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A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.

A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover, American Army captain Dave Dillon (Robert Arden), to have her boozy spouse meet an "accidental" demise. But a nosy copper (Denis Shaw) suspects foul play, and soon the lovers' crafty scheme deteriorates into fear, distrust and betrayal. Paul Dickson directs this vintage noir thriller.

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.

A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.

A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.

A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.

In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.

American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.

A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the police are after him!

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.