Matt Whitlock is the head of police in a quiet Florida community, he's a firm but fair kind of guy and all the locals think he's great. Unfortunately a double murder leaves Matt with only one suspect, himself, and so begins an increasingly desperate search for the real culprit, before the ever expanding evidence against him becomes impossible to hide from his otherwise clueless colleagues. Out Of Time is a slick sweaty thriller, and though the join the dots plot and heavily sign-posted twists do find out more...

Murakami is a young detective who loses his gun to a pickpocket, but, before he can get it back, the weapon is sold to a gangster and, before long, a woman has been robbed and shot. In desperation Murakami turns to his wily older partner, Sato, and, together, the two set out across the humid and seamy streets of Tokyo to track down the gun before more people die. Stray Dogs is one of Kurosawa's earlier works and is a highly stylish film, a gritty slice of noir from somewhere other than the North find out more...

Sinatra yet again shows that he was no mere crooner as he plays the psychopathic gunman who, with colleagues, seizes a suburban house, taking the inmates hostage, as he prepares to assassinate the president of the USA. find out more...

Police Sgt Bannion is taken off investigating the apparent suicide of a corrupt cop, is he likely to uncover too much filth? Driven to further unravel the mystery Bannion continues probing until an explosion meant for him kills his wife. He resigns from the force and soon learns that behind it all is a powerful underworld syndicate led by Mike Lagana and the cold-blooded Vince Stone. The Big Heat is a classic slice of noir; a brooding, dark narrative. find out more...

The Blue Lamp: Remember rainy Saturday evenings after the football results? Remember Dixon of Dock Green? Well, this is the movie that spawned the quintessentially English police drama. When PC Dixon is shot whilst on duty, the Paddington Green force must enter the sinister territory of London's underworld. Winner of Best British film at the 1950 Baftas. The Nanny: The Fane family are an unusual if not unhinged group of individuals, but there nanny is in a league of her own. The Nanny is a delic find out more...

Classic film noir from the pen and director's chair of Orson Welles. Set in a seedy Mexican border town the local police chief is corrupt and bigoted, his only enemy a crusading Mexican narcotics investigator, determined to bring the policeman to book and expose his murderous scams. Touch of Evil has all the stunning trade mark cinematography of an Orson Welles picture and is a superbly dark and brooding movie with some fine subsidiary characters. Kafkaesque. find out more...