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1. Crime Wave (1953)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de Corsia

Votes: 4,546

2. The Outcast (1954)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Western

Jet Cosgrave returns home to claim the ranch that was stolen from him, after his father's death.

Director: William Witney | Stars: John Derek, Joan Evans, Jim Davis, Catherine McLeod

Votes: 431

3. Tall in the Saddle (1944)

Approved | 87 min | Western

Ranch hand Rocklin arrives in town to start his new job but his employer has been murdered and the locals don't seem too friendly.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 3,481

4. Kid Galahad (1937)

Passed | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris

Votes: 3,930

5. The Sundowners (1950)

Approved | 83 min | Drama, Western

Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of feuding ranchers in the old west.

Director: George Templeton | Stars: Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, Cathy Downs

Votes: 561

6. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

Approved | 108 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance

Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing ... See full summary »

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick

Votes: 1,121

7. 5 Against the House (1955)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Four vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore

Votes: 2,054

8. Crack-Up (1946)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which may not have actually happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a wicked plot?

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins

Votes: 1,628

9. Brother Orchid (1940)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, Donald Crisp

Votes: 3,170

10. Carbine Williams (1952)

Unrated | 92 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid

Votes: 2,097

11. Lone Star (1952)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Western

Ex-President Andrew Jackson sends Texan Devereaux Burke back home on a mission to facilitate Sam Houston's drive for U.S. statehood.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 1,217

12. Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)

Passed | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Two brother, rival correspondents, find themselves fighting their conservative editor over stories and each other of over the affections of a pretty blonde journalist.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane

Votes: 977

13. Penthouse (1933)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A lawyer's fiancée leaves him after he defends a racketeer accused of murder, but she needs his help when her new beau is accused of killing an old flame.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke

Votes: 1,379

14. Believe in Me (1971)

R | 86 min | Drama

An intern (Michael Sarrazin) and his literary lover (Jacqueline Bisset) are consumed by their addictions to the drug called speed, methamphetamine.

Director: Stuart Hagmann | Stars: Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Jon Cypher, Allen Garfield

Votes: 190

15. Back in Circulation (1937)

Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel

Votes: 425

16. The American Beauty (1927)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Billie Dove stars as Millicent Howard, a great beauty who chooses to give up her chance wealth to marry a poor man she really loves.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Billie Dove, Lloyd Hughes, Walter McGrail, Margaret Livingston

Votes: 61

17. The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy

When a naval officer's wife breaks her ankle and is laid up, her husband takes over running the household by employing military regimentation and discipline, which leads to a number of amusing situations.

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Robert Walker, Joan Leslie, Edward Arnold, Spring Byington

Votes: 235

18. Garden of the Moon (1938)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Romance blooms between a publicist and a singing band leader in the Garden of the Moon night club.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, John Payne, Johnnie Davis

Votes: 327

19. Play Girl (1932)

Unrated | 60 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Winnie Lightner, Loretta Young, Norman Foster, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 366

20. Navy Secrets (1939)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Thriller

A Navy officer is assigned to break up a spy ring within the service itself.

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Fay Wray, Grant Withers, Craig Reynolds, Wilhelm von Brincken

Votes: 113

21. Leather Gloves (1948)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Sport

Dave Collins (Cameron Mitchell) is a prizefighter on the skids, who thumbs his way from town to town, looking for a chance to make some money, even if he is bribed to lose a fight. A former... See full summary »

Directors: William Asher, Richard Quine | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Grey, Jane Nigh, Sam Levene

Votes: 15

22. A Perfect Crime (1921)

Passed | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Wally Griggs, a timid bank messenger, lives another life as a dashing young sport whose tales of wild adventure interest bank president Halliday and romantically fascinate Mary, who has ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Monte Blue, Jacqueline Logan, Stanton Heck, Hardee Kirkland

Votes: 50

23. The Fast Express (1924)

Passed | Action, Drama, Thriller

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Director: William Duncan | Stars: William Duncan, Edith Johnson, Edward Cecil, Eva Gordon

Votes: 15

24. Father Makes Good (1950)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy

Patriarch Henry Latham buys a cow in order to bypass the town's milk tax.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Raymond Walburn, Walter Catlett, Gary Gray, Mary Stuart

Votes: 43

25. Scattergood Meets Broadway (1941)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama

Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. ... See full summary »

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Emma Dunn, Joyce Compton, Bradley Page

Votes: 42

26. The Angry God (1948)

Approved | 57 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The god Colima tries to win the love of a beautiful young Indian maiden, who won't betray the man she loves.

Director: Van Campen Heilner | Stars: Alice Parla, Casimiro Ortega, Mario Forastieri

27. Somewhere in Sonora (1927)

Passed | 57 min | Western

Framed for a stagecoach accident, John Bishop is jailed. Bob Leady helps break him out and in return John heads for Sonora to look for Leady's missing son. He finds him when he joins Monte ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ken Maynard, Kathleen Collins, Frank Leigh, Joseph Bennett

28. The Lion's Den (1919)

Passed | 50 min | Drama

Reverend Sam Webster admonishes his parishioners for their failure to finance a boys' club to keep the boys from frequenting the town's pool halls. The richest man in town, Grocer Stedman, ... See full summary »

Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Bert Lytell, Alice Lake, Joseph Kilgour, Edward Connelly

29. The Poppy Girl's Husband (1919)

Passed | 50 min | Crime, Drama

Hairpin Harry Dutton is paroled from prison after ten years. He discovers that his wife Polly has divorced him and married Big Mike McCafferty, the detective who sent Harry to prison. Polly... See full summary »

Directors: William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer | Stars: William S. Hart, Juanita Hansen, Walter Long, Fred Starr