(1953) Scott Brady, Mary Castle, John Blythe, Gabrielle Brune, Colin Tapley, Lloyd Lamble, Ferdy Mayne.  An American arrives in London searching for his brother who, unknown to him, has been convicted of a murder and is within three days of being executed. He meets a beautiful night-club entertainer and part-time smuggler, who aids him in his quest to prove the innocence of his brother...

(1956, Updated 4-18-25) Lilli Palmer, Curt Jurgens, Winnie Markus, Adelheid Seeck, Hans Nielsen. Palmer was 42 and drop dead gorgeous when she made this film.  Her feminine appeal is electric—and it’s supposed to be.  She lures in struggling composer Jurgens into a life completely dominated by her—everything he does, everyone he knows, is closely watched over by her.  She is one wicked dame—shades of Play Misty for Me...

(1959, Updated 4-10-25) John Ireland, Ellen Schwiers, Birgitta Anderssonen, Frank Sundstrom, Ralph Brown.  Ireland plays a tough guy who’s been tried, convicted, and imprisoned for an arson charge he didn't commit.  Once out of prison, he is bound and determined to find the real criminal and clear his name.  The trail leads him to Sweden, where he encounters many dangerous twists and turns...

(1960, Updated 4-15-25) Miyuki Takakura, Tatsuo Terashima, Yôichi Numata.  A wealthy businessman tries to orchestrate a marriage between his elder daughter and a young up-and-comer who he sees as a good candidate to someday to take over his business.  What dad doesn’t know, though, is that his daughter not only loves another man, but she’s also pregnant with child! When daddy ends up dead...

(1967) Dana Andrews, Jeanne Valérie, Salvo Randone, John Elliot.   A master criminal in a wheelchair summons a number of other hustlers together for illicit purposes.  His ace in the hole is that he holds a blackmail card over all of them.  The plan is to pull off an elaborate caper and knock over a high-roller jewelry store, which houses one of the world’s most valuable sets of ancient jewels...

(1935) Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, Sybille Schmitz, Marieluise Claudius, Max Gülstorff.  Although there is a subplot involving a jealous husband and a love triangle, the plot basically concerns a taxi driver, Walbrook, who has to deal with a shot-up corpse in the backseat of his cab.  Suspecting he might be blamed for the killing, he assumes the man’s identity...

(1947) John Turnbull, Beatrice Campbell, Hylton Allen, Anthony Baird.  This is an odd little mystery with a very old-timey music score.  A movie usherette is hung out to dry (murdered!) following a fling with the theater manager.  Who is the killer?  That’s what...

(1959) Battah, Omar Sharif, Reyad El Kasabgy, Umar El-Hariri.  A gang of smugglers murders a factory manager.  One of the factory employees is blamed.  Before the cops can grab him he flees across the desert into another country.  It gets even more complicated when his sister back home falls in love with...

(1967) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco.  One of the hippest, most stylish films of the ‘60s—no exaggeration.  Jean-Louis finds the corpse of a blackmailing nightclub manager in his office—blood on the floor.  In the room is Ewa, who claims innocence, even though her deceased father was the blackmail victim.  Together they go...

(1932) Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried, G. A. Martin, Michel Duran, directed by Jean Renoir.  A diamond merchant is found dead, murdered, inside a car near a gloomy, muddy, foggy French crossroads...

(1937) Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings. Thomy Bourdelle, Henry Oscar, Joyce Kennedy.  This is an excellent Gaumont thriller.  Lowe plays a devil-may-care American detective traveling abroad in France.  During a costume party he finds a corpse in his hotel room, which conveniently disappears when he leaves to fetch the manager.   When the body disappears, Lowe and Cummings are lead on a trail of death and destruction...

(1943) Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Robert Le Vigan, Arthur Devere, Albert Remy, Germaine Kerjean.  Rollin plays a long lost member of the “Groupi” family who has been called home to the family manor in the French countryside to marry his beautiful young cousin.  Before long he finds himself victimized by various family members, partly for fun, partly from hatred...

(1946) Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Evile Drain, Guy Favieres.  Romance and Dalban are lovers—she would do anything for him, including a stretch in women’s prison for a crime she didn’t commit.  When an elderly woman is murdered in the neighborhood (for money), suspicion falls Dalban’s way.  Simon, as Dr. Vargas (aka Mr. Hire), has witnessed the crime and has proof of Dalban’s guilt...

(1949) Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden, Sam Kydd. Dyall plays a bitter ex-con out to gain revenge on his former business partner who framed him.  Then he gets bad medical news—he has only six months to live...

(1954) Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith, Joy Shelton, Jack Allen, James Carney, Cameron Hall.  Kennedy play an American realtor living an unexciting life in England.  Adventure falls into his lap, though, on a weekend when his wife is out of town and he meets up with a gorgeous dame...

(1958, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy, Gert Fröbe, Inge Meysel, directed by Frank Wisbar.  Buchholz is released from prison six months early.  Waiting for him is a taxi, which takes him to his new employer, a corrupt journalist who soon coerces him into writing a phony article about German soldiers living in a bunker.  Things get sticky when...

(1961) Jonathan Kidd, Lyn Statten, Frank Arvidson, John Harmon, Johnny Carpenter.  What a gritty, sleazy drive-in B-classic this is—it’s sooo enjoyable.  A man (Kidd) and his oh-so-seductive girlfriend (Statten) have a car accident.  He wanders away from the accident, now suffering from amnesia...

(1958) Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef, Albert Lieven, Cec Linder, Katherine Kath.   Johnson went to England to film this story of a military doctor who’s falsely accused of illegal drug dealing...