Film Index
American cinema: Crime/Thriller
Niagara (1953)
Henry Hathaway
Ray and Polly Cutler arrive at Niagara Falls, where they hope to spend their belated honeymoon in peace. The holiday gets off to a bad start when they learn that their cottage is occupied by another couple, George and Rose Loomis...
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Henry Hathaway
The Nickel Ride (1974)
Robert Mulligan
Cooper is a middle-aged crime boss who successfully manages a number of warehouses in Los Angeles which store stolen goods...
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Robert Mulligan
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Charles Laughton
It is the Great Depression and for most ordinary Americans life is unbearably hard. Desperation drives Ben Harper, a young father, to rob a bank, but in the attempt he kills two men...
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Charles Laughton
Nightfall (1957)
Jacques Tourneur
One evening, commercial artist James Vanning makes the acquaintance of Marie Gardner in a cheap bar. She claims to be a model and offers to pose for him, but on leaving the bar Vanning is seized by two thugs and bundled into a car...
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Jacques Tourneur
Nightmare (1956)
Maxwell Shane
Stan Grayson, a clarinet-player in a New Orleans band, awakes from a dream in which he sees himself murder another man in a mirrored room...
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Maxwell Shane
Nocturne (1946)
Edwin L. Marin
Whilst entertaining a woman in his apartment one evening, a composer named Keith Vincent is composing a farewell song to his latest amorous conquest... [More...]
Edwin L. Marin
Whilst entertaining a woman in his apartment one evening, a composer named Keith Vincent is composing a farewell song to his latest amorous conquest... [More...]
The Old Dark House (1963)
William Castle
American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day... [More...]
William Castle
American car salesman Tom Penderel shares an apartment in London with his friend Caspar Femm - he lives there during the night, Caspar using it only during the day... [More...]
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Nicholas Ray
Jim Wilson is a hard-bitten detective who has no qualms about using violence and underhand methods when it comes to dealing with the city's lowlife... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
Jim Wilson is a hard-bitten detective who has no qualms about using violence and underhand methods when it comes to dealing with the city's lowlife... [More...]
One Body Too Many (1944)
Frank McDonald
After the death of millionaire Cyrus J. Rutherford his relatives assemble in his mansion to attend the reading of his will... [More...]
Frank McDonald
After the death of millionaire Cyrus J. Rutherford his relatives assemble in his mansion to attend the reading of his will... [More...]
Out of the Past (1947)
Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Bailey is leading a contented if uneventful life as a petrol station owner in a backwater town when his murky past suddenly catches up with him... [More...]
Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Bailey is leading a contented if uneventful life as a petrol station owner in a backwater town when his murky past suddenly catches up with him... [More...]
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Elia Kazan
When a dead body is found on the New Orleans waterfront, its gunshot wounds leave no doubt as to the cause of death. But the man would have died even if he had not been shot, as he was infected with pneumonic plague, a lethal strain of bubonic plague... [More...]
Elia Kazan
When a dead body is found on the New Orleans waterfront, its gunshot wounds leave no doubt as to the cause of death. But the man would have died even if he had not been shot, as he was infected with pneumonic plague, a lethal strain of bubonic plague... [More...]
Party Girl (1958)
Nicholas Ray
Chicago, in the early 1930s. Thomas Farrell is a lawyer who makes a healthy living defending the town's mobsters, most notably the feared gangster boss Rico Angelo... [More...]
Nicholas Ray
Chicago, in the early 1930s. Thomas Farrell is a lawyer who makes a healthy living defending the town's mobsters, most notably the feared gangster boss Rico Angelo... [More...]
The Pearl of Death (1944)
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes makes the blunder of his career when he unwittingly allows master criminal Giles Conover to steal a priceless pearl which is on display at a London museum... [More...]
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes makes the blunder of his career when he unwittingly allows master criminal Giles Conover to steal a priceless pearl which is on display at a London museum... [More...]
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Archie Mayo
Alan Squier, a failed British writer, ends up hitchhiking his way across North America. Whilst crossing the Arizona desert he comes across a diner when he strikes up an immediate rapport with Gabrielle, the daughter of the eatery's owner... [More...]
Archie Mayo
Alan Squier, a failed British writer, ends up hitchhiking his way across North America. Whilst crossing the Arizona desert he comes across a diner when he strikes up an immediate rapport with Gabrielle, the daughter of the eatery's owner... [More...]
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Samuel Fuller
Pickpocket Skip McCoy finds himself in greater trouble than he could ever have imagined when he steals a woman's purse containing microfilm of government secrets... [More...]
Samuel Fuller
Pickpocket Skip McCoy finds himself in greater trouble than he could ever have imagined when he steals a woman's purse containing microfilm of government secrets... [More...]
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...]
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...]
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Tay Garnett
Frank Chambers, an unemployed drifter, is touring the backwaters of California when he comes across a roadside café which has a vacancy for a handyman... [More...]
Tay Garnett
Frank Chambers, an unemployed drifter, is touring the backwaters of California when he comes across a roadside café which has a vacancy for a handyman... [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...]
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...]
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are about to head off to Scotland for a hunting holiday when they are hoodwinked into accepting another case... [More...]
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are about to head off to Scotland for a hunting holiday when they are hoodwinked into accepting another case... [More...]
Pushover (1954)
Richard Quine
When hoodlum Harry Wheeler pulls off a bank robbery, detective Paul Sheridan is tasked with maintaining a 24 hour surveillance on his girlfriend, Lona McLane... [More...]
Richard Quine
When hoodlum Harry Wheeler pulls off a bank robbery, detective Paul Sheridan is tasked with maintaining a 24 hour surveillance on his girlfriend, Lona McLane... [More...]
Quicksand (1950)
Irving Pichel
Dan Brady is a young car mechanic with an eye for the ladies. When he runs into Vera Novak, a blonde looker, he can hardly wait to take her out on a date... [More...]
Irving Pichel
Dan Brady is a young car mechanic with an eye for the ladies. When he runs into Vera Novak, a blonde looker, he can hardly wait to take her out on a date... [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...]
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...]
Rage in Heaven (1941)
W.S. Van Dyke
England, 1936. After a chance meeting, Phillip Monrell invites his old college friend Ward Andrews to his grand family home... [More...]
W.S. Van Dyke
England, 1936. After a chance meeting, Phillip Monrell invites his old college friend Ward Andrews to his grand family home... [More...]
Railroaded! (1947)
Anthony Mann
With the help of his girlfriend, Clara Calhoun, smalltime hoodlum Duke Martin raids an illegal bookmaking joint masquerading as a beauty parlour... [More...]
Anthony Mann
With the help of his girlfriend, Clara Calhoun, smalltime hoodlum Duke Martin raids an illegal bookmaking joint masquerading as a beauty parlour... [More...]
Rear Window (1954)
Alfred Hitchcock
Injured on one of his assignments, magazine photographer L. B. Jefferies - known to his friends as Jeff - finds himself confined to his New York apartment with his leg in plaster and only his nurse Stella and girlfriend Lisa to keep him company... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Injured on one of his assignments, magazine photographer L. B. Jefferies - known to his friends as Jeff - finds himself confined to his New York apartment with his leg in plaster and only his nurse Stella and girlfriend Lisa to keep him company... [More...]
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Quentin Tarantino
Eight men take breakfast together at a Los Angeles diner, their last meeting before they participate in a daylight jewel robbery... [More...]
Quentin Tarantino
Eight men take breakfast together at a Los Angeles diner, their last meeting before they participate in a daylight jewel robbery... [More...]
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Raoul Walsh
Returning to New York after World War I, Eddie Bartlett has difficulty finding honest work. The introduction of Prohibition gives him his first break - he makes easy money by delivering illicit alcohol... [More...]
Raoul Walsh
Returning to New York after World War I, Eddie Bartlett has difficulty finding honest work. The introduction of Prohibition gives him his first break - he makes easy money by delivering illicit alcohol... [More...]
Rogue Cop (1954)
Roy Rowland
After honest cop Eddie Kelvaney witnesses a stabbing in a penny arcade, gangster bosses Beaumonte and Ackerman put pressure on his brother Chris, another cop, to ensure the murderer is not brought to justice... [More...]
Roy Rowland
After honest cop Eddie Kelvaney witnesses a stabbing in a penny arcade, gangster bosses Beaumonte and Ackerman put pressure on his brother Chris, another cop, to ensure the murderer is not brought to justice... [More...]
Rope (1948)
Alfred Hitchcock
In their top floor New York apartment, two well-heeled students, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, have just strangled one of their college chums, David Kentley, with a rope... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
In their top floor New York apartment, two well-heeled students, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, have just strangled one of their college chums, David Kentley, with a rope... [More...]
The Saint in London (1939)
John Paddy Carstairs
On his return to London, high class thief Simon Templar, alias The Saint, investigates the suspicious activities of Bruno Lang, a society gambler who appears to be implicated in a plot to print one million pounds in foreign currency... [More...]
John Paddy Carstairs
On his return to London, high class thief Simon Templar, alias The Saint, investigates the suspicious activities of Bruno Lang, a society gambler who appears to be implicated in a plot to print one million pounds in foreign currency... [More...]