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1. True Crime (1999)

R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton, James Woods

Votes: 38,574 | Gross: $16.64M

2. Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother (William Bakewell) becomes involved in bootlegging.

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Lester Vail, William Bakewell

Votes: 1,267

3. A Rage to Live (1965)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama

A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves

Votes: 763

4. That Wonderful Urge (1948)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance

When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.

Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Reginald Gardiner, Arleen Whelan

Votes: 1,041

5. The Mad Ghoul (1943)

Passed | 65 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul.

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, George Zucco, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 892

6. Platinum Blonde (1931)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Halliwell Hobbes

Votes: 3,461

7. Forbidden (1932)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance

A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson

Votes: 1,705

8. Five Star Final (1931)

Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama

The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell

Votes: 2,535

9. Love Is News (1937)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

A financier's daughter spars with a newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Slim Summerville

Votes: 938

10. A Man Betrayed (1941)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A small-town attorney comes to the city to investigate the murder of a friend and falls in love with the daughter of the head of the crime ring he hopes to expose.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford

Votes: 624

11. Two O'Clock Courage (1945)

Not Rated | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A confused man with a gash on his head stumbles into the taxi cab of Patty Mitchell. He says that he can't recall his own name, any facts about his life or even what he was doing before he got in the cab.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews

Votes: 1,381

12. Query (1945)

Approved | 87 min | Thriller

Dock worker Tom Masterick is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to show that his alleged victim is still alive.

Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: William Hartnell, Jimmy Hanley, Chili Bouchier, John Slater

Votes: 268

13. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 842

14. Love Is a Racket (1932)

Unrated | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue beholden to a penthouse gangster.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, Lee Tracy

Votes: 567

15. Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)

Passed | 86 min | Family

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Yvette Duguay, Gene Lockhart, Nancy Guild

Votes: 391

16. The Lady of the Dugout (1918)

60 min | Drama, Western

Real life outlaw Al Jennings tells a "real" story about how he came to the aid of a woman who was abused by her alcoholic husband.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Al J. Jennings, Frank Jennings, Corinne Grant, Ben Alexander

Votes: 156

17. Headline Hunters (1955)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

City Editor Ned Powers assigns student reporter David Flynn to veteran newsman Hugh Woodruff, primarily to get on Woodruff's nerves. David has long admired Woodruff, but is saddened to see ... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: Rod Cameron, Julie Bishop, Ben Cooper, Raymond Greenleaf

Votes: 192

18. Afraid to Talk (1932)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Eric Linden, Sidney Fox, Tully Marshall, Louis Calhern

Votes: 136

19. Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Torchy Blane has to solve a blackmail case.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Henry O'Neill

Votes: 457

20. Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Willard Robertson

Votes: 413

21. Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939)

Approved | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy, Sheila Bromley

Votes: 426

22. Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, John Miljan

Votes: 430

23. Name the Woman (1934)

Approved | 60 min | Mystery

The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson

24. It's a Bet (1935)

69 min | Comedy

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.

Director: Alexander Esway | Stars: Gene Gerrard, Helen Chandler, Judy Kelly, Allen Vincent

Votes: 44

25. Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode: Road Rage: Part One (1998)

TV-14 | 180 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young German girl mysteriously disappears from outside a pub and a group of environmentalist stage a sit in to prevent a bypass from being built through a forest.

Director: Bruce MacDonald | Stars: George Baker, Louie Ramsay, Christopher Ravenscroft, Isobel Middleton

Votes: 111

26. The Doctor (1952–1953)
Episode: Marti (1952)

Drama

A young reporter writes a story about a policeman's widow resulting in conflict with her editor.

Stars: Anne Jackson, Paul Langton