Thievery
see all genres ›Crime often does pay. Take money (or other profit) out of the equation and there certainly would be a whole lot less of it. But sometimes the criminal line is crossed because people simply feel the need to rebel against convention, to step outside themselves or to merely transgress.
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Genres / Crime / Transgression / Thievery
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Neighboring Sounds
One of the most acclaimed films of the year, NEIGHBORING SOUNDS is the thrilling debut from filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. On a quiet block in the coastal city of Recife, ruled by an aging patriarch and his sons, a recent spate of petty crime has rattled the nerves of the...Watch Movie
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Junk Food
Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest, most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. JUNK FOOD depicts the hitherto unseen world of aberrant sexuality and savage violence that emerges when the sun goes down...Watch Movie
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Tread Softly Stranger
Diana Dors plays Calico, the sexy vamp (or tramp?) and Terence Morgan, the staid little officer worker and "love interest" of Calico. Things heat up when the shady but handsome brother arrives from London. Instant attraction strikes between Calico and the brother, making her...Watch Movie
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Panic
After a brutal raid on a Hatton Garden diamond merchant, a man lies dead and the finger of guilt points straight towards Janine Heining (Janine Gray), an employee who's conveniently gone missing. But Janine is innocent; she is suffering from amnesia after being struck during the hold-up. And the...Watch Movie
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BMX Bandits
Future Academy Award®-winner Nicole Kidman made her movie debut at sixteen years old as the pouffy-haired star of this action/comedy about a cache of stolen walkie-talkies, three BMX-riding friends and the ruthless bank robbers who will pursue them through every graveyard, shopping mall,...Watch Movie
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The Second Awakening of Christina Klages
Director Margarethe von Trotta's first solo effort is an intense political drama that embraces the theme of closeness between women. Christa is a young mother who, distraught over the prospect that her children's day care center is running out of money, executes a bank robbery...Watch Movie
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Money Madness
Rolling off the bus into a new town, Steve (Hugh Beaumont) gets work as a cabbie but has bigger things in mind. He meets waitress Julie (Frances Rafferty) and she jumps at his marriage proposal; anything to get away from the insufferable hypochondriac aunt (Cecil Weston) she's living with. Once...Watch Movie
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The Flesh and the Fiends
The notorious Burke and Hare, a lowlife duo convicted of robbing graves and murdering sixteen people in 1828 Edinburgh, has inspired numerous film treatments. They've been portrayed by everyone from Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (in Robert Wise's THE BODY SNATCHERS released in...Watch Movie
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Vacation
Shot in the skid row district of San Francisco's Tenderloin the short film VACATION unfolds in a quick and visual ten minutes with an integral soundtrack featuring garage blues by Hasil Adkins, classics by Billie Holiday and contemporary pop from Madonna. Quotes from Charles Bukowski’s "Ham and...Watch Movie
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Dixie Dynamite
Moonshine Tom and his two down-home daughters Dixie and Patsy (Jane Anne Johnstone and Kathy McHaley) enjoy an idyllic existence in a backwater Georgia town until the sheriff (Christopher George) and the Feds bust his still. In the excitement, old Tom is “accidentally” killed. When Dixie and...Watch Movie
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Jungle Street
The voluptuous Jill Ireland stars as Sue, a striptease artist, in this tough British crime drama that sees her playing opposite to her real-life husband of the time, David McCallum. JUNGLE STREET has McCallum playing Terry Collins, a small time thug, constantly at war with his family, employers...Watch Movie
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Blood Riders
BLOOD RIDERS is a blood-soaked adventure comedy about four young friends who stumble upon a body after stealing a car. That discovery leads to a road trip around town during which they try get rid of the increasing amount of corpses. Along their wild ride the kids encounter neo-Nazis, punk...Watch Movie
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Vengeance Is Mine
A young man goes back to his hometown, a very rough neighborhood with even rougher residents. He sets out to demonstrate that, with the love and belief in the Lord, people can change for the better. This 1971 film stars Booker Bradshaw, Gloria Calomee and Vince Howard. It was...Watch Movie
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The Frightened Man
Charles Victor, the owner of a small furniture and antique shop, uses extra cash from handling stolen goods to put his son through Oxford. However, the son gets himself kicked out and comes home to sponge off the old man. The son wants more faster and gets himself involved...Watch Movie
