Comedy, Crime
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Detective
The Evil That Men Do
Hold da helt ferie
Flagrant désir
Cooking with Corey
Hitch Hike
Murder at Covent Garden
Full Happiness
A Kind of Murder
Dream Wife
Lady in Heat
Cruel World
Inner Sanctum
Assa
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Fast Life
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1929
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IMDB 4.9 | Jun , 1944
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.Upside Down Pineapple
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2024
The true story of her best friend's mysterious murder would make the perfect prime time miniseries, but can former queen bee Penelope Pierce convince her reluctant clique to sign over their life rights?The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
IMDB 3.5 | Mar , 1994
The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.The Show-Off
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1946
Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.Congo
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 2018
In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of killing their hired chauffeur just before crossing into the eastern Congo. The following manhunt starts a political and diplomatic headache.Detective
IMDB 5.3 | Aug , 1985
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.The Evil That Men Do
IMDB 5.8 | Mar , 1984
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.Hold da helt ferie
IMDB 4.4 | Dec , 1965
Søren is looking forward to a relaxing camping holiday with his wife, Marianne. But nothing goes as planned, when his two daughters and mother-in-law join them.Flagrant désir
IMDB 5 | Jun , 1986
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?Cooking with Corey
IMDB 10 | Mar , 2024
90s cooking show host Corey Wells records a special Christmas episode for his cooking show 'Cooking with Corey' where his wife/co-host is curiously missingHitch Hike
IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 1977
A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to a sanctuary. In return he agrees to split some bank loot he has on him.Murder at Covent Garden
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1932
A detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.Full Happiness
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1965
Chi-keung and Bak Lan separated due to disputes, and Chi-keung took the younger daughter Siu-bo back to Macau while Lan brought the elder daughter Dai-bo to Hong Kong. While they both have partners, Lai-kuen and Jimmy, they still have ambivalent feelings towards each other. Siu-bo and Dai-bo bumped into each other during an occasion in Macau and decided to swap places to see their mum/dad whom they had rarely seen since birth. They were moved and persuaded their grandparents to reconcile with their parents. Despite warts and all, Chi-keung and Lan reunited and they all became a happy family again.A Kind of Murder
IMDB 5.3 | Dec , 2016
In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a rich, successful architect and unhappily married to the beautiful but damaged Clara. His desire to be free of her feeds his obsession with Kimmel, a man suspected of brutally murdering his own wife. When Walter and Kimmel's lives become dangerously intertwined, a ruthless police detective becomes convinced he has found the murderer. But as the lines blur between innocence and intent, who, in fact, is the real killer?Dream Wife
IMDB 5.5 | Jun , 1953
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!Lady in Heat
IMDB 3.3 | Mar , 1999
An anthology of three erotic stories. In the first story ("Pink Encounter"), a salesman is unable to control his libido as a customer takes off all her clothes to test out a bathtub for sale. The second story ("House For Rent") features two couples who are sexually unsatisfied until they get the idea to swap partners. In the final story (no English title), a woman kills her rich husband then enters a steamy affair with the policewoman investigating the crime.Cruel World
IMDB 4.3 | Oct , 2006
Following his dismissal from a television reality show, a deranged young man lures a group of beautiful coeds to his abode by telling them they will be the stars of a new show he is creating. What the women do not know is that when they lose their slot on the show, they lose their lives as well.Inner Sanctum
IMDB 5 | Oct , 1948
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.Assa
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1987
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.