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Un Flic (Dirty Money)
(1972) [PG]

Jean Pierre Melville's final film is a French gangster thriller that sees a small town bank heist go wrong. Scintillating performances from Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna and Alain Delon. *MR  More

The Big Heat
(1953) [M]

Ruthless criminals, a dedicated honest cop, sultry women and a gripping plot - all the elements of a classic police action-drama are here in full force. Police Sergeant Bannion (Glenn Ford) is investigating the apparent suicide of a corrupt cop, then is suddenly ordered to stop - and The Big Heat...  More

Red Rock West
(1992) [M]

The quirkiest thriller since Blood Simple, RED ROCK WEST stars Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper and Lara Flynn Boyle in an offbeat mystery about an average guy who is mistaken for a professional hitman. Dead tired and flat broke after driving 1,200 miles, Michael, an unemployed Texan (Cage), walks...  More

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(1982) [M]

As the private eye of private eyes, Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough, rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheesemaker has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a...  More

The Grifters
(1990) [M]

When con artist Roy Dillon is visited by his conning Mother, Lilly, she forces him off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy's girlfriend Myra, the third con artist, comes to visit Roy and we discover that Lilly and Myra don't get along. After he's...  More

The Two Jakes
(1990) [M]

Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake (or "J.J.") Gittes in this atmospheric Chinatown follow-up which he also directed. Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone and 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't...  More

Narrow Margin
(1990) [M]

Academy Award winner Gene Hackman stars as an L.A. District Attorney attempting to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to...  More

Blood Simple
(1984) [R]

Deep in the heart of Texas, a jealous bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife and her lover. The sleazy hitman double-crosses the husband, killing him instead and pocketing the cash. The perfect crime, or so it seems, but disposing of the corpse is not so simple. Blood Simple uncoils its...  More

Angels With Dirty Faces
(1938) [PG]

Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed for the sixth time in this enduring gangster classic. Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks. O'Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood chum-turned-priest who vows to...  More

The Stranger
(1946) [PG]

Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is...  More