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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
In the dead of night, a group of men (among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect) drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the...Watch Movie
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Le petit lieutenant
A gripping police noir, LE PETIT LIEUTENANT tells the story of Antoine, an ambitious young cop from the provinces who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris. Antoine spends his days eagerly awaiting his first assignment, drinking with his fellow detectives and developing an...Watch Movie
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Small Town Murder Songs
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake (the victim of a brutal and violent crime), Walter, an aging small town police officer (Peter Stormare), is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by...Watch Movie
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Creature with the Blue Hand
The inimitable Klaus Kinski plays twin brothers (one of whom is found guilty of murder and sent to an insane asylum in the prologue) and he is not even the creepiest part of this colorful murder mystery. Based on a novel by British author Edgar Wallace, this is from the...Watch Movie
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Hafford's Saloon
This is a short video I made while doing research for my new feature, TOMBSTONE RASHOMON. It was shot on the streets of Tombstone and in a Western movie set, Old Tucson. It details, in real time, how long it took the Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday to walk from their saloon...Watch Movie
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Attack of the Giant Leeches
After a local slackjaw reports shooting something in the swamp that "weren't nothin' nature put out there," an apparent love-triangle-gone-bad reveals a darker mystery in the Everglades. The 1959 swamp horror ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES is a boilerplate Roger Corman-produced...Watch Movie
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Dirty Like an Angel
Georges Deblache, a despondent middle-aged cop who suspects he has cancer, falls for his partner's wife. Didier, his partner, is only recently married, but beds women he encounters while on the job. Georges takes a keen interest in his partner's unrealistically appreciated...Watch Movie
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The Copper
Though many audiences are initially familiar with the extraordinary German actor Hans Albers from his role in Josef von Sternberg's THE BLUE ANGEL, his reputation was enhanced (and his fame soared) after his starring role in DER GREIFER (THE COPPER) released the following year. Nearly three...Watch Movie
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What a Wonderful World
Souad is a prostitute whose best friend is Kenza, a tough traffic cop. Kamel is a stony–eyed contract killer who receives his hit orders via the Internet; he is also Souad's favorite customer. When Kenza falls in love with Kamel, the two begin a bizarre courtship doomed by...Watch Movie
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The Break
A dangerous prisoner, Jacko Thomas, overpowers his police guard and jumps from a speeding train in the Dartmoor countryside. In the ensuing fight Jacko kills the guard and makes his way to a secluded hotel on the moors where Tredgar is being paid to arrange a safe transit for Jacko and his sister...Watch Movie
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Cairo 678
Three Cairene women from different backgrounds join together in uneasy solidarity to combat the sexual harassment that has impacted each of their lives. We begin on an overcrowded bus line, dreaded by Fayza as a daily site of humiliation and anguish. Responding to a self-defense talk by Seba,...Watch Movie
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The Center of the Web
A counterfeiting gang is foiled by police, and the action-chase takes up almost all of the second reel. The real stars of the chase are the agile and determined police dogs. This is a rather conservative example of late-1914 film style with only a couple of interesting camera...Watch Movie
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The Tin Hoss
A neighborhood kids' club stretching across races and classes (but no girls allowed) hears "President" Denny's summoning bell and tumbles into the top-secret clubhouse for their latest round of (mis-)adventures. This time they get into hot water including Plaster of Paris ingestion, invading...Watch Movie
