While the City Sleeps

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 19 Apr 1956 · English

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

Cry of the City

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 29 Sept 1948 · English

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

Nightfall

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 9 Nov 1956 · English

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

House of Strangers

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 1 Jul 1949 · English

Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of them take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that remains loyal.

Killer's Kiss

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 1 Oct 1955 · English

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.

The Naked City

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 4 Mar 1948 · English

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

Shattered Glass

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 14 Nov 2003 · English

Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.

Genius

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 10 Jun 2016 · English

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.

Winged Creatures

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 8 Jul 2009 · English

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 10 Sept 1992 · English

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.

The Outfit

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 25 Feb 2022 · English

Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

Hereafter

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 22 Oct 2010 · English

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.