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Directed by Edmund GouldingOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes La provence,
Children's filmsActors Tyrone Power,
Gene Tierney,
John Payne,
Anne Baxter,
Clifton Webb,
Herbert MarshallRating72%
The film, in which W. Somerset Maugham (Herbert Marshall) is himself a minor character, drifting in and out of the lives of the major players, opens at a party held following World War I in 1919 at a country club in Chicago, Illinois. Elliott Templeton (Clifton Webb), an expatriate, has returned to the United States for the first time since before the war to visit his sister, Louisa Bradley (Lucile Watson), and his niece, Isabel (Gene Tierney), engaged to be married to Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), of whom Elliott strongly disapproves for rejecting both inclusion in their social stratum and working in the common world., 1h20
Directed by Stanley KubrickOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Sterling Hayden,
Coleen Gray,
Vince Edwards,
Jay C. Flippen,
Elisha Cook, Jr.,
Marie WindsorRating78%
Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is a veteran criminal planning one last heist before settling down and marrying Fay (Coleen Gray). He plans to steal $2 million from the money-counting room of a racetrack during a featured race. He assembles a team consisting of a corrupt cop (Ted de Corsia), a betting window teller (Elisha Cook Jr.) to gain access to the backroom, a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey) to shoot the favorite horse during the race to distract the crowd, a wrestler (Kola Kwariani) to provide another distraction by provoking a fight at the track bar, and a track bartender (Joe Sawyer)., 1h20
Directed by Samuel FullerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Spy,
Noir,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Spy films,
Political films,
Heist films,
Children's films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Richard Widmark,
Jean Peters,
Thelma Ritter,
Richard Kiley,
Murvyn Vye,
Willis BoucheyRating75%
On a crowded New York City subway train, pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) steals Candy's (Jean Peters) wallet. Unbeknownst to Skip or Candy, in the wallet is microfilm of top-secret government information. Candy was delivering an envelope as a final favor to her ex-boyfriend, Joey (Richard Kiley). Joey told her it contains stolen business secrets,and she believed him, unaware that Joey is actually a communist spy., 1h25
Directed by Andrew L. StoneOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Joseph Cotten,
Teresa Wright,
Jonathan Hale,
Walter Sande,
Carleton Young,
Katherine WarrenRating68%
With a million dollars cash in the vault, Jim Osborne (Joseph Cotten), an assistant bank manager in Los Angeles, is tempted to steal from his own bank and flee the country. Doing research at the library, he learns that Brazil does not have an extradition treaty with the United States. If he steals the money at close of business on a Friday, he will have time to travel to Brazil before the theft is even discovered. However, the season when the bank opens on Saturdays is about to begin, so he must take action the same week or else wait for months., 1h24
Directed by Robert SiodmakOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Burt Lancaster,
Yvonne De Carlo,
Dan Duryea,
Stephen McNally,
Alan Napier,
Percy HeltonRating73%
Reuniting with director Siodmak after their success with Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgment., 2h20
Directed by Jean-Pierre MelvilleOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
La provence,
Films about drugs,
Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Alain Delon,
André Bourvil,
Jean Champion,
Gian Maria Volonté,
Yves Montand,
François PérierRating78%
Après cinq ans d'emprisonnement dans un établissement pénitentiaire de Marseille, Corey (Alain Delon) est sur le point d'être libéré. La veille de sa sortie, le gardien-chef de la prison lui propose une affaire. Sitôt libre, Corey rend visite à son ancien comparse, un nommé Rico, caïd enrichi, devenu amant de sa petite amie. Corey contraint le malfrat à lui remettre une somme d'argent liquide importante. Amer, ce dernier dépêche deux sbires aux trousses de Corey. Dans une salle de billard, Corey saisit une queue et, à l'aide d'une craie rouge, trace avec son procédé (l'embout de la queue qui sert à frapper les boules) un cercle qu'il remplit ensuite, avant de disperser les boules. Les hommes de Rico le rejoignent et l'entretien se termine dans le sang. Mais Corey en repart indemne. Il achète une voiture d'occasion remarquée dans la vitrine d'un revendeur automobile et entreprend de regagner son domicile du 16e arrondissement de Paris., 1h52
Directed by John HustonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Sterling Hayden,
Louis Calhern,
Jean Hagen,
James Whitmore,
Sam Jaffe,
John McIntireRating77%
When criminal mastermind Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe) is released from prison after seven years, he immediately goes to see a bookie named Cobby (Marc Lawrence) in an unnamed Midwest river city, who arranges a meeting with Alonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern), a high-profile lawyer. Emmerich listens with interest to Doc's plan to steal jewelry worth a million dollars or more. Doc needs $50,000 to hire three men—a "box man" (safecracker), a driver, and a "hooligan"—to help him pull off the caper. Emmerich agrees to provide the money, then suggests that he (not one or more fences) assume the responsibility for disposing of the loot., 1h48
Directed by Lana et Lilly WachowskiOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Noir,
Crime,
Romance,
Erotic thrillerThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Erotic thriller films,
Heist films,
Gangster films,
Escroquerie,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Lesbian-related filmsActors Gina Gershon,
Jennifer Tilly,
Joe Pantoliano,
John P. Ryan,
Christopher Meloni,
John P. RyanRating72%
Corky (Gina Gershon), an ex-con who has just finished a five-year jail sentence, arrives at an apartment building to start work as a painter and plumber. On her way up to the apartment, she encounters the couple who live next-door, Violet (Jennifer Tilly) and Caesar (Joe Pantoliano). After Caesar has gone out, Violet flirts with Corky and asks her to help retrieve an earring that has fallen down her sink. After Corky extracts the earring, Violet admits she lost it on purpose in order to get closer to Corky, and starts to seduce her. They are interrupted by the arrival of Caesar and Corky goes back to work. When she leaves for the day, Violet follows her to her truck. They go to Corky's apartment and have sex. The next morning, Violet tells Corky that Caesar is a money launderer for the Mafia and they have been together for five years.