lady Yakuza: Red Peony Gambler (1969)

aka Hibotan bakuto.
"Leave the little men to me miss."
Ryuko Yano (Sumiko Fuji) is the daughter of a Yakuza boss who dies in a mugging, and becomes a wandering gambler in the search for his killer. On her travels she is helped by Katagiri (Ken Takamura), who knows more about her fathers killer than he is prepared to say...
A wonderfully nuonced dip into the world of the Yakuza, that spawned a number of sequels.

a matter of choice (1963)

"Didn't they teach you anything at university? Don't you know anything about psychoanalysis?"
Mike (Malcolm Gerard) and Tony (Michael Davis) accidentally cause a man's death, and inadvertently involve Lisa (Jeanne Moody), who was having an affair with the now dead man.
A look into how fate and choices make for consequences, in this interesting crime drama.

the secret place (1957)

"He's always hanging around that kiosk."
Molly Wilson (Belinda Lee) is asked by her brother Mike (David McCallum), to get involved in a diamond robbery. They need her to pursuade a young boy, Freddie (Michael Brooke), who has a crush on her to get get him to lend her his father's police uniform...
Nicely played out thriller, that gives a great view of England in the bombed out England of the 50's.

ride beyond vengeance (1966)

"I just rose up from hell, with my hair on fire."
A buffalo hunter (Chuck Norris) is almost home after eleven years away, rich, and fixated on reuniting with his wife, but then he is robbed, branded, and left for dead. Somehow he survives, and in arriving in town, he finds one of the men has taken up with his wife. From then on all he can think of is revenge.
Well realised and gritty western.

passport to shame (1958)

aka Room 43.
"For your own sake try."
French waitress Marie (Odile Versois) is caught up in a white slave ring, by the jaded Vikki (Diana Dors) and into the clutches of pimp (Herbert Lom), but is eventually helped by Cabbie Johnny (Eddie Constantine).
British sexploitation, with suitably sleezy soundtrack and British bombshell Diana Dors.

Love story (1944)

Aka A lady surrenders
"Ah bistro."
Pianist Lissa Campbell (Margaret Lockwood) is told she has a heart condition that will kill her imminently. To come to terms with this shocking news she takes a holiday in Cornwall, and meets the mysterious and handsome Kit Firth (Stuart Granger). She is soon in love, but hides her condition, little knowing that he in turn is hiding a medical condition...
Competent romantic drama.

odd man out (1947)

"Cant a fella take a drink in peace."
Irish nationalist (James Mason) is wounded when he leads a gang in a wages snatch and tries to evade police as everything goes wrong.
Carol Reed does a fine job of ramping up the drama as the day progresses.