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Creeping Shadows
EnglandA crime film directed by John Orton.
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A Gentleman of Paris
🇫🇷 FranceA crime drama film directed by Sinclair Hill.
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Autour d'une enquête
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The Ringer
EnglandScotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
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A Safe Affair
EnglandA crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
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Charlie Chan Carries On
EnglandSolve This Mystery — Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking.
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The Doorway to Hell
IllinoisA vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
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Murder!
The 1930sWhen a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Raffles
EnglandA distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.
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Accused, Stand Up!
🇫🇷 France The 1930sParis, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
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Escape!
EnglandWhen Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law. The first film produced by Associated Talking Pictures, which would eventually evolve into Ealing Studios.
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Birds of Prey
EnglandAt a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of them was hanged; the other two were sentenced to long terms, vowing vengeance on Hilton. Unknown to him, the same two men are now among his guests, and are determined to have their revenge.
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Scotland Yard
EnglandA soldier is wounded in action. His face is restored by a plastic surgeon to resemble someone else.
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Dangerous Paradise
🇮🇩 IndonesiaA PARAMOUNT ALL TALKIES ROMANTIC DRAMA! — Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...
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Der Greifer
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Soldiers and Women
🇭🇹 HaitiFASCINATING ROMANTIC DRAMA OF MARINE LIFE IN HAITI! — Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom is married to a Marine Captain. One of the husbands is murdered, and Branch, Helen and Brenda each find themselves high on the list of suspects.
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The Runaway Bride
New JerseyMary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
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Shadow of the Law
New York North CarolinaTwo Women Want Him...One for His Money...One for His Love...And the Law Wants Him for Life! — John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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Children of Chance
EnglandA casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
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After Many Years
🇵🇪 PeruA murdered policeman's son tracks down the murderer in Peru.
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An Obvious Situation
EnglandA film directed by Giuseppe Guarino.
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The Squeaker
EnglandA detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
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The Yellow Mask
EnglandA musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman.
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Polizeispionin 77
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Pandora's Box
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1880sLulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast and Lulu's seedy old friend, Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
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Piccadilly
EnglandA young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
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The Canary Murder Case
New YorkWho killed the most beautiful woman on Broadway? — A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer. Written by Tony Fontana
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Broadway
New YorkCarl Laemmle's stupendous talking and singing picture. — A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
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Masked Emotions
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The Ace of Scotland Yard
EnglandFrom the Universal synopsis: Retired Inspector Blake of Scotland Yard learns that Lord Blanton has acquired the sacred "Love Ring"---a cursed jewel that has brought grief to its previous owners. Prince Darius seeks to obtain the ring, and the mummy of a princess of an ancient country to return them to his homeland.
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The Return of the Rat
🇫🇷 FranceThe rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
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The Alley Cat
England"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
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The Racket
IllinoisIn this silent film, a renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
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Lights of New York
New YorkThe first "All Talking" picture — Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
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While the City Sleeps
New YorkNOW! The man of 1,000 faces in a picture with 1,000 THRILLS! — A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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Interference
EnglandParamount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
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Underworld
Illinois'Nobody helps me -- I help them!' — Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
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The Show
🇭🇺 HungaryCock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
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For the Term of His Natural Life
Tasmania The 19th CenturyA convict, wrongfully accused and sent a harsh prison colony, attempts to escape.
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Chicago
IllinoisBased on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she finagles her way out being convicted. Remade once as a movie, and as a Broadway musical.
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Der Bettler vom Kölner Dom
🇩🇪 GermanyAn international gang of thieves and swindlers decide to move their criminal operation to the Teutonic city of Cologne, but Tom Wilkens, one of the best agents of the international police, is not far behind and leads an investigation to unmask the criminals.
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Blake of Scotland Yard
EnglandPrequel to The Ace of Scotland Yard. This serial is presumed lost.
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Die Villa im Tiergarten
🇩🇪 GermanySilent film social drama
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Das Geheimnis von St. Pauli
🇩🇪 GermanyNo overview found.
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The Bells
🇦🇹 AustriaA kindly Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Polish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will not let him rest. Meanwhile, a mysterious Mesmerist has come to town, claiming he has made many criminals confess their crimes...
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Miss Mend
🇷🇺 RussiaThree reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.
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