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
Brother
Chinatown
Out of the Past
Judgment Night
The Killing
Pandora's Box
Double Indemnity
Lonely Hearts
The Long Memory
The Tender Hook
The Hard Word
The Blue Dahlia
Brighton Rock
Femme Fatale
THE RAGE, Blood From The Sea
Sunset Park
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
This Gun for Hire
The Set-Up
Scarlet Street
SIMILAR MOVIES
Brother
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 2000
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.Chinatown
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 1974
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.Out of the Past
IMDB 7.6 | Nov , 1947
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.Judgment Night
IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 1993
Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.The Killing
IMDB 7.6 | Jun , 1956
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.Pandora's Box
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1929
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.Double Indemnity
IMDB 8.1 | Jul , 1944
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.Lonely Hearts
IMDB 6 | Apr , 2006
In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who find their targets via the personals in the paper.The Long Memory
IMDB 6.6 | Jan , 1953
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.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 Hard Word
IMDB 5.4 | May , 2002
Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.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.Brighton Rock
IMDB 6.8 | Jan , 1948
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.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 RAGE, Blood From The Sea
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2025
A woman named Rara experiences a strange incident on the South coast. A murder far from humanity sets in motion a vicious chain of revenge.Sunset Park
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 2017
Gino Sarcione, a boxer, is forced to take his fight outside the ring into the back alleys of Sunset Park to stand up for what's right and protect those he loves.Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 1948
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.This Gun for Hire
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1942
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.The Set-Up
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.Scarlet Street
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 1945
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.