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1. Lured (1947)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff
Votes: 4,846
2. The Sound of Fury (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 1,958
3. Crush (II) (2013)
PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A secret admirer's crush on a high school athlete takes a fatal turn.
Director: Malik Bader | Stars: Ashleigh Craig, Cody Hamilton, Lucas Till, Crystal Reed
Votes: 6,640
4. Make Haste to Live (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After serving 18 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, a mobster is paroled and returns to a New Mexico town to exact his revenge on the woman responsible for his conviction.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally, Mary Murphy, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 341
5. Dangerous Crossing (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
When a beautiful bride boards an ocean liner with her new husband, he goes into hiding, and she becomes the target of a murder conspiracy.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Max Showalter, Carl Betz
Votes: 2,446
6. The Case of the Red Monkey (1955)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A US agent protects a defecting Russian scientist in London as scientists are murdered. The agent finds the killers' hideout, is captured with a policeman's niece, escapes, and stops the killings.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier, John Horsley
Votes: 191
7. Unmasked (1950)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Roger Lewis, publisher of a vicious scandal sheet, is in the habit of tricking wealthy, gullible women into investing in his ventures. His latest conquest is a shapely ex-showgirl, Doris ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke
Votes: 117
8. Little Sweetheart (1988)
R | 89 min | Thriller
A criminal couple, hiding out in a remote property become the unwitting victims of a plot to blackmail them by the most unlikely of conspirators.
Director: Anthony Simmons | Stars: John Hurt, Karen Young, Cassie Barasch, Ellie Raab
Votes: 376
9. Bad Blonde (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater, Sidney James
Votes: 448
10. Paid to Kill (1954)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama
A failed business deal forces James Nevill to blackmail his weak-willed friend into murdering him so that his wife can collect his insurance, but circumstances suddenly change.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Dane Clark, Cecile Chevreau, Paul Carpenter, Thea Gregory
Votes: 382
11. Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.
Director: F. Richard Jones | Stars: Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Votes: 1,329
12. City Streets (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd
Votes: 1,874
13. Storm Over Lisbon (1944)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Mystery, Romance
Deresco, owner of a night club in neutral Portugal, works as a free-lance spy for everybody who can afford his price. He tries to get information from US agent John Craig with help from ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Erich von Stroheim, Otto Kruger
Votes: 170
14. Hell's Half Acre (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An American woman goes to Hawaii to search for her husband, MIA since the war, but he's a fugitive from the law and involved in a private feud against his former crime syndicate partners.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor
Votes: 627
15. I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In 1950s California, the police force tries to infiltrate and neutralize a shoplifting crime ring operating in major department stores.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Andrea King, Tony Curtis
Votes: 451
16. Reform School Girl (1957)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama
A young man steals a car and ends up involved in a pedestrian fatality. The only witness is a girl he had just met. He threatens her life if she talks, so when she refuses to tell what she knows, she is sent to reform school.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Gloria Castillo, Ross Ford, Edd Byrnes, Ralph Reed
Votes: 308
17. Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 1,173
18. Smooth as Silk (1946)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An attorney engaged to an actress gains acquittal for a wealthy playboy accused of manslaughter. The actress, anxious to play the lead in a production backed by the playboy's uncle, ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Kent Taylor, Virginia Grey, Milburn Stone, John Litel
Votes: 243
19. New Orleans Uncensored (1955)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Navy veteran purchases a government surplus vessel and becomes involved in the capture of waterfront racketeers.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Arthur Franz, Beverly Garland, Helene Stanton, Michael Ansara
Votes: 412
20. Hunt the Man Down (1950)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson, Willard Parker
Votes: 1,051
21. Double Door (1934)
75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In New York in 1910, wealthy spinster Victoria Van Brett controls with an iron hand both the family fortune and the lives of her younger sister Caroline and half brother Rip. When Rip ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere, Kent Taylor
Votes: 350
22. Fly-By-Night (1942)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Film-Noir
After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Richard Carlson, Albert Bassermann, Miles Mander
Votes: 384
23. The Truth About Murder (1946)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Film-Noir, Mystery
Christine, a lawyer closely working with District Attorney Lester Ashton, quits her job and joins his friend Bill's one-man buffet. Bill is drinking heavily because of his flirtatious wife.... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bonita Granville, Morgan Conway, Paula Corday, Donald Douglas
Votes: 154
24. The Human Jungle (1954)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police procedural film about a police captain assigned to take over a demoralized precinct and turn it around by settling all the unsolved cases, as well as some new tough ones.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey, Lamont Johnson
Votes: 241
25. 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
26. Postmark for Danger (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William Sylvester, Geoffrey Keen
Votes: 656
27. Open Secret (1948)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Newlyweds come to visit groom's friend, only to discover him missing; and their investigation uncovers evidence of a ring of anti-semites terrorizing the neighborhood.
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: John Ireland, Jane Randolph, Sheldon Leonard, Roman Bohnen
Votes: 338
28. One Frightened Night (1935)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery
An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his doctor, ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Charley Grapewin, Mary Carlisle, Arthur Hohl, Wallace Ford
Votes: 454
29. Without Warning! (1952)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Quiet, unobtrusive LA citizen Carl Martin picks up look-alikes for his estranged blonde wife and murders them with garden shears.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Adam Williams, Meg Randall, Edward Binns, Harlan Warde
Votes: 574
30. Pier 23 (1951)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Private detective finds himself framed for the murders of a wrestler and a crooked referee, then for the murder of a mystery man posing as a new parolee from Alcatraz.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis
Votes: 158
31. The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor
Votes: 257
32. The Devil's Sleep (1949)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
The head of an illegal drug ring uses a women's health spa as a front for his sleeping-pill racket.
Director: W. Merle Connell | Stars: Lita Grey, Will Charles, William Thomason, Timothy Farrell
Votes: 253
33. Two of a Kind (1951)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A lawyer for a rich elderly industrialist works out a complex inheritance scam to pass off a con as the industrialist's long-lost son and claim the huge inheritance.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth Scott, Terry Moore, Alexander Knox
Votes: 809
34. The True Story of Lynn Stuart (1958)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When the nephew and his friend of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Betsy Palmer, Jack Lord, Barry Atwater, Barbara Aler
Votes: 179
35. The Devil Makes Three (1952)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
In 1947, an American pilot returns to Germany to find a family that saved his life during WW2 but he stumbles upon a secret Neo-Nazi group.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan
Votes: 532
36. Blue, White and Perfect (1942)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Mystery
Detective Michael Shayne boards a Hawaii-bound ocean liner on the trail of stolen industrial diamonds and a German smuggling ring.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Helene Reynolds, George Reeves
Votes: 536
37. Broadway (1929)
Passed | 104 min | Crime, Music, Romance
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Director: Pál Fejös | Stars: Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson
Votes: 461
38. Pit of Darkness (1961)
76 min | Crime, Thriller
Richard Logan, a safe maker, wakes up with amnesia after being found unconscious. A detective hired by his wife was murdered. A safe his firm installed was robbed. Logan teams up with his wife to uncover the truth behind these events.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Bruno Barnabe, Leonard Sachs
Votes: 281
39. Girls in Chains (1943)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a teacher loses her job because her brother-in-law is a racketeer, she takes a position at a girls' reformatory.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Arline Judge, Roger Clark, Robin Raymond, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 269
40. Calling Homicide (1956)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Two homicide detectives search for a connection between the car-bombing murder of a fellow investigator and the mutilation murder of a much-hated owner of a modeling school.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Kathleen Case, Myron Healey
Votes: 112
41. Madonna of the Desert (1948)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Don 'Red' Barry, Don Castle, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 109
42. Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
90 min | Drama, Musical
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it ... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Paul Kelly, Blossom Seeley
Votes: 241
43. The Big Tip Off (1955)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Richard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny Denton, who gains notoriety by printing tips on upcoming gangland activities.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Conte, Constance Smith, Bruce Bennett, Cathy Downs
Votes: 113
44. 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
45. Both Sides of the Law (1953)
94 min | Crime, Drama
A pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (... See full summary »
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Anne Crawford, Peggy Cummins, Rosamund John, Terence Morgan
Votes: 248
46. Million Dollar Manhunt (1956)
67 min | Crime, Drama
1956. Drama. Starring Hollywood's Richard Denning as the secret agent, Carole Mathews as the luscious nightclub vocalist and Ronald Adam as the chameleon-like criminal. A story of money and crime.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Richard Denning, Carole Mathews, Ronald Adam, Danny Green
Votes: 158
47. Absolute Quiet (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Businessman Gerald Axton goes to his ranch to rest, having had a near-heart-attack due to business worries. But while there (with his female assistant who makes his heart flutter as much as... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Irene Hervey, Raymond Walburn, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 432
48. Roadhouse Nights (1930)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
A boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 127
49. Blind Spot (1958)
72 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A blind American Army officer becomes involved in a murder mystery and solves it after regaining his sight.
Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Robert MacKenzie, Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson, Anne Sharp
Votes: 240
50. The Last Ride (1944)
Passed | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police lieutenant sets out to break up a ring of tire bootleggers--criminals who sell defective tires to customers who can't get new ones because of the rubber shortage brought about by ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Richard Travis, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker, Jack La Rue
Votes: 250