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- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergVan DoudeA small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
- DirectorHerbert J. LederStarsJohn EricsonBarry NewmanRoy FantCharles Arthur Floyd finds work on an oil rig after serving time for armed robbery; but when he becomes involved with a married woman, her husband swears revenge. Floyd's boss doesn't know that his new employee was a jailbird.
- DirectorMel WellesStarsTerry BeckerElisa LotiBruno VeSotaAn ex-mafioso moves to Mexico to become a writer, revealing mob secrets in his books which are met with understandable displeasure. He is soon pursued by hit-men as well as the FBI, who need his testimony in a court case.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsJayne MansfieldAnthony QuayleCarl MöhnerA gang leader dumps her criminal boyfriend when he is convicted of robbery, but he recovers the stolen loot once he's released. In retaliation, the gang kidnaps his son and demands the money as ransom.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsJayne MansfieldLeo GennKarlheinz BöhmA French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.
- DirectorMaurice BoutelStarsEtchika ChoureauEvelyne DassasAlain LionelOlga arrives from his province to Paris to find work. Coming out of the Montparnasse station, as she tries to find her way, she is accosted by a young man, Mario, who offers to help him. He invites her to lunch soon. Olga is easily seduced by this so helpful and seemingly disinterested man.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsNico MinardosBarbara EdenGrant RichardsBased on the Saturday Evening Post serial "Set Up For Murder" by Richard Stern, 12 Hours to Kill traces the problems of a young Greek national (Nico Minardos) who, after ogling a murder, is ushered off into the relative "safety" of suburban obscurity by the police, unaware that he is being double-crossed by a crooked gendarme.
- DirectorAllen BaronStarsAllen BaronMolly McCarthyLarry TuckerA hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsCliff RobertsonDolores DornBeatrice KayA teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMasayuki MoriKyôko KagawaA vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsToshirô MifuneKôji TsurutaYôko TsukasaJapanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investigate the death of the wife of gangster Tetsuo Maruyama of the Kozuka gang, probably at the hands of one of the Oka gang. During a gang gunfight, Maruyama is rescued by Detective Fujioka and the two become friends. But Maruyama insists on avenging his wife's murder, even if it means conflict with his new friend.
- DirectorBernard BorderieStarsFernandelBarbara LaageGeorges WilsonA modest professor of philosophy plunges in spite of himself into the world of the underworld, when he goes to Paris, where he must attend a congress.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsStanley BakerSam WanamakerGrégoire AslanIn the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsJ. Pat O'MalleyRobert J. WilkeRobert GistMakeshift gang carries off a theft of $2,000,000 and manages to baffle the police for three years.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGérard BlainAnna Maria FerreroBernard BlierAlvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo (Il Gobbo del Quarticciolo), during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. He starts his career of rebel like a partisan against the German occupants, fighting for freedom. The war goes on, and after the Nazis the Allied enter Roma as liberators. Now the Hunchback, like all the Rome's inhabitants, is finally a free man. But he doesn't leave the renegade life style as expected. In fact the Hunchback becomes one of the most well known bandits of the city, representing a problem for the new "occupants": the Allied.
- DirectorJulio SalvadorStarsJosé María ArmánJosé Luis BarcelonaMario BeutA girl dies in a car crash, but the autopsy reveals she was actually poisoned. The police comes up with a scheme: telling the media the girl is alive in a hospital hoping the murderer surfaces. However, nothing is like it seems to be.
- DirectorMario GariazzoStarsAlberto LupoHélène ChanelLinda ChristianA payroll heist gang member must survive in a coffin and then a morgue.
- DirectorMaurice BoutelStarsHoward VernonMaria VincentAndrex
- DirectorYoshiki OnodaStarsYôko MiharaShigeru AmachiTerumi Hoshi
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsYôko MiharaKanjûrô ArashiTeruo Yoshida
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsYôko MiharaTeruo YoshidaShigeru Amachi
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsJack HawkinsNigel PatrickRoger LiveseyA disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision.
- DirectorBill KarnStarsLurene TuttleTristram CoffinPaul DubovMa Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.
- DirectorYoshiki OnodaStarsYôko MiharaTeruo YoshidaMasayo Banri
- DirectorHenry CassStarsEric PohlmannPeter ReynoldsPat ClavinMelodrama, dealing with safe-breakers and gang warfare.
- DirectorBurt BalabanStuart RosenbergStarsStuart WhitmanMay BrittHenry MorganThe rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.
- DirectorRichard WilsonStarsErnest BorgnineZohra LampertAlan AustinBetween 1906-1909, NYPD Lieutenant Joe Petrosino heads the 'Italian Squad' and tries to stamp out organized crime from the city, often times amid assassination attempts by the Mafia.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsRon FosterLuana PattenGrant RichardsA gang leader's religious wife is persuaded by a priest to inform on him.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsRichard ToddPeter SellersElizabeth SellarsA cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsFrank SinatraDean MartinSammy Davis Jr.Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
- DirectorHiroshi NoguchiStarsJô ShishidoReiko SasamoriYûji Odaka
- DirectorFrançois VilliersStarsMichel SimonClaude BrasseurDany SavalAn old gentleman who loves his tender garden and pupil turns out to be an old killer.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsWilliam LucasAndrew FauldsColette Wilde
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRay DantonKaren SteeleElaine StewartNeo-noir about a small-time New York City criminal whose ambition is to become a big-time crime boss during the Prohibition era.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsRay DantonJayne MansfieldJulie LondonDancer George Raft (Ray Danton) finds himself involved with the criminal underworld. After a conflict with gangster boss Frank Donatella (Joe de Santis), he is exiled to Hollywoood, where he wins a role in the film "Scarface" and becomes famous. He lives with actress Lisa Lang (Jayne Mansfield) in a huge villa, but when his mother dies, he deserts her. His career slides downhill until he is offered a part in "Some Like it Hot" and becomes famous again.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsLee RemickYves MontandBradford DillmanWilliam Faulkner's steamy tale set in the South in the 1920s. Governer's daughter is seduced and raped by a Cajun who returns after she's married to cause her further trouble.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsLaurence HarveyCapucineJane FondaA man arrives in New Orleans searching for his former girlfriend, an artist who now works in a bordello.
- DirectorUmetsugu InoueStarsKazuo HasegawaHiroshi KawaguchiMachiko KyôA crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsYul BrynnerMitzi GaynorNoël CowardAn American gangster is exiled from the United States for criminal activity and is sent back to the Greek island where he was born. Once on the island, he is watched by a corrupt local police chief. Upon meeting an exiled king, he attempts to purchase the king's family jewels for a million dollars. However, when he wires for the money to his associates back home, they double cross him and send him a beautiful gun moll instead.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsMichitarô MizushimaMisako WatanabeShôichi OzawaA prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
- DirectorMaurice ClocheStarsMichel BarbeyAnne CarrèreJany Clair
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJoan EvansRon FosterMerry AndersAn ex-con sets out to find the money which was hidden after a payroll robbery but is persuaded to turn it over to the police by his former accomplice's widow.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsYûzô KayamaMakoto SatôTatsuya MihashiWhile testing the advance prototype of a revolutionary gas engine, the vehicle is involved in a mysterious accident killing its driver. The police report states that it was an accident, caused by the driver. But driver's younger brother senses foul play.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsHiroyuki NagatoJitsuko YoshimuraMasao MishimaA young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.
- DirectorGuy LefrancStarsEddie ConstantineFrançois ChaumetteRenée Cosima(1961) Eddie Constantine, Claudine Coster, Francois Chaumette, Marielle Gozzi. Eddie's framed for murder and ends up being sentenced to the slammer! This video has been manufactured from the best quality video master currently available; audio or image quality may vary.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsPeter Mark RichmanMartin GabelPhillip PineA feature film consisting of two 1962 episodes of the crime, drama show Cain's Hundred.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsJack WardenVera MilesRobert DouglasThe story of a scheme to double-cross and steal money from the syndicate, and a police commissioner's efforts to investigate homicides in the city of corruption.
- DirectorJacques DerayStarsKarlheinz BöhmCharles VanelBarbara LassVan Ekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up, to get a very valuable diamond, so big it's named Titan. Riquet was to be his second-in-command, but a rival gang shoots him down before the big day. Marsen, Riquet's friend, substitutes for him. Françoise, the companion of another gang member, will compromise the attack to the vault, but eventually they get past that. Yet, not all the gangsters will make it out of the security vault - and Van Ekken, caught, and having lost face, will do as an old Samurai...
- DirectorJohn LemontStarsHerbert LomSean ConneryJohn GregsonA small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
- DirectorAlfred RodeStarsClaudine DupuisJean DanetDora DollThe body of a young woman, Béatrice Dumontier, is found in the woods of Meudon. PJ Commissioner Rossi is investigating the murder. Traces lead to the Black Angel - a facade for several illegal activities.
- DirectorJoseph M. NewmanStarsDavid JanssenDianne FosterJack CarsonThe story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTetsurô TanbaNaoko KuboIssac SaxsonAfter a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsKen TakakuraKôji TsurutaMamoru Ogawa
- DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsDon MurrayLarry GatesLogan RamseyBased on the life of Fr. Charles Clark, a minister to street gangs.
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsHideaki NitaniRyôji HayamaReiko SasamoriA comparatively modern crime melo-drama for the time period.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsYûzô KayamaJun TazakiYukiko ShimazakiAfter a long stint working in Alaska, Jiro returns to his hometown. He soon learns that his father, the town's mayor, was murdered and, in his absence, the yakuza gangs have seized control of the town. Jiro quickly becomes dangerously obsessed with finding his father's killer.
- DirectorBurt BalabanStarsJohn Davis ChandlerKay DoubledayBrooke HaywardStory of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, a notorious gangland killer in the 1930s.
- DirectorHideo SekigawaStarsKôji TsurutaJohn BromfieldNaoko Kubo
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsRon RandellDebra PagetElaine StewartAfter wandering in a nuclear testing area in the desert, escaped mobster Ron Candell starts mutating and seeks revenge on his former crime partners.
- DirectorJean BeckerStarsJean-Paul BelmondoChristine KaufmannBéatrice Altariba(1961) Jean Paul Belmondo, Christine Kaufman. In this fine thriller, JP's friend ends up in prison. JP then tracks down the man responsible.
- DirectorCliff OwenStarsWilliam SylvesterMai ZetterlingJohn MeillonWhen Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsMichael CraigFrançoise PrévostBillie WhitelawA gang plans to steal a factory's wages, but an armored van foils them. They rob anyway, killing the driver. His vengeful wife and encroaching police make the gang betray each other.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsGlenn FordBette DavisHope LangeA New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsVic MorrowLeslie ParrishPeter BreckThis movie portrays the rise and fall of 1920s gangster Dutch Schultz. While building his own mob ring, he romances Iris, the daughter of a man he killed. When Iris marries a cop, Schultz makes sure the cop goes bad and takes kickbacks from Schultz's organization. Iris goes back to the arms of Schultz, not knowing he's the man who killed her father.
- DirectorSherman RosenfieldStarsDon GordonA history of gang murder is traced through a series of still photographs of the outlaws and gangsters listed below.
- DirectorJack LeewoodStarsGene NelsonMerry AndersJames BrownAn investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.
- DirectorJerome RobbinsRobert WiseStarsNatalie WoodGeorge ChakirisRichard BeymerTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsCraig HillElaine EdwardsGrant RichardsA doctor is on the run from the mob because he identified two hoods involved in a murder.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsFrank WolffSalvo RandoneFrederico ZardiThe unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
- DirectorJun FukudaStarsTatsuya MihashiYuriko HoshiMakoto Satô
- DirectorUmetsugu InoueStarsKôji TsurutaKen TakakuraMinoru Ôki
- DirectorFlorestano VanciniStarsRenato SalvatoriJean-Claude BrialyTomas MilianBased on the misdeeds of the criminal group headed by Paolo Casaroli, who was dedicated to robbing banks.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsErnest BorgnineMax CartierGuido CelanoA charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsJean-Paul BelmondoSerge ReggianiJean DesaillyA burglar betraying other criminals prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend who might be as untrustworthy as he.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsMario CarotenutoAndrea ChecchiHélène ChanelOrazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed. Orazio believes the local gangster is guilty and he rushes to Occhio di Bue's home. When he finds out a different truth, Orazio, Occhio di Bue and his friends will try to get back the loot to put it back before the robbery is disclosed.
- DirectorRaoul AndréStarsEddie ConstantineChristiane MinazzoliRobert ManuelAn FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette, the beautiful widow of Griffin's late partner.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsKôji TsurutaTetsurô TanbaTatsuo UmemiyaMizuhara did his time in jail for Boss Komori. Now that he is out, the old gang wants to say welcome back with a bullet.
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanEdward SkórzewskiStarsGustaw HoloubekWieslaw MichnikowskiHanka BielickaA criminal mastermind responsible for a failed robbery and an accidental petty conman meet inside a prison carriage. Soon they are both going to hear the court verdict.
- DirectorCharles DavisStarsDoug WilsonJeanne BairdMarilyn O'ConnorIn this obscure B potboiler, a longtime criminal returns to his native Los Angeles, determined to avenge his brother's murder.
- DirectorMaurice LabroStarsRoger HaninRoger DumasHuguette HueA French Secret Agente known as THE GORILLA (Roger Hanin), is sent to French West Africa to stop a planned political assassination of a railway chairman. Larry Anderson.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsElvis PresleyGig YoungLola AlbrightAfter completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter and takes him under his wing.
- DirectorShinji MurayamaStarsKôji TsurutaKyôko KagawaKyôko Kishida
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsShin'ichi ChibaTakashi HioYôko MiharaIshihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who was aiming to do the same thing so they decide to work together.
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsJean GabinAlain DelonClaude CervalA career con artist reunites with his wife but has already planned his next move: one daring last heist that will set him up for life. However, there is no such thing as a foolproof plan.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsConrado San MartínDanik PatissonPerla CristalVogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was shot by police, while the latter was imprisoned. Fifteen years later Smith comes back for revenge.
- DirectorJohn PeyserStarsPeter Mark RichmanDorothy DandridgeJames CoburnA young woman with a past is manipulated by the police to discover a missing drugs shipment, also wanted by the mafia. Between her musician husband and her long time detective friend, she is hopeless - but still performs some jazz numbers.
- DirectorPedro LazagaStarsÁngel de AndrésAntonio RiquelmeJosé IsbertInspired by the American gangster films, a group of thugs decides to dock the Bank of Spain. "El Rubio" explains to his men that, to commit the armed robbery, they will have to dig a gallery in the Cibeles. But, due to the threats of a rival band, "El Rubio" decides to disguise itself and pretend to be one of the most famous actors of the moment.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKayoko HonooKôji NakaharaMasahiko TsugawaIn Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsJirô IshizakiHiromi SakakiKyôko AoiAn undercover Japanese cop meant to operate within a gang, which deals in drugs is killed, by a sniper. The police are searching for a left-handed man as they determined the killer to be. A young detective is in charge.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsDean MartinLana TurnerEddie AlbertA hunch horse-player's marriage is threatened by his betting ways; in desperation, his wife becomes his bookie.