Crime in the Sun (1947)

Дьюс отправляется по приглашению своего бывшего сутенера на отдых в Амстердам и в итоге понимает, что его вновь хотят вернуть в бизнес эскорт услуг для женщин. Не то, чтобы Дьюс был против — платят неплохо, но, во-первых, у него уже есть постоянная подружка, а во-вторых, у европейских женщин слишком бурная сексуальная фантазия…

Смерть часто приходит неожиданно, и человек не успевает сделать самое важное, то, без чего жизнь его не будет завершенной. Так случилось с четырьмя разными людьми, погибшими в 1959 году в автобусе, упавшем с моста в Сан-Франциско. Но у них был шанс совершить один, только один поступок уже после смерти — чтобы они покинули этот мир со спокойной душой.

Действия картины разворачиваются в мире, который контролируют биоинженерные корпорации. Их сверхзадача - синергия компьютера и человека: "чипизация" неблагонадежных, прошивка мозга для тотального контроля над обществом. Привлекательная идея научного прогресса незаметно для гуманистов выродилась в манию кибернетической тирании. На фоне этой глобальной болезни человечества высвечивается трагическая судьба отдельного человека, подминаемого системой, но не теряющего надежды на свободу и счастье. Главного героя "Прошивки" Люка Гибсона лишили прошлого, перепрошив его сознание с помощью биокомпьютерного имплантата. Теперь Люк борется за свое будущее, узнав истинные мотивы ученых.

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever conceived, while he and his wife Emma confront family tragedy.

Бывший уголовник Джонни, вынужден участвовать в ограбление Босса мафии, который держит в доме миллионы на черный день. Но он не знает, что на деньги Босса имеют виды еще 7 преступников…

Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.

Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.

A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.

Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid. They learned a trade in the army. Killing.

Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club where a sinister love triangle puts both her heart and her life in danger.

Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.

Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews, whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden penniless. Mathews' chicanery seems particularly coldblooded, inasmuch as his daughter Marian is engaged to Jarden's son Walter. When the latter disappears, Mathews asks Ellery Queen to locate the young man.

A private eye (Richard Travis) and his girlfriend (Sheila Ryan) avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.

Doctor and dedicated husband embarks on a murderous quest for vengeance against the men who raped his wife.

A Marine officer (John Payne) goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife (Mona Freeman) gave him in the last war.

Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.

An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder victim's sister.

Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.

Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.