Film Index
American cinema: Crime/Thriller
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...
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Jules Dassin
Touch of Evil (1958)
Orson Welles
Miguel Vargas, a Mexican drugs enforcement official, is on his honeymoon when a car is blown up right in front of his eyes, shortly after crossing the border from Mexico into the United States...
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Orson Welles
The Transporter (2002)
Louis Leterrier
Frank leads a comfortable life by the sea in Nice. He earns a decent wage as a courier, delivering anything, anywhere for anyone, but only if the price is right...
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Louis Leterrier
Trapped (1949)
Richard Fleischer
To foil a money counterfeiting operation the U.S. Treasury Department recruits a convicted counterfeiter Tris Stewart, offering a full pardon in return for his help in bringing the wrong-doers to justice...
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Richard Fleischer
True Romance (1993)
Tony Scott
Clarence Worley is an Elvis Presley fan and film enthusiast who works in a comic book store in Detroit. To celebrate his birthday, he goes to watch a trio of martial arts films at his local cinema...
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Tony Scott
The Undercover Man (1949)
Joseph H. Lewis
Federal treasury investigator Frank Warren is assigned to a case which, if successful, will smash one of America's biggest crime syndicates and put its boss behind bars for many years... [More...]
Joseph H. Lewis
Federal treasury investigator Frank Warren is assigned to a case which, if successful, will smash one of America's biggest crime syndicates and put its boss behind bars for many years... [More...]
The Untouchables (1987)
Brian De Palma
In 1930s Chicago, the sale of alcohol is prohibited, allowing shady entrepreneurs like Al Capone to make a fortune by peddling illicit liquor at skyrocket prices... [More...]
Brian De Palma
In 1930s Chicago, the sale of alcohol is prohibited, allowing shady entrepreneurs like Al Capone to make a fortune by peddling illicit liquor at skyrocket prices... [More...]
The Velvet Touch (1948)
Jack Gage
Not satisfied with her success as a popular Broadway actress, Valerie Stanton desperately wants to broaden her repertoire by appearing in serious plays like Ibsen's Hedda Gabler instead of the usual frothy nonsense she is known for... [More...]
Jack Gage
Not satisfied with her success as a popular Broadway actress, Valerie Stanton desperately wants to broaden her repertoire by appearing in serious plays like Ibsen's Hedda Gabler instead of the usual frothy nonsense she is known for... [More...]
Victory (1919)
Maurice Tourneur
For two years, Axel Heyst has lived the life of a total recluse on the small remote island of Samburan, a lonely outpost in the Dutch East Indies... [More...]
Maurice Tourneur
For two years, Axel Heyst has lived the life of a total recluse on the small remote island of Samburan, a lonely outpost in the Dutch East Indies... [More...]
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Terence Young
On his return to New York, photographer Sam Hendrix is met by a woman he has never met before who asks him to take care of an antique doll... [More...]
Terence Young
On his return to New York, photographer Sam Hendrix is met by a woman he has never met before who asks him to take care of an antique doll... [More...]
The Web (1947)
Michael Gordon
When small time lawyer Bob Regan harangues him for a petty claim multi-millionaire businessman Andrew Colby is so impressed that he immediately offers him a job, as his personal bodyguard... [More...]
Michael Gordon
When small time lawyer Bob Regan harangues him for a petty claim multi-millionaire businessman Andrew Colby is so impressed that he immediately offers him a job, as his personal bodyguard... [More...]
The Whip Hand (1951)
William Cameron Menzies
Whilst on a fishing holiday at Lake Winnoga, Wisconsin, reporter Matt Corbin stumbles across a town with a mysterious secret... [More...]
William Cameron Menzies
Whilst on a fishing holiday at Lake Winnoga, Wisconsin, reporter Matt Corbin stumbles across a town with a mysterious secret... [More...]
Whirlpool (1949)
Otto Preminger
Ann Sutton, the wife of the renowned psychoanalyst Dr Bill Sutton, is out shopping one day when she is caught shoplifting in a Los Angeles department store... [More...]
Otto Preminger
Ann Sutton, the wife of the renowned psychoanalyst Dr Bill Sutton, is out shopping one day when she is caught shoplifting in a Los Angeles department store... [More...]
White Heat (1949)
Raoul Walsh
Cody Jarett is the psychotic leader of a gang of crooks which the FBI has been trying to round up for some time. The only person Jarett trusts is his mother, who is every bit as tough and resourceful as he is, and far more reliable than his egoistical wife... [More...]
Raoul Walsh
Cody Jarett is the psychotic leader of a gang of crooks which the FBI has been trying to round up for some time. The only person Jarett trusts is his mother, who is every bit as tough and resourceful as he is, and far more reliable than his egoistical wife... [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...]
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...]
The Woman in Green (1945)
Roy William Neill
London is terrorised by a serial killer who preys on young women, cutting off their right forefingers after slaying them in the most brutal manner... [More...]
Roy William Neill
London is terrorised by a serial killer who preys on young women, cutting off their right forefingers after slaying them in the most brutal manner... [More...]
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Fritz Lang
Richard Wanley is a humdrum college professor who is looking forward to an uneventful few weeks of bachelor living while his wife takes their children away for the annual holiday... [More...]
Fritz Lang
Richard Wanley is a humdrum college professor who is looking forward to an uneventful few weeks of bachelor living while his wife takes their children away for the annual holiday... [More...]
The Wrong Man (1956)
Alfred Hitchcock
Working as a bass player in an exclusive New York nightclub, Manny Balestrero earns just enough to keep himself, his wife Rose and his two young sons... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Working as a bass player in an exclusive New York nightclub, Manny Balestrero earns just enough to keep himself, his wife Rose and his two young sons... [More...]