Hardly a Criminal

A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.

A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.

Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.

Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been injured in a car accident outside Chicago. His wife will call later with news, but Bill’s short the $53 he needs to keep his phone from being disconnected. Filled with anguish, he heads out onto the Los Angeles streets to find some way to come up with the cash. As his character encounters expected cruelty and unexpected kindness, Duryea takes what might have been mere melodrama and turns it into a perceptive examination of one shattered soul. The other fine star of this race-against-the-clock programmer is an unglamorous, lunch-bucket L.A. rarely captured on film.

A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.

An inept criminal with bad credit is finally given an opportunity to prove himself, but nothing goes as planned.

A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer's career.

Journalistic chronicle made by Ocelote from the Colima zoo “Ecoparc” that reconstructs the mysterious case of a pair of animals on display, a red deer and a mouflon sheep, killed with a firearm by a mysterious criminal.

Duran and his team of the fifth group are secret agents missioned by Inspector Peña to find and capture a gang of dangerous criminals who are planning a major hit.

A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.

A methodical young man hired to clean up the messes murderers leave behind has his work cut out for him when he is contracted by a particularly strange serial killer.

The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.

A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

A un paso de la soledad

Under the threat of blackmail, a young woman visits an ex-lover, only to discover that he's been murdered and the blame rests upon her.

While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze. When she convinces him to kill her boyfriend and make off with her and the loot, they start down a treacherous path full of dark surprises.

A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.