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José Giovanni’s distinguished 1973 French crime drama Two Against the Law stars Alain Delon as an ex-con desperately struggling to stay on the straight and narrow. Writer-director José Giovanni’s distinguished 1973 French crime and social […]
Filmed in autumnal hues, with unsettling camera shots and jump cuts to disturbing images, Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s thought-provoking 1988 crime drama A Short Film About Killing [Krótki film o zabijaniu] is the deeply troubling […]
The Derek Bentley-Christopher Craig policeman murder case in Fifties London is recreated with flair and great attention to period accuracy by director Peter Medak in the 1991 drama Let Him Have It, following his 1990 […]
Michael Redgrave stars in Joseph Losey’s 1957 film noir Time without Pity as a hard-drinking father, who comes to London to see if he can rescue his son (Alec McCowen) from execution for murder. Joseph […]
Fritz Lang’s 1956 RKO film noir thriller Beyond a Reasonable Doubt stars Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine in a story about a writer’s plan to expose a corrupt district attorney that takes an unexpected turn. […]
Kevin Spacey’s on top silkily sinister form as David Gale, a one-time campaigner against the death penalty, who is now a Death Row prisoner granting a final interview to keen young reporter Bitsey Bloom (played by Kate Winslet). […]
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