black market

60 movies and shows

The Substance

Sat, 07 Sep 2024

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.

Shoeshine

Sat, 27 Apr 1946

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

Hideous!

Tue, 26 Aug 1997

Dr. Lorca, an eccentric collector of biological oddities - has just "acquired" his greatest specimen: a horrible mutant born of toxic sewage, but the creature's rightful owner wants it back. The collector's clash is cut short though, as the sickening specimen comes to life, re-animating an angry, oozing little army of ferocious freaks

Repo Men

Thu, 18 Mar 2010

In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.

Buffalo Soldiers

Thu, 31 Oct 2002

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

Luzzu

Fri, 15 Oct 2021

Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the world of black market fishing to provide for his girlfriend and newborn baby.

Monsignor

Fri, 22 Oct 1982

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.

Defilers

Tue, 01 Jan 1991

After the corpse of an important politician mysteriously disappears, several investigations begin that involving Agent Marin of Interpol and two police officers. What they uncover is high level corruption involving sinister doctors and others grave robbing and / or killing people to harvest their organs and sell on the black market.

French Leave

Sat, 10 Apr 1948

Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.

Confrontation

Mon, 25 Oct 1976

After the war, the country is plagued by famine. The secretary party committee, Martin Kreka, leads a campaign to gather the grain that is sold in the black market.

B.O.R.N.

Thu, 26 Oct 1989

A speeding ambulance abducts three beautiful young women to a sinister medical center where someone is making a killing selling healthy human organs on the black market.

Black Gravel

Wed, 12 Apr 1961

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

The Third Man

Wed, 31 Aug 1949

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

I Am Here

Fri, 12 Jun 2015

Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most - a baby of her own. She decides to deal with the matter by herself and embarks on a desperate and dangerous journey in order to make her dream come true.

Videodrome

Fri, 04 Feb 1983

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

Way of Youth

Wed, 23 Sep 1959

This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.

Abandoned

Wed, 26 Oct 1949

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

Harvest

Mon, 20 Apr 2015

Phony doctor John (Kim Sønderholm) is busy kidnapping, murdered and removing vital organs to sell on the black market. He gets into hot water when he delivers a faulty kidney and has mere hours to find a replacement.

Black Cat, White Cat

Mon, 01 Jun 1998

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.