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1. Macao (1952)
Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?
Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer, Nicholas Ray, Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez
Votes: 3,802
2. Act of Violence (1948)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor
Votes: 5,712
3. Bluebeard (1944)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 2,134
4. The Night Runner (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Realizing that he can't handle the pressures... See full summary »
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Ray Danton, Colleen Miller, Merry Anders, Willis Bouchey
Votes: 210
5. Gangs of New York (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Charles Bickford, Ann Dvorak, Alan Baxter, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 170
6. Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Not Rated | 116 min | Crime, Mystery
When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
Director: Arthur Berthelet | Stars: William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain, Edward Fielding
Votes: 474
7. Women of All Nations (1931)
72 min | Comedy, Drama
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Greta Nissen, El Brendel
Votes: 171
8. Dressed to Kill (1941)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, William Demarest
Votes: 1,201
9. The Hand (1960)
Not Rated | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A Police Inspector follows the trail and circumstances of the murder of a one-handed man back to a prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1946.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Derek Bond, Reed De Rouen, Bryan Coleman, Walter Randall
Votes: 325
10. Escape (1948)
Approved | 78 min | Thriller
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell, Norman Wooland
Votes: 426
11. SOS Pacific (1959)
92 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Due to an accident, a seaplane operated by a small airline company ditches off an island in the Pacific and the surviving passengers must find a way to be rescued.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eva Bartok
Votes: 439
12. Hold That Blonde! (1945)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A kleptomaniac falls in love with a woman who is member of a gang of jewel thieves, although he's initially unaware of her true occupation.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Albert Dekker, Frank Fenton
Votes: 193
13. Waterfront (1944)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his codebook, and he must get it back.
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish, Maris Wrixon, Edwin Maxwell
Votes: 295
14. Fingers at the Window (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unemployed actor in Chicago aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of axe murders, apparently committed by a "lunatic".
Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 1,145
15. Brass Monkey (1948)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Radio personality Carroll Levis becomes involved in a case of theft and murder.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Carroll Levis, Carole Landis, Herbert Lom, Avril Angers
Votes: 210
16. The Girl Who Came Back (1935)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Shirley Grey, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison, Matthew Betz
Votes: 88
17. The Best Man Wins (1935)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Jack Holt, Bela Lugosi, Florence Rice
Votes: 84
18. A Strange Adventure (1932)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders comitted by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
Directors: Phil Whitman, Hampton Del Ruth | Stars: Regis Toomey, June Clyde, Lucille La Verne, Jason Robards Sr.
Votes: 235
19. The Betrayal (1957)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, War
An Allied pilot is captured by the Germans during the war. During his imprisonment, he is blinded by his captors. Realizing that one of his fellow officers betrayed him to the enemy, after ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: Philip Friend, Diana Decker, Philip Saville, Peter Bathurst
Votes: 72
20. The Counterfeiters (1948)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to catch a gang of counterfeiters.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: John Sutton, Doris Merrick, Hugh Beaumont, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 101
21. City of Chance (1940)
56 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Texas girl (Bari) goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend (Woods) to come home.
Director: Ricardo Cortez | Stars: Lynn Bari, C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Woods, Amanda Duff
Votes: 82
22. Night Birds (1930)
97 min | Crime, Drama
(1930) Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Jack Rain. Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
Director: Richard Eichberg | Stars: Jameson Thomas, Jack Raine, Muriel Angelus, Eve Gray
Votes: 45
23. Born Reckless (1937)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A champion auto racer takes a job with a taxicab company being harassed by a gangster who wants to take over all the cab companies in town.
Directors: Malcolm St. Clair, Gustav Machatý | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Brian Donlevy, Barton MacLane, Robert Kent
Votes: 203
24. The Last Appointment (1954)
65 min | Drama
A reporter and his girlfriend--also a reporter--investigate threats against a retired army officer and discover that they're linked to a series of murders and a court-martial that occurred during the war.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: John Bentley, Eleanor Summerfield, Hubert Gregg, Liam Redmond
Votes: 200
25.
Gideon C.I.D. (1964–1966)
Episode:
Fall High Fall Hard
(1965)
50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
There is corruption in the building industry by the co-owner of the building company. One clerk was murdered and another was bribed. When the other co-owner finds out, more crimes are committed to keep the police from finding out.
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: John Gregson, Alexander Davion, Daphne Anderson, Donald Houston
Votes: 48
26.
Gideon C.I.D. (1964–1966)
Episode:
The Rhyme and the Reason
(1964)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young man is accused of murdering his unfaithful girlfriend. Though many offer damning testimony, and his knife is found at the murder scene, Gideon suspects a frame-up.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: John Gregson, Alexander Davion, Daphne Anderson, Jo Rowbottom
Votes: 60
27.
Gideon C.I.D. (1964–1966)
Episode:
The Wall
(1965)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Netta's husband, Michael, has a big win on the football pools but then disappears. It appears as though he has run off but he is actually the victim of foul play. The clues come together and the murderer is uncovered.
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: John Gregson, Alexander Davion, Daphne Anderson, John Barrie
Votes: 52