Whistle Down the Wind (1962), Eyes Without a Face - Les yeux sans visage (1959), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), A New Leaf (1971), Mirage (1965), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), The Thief of Paris (1967), The Scapegoat (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Crime Literature On Screen movies.
Storyline: Dr Christine Allison's employed by an attorney who'd formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.—Kelly
Plot Keywords: mercy killing, pocket watch, doctor patient relationship, literature on screen, european literature on screen, british literature on screen, crime literature on screen ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Sir Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa (Louis Jourdan), consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi (Stéphane Audran and David Warner). This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all of his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything for which he's worked, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife (Cybill Shepherd).—marktreut
Plot Keywords: title same as book, silver, switzerland, animal in title, scapegoat, hotel, fraud ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions, Danielle "Dany" Lang, a meek English secretary with an international advertising agency in Paris, drives to sun-kissed French Riviera to blow off steam, after seeing her boss, Michael Caldwell, and his wife, Anita, off at the airport. The plan was to drop them off and drive Michael's car back to the house; however, as soon as Dany sets foot on the picturesque resort for the first time in her life, a series of chance encounters with perfect strangers, who claim that they recognise her, begin to mar her ideal weekend. Now, there's a strange noise coming from the boot of the car. Is the lady in the car going mad?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: frame up, french riviera, secretary, road trip, road movie, 20th century literature on screen, crime literature on screen ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: DETENTION SUCKS BUT IT'S KILLER FUN: It's four years later, and a new group of students has been placed in Saturday detention at the infamous and prestigious Crestview Academy. When Siouxsie, sophomore 'undercrust,' crashes the party to avenge her sister's death, a Saturday detention reserved for the privileged seniors of Crestview Academy turns into a date in hell. It's not long before a naïve pussycat lover, gay drug dealer, smokin' hot preacher's daughter, squeaky-clean senator's son, and the uninvited younger outsider find themselves locked-up in school with no way out, wondering who (or what) has set them up. Hilarity and suspense ensue while each 'bad kid' pits one against the other, and one by one each falls victim to absurdly gruesome 'accidents' while trying to escape. (Based on the best-selling graphic novel sequel 'Bad Kids Go 2 Hell.')—Shoreline Entertainment
Plot Keywords: cynicism, conspiracy, wrench, chase, foot chase, emergency call, telephone call ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: murder, performance, actor, paris france, dream, detective, maniac ...
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