The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart (1963)
Director: Kō Nakahira
Actors: Asao Koike, Chikako Hosokawa, Masako Izumi, Mitsuo Hamada, Naomi Hoshi, Sayuri Yoshinaga
Country: Japan
Close-Up (1990)
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered…
Luck-Key (2016)
A reverse comedy that tells the story of a perfectionist assassin who falls and hits his head in a sauna, giving him amnesia. When a down-and-out actor switches locker keys…
Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mystery (2005)
Gay detective Donald Strachey is commissioned to protect gay activist John Rutka, known for “outing” prominent citizens.
Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009)
A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
83 Hours ‘Til Dawn (1990)
A wealthy man’s daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they’re holding hostage.
Double Whammy (2001)
Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the “loser cop.” His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair of screenwriters across…
Matchstick Men (2003)
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist’s teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.