Payroll (1961)
Brilliant... Brutal... Torn from tonight's headlines!
Gênero : Crime, Drama
Runtime : 1H 45M
Director : Sidney Hayers
Escritor : George Baxt
Sinopse
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
A nightclub piano player (Tom Neal Jr.) hitchhikes to the West Coast and soon figures into two deaths.
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.
Punks kill people and rape people and stuff... and cops kinda do their own thing... and there's boobs and blood and motorcycles... the end.
Boris, an ex-con thief, is persuaded by his girlfriend to pull one last heist, breaking into her paraplegic, millionaire boss' sprawling, castle-like mansion. But once inside, they become trapped in a maze-like series of escape rooms which must be solved in order to stay alive.
Dan Blane (Glenn Ford), é um antigo pistoleiro, que após ter se regenerado, virou assistente do xerife e pretende se casar com a dona do saloon. Mas um jovem pistoleiro chega à cidade para desafiá-lo.
Johan Wallenberger, a rich financier, is killed in the House of Horrors at an amusement park in Madrid. His insurance company assign Chris Buyer, one of their best agents, to investigate because a few days prior to his death, the businessman took out a million dollar life insurance policy. Chris ingratiates himself with Catherine, Wallenberger's beautiful daughter, and it emerges that she is being plagued by a blackmailer. Chris is invited to the Wallenbergers' country house and is soon the centre of attention for several attractive women. Meanwhile, the plot thickens...
Meng Fei (Prodigal Boxer) e Li Chung Chien (The Invincible Kung Fu Trio) estrelam este clássico das artes marciais como dois irmãos rebeldes, que usam seus talentos para resgatar belas mocinhas em perigo. A coisa fica preta quando a dupla é capturada e alistada à força no exercito da Dinastia Qing por conta do corrupto oficial Wang Hsieh. Os dois são enviados para desmantelar a temida Gangue dos Dragões, mas os perigos que os Dragões apresentam simplesmente não são deste mundo.
FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.
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O motorista de táxi de Nova York Travis Bickle, veterano da Guerra do Vietnã, reflete constantemente sobre a corrupção da vida ao seu redor e sente-se cada vez mais perturbado com a própria solidão e alienação. Apesar de não conseguir fazer contato emocional com ninguém e viver uma vida questionável em busca de diversão, ele se torna obcecado em ajudar uma prostituta de 12 anos que entra em seu táxi para fugir de um cafetão.
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands.
Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand of a global 911 cover up. In this contemporary take on film noir. When Tom is implicated in the murder of his friend and employee, he is forced to unravel Kasia's complex web of lies. As it turns out, Kasia possesses the smoking gun that proves the identities and methods of the real architects of 911, and Tom Flynn is willing to die to expose the truth. Written by Dave Herman
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Documentary chronicaling the rise and fall of the punk movement with rare interview footage of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. Also concert and news footage.
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.