Film Index

American cinema: Comedy/Thriller

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Blake Edwards

Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position...   [More...]

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Quentin Tarantino

When a group of drugs dealing college kids attempt to double cross him, Los Angeles gangster boss Marsellus Wallace sends two of his henchmen, Jules and Vincent, to pay them a house call and collect a mysterious briefcase...   [More...]

Raffles (1939)
Sam Wood

As London is hit by a spate of thefts no one would ever suspect that these are the work of one man, the celebrated cricketer A.J...   [More...]

Scared to Death (1947)
Christy Cabanne

As she lies dead and about to be subjected to an autopsy to establish the cause of her death, Laura Van Ee recalls the series of events that led to her tragic demise...   [More...]

Shadows and Fog (1991)
Woody Allen

In the 1920s, a town swathed in fog is terrorised by a mysterious serial killer who roams the streets, strangling men and women unlucky enough to cross his path...   [More...]

The Sting (1973)
George Roy Hill

Illinois, 1936. Johnny Hooker, a small time con artist, finds himself out of his league when he pilfers a wad of cash belonging to one of Chicago's biggest racketeers, Doyle Lonnegan...   [More...]

To Catch a Thief (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock

The French Riviera is hit by a spate of jewel robberies and the local police immediately suspect John Robie, a once notorious cat burglar, now apparently a reformed character...   [More...]

Topkapi (1964)
Jules Dassin

Elizabeth Lipp and her lover Walter Harper plan to steal a priceless emerald-encrusted dagger from the Topkapi museum in Istabul...   [More...]

The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
John Ford

Arthur Ferguson Jones is a mild-mannered office clerk whose closest companions are his cat and his canary. For months, he has had a secret crush on one of his colleagues, Miss Clark, but he is too shy to speak to her...   [More...]

Young Frankenstein (1974)
Mel Brooks

Dr Frederick Frankenstein is a medical school lecturer who just happens to be the grandson of the mad scientist Baron von Frankenstein, whose monster-making exploits have been widely reported in books, films and comic books by irresponsible sensationalists...   [More...]


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