
A Desperate Crime
A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.
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A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.
As the freight train on which are riding Mike and Leary, two knights of the road, passes the station at Hynes, the tramps steal the mail bag which had been placed on the crane by the postmaster of that place. They jump from the train in a secluded spot and start to rifle the bag.

This story is built up with filmed documents in an experimental fashion.

A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, and after she gets rid of him, she goes after his son.

In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he has defected to Communist Russia. As his wife puts together the pieces of the mysterious jigsaw of the past, tracking her passionate relationship with her husband and his history as former head of MI6’s counter-espionage section, her relentless search for the truth takes her to London, New York and finally Moscow.

close five friends reunited after a long time in a dinner party but suddenly a box arrive to them with a letter says that one of them are going to commit a murder by midnight.

Demi has stayed in bed for weeks due to the Chinese postpartum tradition. Although she tries to be as cooperative as possible, the weeks-long confinement and endless chicken soup push her to her limit.
The dirty cop begins with Inspector Relander's cold-blooded murder, which is investigated by the police duo Raittinen (Raunio) and Jokinen (Kulmala). Jack (Tuiskinen), a hard-core member of the Teisko mafia, is also involved in the murder. Behind the assignment is the mysterious Mr. Rönkvist. Is Rönkvist ultimately a man or a myth?

Lucas, a death row chef is already down on his luck when a new order comes to his kitchen, and it's from the man who murdered his son. He's left with an ultimatum: cook the meal or lose his job. Tempers run hot, but revenge is always a dish best served cold.

Lying on his deathbed, an elderly man who has spent most of his life in prison for the murder of the woman he loved is granted a supernatural chance to go back to that fateful weekend and attempt to discover what really happened...

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body.

A young couple wins the house of their dreams in a housing auction, only to come face-to-face with their nightmares.

Three men drive into the desert at night to wrestle with an unspeakable evil.

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

Four stepbrothers are having a hard time getting along as a family. 15 years after their parents’ second wedding, the four unexpectedly head home and reunite by an urgent call from their youngest stepsister, born between the remarried parents. Although their rivalry escalates, the four brothers come to a momentary truce to put their hearts together and find their missing parents.
A financial advisor goes on a blind date and meets a psychopathic woman with a secret desire to kill him.
A homeless man with a special survival technique.

In this unfinished black comedy crime epic, eighth grader Tommy Uris is pushed into a teenage drug dealing business run by his two classmates Frank Newton and Patrick Reynolds after walking in on a drug deal between them. As their business falls apart, so does their trust for each other, and they need to either resolve, or kill each other in the process.

When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.

Detective Michael Tabb knows the city he protects inside and out. He has felt its true heart, as much as its dark underbelly: but he does not know who, in both the dark and light - is taking the lives of young girls.

Cass, a young film photographer, is on assignment when she discovers a body in a field. She snaps a picture as evidence, while someone else begins to stalk her.

Returning home late to Maple Street, a teen is knocked out by an intruder. But when she wakes the next day to her parents claiming she only fell down the stairs, she suspects they're hiding a secret.