A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send…

Yoshida’s first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a “good-for-nothing” from a poor background falls in…

Two brothers rob a bank and take a young girl hostage. They find out that the girl is a nudist, so they force her to take them to a nudist…

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man Reles.

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained…

A newspaper reporter’s search for his girlfriend’s missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama’s Chinatown.

After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he’s not as safe there as…

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with…

Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The…

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased…

A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss’ daughter.

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can’t let the body rest there.

Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, so he dreams up a new scam.

Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he…

The story of the infamous Purple Gang – a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920’s Detroit.

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.

Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O’Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to…

Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.

Nico, a drug dealer, murders a telegram messenger-boy “for kicks”, egged on by partner-in-crime, TV director Francis. Cliff, the boy’s older brother, investigates his death due to the slow progress…

Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.

Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.

A sleazeball (Ronald Long) who supplies women to his public-relations clients explains the rules of the game to his latest acquisition (Jeanne Rainer).

Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula…

Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is…

A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal…

An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.

After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife’s murderer, who has been acquitted by…

The daughter of a textile company owner falls in love with a young illustrator with a secret criminal past.

When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems peacefully.

The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting…

Jail house tensions mount as a killer’s execution approaches.

Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit…