Clear All Wires!
β 6.7 Β· 1933 Β· 78m Β· Comedy Β· Crime
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
More Like This
Trouble in Paradise
1932 Β· β 7.4
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
More info β
All Over the Town
1949 Β· β 6.6
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
More info β
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2006 Β· β 6.8
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
More info β
The Dead Pool
1988 Β· β 6.3
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick game to predict such deaths, it may be too late.
More info β
Hero
1992 Β· β 6.3
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.
More info β
Die Musterknaben 2
1999 Β· β 5.7
A new case for "The Model Boys": The two Cologne commissioners Docker and Dretzke to take the next 14 days a journalist to their missions.
More info β
Playing Around
1930 Β· β 5
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
More info β
Scared Stiff
1945 Β· β 4.7
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
More info β
Framed
1930 Β· β 5.3
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.
More info β
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 Β· β 7.8
A World War I veteranβs dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when heβs falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
More info β
Blood Money
1933 Β· β 7.1
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
More info β
City Streets
1931 Β· β 6.3
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
More info β