The Hatchet Man
When he’s forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man’s daughter.
Are You Listening?
WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer…
American Madness
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson’s wife…
The Terror of Batignolles
An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and…
Smart Money
Two brothers’ trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
The Sleeping Cardinal
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
The Secret Six
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank’s operation, beats a rival gang,…
The Public Enemy
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound…
The Maltese Falcon
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese…
The Guilty Generation
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents’ notoriety.
Guilty Hands
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter’s womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé’s lover.
Gentleman’s Fate
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
Five Star Final
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
The 3 Penny Opera
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising ‘king of the beggars’.
Daughter of the Dragon
At her Chinese father’s bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
The Criminal Code
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes…
La Chienne
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, “Lulu”, and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing…
The Black Camel
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won’t marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the…
Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
The Unholy Three
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the “Unholy Three” in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
Sinners’ Holiday
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
Road to Paradise
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.