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1. Lethal Weapon (1987)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 276,843 | Gross: $65.21M
2. For Your Eyes Only (1981)
PG | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Secret service agent James Bond is assigned to find a missing British vessel equipped with a weapons encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
Director: John Glen | Stars: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson
Votes: 108,444 | Gross: $62.30M
3. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit
Votes: 189,171 | Gross: $147.25M
4. Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
R | 127 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo
Votes: 172,440 | Gross: $130.44M
5. A Hazard of Hearts (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley (Christopher Plummer) has lost his estate and all of his money playing dice, he realizes that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter ... See full summary »
Director: John Hough | Stars: Diana Rigg, Edward Fox, Helena Bonham Carter, Fiona Fullerton
Votes: 1,357
6. Destination Death (1956)
31 min | Crime, Short
When Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a man in the London airport, the trail leads to Lisbon and a international currency smuggling gang.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Arthur Gomez, Paula Byrne
Votes: 51
7. Border Incident (1949)
Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell
Votes: 2,743
8. Calcutta (1946)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. After their buddy Bill is murdered, they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez
Votes: 731
9. Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham
Votes: 566
10. Jamaica Inn (1983 TV Movie)
187 min | Drama, Thriller
The respected vicar of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Eve, John McEnery
Votes: 329
11. The Diamond Arm (1969)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
An ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Yuriy Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Andrey Mironov, Anatoliy Papanov
Votes: 16,271
12. Hit! (1973)
R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Federal Agent, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles
Votes: 868 | Gross: $0.08M
13. Das Geheimnis der drei Dschunken (1965)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An FBI agent goes to Hong Kong to infiltrate an international nuclear smuggling ring.
Director: Ernst Hofbauer | Stars: Stewart Granger, Rosanna Schiaffino, Horst Frank, Paul Klinger
Votes: 151
14. The Fatal Hour (1940)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Mystery
When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street receives help from Chinese detective James Lee Wong and local newspaper reporter Bobbie Logan.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, Charles Trowbridge
Votes: 1,314
15. A Lady Without Passport (1950)
Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the 1950s, an undercover U.S. Immigration investigator travels to Cuba to bust a crime ring that smuggles illegal-aliens into the USA but he falls in love with a smuggled woman.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready
Votes: 920
16. I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, Hobart Cavanaugh
Votes: 775
17. Danger Zone (1951)
Approved | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private-detective Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at an auction, and O'Brien is promptly slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis, Tom Neal
Votes: 143
18. Ninja Champion (1986)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action
A couple camping in the woods is attacked by a trio of thugs and the wife is beaten and raped. A few months after the assault, she is hunting down the three (who happen to be diamond ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Bruce Baron, Pierre Tremblay, Phillip Ching, Jack Lam
Votes: 301
19. The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An enigmatic gang leader known as "The Boss," who is a dead-ringer for Simon, puts "The Saint" under suspicion of murder.
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: George Sanders, Helene Reynolds, Jonathan Hale, Bela Lugosi
Votes: 850
20. Sky Patrol (1939)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
"Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves which operates along the borders and ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone, Jason Robards Sr.
Votes: 113
21. The Smugglers (1968 TV Movie)
Unrated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Gang of smugglers is after a female tourist and her stepdaughter, who are visiting Tyrol in Europe and unknowingly carry something that the smugglers want.
Director: Norman Lloyd | Stars: Shirley Booth, Kurt Kasznar, David Opatoshu, Donnelly Rhodes
Votes: 54
22. The Crooked Sky (1957)
77 min | Crime, Drama
An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Wayne Morris, Karin Booth, Anton Diffring, Bruce Seton
Votes: 130
23. Yellow Cargo (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Vince Barnett, Jack La Rue
Votes: 123
24. Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä (1960)
77 min | Comedy
Foretelling machine tells Pekka and Pätkä that they will have a shining future as Negroes.
Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Esa Pakarinen, Masa Niemi, Siiri Angerkoski, Armas Jokio
Votes: 508
25. Skull and Crown (1935)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Rin-Tin-Tin brings the killer of his mistress to justice.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Regis Toomey, Jack Mulhall, Molly O'Day
Votes: 112
26. Customs Agent (1950)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama
U. S. Customs is trying to stop the illegal export of a miracle drug to China. A Customs agent in Shanghai inadvertently gets his partner killed and is fired. The now ex-agent goes on a ... See full summary »
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: William Eythe, Marjorie Reynolds, Griff Barnett, Howard St. John
Votes: 52
27. Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand (2002 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Mystery
Teen detective Nancy Drew interns at a museum featuring an exhibit on ancient Mayan culture while investigating the theft of a priceless artifact.
Director: Max Holechek | Stars: Lani Minella, Laurie Jerger, Jake Perrine, David S. Hogan
Votes: 89
28. Lalakis the Import (1984)
86 min | Comedy
Lalakis is a broke but proud fashion victim who gets caught in Italian Mafia's "web" when he illegally tries to import cosmetics from abroad in order to get rich without having to get a job.
Director: Yiannis Hartomatzidis | Stars: Nikos Papanastasiou, Katerina Gioulaki, Aliki Kamineli, Markos Lezes
Votes: 142
29. Street of Darkness (1958)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A group of war buddies search for a buried treasure in New Orleans.
Director: Robert G. Walker | Stars: Robert Keys, John Close, James Seay, Julie Gibson
30. Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Romance
Dizzy Carmelita and Uncle Matt inadvertently become involved with thieves smuggling jewels inside a ceramic elephant.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed, Elisabeth Risdon
Votes: 226
31. Hong Kong Nights (1935)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.
Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Tom Keene, Wera Engels, Warren Hymer, Tetsu Komai
Votes: 64
32. Federal Agent at Large (1950)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an agent to Mexico to try to infiltrate the ring and stop the smuggling.
Director: George Blair | Stars: Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, Kent Taylor, Estelita Rodriguez
Votes: 68
33. To prosopo tis imeras (1965)
95 min | Comedy
After winning a trip to Athens, a happy merchant becomes entangled in a misunderstanding, when two rival smuggling rings believe that he is the liaison entrusted with delivering a statue to a collector. Will he get out of the tight spot?
Director: Orestis Laskos | Stars: Kostas Voutsas, Eleni Prokopiou, Lilian Miniati, Kostas Kazakos
Votes: 92
34. Strange Cargo (1936)
68 min | Crime, Drama
Crooks in South America smuggle arms on an English cargo vessel to revolutionaries, but are exposed by a young girl, who later marries the captain's son.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Kathleen Kelly, George Mozart, Moore Marriott, George Sanders
Votes: 12
35. Prowlers of the Sea (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Carlos De Neve, a young Spanish military officer, is given an important post to prevent gun-smuggling in Cuba. He was chosen because he has the reputation of not being susceptible to women.... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Carmel Myers, Ricardo Cortez, George Fawcett, Gino Corrado
Votes: 20
36. Tearing Through (1925)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When District Attorney Johnson is seemingly unable to defeat a gang of drug smugglers, his assistant, Richard Jones, sets out on his own to investigate the lawbreakers. Richard soon learns ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Kathryn McGuire, Herbert Prior, Frank Elliott
Votes: 21
37. The Bandit Chaser (1928)
Passed | Action, Adventure, Romance
Detained by business in Chicago, the owner of the Bar-M Ranch in New Mexico sends his daughter Bertha Murdock with her chaperone Mrs. Fairchild, to take charge of the ranch, which upsets ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Callahan | Stars: Art Mix, Peggy Joy, Morgan Davis, Julia Hoffman
Votes: 24
38. Cafe X (1928)
100 min | Crime, Drama
The journalist Karl Kraft solves a case about weapon and ammunition-smuggling in Oslo, which leads to him getting to know Lilly, which is involved, at least until she meets Karl.
Director: Walter Fyrst | Stars: Tove Tellback, Bengt Djurberg, Ellen Isefiær, Harald Steen
Votes: 10
39. Salakuljettajan laulu (1952)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A customs detective infiltrates a smuggling organization.
Director: Lasse Pöysti | Stars: Tapio Rautavaara, Assi Nortia, Marjatta Pokela, Martti Pokela
Votes: 65
40. Biological Maintenance Department (1997)
10 min | Horror, Short
Director: Ivan McCullough | Stars: Michael Rodgers, Paul Kealyn, Devin Flynn, Ben Donegan
Votes: 33
41. Kickin' the Crown Around (1933)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy
Smugglers are on the loose and a thriving black market in salami is plaguing the nation. Clark and McCullough are hired to catch the smugglers. They are soon up to their ears in salami.
Director: Sam White | Stars: Bobby Clark, Paul McCullough, Ferdinand Munier, Leni Stengel
Votes: 43
42.
Cannon (1971–1976)
Episode:
Hard Rock Roller Coaster
(1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Cannon is hired to help a man who wandered into someone's home after being beaten up. He has no memory or any I.D. on him. Two thugs are after him and one of his benefactors may have a secret agenda.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: William Conrad, John Vernon, Charlotte Stewart, Fritz Weaver
Votes: 106
43.
Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1952–1953)
Episode:
The Strange Destiny
(1952)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A phony doctor, a notorious smuggler, and a sultry secretary combine their talents to outwit U. S. Customs officials. Walt Jameson, Evening Star reporter, finds the corpse of a famous ... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Donald Woods, Sydney Mason, Lewis Wilson, Sherry Moreland
Votes: 8
44.
Maya (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Caper of the Golden Roe
(1967)
60 min | Adventure
While attending a movie in Bombay, Terry spots a newspaper photograph of a close associate of his father. While searching for the man in the photograph, Terry and Raji accidentally stumble ... See full summary »
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Jay North, Sajid Khan, Jagdev, Iftekhar
Votes: 8
45.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Siren
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A mysterious Asian woman is linked to several strange deaths aboard a detained Chinese ship that was smuggling Chinese immigrants to the US. She tempts Frank with another offer from Hell - the peaceful life he always wanted.
Director: Allen Coulter | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Stephen J. Lang
Votes: 306
46.
Serpico (1976–1977)
Episode:
The Serbian Connection
(1976)
Crime, Drama
Serpico learns about human trafficking ring that gets Serbians emigrants from Yugoslavia to the United States illegally. A couple of Serbian emigrants agrees to help him stop them.
Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: David Birney, Tom Atkins, Janet Margolin, Stefan Gierasch
47.
Space Patrol (1950–1955)
Episode:
Interplanetary Smugglers
(1952)
Action, Adventure, Family
Deadly weapons are outlawed on Terra, but smugglers have adapted ordinary ray guns to fire explosive missiles. Commander Corry and his friends investigate the racket, but are captured and ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Darley | Stars: Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Virginia Hewitt, Nina Bara
Votes: 7
48.
The Sweeney (1975–1978)
Episode:
Visiting Fireman
(1976)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Turkish policeman Captain Shebbeq arrives in England for his old friend Regan to help him track down a gold-smuggling ring, possibly connected to an insurance firm which is fire-bombed. ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, Nadim Sawalha
Votes: 112
49.
Mr. & Mrs. North (1952–1954)
Episode:
Seven Sacred Rubies
(1953)
TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The Norths meet a beautiful adventuress and a handsome pilot.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Richard Denning, Barbara Britton, Francis De Sales, Adele Jergens
Votes: 17
50.
Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1978)
Episode:
Mystery Mask Mix-Up
(1970)
TV-G | 21 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Two zombies want the golden mask Daphne has just bought from a Chinese curio shop.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Nicole Jaffe, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Heather North
Votes: 566