Movies and TvShows featuring "staged-ambush" theme.

Molly Louvain's life is turned upside down when she falls for a charming but dangerous man. As their relationship progresses, Molly finds herself caught up in a web of crime, love, and deceit. She must navigate the dangerous world she has become a part of while trying to protect herself and those she cares about.

In A Double Life (1947), a Broadway actor becomes completely consumed by his role as Othello, leading to a series of events filled with jealousy, murder, and insanity.

A widower returns to his hometown to reconcile with his son and faces a confrontation with a ruthless cattle baron in the Wyoming Territory.

The Winning of Barbara Worth is a silent film about an engineer who works to develop the desert wasteland through irrigation. The film explores a romantic triangle between the engineer, a land developer, and a settler woman. It also includes elements of a classical Western, with scenes of sandstorms, rattlesnakes, and a payroll robbery. The story follows the characters as they navigate through various challenges, including a panic, lynching, flood, evacuation, and dust storms. Along the way, the engineer becomes a dam builder and adopts an orphan. Based on a novel, the film showcases the struggles and triumphs of transforming the barren Colorado River region.

In the 1840s, a Texan senator seeks statehood for Texas while facing political rivalries and Comanche attacks. A cattle baron betrays him, leading to a series of gun battles, ambushes, and horseback chases. Amidst the turmoil, a love story unfolds and the fate of Texas hangs in the balance.

Popular crime novelist, Jennifer Becker lives a lavish life in a small coastal town in California with her daughter, Lily. One day, while out for a run, Lily is attacked--but then rescued by a mysterious stranger named Mick.

When a famous necklace is stolen on an ocean liner, master thief Arsène Lupin returns to solve the crime and clear his name.

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.