Thunder Road (1958), Hit the Saddle (1937), 8MM (1999), Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963), Harlem Nights (1989), Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942), Most Beautiful Island (2017), The Kitchen (2019) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Illicit Business movies.
Storyline: A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison.
Plot Keywords: moonshiner, driver, mechanic, treasury agent, mobster, father, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan uses his trained killer horse, Volcano, to substitute for the real leader of the herd and cause havoc and death among the ranches. With the government about to drop the restrictions on rounding up the herd, the Three Mesquiteers find themselves in the middle of the controversy after their friend, Sheriff Miller is killed by Volcano.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: saloon girl, gunslinger, rancher, swindler, sheriff, son, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye.
Plot Keywords: private detective, wife, widow, daughter, pornographer, video store clerk, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: detective, bandit, saloon owner, cowboy, criminal, rousing, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contends with the pressures of vicious gangsters and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1930s, any dastardly trick is fair.
Plot Keywords: father, adopted son, gangster, mistress, corrupt cop, amusing, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Belle Andrews' (Constance Bennett) gambling hall burns down in the Chicago fire of 1871 and, now penniless, she accepts Jim Farrel's (Warren William) invitation to accompany him to Powder River, Montana, to open a gambling casino. Farrel has plans to get control of all the land in Powder River by hiring henchmen to file claims on the land, a proceeding overlooked by the settlers. On the stagecoach to Powder River, they meet Wild Bill Hickok (Bruce Cabot). Once there, Farrel has his claim jumpers go to work, and even has Ned Nolan (Russell Simpson) convicted of a framed-up murder charge, and fixes the jury just to be safe. Hickok then begins to organize the settlers to fight back against Farrel.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: woman, businessman, criminal, vigilante, casino owner, campy, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.
Plot Keywords: illegal immigrant, young woman, bleak, brooding, emotional, moving, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.
Plot Keywords: mobster, wife, fbi agent, husband, prisoner, thrilling, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!