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A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

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1937

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

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1957

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

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1950

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

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1949

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

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1956

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

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1939

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

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1960

Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.

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An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.

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1942

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

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1947

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

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1948

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

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1941

A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.

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1953

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

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Knock on Any Door

1949

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

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Outside In

2018

An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.

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The Proud Rebel

1958

Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he's unfairly accused of starting a brawl in a small town. A local woman pays his fine, providing that he works it off on her ranch. He soon finds himself involved in the woman's struggle to keep her ranch from a local landowner who wants it--and whose sons were responsible for the man being framed for the fight.

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1966

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

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