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1. West Side Story (1961)
Approved | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
Votes: 121,357 | Gross: $43.66M
2. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, Cheryce Livingston, Don Tempesta
Votes: 32
3. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 23,244
4. Night Courier (2023)
110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In the heart of Riyadh, where desperation and opportunity collide, MANDOOB brings forth the gripping tale of Fahad Algadaani, a mentally fragile man racing against time to save his ailing father.
Director: Ali Kalthami | Stars: Mohamad Aldokhei, Mohammed Altawyan, Hajar Alshammari, Sarah Taibah
Votes: 3,445
5. The Dark Corner (1946)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A secretary tries to help her boss who's been framed for murder.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens
Votes: 5,225
6. The Young Savages (1961)
Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan
Votes: 2,947
7. True Crime: New York City (2005 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Mystery
Street cop Marcus Reed, a former gangster, tries to uncover who is behind the murder of his friend and mentor, Lt. Terrance Higgins.
Stars: Avery Kidd Waddell, Laurence Fishburne, Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken
Votes: 1,051
8. 13 West Street (1962)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama
An aerospace engineer (Ladd) ignores a policeman (Steiger) and hunts down a gang of juvenile delinquents.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Alan Ladd, Rod Steiger, Michael Callan, Dolores Dorn
Votes: 834
9. 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: 1,344
10. Crime in the Streets (1956)
Passed | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Social worker tries to befriend local slum gang.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, Mark Rydell
Votes: 1,391
11. Madame Satã (2002)
Unrated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques
Votes: 3,161 | Gross: $0.20M
12. The Crooked Way (1949)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams
Votes: 1,405
13. Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An FBI agent investigates the murder of his partner by taking over the 3 cases he was working on, determined to find his killer.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer, Marisa Pavan
Votes: 1,568
14. Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman.
Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Edward Buzzell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley, Sally Blane
Votes: 907
15. Paper Bullets (1941)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Circumstances force naive Dorothy Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Joan Woodbury, Jack La Rue, Linda Ware, John Archer
Votes: 359
16. The River Niger (1976)
R | 105 min | Drama
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But ... See full summary »
Director: Krishna Shah | Stars: Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr., Glynn Turman
Votes: 296
17. Night Owl (1993)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A vampire in the East Village picks up women, and while having sex with them kills them and drinks their blood. Meanwhile, a young Puerto Rican guy begins searching the Village for his sister, who is one of the vampire's victims.
Director: Jeffrey Arsenault | Stars: John Leguizamo, Lisa Napoli, David Roya, Ali Thomas
Votes: 253
18. Guilty Bystander (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.
Director: Joseph Lerner | Stars: Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Mary Boland, Sam Levene
Votes: 1,081
19. Lights of New York (1928)
Passed | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A gangster frames two bootleggers for the shooting of a police officer in New York during the prohibition.
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 949 | Gross: $1.20M
20. Streets of New York (1939)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Martin Spellman, Marjorie Reynolds, Dick Purcell
Votes: 160
21. María y los niños pobres (2010)
80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Due to different circumstances several kids work in the streets of La Paz (Bolivia). While a group of Catholic priests help them they are endangered by organ thieves and drug dealers. When ... See full summary »
Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Mariana Liquitaya, Sebastián Obermaier, Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato, Mauricio Aparicio
Votes: 24
22. Juvenile Jungle (1958)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A planned kidnapping goes awry when the gang leader falls for the victim.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Corey Allen, Rebecca Welles, Richard Bakalyan, Anne Whitfield
Votes: 83
23. X Marks the Spot (1942)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
In 1942, rubber is a valuable commodity during WWII. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the Army, but also a private detective. Eddie swings into action, when his father, ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Neil Hamilton, Jack La Rue
Votes: 292
24. Kick In (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ex-con Chick Hewes (Regis Toomey) tries to go straight with the help of wife Molly (Clara Bow), but circumstances force the couple into involvement in a serious crime.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Clara Bow, Regis Toomey, Wynne Gibson, Juliette Compton
Votes: 71
25. The Purple Gang (1959)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
The story of the infamous Purple Gang, a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920s' Detroit.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards, Marc Cavell
Votes: 337
26. Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
While a cop steers a kid street-fighter away from being a public nuisance, a petty hoodlum leads a studious kid into a life of crime.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Warren Hull
Votes: 668
27. 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: 211
28. It Had to Happen (1936)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama
A poor boy rises to power in politics. When the banker husband of his secret love takes money and flees the country, he replaces the lost amount and becomes implicated in the crime.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: George Raft, Rosalind Russell, Leo Carrillo, Arline Judge
Votes: 149
29. Protect and Surf (1989 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime
A group of young police officers make up for the harsh realities of working on mean streets by sharing a dream house at the beach in California.
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Mike Genovese, David Oliver, Thomas Haden Church, Phill Lewis
Votes: 11
30. Dr. Broadway (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
New York City physician, Dr. Timothy Kane, knows Broadway, the Great White Way and all of its characters thoroughly, as does his receptionist, Connie Madigan. A man Kane had sent to prison ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Jean Phillips, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Lane
Votes: 135
31. Am I Guilty? (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young black doctor sets out to establish a free clinic in Harlem.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Ralph Cooper, Sybil Lewis, Sam McDaniel, Laurence Criner
Votes: 17
32. Dark Manhattan (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A low-level gangster determines to let nothing stand in the way of his gaining control of the numbers rackets in Harlem.
Directors: Harry L. Fraser, Ralph Cooper | Stars: Ralph Cooper, Cleo Herndon, Clarence Brooks, Jess Lee Brooks
Votes: 84
33. I Promise to Pay (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Eddie Lang (Chester Morris), a decent family man making $27.50 a week, borrows fifty-dollars from Richard Farra (Leo Carrillo) in order to take his wife, Mary (Helen Mack) and two small ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 187
34. Big Town Scandal (1948)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Steve Wilson, crusading editor of the Big Town's Illustrated Press, with the aid of police-beat reporter Lorelei Kilbourne battles against the core of the city's vice - its young ... See full summary »
Director: William C. Thomas | Stars: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Stanley Clements, Darryl Hickman
Votes: 96
35. The System (1953)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper is crusading against him and the rackets, primarily because Merrick is in love with Felice Stuart (... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Joan Weldon, Robert Arthur, Paul Picerni
Votes: 140
36. The Making of 'X' - Night of Vengeance' (2015 Video)
36 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Jes Simpson | Stars: Lizzette Atkins, Cindy Clarkson, Peter Docker, Jon Hewitt
37. Gas House Kids (1946)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Gas House Kids tackle a gang of criminals in the hope of winning the reward and helping a returning war veteran make a life with his girl.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Robert Lowery, Teala Loring, Billy Halop, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer
Votes: 38
38. The Man Who Dared (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Preston Foster, Zita Johann, Joan Marsh, Irén Biller
Votes: 36
39. I Demand Payment (1938)
Approved | 61 min | Drama
A naive young woman gets caught up in a loan-shark racket.
Director: Clifford Sanforth | Stars: Betty Burgess, Jack La Rue, Matty Kemp, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 39
40. Cost of a Soul (2010)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama
A gritty tale of two veterans who return home from Iraq to the war-zone of their own slum neighborhood. Their lives collide as their own families become entangled in a web of crime and corruption.
Director: Sean Kirkpatrick | Stars: Chris Kerson, Will Blagrove, Mark Borkowski, Judy Jerome
Votes: 214
41. The Melancholy Dame (1929)
Passed | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
Director: Arvid E. Gillstrom | Stars: Edward Thompson, Evelyn Preer, Spencer Williams, Roberta Hyson
Votes: 33
42. Mug Town (1942)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
Neighborhood kids take on racketeers.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Grace McDonald, Bernard Punsly
Votes: 43
43. Jailbreak (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Ex-racketeer slugs a cop and goes to prison to keep from being involved in crime again. On the day of his parole, his plans are dashed. It's up to a brash newspaper reporter to figure out what happened.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Barton MacLane, June Travis, Craig Reynolds, Dick Purcell
Votes: 124
44. De nuevo a la vida (1973)
98 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Benjamín Arce, Luis Cabrera, Leonidas Carvajal, Gerardo Casavilca
Votes: 15
45. Two in a Taxi (1941)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama
Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small, roadside gas station from its elderly owner George Cleveland. In ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anita Louise, Russell Hayden, Noah Beery Jr., Dick Purcell
Votes: 31
46. Newsboys' Home (1938)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A clueless publisher's daughter inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys, and proceeds to run the paper to the ground.
Directors: Harold Young, Arthur Lubin | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 43
47. Dark and Deadly: 50 Years of Film Noir (1995 TV Special)
50 min | Documentary, History
Director: Paul Joyce | Stars: B. Ruby Rich, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer
Votes: 14
48. Life Goes On (1938)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The husband of Sally Weston dies, and she decides to move to New York City where she feels her two young sons, Bob and Henry, can get a better education. Bob grows up to be a brilliant ... See full summary »
Director: William L. Nolte | Stars: Louise Beavers, Edward Thompson, Reginald Fenderson, Laurence Criner
Votes: 9
49. Boomerang Bill (1922)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of crime by taking part in a robbery, he takes the boy aside and tells him the story of ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Terriss | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Marguerite Marsh, Margaret Seddon, Frank Shannon
Votes: 21
50. Tough Kid (1938)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the Murphys when Red runs up against a ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Frankie Darro, Dick Purcell, Judith Allen, Lillian Elliott
Votes: 23