Crime films generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. The genre may overlap with other genres, such as drama or gangster film, suspense or noir.
Coma is an American mystery medical thriller film from 1978 directed by Michael Crichton. It is based on the novel of the same name by Robin Cook. Starring Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Widmark, and Rip Torn. Among the actors in smaller roles are Tom Selleck, Lois Chiles, and Ed Harris. Plot A […]
The Driller Killer is a slasher film from 1979 directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Abel Ferrara (as Jimmy Laine), Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, and Harry Schultz. Plot Reno is an artist struggling to survive in NYC. He draws inspiration from scenes of daily street life and occasional random violence. Under pressure to finish his oft-delayed […]
China White is a 1989 Hong Kong action crime film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Alex Man, Russell Wong, Billy Drago and Dutch kickbox champion Saskia van Rijswijk. Plot Brothers Bobby Chow and Danny Chow want control of Amsterdam’s Chinatown for their drug trade. Italian crime lord Scalia (Drago) wants […]
PoThe Exterminator is an American vigilante action film from 1980 written and directed by James Glickenhaus. Starring Robert Ginty as Vietnam War veteran John Eastland, also known as “The Exterminator”. Plot When John Eastland’s best friend, Michael Jefferson, is mugged and left permanently crippled, he decides to do something about it. Jefferson had saved Eastland’s […]
The Executioner (aka Massacre Mafia Style or Like Father, Like Son) is an American independent film from 1974. It was written, directed and produced by Italian-American crooner-singer Duke Mitchell. Mitchell was also the main actor next to Vic Ceasar. The movie is famous for it’s beginning where the two gangsters executed people from an entire […]
The Challenge is an American movie from 1982 directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Scott Glenn and Toshirō Mifune. Plot A katana, one of a pair known as “The Equals”, was an heirloom of the Yoshida family, passed down through the generations before being lost during World War II. It was finally tracked down and recovered […]
Street Law with its original Italian title Il cittadino si ribella is a 1974 poliziotteschi film from Enzo G. Castellari. Starring Franco Nero and Barbara Bach. Plot Street Law Carlo Antonelli (Franco Nero) is an engineer who is mugged by a gang of badguys. After the police drop their investigation, he decides to take justice into his own […]
Black Shampoo from director Greydon Clark also known as Sex at the Salon, is an American blaxploitation film from 1976. Starring John Daniels and Tanya Boyd.The film was a cash-in on Shampoo, a movie from 1975. Plot Mr. Jonathan is the owner of a hairsalon but he is also sought after by women for his […]
Death Promise is a 1977 grindhouse flic from Robert Warmflash. It is a mix of genres like action, vigilante and kung fu and it breathes mid seventies urban USA from beginning to end. The cult movie is starring Charles Bonet, (Don’t Go in the House) Speedy Leacock, stuntman Thompson Kao Kang (The Black Dragon), and […]
