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The Missing Lady
Amateur sleuth Lamont Cranston (aka "The Shadow") solves a series of mysterious killings which are linked together by a valuable jade statuette of Kwan Lin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.

- 1946
The 400 Blows
Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14-year-old Antoine Doinel returns at the end of every day to a drab, unhappy home life. His parents have little money and he sleeps on a couch that's been pushed into the kitchen. His parents bicker constantly and he knows his mother is having an affair. He decides to skip school and begins a downward spiral of lies and theft. His parents are at their wits' end, and after he's stopped by the police, they decide the best thing would be to let Antoine face the consequences. He's sent to a juvenile detention facility where he doesn't do much better. He does manage to escape however.

- 1959
The Mechanic
In a role that powered him to stardom, Charles Bronson is an underworld executioner who turns murder into an art form in this ultimate crime chiller.

- Metascore51
- 1972
New Year's Evil
Lonely women wanting to celebrate New Year's Eve become easy prey for a maniacal murdering misogynist whose New Year's resolution is to kill women at every stroke of midnight.

- Metascore33
- 1980
Capturing the Friedmans
In the late 1980s, the Friedmans--father and respected computer and music teacher Arnold Friedman, mother and homemaker Elaine Friedman, and their three grown sons David Friedman, Seth Friedman, and Jesse Friedman--of Great Neck, Long Island, are seemingly your typical middle-class American family. They all admit that the marriage was by no means close to being harmonious--Arnold and Elaine eventually divorced--but the sons talk of their father, while also not being always there for them, as being a good man. This façade of respectability masks the fact that Arnold was buying and distributing child pornography. Following a sting operation to confirm this fact, the authorities began to investigate Arnold for sexual abuse of the minor-aged male students of his computer classes, which he held in the basement of the family home. Based on interviews with the students, not only was Arnold charged with and ultimately convicted of multiple counts of sodomy and sexual abuse of these boys, but so was 18-year-old Jesse, whom many called the aggressor of the two in the acts. Arnold admitted that he is a pedophile, but that he did not abuse the boys in his class as charged and convicted. The trial process brought out the dysfunction that previously existed within the family. But the issue of Arnold and Jesse's guilt of these acts is hotly debated among the family, among the authorities, among the media and among the students of the computer classes.

- Metascore90
- 2003
King of the Ants
A young drifter discovers his true calling when he is hired to murder a man he has never met, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.

- 2003
Code 46
This movie is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and accessible only through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papeles" (papers in Spanish; words and sentences in many languages, especially Spanish, French, and Chinese are mixed with English in this new world), a special travel permit issued by the totalitarian government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens, people without IDs forced to live primitive lives. William Geld (Tim Robbins) is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake IDs, he meets a woman named Maria Gonzales (Samantha Morton). Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can last only as long as his visa: twenty-four hours. Back home, William is obsessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation, and any further relationship is therefore impossible.

- Metascore57
- 2003
Dirty War
After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don't yet know it. As the operation unfolds, we see the working lives of men and women directly affected by terrorism. Among them: a firemen worried about the increasingly dangerous conditions he and his men are expected to work under; the head of the anti-terrorist branch whose responsibility it is to protect London and a female Muslim detective brought into Scotland Yard to investigate another suspected terrorist cell. But it is too late to stop the attack. Outside Liverpool Street station suicide bombers detonate a large radiological dispersal device (RDD). The explosive blast kills scores of commuters and sends a cloud of smoke containing radioactive debris high into the morning sky. For the police, a desperate struggle to find and stop secondary attacks begins. For the fire service, the difficult and dangerous task of carrying out search and rescue in a heavily contaminated area. And for emergency service controllers, a mammoth operation to contain and decontaminate thousands of terrified people caught up in the aftermath of the explosion. Based on extensive research, DIRTY WAR asks whether as a nation we are prepared to face such an attack. This movie depicts a very realistic and scientifically accurate scenario which is often used as a case study in first responder communities.

- 2004
Women of the Night
Late at night, an 18-wheeler rumbles through the rain-slick city streets. In it, a beautiful young woman presses her red lips close to the microphone. Every night she broadcasts from thus traveling pirate radio station, telling steamy stories of love, lust, betrayal and revenge. Her stories are of a lawyer, a comedian, an heiress - all drawn together in a web of passion, desire and betrayal. The broadcasts are a way to take revenge on her murderous father, but he is hot on her trailer and the consequences are sure to be deadly.

- 2001
Cold Feet
A psycho-killer with mommy issues, a charming crooked cowboy and their girl steal some jewels. The cowboy decides not to share and goes on the run with the loot. A crazy chase across the country between former partners in crime begins.

- 1989
Heart of Midnight
A psychological noir thriller about a young woman teetering on the edge of sanity, who inherits her deceased uncle's seedy sex club which attracts a sick clientele...and which is hastening her mental breakdown.

- 1988
Down Three Dark Streets
After an FBI agent is shot, his friend must handle the caseload and avenge his death.

- 1954
Fatal Instinct
Carl Reiner directs this side-splitting spoof that stars Armand Assante, Sean Young and a host of familiar faces in a series of suspense-thriller parodies.

- Metascore33
- 1993
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated
Night of the Living Dead: REANIMATED features the work of various artists, animators, and filmmakers from around the globe. The mixed media featured include puppetry, CGI, hand-drawn animation, illustration, acrylics, claymation, and even 'animated' tattoos, just to name a few. This mass-collaboration approach is less about remaking Romero's film and more about viewing the classic through an experimental lens. Instead of trying to alter Image Ten's work, NOTLD:R seeks to showcase the responses that artists from around the world have had to this landmark film.

- 2009
Blood Orgy of the She-Devils
Lorraine and Mark enter the world of witchcraft where Mara foretells the future and helps them remember their past lives. When a series of mysterious murders begin to occur, they turn to Dr. Helsford for advice.

- 1973
Crawlspace
Gunther seems like a conscientious landlord who looks out for his female tenants. What they don't know is that he has a crawlspace from where he watches their every intimate move and plans their murders.

- 1986
Stigma
A knowledgeable- doctor, Calvin Crosse (Philip Michael Thomas) moves to a secluded community and soon discovers a deadly virus affecting the young town's people. What is more disturbing, is the conspiracy to protect this epidemic when he tries to cure those infected.

- 1972
Hold That Woman!
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.

- 1940
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Estrella is 10 years old and has 3 wishes: The first one, that her missing mother comes back and it happens. Her mother returns but she is dead and follows Estrella everywhere. Petrified, Estrella tries to escape from her by joining a gang orphaned by violence. Soon she realizes that dead are never left behind and when you are in the middle of brutality and violence, wishes never come true the way you want them to be.

- Metascore76
- 2017
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
The residents of 1946 Texarkana, Texas should be celebrating the return of their boys from WWII, but a mysterious hooded killer is stalking victims by night, murdering them in horrendous ways, and completely befuddling the local police force.

- Metascore52
- 1976
Diplomatic Immunity
Marine Sgt. Cole Hickel tracks down his daughter's brutal murderer who has managed to escape justice by using diplomatic immunity.

- 1991
Innocence
The film "Innocence" is based on the novella "Mine-Haha oder Über die körperliche Erziehung der jungen Mädchen" by Frank Wedekind. This novella deals with the themes of innocence, education and the transition from childhood to adulthood. It is set in a mysterious boarding school where young girls are taught dance and physical education in isolation from the outside world.

- Metascore78
- 2004
Black Shampoo
A promiscuous heterosexual black hairstylist and businessman has sex with his white female customers, but when he begins a relationship with his black secretary, her white mobster ex-boyfriend resorts to violent measures to get her back.

- 1976
Child in the Night
After a young boy witnesses the brutal murder of his father, he suffers from trauma and can't remember the details. A detective and a child psychologist work together to emotionally heal him.

- 1990