Crime, Comedy
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Zero Tolerance
St. Benny the Dip
A Force of One
Chandni Bar
Brother
Code of Silence
Top Flat
Executive Protection
The Krays
A Prophet
Passport to Murder
Forbidden
Public Hero Number 1
A Bullet for Joey
A Cuckoo in the Nest
Little Caesar
Dead End
The Sin of Nora Moran
The Story of Temple Drake
Night Key
SIMILAR MOVIES
Zero Tolerance
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 1999
Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.St. Benny the Dip
IMDB 5 | Aug , 1951
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.A Force of One
IMDB 4.8 | Jun , 1979
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.Chandni Bar
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2001
The gritty life of the Mumbai underworld, including prostitution, dance bars and gun crime.Brother
IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 1997
Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in hiding after asking for too much money to assassinate a Chechen mob boss. To avoid exposure, Victor convinces Danila to kill the boss instead.Code of Silence
IMDB 5.8 | May , 1985
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.Top Flat
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1935
When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.Executive Protection
IMDB 6.2 | Aug , 2001
After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven, purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters attempted to pressure him into paying protection money, Sven retained the services of Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all too well, murdering the racketeers, and then threatening Sven and his family. With no where else to turn, Sven asks Falk to help him deal with the crazed Lehmann; Falk agrees, but soon realizes he's dealing with a more dangerous man than he imagined when Lehmann kidnaps Falk's wife Jeanette, and then releases her with a time bomb locked around her neck, demanding that Falk hand over ownership of his detective agency to Lehmann.The Krays
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 1990
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two become notorious crime lords who rule over the East End club scene. But at the height of their power, the brothers veer into different lives, giving the older crime bosses a chance to reclaim what the Krays took from them.A Prophet
IMDB 7.6 | Aug , 2009
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.Passport to Murder
IMDB 4 | Mar , 1993
After her divorce is final, socialite Helen Hollander heads to Paris and finds herself caught up in an international terrorist plot in this thriller. When Helen comes into possession of information vital to a terrorist organization, nefarious characters begin tailing her through Paris. A hunky private eye offers to help her, but Helen isn't sure whether he's on the up-and-up.Forbidden
IMDB 6 | Dec , 1953
Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.Public Hero Number 1
IMDB 6.1 | May , 1935
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.A Bullet for Joey
IMDB 5.7 | Apr , 1955
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.A Cuckoo in the Nest
IMDB 5.2 | Nov , 1933
A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.Little Caesar
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 1931
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?Dead End
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1937
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.The Sin of Nora Moran
IMDB 5.4 | Dec , 1933
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.The Story of Temple Drake
IMDB 6.4 | May , 1933
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.Night Key
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1937
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.