The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple of thugs witness the transaction and see their opportunity-- It seems avarice grips the hearts of all those who'd possess the bag.
Jens Larsen has worked hard to become a wealthy man in America, and when he travels home to visit Denmark, the people he meets are extremely acommodating. A little too acommodating, as it turns out. The only surviving film of the Danish series about the world famous detective Sherlock Holmes that ran between 1908-1911.
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
Within the chambers of a desolate house, a solitary servant tends to his invalid master. Tangibly detailed period design and hauntingly lifelike puppetry unearth the dreamworld of Poe.
A gang of daring, sock-headed criminals commit the biggest bank heist in history but soon realise they've been intercepted, but who betrayed them?
A drug addicted, middle-aged detective, beaten down by life and bureaucracy, investigates a series of murders of prostitutes in the slums of Mashhad.
Two burglars release dozens of cats into a neighbourhood and start the dogs barking. They use the din to their advantage and dig up a bag of loot. However, the situation snowballs and turns into the worst night the burglars ever spent.
Troubled by his owner's disturbing nocturnal activities, a little dog finally decides to take action.
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.
An innocent man who was tortured meets his torturer years later and decides to kidnap him.
Italy, summer of 1987. The infamous "Killer" gang is initiating two new members, and it's going to be mess
The man reads his newspaper on a toilet bowl. The woman presents the newspaper behind a television. In fact, he's a prisoner, she's a spy. But what terrible secret is he hiding?
When the local District Attorney comes knocking, a Texan cop is forced to face a secret that he's been hiding from his wife in an effort to keep his family together.
A citizen offers the investigator a bribe to close a case... about bribery. But the events unfold in an unpredictable manner.
A divorce mediation spins way out of control for a husband, his soon-to-be ex-wife and their court-appointed mediator.
A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout.
A doctor receives a call in the early morning. Álvaro, his neighbor, asks him to go urgently because an incident has happened. Upon entering the neighbors' kitchen, he discovers a wounded young man and Álvaro still pointing at him.
Nikos, a low-key man, works as an assistant accountant in an insurance company that is facing financial problems. The main accountant of the company and his superior, Mr. Alexandridis, is a demanding and rude man, who takes advantage of Nikos and his slavery. When one night, Nikos accidentally sees two men threatening Mr. Alexandrides on the street, the balance in Nikos' life changes.
A scientist invents the portable hole, only to have a thief steal his samples to go on a crime spree.
Two men meet in a park. It's Christmas Eve. Kane is an assassin, on his way to do a job that means more to him than the usual killings he is paid to do. This time it's personal.