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Film · 10 connectionsA teenager is determines to clear the name of a black friend who is accused of murder.
Directed byDavid Eady
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1952 · 84 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
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1961 · 101 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
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1961 · 99 min · Crime · Thriller
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
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1961 · 103 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
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1955 · 112 min · Crime · Thriller
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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1952 · 77 min · Drama · Mystery · Thriller
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.
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Gangster and police look for a gangster's son who witnessed a murder.
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1949 · 79 min · Crime · Romance · Thriller
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
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1954 · 76 min · Action · Crime · Drama
A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feelings for each other, and enter a road race that ends in Mexico.
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1942 · 118 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
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