Movies and TvShows featuring "shady-lady" theme.

Backlash is a drama western movie set in the 1870s in Arizona Territory. The story follows a revenge seeker who teams up with a stagecoach driver to track down a gang leader responsible for an Indian massacre. Along the way, they encounter various shady characters and face gunfire, hostility, and deception. As they pursue their mission, they find vindication and redemption.

Ladies of Leisure is a pre-code film that tells the story of a wrong-side-of-the-tracks girl, Kay Arnold, who meets the wealthy painter Jerry Strong on a cruise ship to Cuba. Despite their class differences, they fall in love, but face numerous challenges along the way including deception, snobbery, and a disapproving family. Kay must navigate her vulnerabilities as a good-bad-girl while trying to maintain her relationship with Jerry. Will their love triumph over societal expectations?

In this suspenseful film-noir, a newspaper reporter investigates a murder and gets entangled in an illicit affair and treachery. Set in 1940s Los Angeles, the plot involves a figure-skating dancer, a rhumba band, and a shady lady. The protagonist must navigate deception, investigation, and retribution to uncover the truth.

Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. This early talkie from director Frank Capra, released in 1929, stars Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Lila Lee.

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.

High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.

The "one desire" of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. With Clint's younger brother and an orphaned girl in tow, the couple moves to a Colorado mining town where their love is tested by Judith Watrous, daughter of the town banker, who has her sights on Clint.

A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.

Desperate for a child, a couple welcome a surrogate mother into their lives, only to discover she's a con artist who's out to steal their money.

Virtue is a crime drama set in the Prohibition era of New York City. The story follows a defense attorney who gets involved with a street prostitute and becomes entangled in a web of deception, murder, and corruption. As he fights for justice and tries to prove the innocence of his client, he must navigate the dangerous underworld of gangsters and corrupt police. Will he be able to uncover the truth and bring the real culprits to justice?

After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.

Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief. When she is caught in the act, a young lawyer offers to defend her. Unfortunately, he loses the case, causing her to spend several months in jail. Fortunately, the two have fallen in love, and he promises to wait for her.

During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.

Fugitive Lady is a gripping drama about a woman who is unjustly incarcerated and labeled as a criminal. She must navigate treachery, reprisal, and betrayal as she fights to clear her name. With the help of a henchman, she seeks sanctuary and undergoes a transformation to escape the clutches of the law. This B-movie from the 1930s is filled with tension, deception, and dire straits as it explores the struggles of a woman caught in a web of injustice.

Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most of the American miners and all of the women must ship out on a vessel bound for San Francisco, but her boyfriend has been ordered to remain.

A young woman with a shady past goes to the tropics, where she winds up marrying a vicious and brutal pearl trader, then falls in love with another man.