The best Joe Santos’s crime movies

Joe Santos

Joe Santos

09/06/1931- 18/03/2016
Today we present the best Joe Santos’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Joe Santos’s movies.
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Fear City

Fear City
5.7/10
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Mo' Money

Mo' Money
5.5/10
Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...

The Detective

The Detective
6.5/10
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
7.4/10
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

The Blue Knight

The Blue Knight
7/10
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.

Shaft's Big Score!

Shaft's Big Score!
6/10
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

The Don Is Dead

The Don Is Dead
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/11/1973
  • Character: Joe Lucci
After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise

The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise
7.3/10
Angel's televangelical ministry launches a boycott against a movie entitled "Little Ezekial," and Rockford is hired to protect its star.

The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits...

The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits...
7.6/10
Jim Rockford, is framed for the murder of another rival detective with whom Jim was seen having an argument.

The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play

The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play
7.5/10
An friend of Jim's continues to seek his help for her murdered son, but when she winds up dead not long after an altercation with the mafia man, Jim must must do what it takes to put both her soul and her son's, at rest, himself.

The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.

The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
7.4/10
Detective Jim Rockford works to uncover facts of the death of a wealthy socialite whose two grown children are accused of murdering her. Complicating matters are Rockford's omnipresent "friend" Angel, and Rockford's ex-wife Kit, a lawyer who represents the children.

The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best

The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows Best
7/10
The fourth of eight "Rockford Files" reunion TV movies.

The Cops Are Robbers

The Cops Are Robbers
5.5/10
Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen. Capt. Gerry Clemente is the leader of a gang of rotten cops who take their piece of Boston's criminal offerings. The crimes are petty at first, but soon, Clemente sets his sights on a bank that promises a big score. Can the gang pull it off before a case is built against them?

A Matter of Wife... and Death

A Matter of Wife... and Death
6/10
A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.

The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads

The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads
7.1/10
Jim Rockford must help a friend unjustly accused of child molestation.

The Legend of Nigger Charley

The Legend of Nigger Charley
5.9/10
A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.

My Body Hungers

My Body Hungers
5.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 01/09/1967
  • Character: Truck driver
Marcia, a sexy bucolic orphan, hitch-hikes to the city to meet up with her sister, who has promised her a job at the roadhouse where she works as a hostess. She has no qualms about sleeping with her driver in order to be safeguarded to her destination. Once she arrives, she discovers that her sister has recently been violently murdered -- in a stangulation by garter belt. Marcia takes her sister's job in order to go undercover in finding the murderer. She thus imperils her own life while making discoveries about her sister's former lifestyle and the seamy antics of the local civic leaders.

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