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John Huston directs an incredible line-up of Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and Gina Lollobrigida in a tongue-in-cheek international crime caper. Written by Huston in collaboration with Truman Capote, the film manages to combine a wide number of genres from comedy spoof to thriller with some sparkling dialogue and great set-pieces.

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Behave Yourself
When William "Bill" Denny (Farley Granger) befriends a little dog, he has no idea of the danger he is letting himself in for. Who will get to bumbling Bill first -the gangsters who want the dog, the cops who want the gangsters, or his mother-in-law who just wants to know what's going on?

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Mr Moto's Last Warning
In Port Said Mr. Moto discovers that spies are planning to sink French ships and blame the British.

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The Lodger
Carl, a burned-out heating engineer, is possessive and paranoid. But when his girlfriend Emma dissapears, his mysterious lodger starts to take control of his life.

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Framke
A police psychologist tries to get into the head of an inmate.

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Man on the Eiffel Tower
In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder (Burgess Meredith) is suspected, but Radek keeps taunting the police until they realize that he is the killer. The police and Maigret (Charles Laughton) are led on chases through the streets and over the rooftops of Paris and finally up the girders of the Eiffel Tower.

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Black Fist
A Los Angeles street-fighter who's down on his luck starts working for a firm of gangsters in this blaxploitation classic from 1975.

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Maidenhead
A man who sells women to the highest bidder finds a pregnant virgin in his latest flock. What to do?
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Escamotage
On a beautiful South Pacific island, crime washed the innocence from this once tranquil gem. A forgotten tourist destination, no one is safe on this lawless rock. One man, buried deep in its criminal underworld sees the light through the woman of his dreams. In a bid to leave the island together and start a new life, they secretly meet to plan their future. Those dreams are quickly shattered when the cities' Kingpin is informed of his daughters escapades. Now a marked man, he must put their escape plan into action and make it out in one piece.

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Blood on the Sun
Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the expansionist policies of the anti-democratic Imperialist government. When it become clear to the authorities that Condon isn't going to cooperate and that he has some valuable information and contacts, they decide to get him in their clutches for some interrogations and then dispose of him

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Jail Bait
Legendary B-movie auteur Ed Wood directs this story of blackmail, cosmetic surgery and switched identities.

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