Results for "Crime"

The episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés, Crime contre le cinéma (December 25, 2006 to December 2, 2006) is divided into four parts: Colas Ricard at Centre Pompidou, Joseph Morder at La Rochelle, the Filmer à tout prix Festival in Brussels, and Michel Nedjar and Jakobois at Centre Pompidou.

When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But with his family caught in the crosshairs, Myers must finally face the consequences of his dark past.

In an overcrowded prision cell, each man has to make his own way and secure himself from the constant threat of sexual violence coming from the rest of the inmates.

In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.

Romance sparks when a lonely true crime fan meets her favorite podcast host, but things soon turn strange as his fascination with her becomes obsession and his newest run of episodes appear to revolve around her eventual murder.

Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This third riotous volume in the Partners in Crime collection features more ribald moments culled from Townsend's laugh-filled HBO variety show. Robin Harris, Tommy Davidson, Shawn Wayans and musical guest Bobby Brown also star.

Three stories of strange and bizarre crimes. In “The Execution,” a sexy female convict tries to avoid frying in the electric chair. In “The Inquisition,” a bank employee who sells drugs on the side finds herself placed in a deathtrap by a co-worker. Finally, in “Strangled Vixens,” two friends dis a guy at a bar who turns out to be a psycho.

A bank clerk uncovers the manager's criminal behavior and prevents him from carrying out a murder.

A businessman on vacation comes to file a complaint for murder. He claims to have discovered the body of a young woman who had been stabbed in his hotel. But the police commissioner who receives him has his own unique investigative methods.

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

As a killer is executed for murdering a young gay man, two sets of parents struggle to deal with the consequences of fear and repression.

Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although scoffed at and ultimately banned by the medical establishment, by the 1950s, Hoxsey's formula had been used to treat thousands of patients, who testified to its efficacy. Was Hoxsey's recipe the work of a snake-oil charlatan or a legitimate treatment? Ken Ausubel directs this keen look into the forces that shape the policies of organized medicine.

How does a poor, single, African-American mother from segregated 1950s America wind up as one of the worlds most notorious jewel thieves? A glamorous 81-year-old, Doris Payne is as unapologetic today about the nearly $2 million in jewels shes stolen over a 60-year career as she was the day she stole her first carat. With Payne now on trial for the theft of a department store diamond ring, filmmakers Kirk Marcolina and Matthew Pond probe beneath her consummate smile to uncover the secrets of her trade and what drove her to a life of crime. Stylish recreations, an extensive archive and candid interviews reveal how Payne managed to jet-set her way into any Cartier or Tiffanys from Monte Carlo to Japan and walk out with small fortunes. This sensational portrait exposes a rebel who defies societys prejudices and pinches her own version of the American Dream while she steals your heart.

A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.

A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.

A Latino family new to Los Angeles find itself in trouble when the husband is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. His pregnant wife winds up in the hospital, and his little daughter is kidnapped by a child molester.

When a physician is murdered, his eldest daughter is accused of the crime, but the man's seductive new wife may not be all that she appears.