To catch a thief

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows to catch a thief

poster Texas Wildcats

Texas Wildcats

Lightning Bill Carson and sidekick Magpie are after Burrows, the man that killed a friend of theirs. Burrows is after the Arden ranch and his gang are rustling their cattle. Bill is robbing Burrows while …

poster Ready 2 Die

Ready 2 Die

80mn - Thriller, Crime, Drama

Three desperate criminals flee through East L.A. with a blood-soaked bag of cash after a violent bank heist. As word of their score spreads through the underworld, they must outrun and outgun rival gangs …

poster False Arrest

False Arrest

192mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller

A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of…

poster Polterheist

Polterheist

86mn - Comedy, Crime, Horror

Two gangsters kidnap a psychic to find out where the man they murdered buried the loot.

poster Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears

99mn - Crime, Mystery

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.

poster The Naked Street

The Naked Street

84mn - Thriller, Drama

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of priso…

poster Buried Alive

Buried Alive

62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…

poster I Love Trouble

I Love Trouble

93mn - Crime, Drama

A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.

poster Dead for a Dollar

Dead for a Dollar

106mn - Comedy, Western

After a bank heist goes sideways and the lead robber ends up dead, three bandits engage in a treacherous game of cat and mouse to claim $200,000 in stolen loot. When ambitious young gunslinger Glenn disco…

poster He Walked by Night

He Walked by Night

79mn - Drama, Thriller, Crime

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

poster Crashing Broadway

Crashing Broadway

When cowboy performer Tad Wallace's western act flops on Broadway, he heads west with a traveling troupe only to discover their destination theater has been burned down by a local criminal. Joining forces…

poster Terror by Night

Terror by Night

63mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first h…

Charade

113mn - Comedy, Mystery, Romance

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving ch…

poster Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

61mn - Mystery, Action, Crime

Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).

poster Charlie Chan in Rio

Charlie Chan in Rio

60mn - Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.

poster The Stranger Came Home

The Stranger Came Home

Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return…

poster Captain Kidd

Captain Kidd

90mn - Action, Adventure, Drama

Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of …

poster Knock Off

Knock Off

91mn - Action, Adventure, Thriller

A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.

poster The Cartier Affair

The Cartier Affair

94mn - Short, Comedy, Crime

Curt Taylor is a convict and owes Phil Drexler the number 1 convict in the prison. Now to settle his debt Drexler sends Curt to be the secretary for Cartier Rand so that he can steal her jewels. But he fa…

poster Stolen from the Heart

Stolen from the Heart

90mn - Drama, Short

A former prostitute kidnaps a baby boy at birth to satisfy her drug-dealing husband, who has told her that he is going to divorce her and put her out on the streets if she cannot produce him a son. Obviou…

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