An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
Casts Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, John Litel, Byron Barr, Jimmy Hunt, Ann Doran, Selmer Jackson, Margaret Wells
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Party Girl
Hollow Triumph
Larceny
Vamps, Blood & Smoking Guns
Ace in the Hole
Riff-Raff
Suspense
The Suspect
Deported
Cry Danger
The Mob
The Gangster
The Postman Always Rings Twice
He Ran All the Way
One Girl's Confession
Red Light
Revolution
Striptease
The Good Girl
A Tale of Winter
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Party Girl
IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 1958
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.Hollow Triumph
IMDB 6.5 | Aug , 1948
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.Larceny
IMDB 5.7 | Sep , 1948
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.Vamps, Blood & Smoking Guns
IMDB 2 | Sep , 2012
A hard-boiled female detective has to solve a murder plot orchestrated by vampires.Ace in the Hole
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 1951
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.Riff-Raff
IMDB 6.1 | Jun , 1947
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight.Suspense
IMDB 6.3 | Jun , 1946
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.The Suspect
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1945
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.Deported
IMDB 6.2 | Nov , 1950
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.Cry Danger
IMDB 6.7 | Feb , 1951
After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.The Mob
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1951
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.The Gangster
IMDB 4.8 | Nov , 1947
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.The Postman Always Rings Twice
IMDB 7.1 | May , 1946
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.He Ran All the Way
IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 1951
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.One Girl's Confession
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 1953
Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.Red Light
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 1949
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.Revolution
IMDB 4.3 | Oct , 2012
A coming-of-age story about Jack, a 16-year old Iranian boy growing up in 1989 Los Angeles. With the 1979 Iranian Revolution a distant memory, the AIDS movement as a backdrop, and a haunting score by Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Jack learns how to stage his own much smaller revolution within the confines of his traditional family.Striptease
IMDB 5.5 | Jun , 1996
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.The Good Girl
IMDB 6.2 | Jan , 2002
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.A Tale of Winter
IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 1992
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.