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Max and Riton pull off a job together, a burglary of fifty million gold bars at Orly. The milieu, unaware of who committed the crime, finally discovers the truth from Riton's mistress... Winner of the Best Actor Award at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"It's Gabin's show all the way, anticipating the melancholy, atmospheric gangster pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville that started to appear a couple years later." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, **Chicago...
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to gamble her future on the journalist who transformed her...
63) Murderous Trance
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones) and Josh Lucas (Ford v. Ferrari) star in MURDEROUS TRANCE. Based on a true story, this tense thriller follows a remarkable series of hypnosis crimes that took place in the 1950s.
64) Superior
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Marian is on the run, she goes to the only place she knows is safe: her childhood home. She is greeted by her estranged sister, Vivian, a stay-at-home housewife struggling to conceive and on the verge of a failing marriage. Though the two are identical twins, they live opposite lives. Marian's mysterious return disrupts Vivian's small-town routine, and the sisters must learn to reconnect and reconcile. When Marian's haunting past finally catches...
65) Private Property
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Two homicidal Southern California drifters (played to creepy perfection by Warren Oates and Corey Allen) wander off the beach and into the seemingly-perfect Beverly Hills home of unhappy housewife Kate Manx, in this long-lost film noir gem written & directed by *The Outer Limits* creator Leslie Stevens. Shot through with shimmering sexual tension and lensed in stunning B&W by master cameraman Ted McCord (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), PRIVATE...
66) 99 River Street
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
In this classic film noir, a down-on-his-luck former boxer (John Payne), turned cab driver has to hide from the police when he's accused of murdering his badgering wife after her lifeless body turns up in the back of his cab. On the run and out of time, he needs to bring the real killer to justice before the cops and the thugs responsible for the set-up get their hands on him,
67) T-Men
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
68) Brighton Rock
Pub. Date
1948.
Language
English
Description
Pinky, the psychotic, razor-toting gang leader, romances and marries a teenage waitress in order to keep her silent about one of his nefarious crimes. Richard Attenborough's intense performance as teenage gangster Pinkie Brown elevates this adaptation of Graham Greene's novel. *"A seedy noir, equal parts concealed-camera atmosphere and tense set pieces." - Vadim Rizov, **Villiage Voice***
69) Picpus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Whilst moving into her new Paris apartment, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Soon more corpses pile up near the metro station Picpus and the eponymous street: a clairvoyant, a blind man, a doctor, a real estate agent. These people have certainly got something in common, but what can it be? Maigret is summoned to investigate in this thrilling whodunit from director Richard Pottier (Fanfare d'Amour).
71) Un Flic
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
Français
Description
Beginning with a remarkable bank robbery on a deserted beach front and also featuring a helicopter heist shot in real time, UN FLIC is perhaps Jean-Pierre Melville's most perfect synthesis of style and suspense. A wonderfully fatalistic study of loss and deception, and a distillation of Melville's interest in the codes of loyalty and honor, the film marks a fitting epitaph to one of the finest careers in contemporary cinema. *"A fitting final act...
73) Bob the Gambler
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
Français
Description
Bob has decided to give up his business in order to enjoy his hobby: gambling. However, he cannot refuse one last job proposed by a friend: to take part in an amazing raid on the Deauville casino. But that day, seeing the gaming rooms, Bob is riveted by a gambling table where he wins in an unabashed fashion, and he forgets about his role in the well-planned hold-up. *"Its realism is not the reality of life, but of the kind of movies that give shape...
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Korean
Description
A Louis Vuitton bag stuffed full of cash sends a group of hard-luck lowlifes on a desperate chase for the fortune in this pitch-black neo-noir crime thriller. Fish-mongering gangsters, a greasy cop, a crooked customs official, a sad-sack gym attendant, a beautiful prostitute, her wife beater of a husband, her ruthless boss and her clueless boyfriend all violently scheme to get their hands on the elusive bag. First time director Kim Yong-hoon's witty...
75) Shed no tears
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A wife pursuades her husband to fake his own death in order to collect the insurance money. She has been having an affair and plans to spend the money without the help of her husband.
76) Branded to kill
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
A gangster story about a hitman who lost his last target, and now another hitman is after him.
77) The Midnighters
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A neo-noir homage to 1970's American Crime Cinema, THE MIDNIGHTERS tells the story of an aging ex-con recently released from prison is asked to put his life on the line to save his son from a deadly debt. Winner of Best Screenplay at the **Phoenix Film Festival**.
78) Hot Blooded
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
A veteran gangster, Hee-su, is looking to retire from his crime family in the violent port town of Kuam, Korea. But an unexpected betrayal leads him down a bloody path where he gets caught in the middle of a mob war with deadly consequences.
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