Crime
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Romeo Is Bleeding
L.A. Confidential
The Transporter
The Bride Wore Black
Subway in the Sky
The Marker
Keep Punching
Murder, My Sweet
Pierrot le Fou
No Good Deed
The Pugilist
Femme Fatale
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
Behind the Headlines
Undisputed
The Killers
The Spellbinder
The Tender Hook
The Blue Dahlia
Salvable
SIMILAR MOVIES
Romeo Is Bleeding
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1993
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.L.A. Confidential
IMDB 7.8 | Sep , 1997
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.The Transporter
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2002
Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.The Bride Wore Black
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 1968
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?Subway in the Sky
IMDB 5.7 | Nov , 1959
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.The Marker
IMDB 5.8 | Jun , 2017
Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.Keep Punching
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 1939
Henry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion, who agrees to turn professional when approached by fight manager Ed Watson, despite the opposition raised by his father and Fanny Singleton, his sweetheart.Murder, My Sweet
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 1944
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.Pierrot le Fou
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 1965
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.No Good Deed
IMDB 5.4 | Jun , 2002
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.The Pugilist
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2017
After his eldest son is murdered in a gangland hit, an absentee father desperately tries to protect what's left of the shattered family he abandoned.Femme Fatale
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 2002
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1959
Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.Behind the Headlines
IMDB 5 | Jul , 1956
Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.Undisputed
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 2002
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.The Killers
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 1946
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.The Spellbinder
IMDB 6 | Jul , 1939
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?The Tender Hook
IMDB 5.2 | Sep , 2008
The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.The Blue Dahlia
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 1946
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.Salvable
IMDB 6.3 | May , 2025
When a battered boxer past his prime finds his dreams and his relationships on the ropes, he falls back in with a dangerous crowd and has to take the biggest swing of his life to reclaim his hope and his family.