lieutenant Leonard Diamond is determined to bring the notorious gangster boss Mr Brown to book. For Diamond, this is no longer work but a personal crusade against evil...   [More...]

The Big Heat (1953)
Fritz Lang

Investigating the apparent suicide of a fellow officer, detective Dave Bannion soon discovers he is about to lift the lid on something that reeks of vice and corruption...   [More...]

The Big Sleep (1946)
Howard Hawks

General Sternwood hires private detective Philip Marlowe to investigate a bookseller named Geiger who appears to be blackmailing his daughter, Carmen...   [More...]

The Black Cat (1934)
Edgar G. Ulmer

The writer Peter Alison and his wife Joan are travelling across Hungary on their honeymoon when their path crosses that of Dr Vitus Werdegast, an eminent psychiatrist...   [More...]

The Blue Dahlia (1946)
George Marshall

Naval officer Johnny Morrison returns home after serving in the war with two of his colleagues, George Copeland and Buzz Wanchek...   [More...]

The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Fritz Lang

When her fiancé writes her a letter ending their relationship Norah Larkin accepts a dinner date invitation from artist Harry Prebble at the Blue Gardenia night club...   [More...]

Blue Velvet (1986)
David Lynch

Outwardly, Lumberton appears to be the model American small town - law abiding, tidy, peaceful. But surface impressions can be deceptive, as college student Jeffrey Beaumont discovers one fateful summer...   [More...]

Bluebeard (1944)
Edgar G. Ulmer

Paris is caught in a grip of terror. Several young women have been murdered, their bodies dumped in the River Seine, and the police search in vain to find the killer who has been dubbed Bluebeard...   [More...]

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Arthur Penn

In the early 1930s, America is in the grip of the Great Depression. Life is hard, but Clyde Barrow, a young man who has recently been released from prison, manages to scrape along by holding up the odd store and gas station...   [More...]

Born to Kill (1947)
Robert Wise

After getting her divorce in Reno, Helen Brent is in a hurry to leave town and take the train to San Francisco, where she intends to marry her rich fiancé Fred...   [More...]

Brute Force (1947)
Jules Dassin

The inmates of Westgate Prison, a United States penitentiary, are growing increasingly fractious as the prison authorities gradually erode their privileges and make life more unbearable...   [More...]

Bullets or Ballots (1936)
William Keighley

New York newspaper publisher Ward Bryant embarks on a one-man crusade against the racketeers who are, in his belief, wrecking the moral fabric of his country...   [More...]

Bullitt (1968)
Peter Yates

What starts out as a routine assignment for San Francisco police lieutenant Frank Bullitt soon turns into something far deadlier...   [More...]

Call Northside 777 (1948)
Henry Hathaway

In 1932, in the era of prohibition, the police of Chicago are fighting a losing battle against the mobsters and the bootleggers...   [More...]

Chinatown (1974)
Roman Polanski

Jake Gittes is a Los Angeles private investigator who specialises in adultery cases. He is hired by Mrs Mulwray to provide her with evidence that her husband, who happens to be the head of the city's water department, is having an affair with a young woman...   [More...]



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