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51. Los héroes del mal (2015)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Three teenagers, brought together by bullying, indulge in petty theft, sex and drugs. They inevitably realize they can resort to violence to take revenge on everyone who has humiliated them: students, teachers and other outcasts. One of them escalates to killing, and desires to kill again. Anyone can become his next victim. The other two face the question: should they resort to violence to stop ... See full summary »
Director: Zoe Berriatúa | Stars: Emilio Palacios, Jorge Clemente, Beatriz Medina, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 1,118
52. The Brute Man (1946)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A facially-deformed and mentally-unhinged man wreaks his revenge, with a series of brutal murders, on those who deformed him.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Rondo Hatton, Tom Neal, Jan Wiley, Jane Adams
Votes: 1,569
53. Crime & Punishment, USA (1959)
96 min | Crime, Drama
A Californian law student murders a pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: George Hamilton, Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Marian Seldes
Votes: 300
54. Blonde Crazy (1931)
TV-G | 79 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis
Votes: 2,336
55. The Promised Land (1975)
Not Rated | 170 min | Drama
Three friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Anna Nehrebecka
Votes: 4,042
56. Liam (2000)
R | 90 min | Drama
A family falls into poverty during the Depression.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, Dave Hart
Votes: 2,679 | Gross: $1.01M
57. Wicked as They Come (1956)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 611
58. The Lady Gambles (1949)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett
Votes: 1,068
59. Magnet of Doom (1963)
102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier, Malvina Silberberg
Votes: 1,770
60. Stavisky (1974)
PG | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer, Anny Duperey
Votes: 2,520 | Gross: $0.01M
61. The Pawnshop (1916)
TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, John Rand
Votes: 3,714
62. Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.
Directors: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen
Votes: 1,348
63. 21 Days Together (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After Larry accidentally kills his lover Wanda's estranged blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda nervously await the verdict: if the innocent suspect is found guilty then Larry will give himself up.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 1,276
64. Kid Monk Baroni (1952)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Drama, Sport
"Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang, becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in Little Italy, New York.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Richard Rober, Bruce Cabot, Allene Roberts, Mona Knox
Votes: 186
65. Iluzija (2004)
107 min | Drama
As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
Director: Svetozar Ristovski | Stars: Vlado Jovanovski, Marko Kovacevic, Jordanco Cevrevski, Elena Mosevska
Votes: 1,186 | Gross: $0.00M
66. The Man from London (1974)
91 min | Comedy, Crime
A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar ... See full summary »
Director: Hynek Bocan | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Kveta Fialová, Lubomír Lipský, Václav Babka
Votes: 28
67. El cochecito (1960)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: José Isbert, Pedro Porcel, José Luis López Vázquez, María Luisa Ponte
Votes: 1,584
68. You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Youthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, John Litel
Votes: 1,297
69. The King Murder (1932)
Not Rated | 67 min | Crime, Mystery
A beautiful blonde makes a career of seducing, then blackmailing, wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Conway Tearle, Natalie Moorhead, Marceline Day, Dorothy Revier
Votes: 209
70. The Mystery Man (1935)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When he runs short of money, a newspaper reporter pawns a police revolver he was given after he helped the police solve a case. Later on the gun is used in a murder, and the reporter is suspected of committing the crime.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Maxine Doyle, Henry Kolker, LeRoy Mason
Votes: 280
71. Gan (1953)
104 min | Drama, Romance
A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Jûkichi Uno, Eijirô Tôno
Votes: 327
72. Chandler (1971)
GP | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.
Director: Paul Magwood | Stars: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 633
73. Love on the Dole (1941)
Approved | 98 min | Drama
During the Depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her unemployed family.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall
Votes: 605
74. The Bus Is Coming (1971)
GP | 109 min | Drama
A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.
Director: Wendell Franklin | Stars: Mike B. Sims, Lonnie Bradford, Stephanie Faulkner, Burl Bullock
Votes: 82
75. Bulgarian Lovers (2003)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A straight-laced Spanish man falls in love with a young foreigner.
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia | Stars: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Dritan Biba, Pepón Nieto, Roger Pera
Votes: 959 | Gross: $0.06M
76. Volcano (2018)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
After several strange coincidences, Lukas, translator, who works for OSCE, strands in the southern Ukrainian town of Beryslaw. As involuntary guest of his strange host Vova, Lukas is ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Bondarchuk | Stars: Serhiy Stepansky, Viktor Zhdanov, Khrystyna Deylyk, Oleksandr Lyakin
Votes: 704
77. Mushrooms (1995)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.
Director: Alan Madden | Stars: Julia Blake, Simon Chilvers, Lynette Curran, Brandon Burke
Votes: 278
78. The Policeman of the 16th Precinct (1959)
84 min | Comedy
Three poor friends, Ilias, Thomás and Vangelis, decide to commit a burglary, but everything, although being planned with detail, goes wrong.
Director: Alekos Sakellarios | Stars: Kostas Hatzihristos, Marika Krevata, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Kyveli Theohari
Votes: 1,868
79. The Wicked Darling (1919)
59 min | Drama, Crime
A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter, Lon Chaney, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 482
80. Diamond Jim (1935)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero
Votes: 254
81. Fools for Scandal (1938)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
After meeting her in Paris, a penniless marquis relentlessly pursues a famous actress.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravey, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 603
82. McBride: Fallen Idol (2006 TV Movie)
120 min | Mystery
McBride takes the case of a teenager accused of a murder during a botched robbery - a case where the victim was McBride's mentor.
Director: John Larroquette | Stars: John Larroquette, Marta DuBois, Matt Lutz, Madison Mason
Votes: 258
83. Seven Times Lucky (2004)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
Director: Gary Yates | Stars: Kevin Pollak, Liane Balaban, Jonas Chernick, James Tolkan
Votes: 501
84. Stolen Holiday (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Nicole Picot is working as a model in a Paris dress salon when she is picked by Stefan Orloff to help him convince a wealthy investor that he is well connected. She is to wear an expensive ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kay Francis, Claude Rains, Ian Hunter, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 624
85. Now I'll Tell (1934)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Golden is a two-bit gambler who has promised wife Virginia he'll quit when he makes $200,000. When he fixes a fight he gets mobster Mossiter mad, then loses his fortune to him. He pawns his... See full summary »
Director: Edwin J. Burke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, Alice Faye, Robert Gleckler
Votes: 249
86. Taxi (1953)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant girl with a baby locate her missing husband.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Dan Dailey, Constance Smith, Neva Patterson, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 65
87. Dream Street (1921)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Carol Dempster, Ralph Graves, Charles Emmett Mack, Edward Peil Sr.
Votes: 212
88. Docks of New York (1945)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Glimpy finds a necklace next to a dead body in an alley. His discovery leads to the gang getting mixed up in murder, intrigue involving a European royal family, and a killer who is after ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William 'Billy' Benedict, Gloria Pope
Votes: 334
89. The Green Archer (I) (1940)
Passed | 285 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Victor Jory, Iris Meredith, James Craven, Robert Fiske
Votes: 199
90. The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Perpetual optimist "Dreamy" Smith aspires to quit his job as newspaper publicity drudge and sail the world. But life--and his editor--conspire against him: Not only does the car he intends ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Alan Hale, William Lundigan
Votes: 225
91. Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan, Eddie Albert
Votes: 359 | Gross: $0.12M
92. Ginger (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Jane Withers, O.P. Heggie, Jackie Searl, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 75
93. The Spaniard's Curse (1958)
Unrated | 80 min | Crime, Thriller
A man is convicted of murder. He denies murder, and uses an ancient curse to threaten those responsible for sentencing him to death.
Director: Ralph Kemplen | Stars: Tony Wright, Lee Patterson, Susan Beaumont, Michael Hordern
Votes: 251
94. The Thieving Hand (1908)
Unrated | 5 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Short
A one-armed man obtains an artificial limb which he cannot control.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Star: Paul Panzer
Votes: 692
95. Mother's Cry (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
A widowed mother must struggle to raise her four children. She insists that the youngest of them, who turns out to be a gifted architect, must leave the family in order to save his career and to avoid a scandal.
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Dorothy Peterson, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Woods
Votes: 127
96. Girls on Probation (1938)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Jane Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Averill, Sheila Bromley
Votes: 450
97. Jacktown (1962)
Not Rated | 62 min | Drama
A young delinquent is sent to prison for a statutory rape.
Director: William Martin | Stars: Patty McCormack, Richard Meade, Douglas Rutherford, Russ Paquette
Votes: 176
98. Louisiana Hayride (1944)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Comedy, Music
Two con men dupe a country bumpkin into giving them all of her money under the pretense that they'll make her a movie star. She and her family eventually track them in Hollywood, still ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Judy Canova, Ross Hunter, Richard Lane, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 68
99. Society Lawyer (1939)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo Carrillo, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 284
100. Kiem Holijanda (2018)
15 min | Short, Drama
The brothers Andi (13) en Florist (20) live in a poor and desolate village in Kosovo. By selling milk they earn just enough money to support the family. When Andi discovers a card of a ... See full summary »
Director: Sarah Veltmeyer | Stars: Andi Bajgora, Florist Bajgora, Arbnesha Grabovci Nixha, Xhylsyme Thaci
Votes: 58