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1. Detroit (2017)

R | 143 min | Crime, Drama, History

Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore

Votes: 56,038 | Gross: $16.79M

2. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders

Votes: 33,428 | Gross: $0.01M

3. The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

Director: Karen Moncrieff | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte, James Cromwell, Mark Pellegrino

Votes: 7,110

4. Marked Woman (1937)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.

Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell

Votes: 4,847

5. Midnight (1934)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion. On the night of the execution, his actions come back to haunt him.

Director: Chester Erskine | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull

Votes: 1,245

6. Daisy Kenyon (1947)

Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick

Votes: 3,039

7. I Shot Jesse James (1949)

Passed | 81 min | Western

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland, Reed Hadley

Votes: 2,514

8. True Confession (1937)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Crime

A lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel

Votes: 1,782

9. Taxi (1931)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Independent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 1,555

10. Cell 2455, Death Row (1955)

Approved | 77 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death Row, a story he had told in a autobiography that became a ... See full summary »

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: William Campbell, R. Wright Campbell, Marian Carr, Kathryn Grant

Votes: 494

11. The Unholy Wife (1957)

Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A gold-digger floozy marries a wealthy wine producer but she secretly takes a young lover with whom she conspires to murder her husband for his fortune.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon, Beulah Bondi

Votes: 630

12. Midnight Mary (1933)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez, Andy Devine

Votes: 1,620

13. The Return of October (1948)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

This is the warm-hearted story of a wholesome Terry Moore, whose late uncle Willie (James Gleason) is reincarnated as a thoroughbred horse. At least, as far as Ms. Moore is concerned, he is... See full summary »

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Glenn Ford, Terry Moore, Albert Sharpe, James Gleason

Votes: 244

14. Custody of the Heart (2000 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Sport

A successful businesswoman is suddenly sued for custody of her children by her stay-at-home husband.

Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Lorraine Bracco, Martin Donovan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Sheila McCarthy

Votes: 201

15. The Texas Rangers (1936)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, Western

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 839

16. Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama

In post-WW2 England, a taxi driver is ostracized by society after he's accused of murdering a school-girl and his untried lawyer must find the real killer to save his client from the hangman.

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Derek Farr, Ian Hunter

Votes: 478

17. The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)

120 min | Drama

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Franco Nero, Mario Adorf, Riccardo Cucciolla, Damiano Damiani

Votes: 350

18. Broadway Bad (1933)

Passed | 61 min | Drama, Music

Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Adrienne Ames

Votes: 232

19. Man, Woman and Sin (1927)

Passed | 70 min | Drama

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs to save enough money to buy a house for himself and his mother. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful ... See full summary »

Director: Monta Bell | Stars: John Gilbert, Jeanne Eagels, Gladys Brockwell, Marc McDermott

Votes: 395

20. The Thirteenth Hour (1947)

Passed | 65 min | Film-Noir, Mystery

In the 7th of Columbia's "Whistler" series, truck-firm owner Steve Reynolds gets involved in a feud with a rival firm, and shortly thereafter is slugged by a masked assailant who steals the... See full summary »

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon

Votes: 325

21. Vladimir and Rosa (1971)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama

In Godard and Gorin's free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler (who doodles notes on Playboy centerfolds), the Chicago Eight become microcosms of ... See full summary »

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | Stars: Yves Afonso, Juliet Berto, Frankie Dymon, Jean-Luc Godard

Votes: 569

22. Mr. District Attorney (1941)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Rookie Deputy DA P. Cadwallader Jones and hotshot reporter Terry Parker team up to track down an elusive criminal named Hyde.

Director: William Morgan | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges

Votes: 219

23. Her Cardboard Lover (1942)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

A wealthy woman, trying to discourage a former boyfriend from pursuing her, hires a young songwriter who needs money to pay off his gambling debts to pretend to be her boyfriend. The ... See full summary »

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders, Frank McHugh

Votes: 804

24. The Devil on Wheels (1947)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

A teenager involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod.

Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Noreen Nash, Darryl Hickman, Terry Moore, Lenita Lane

Votes: 149

25. Zenobia (1939)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A visiting circus man calls on a Southern country doctor to cure his sick elephant; afterwards, the grateful beast becomes so attached to the doctor that it starts to follow him everywhere.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady

Votes: 685

26. Gang Bullets (1938)

Approved | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Anne Nagel, Robert Kent, Charles Trowbridge, Morgan Wallace

Votes: 215

27. Attorney for the Defense (1932)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama

An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, Constance Cummings, Don Dillaway

Votes: 184

28. God Is My Partner (1957)

Approved | 82 min | Drama

Dr. Charles Grayson, a respected surgeon, retires and starts to give away large portions of his savings to religious causes. His immediate family launches a suit against him, declaring him ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Walter Brennan, John Hoyt, Marion Ross, Jesse White

Votes: 64

29. The Nuisance (1933)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lee Tracy, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 337

30. Up for Murder (1931)

Passed | 68 min | Drama

Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.

Directors: Monta Bell, Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Lew Ayres, Genevieve Tobin, Purnell Pratt, Richard Tucker

Votes: 101

31. 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

32. Rogue's March (1953)

Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Unjustly drummed out of his regiment, a Victorian Englishman (Peter Lawford) restores his honor in India.

Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Peter Lawford, Richard Greene, Janice Rule, Leo G. Carroll

Votes: 169

33. Career Woman (1936)

Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A girl accused of killing her father is defended unsuccessfully by a flashy lawyer and successfully by a new, straightforward one.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Isabel Jewell, Eric Linden

Votes: 101

34. School for Girls (1934)

Passed | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Annette Eldrige is sentenced to three years in a reformatory after being caught with stolen jewels. The sadistic woman in charge of the reformatory makes life terrible for everyone; ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Sidney Fox, Paul Kelly, Lois Wilson, Lucille La Verne

Votes: 31

35. Don Juan Quilligan (1945)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy

In Brooklyn, N.Y., barge captain Patrick Michael Quilligan (William Bendix) falls for barmaid Margie Mossrock (Joan Blondell) because her charm reminds him of his beloved, deceased mother. ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Phil Silvers, Anne Revere

Votes: 120

36. The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948)

Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Marjorie Lord, Robert Shayne, Pierre Watkin, James Seay

Votes: 130

37. Trial: The Price of Passion (1992 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 182 min | Drama, Thriller

Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Peter Strauss, Beverly D'Angelo, Ned Beatty, Laila Robins

Votes: 66

38. The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Doris Hill, Warner Oland, Fredric March

Votes: 205

39. The Witching Hour (1934)

Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Guy Standing, John Halliday, Judith Allen, Tom Brown

Votes: 120

40. Thunder in the Valley (1947)

Passed | 103 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A story of the Scottish highlands about a crockerty old sheepherder, Adam MacAdam (Edmund Gwenn),who loves his prize collie dog, but little else, not even his son Davis (Lon McAllister). ... See full summary »

Director: Louis King | Stars: Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owen

Votes: 56

41. White Lies (1934)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama

John Mitchell is a powerful and ruthless newspaper publisher, who doesn't care who gets hurt if a good story can run in his paper. Caught speeding, by honest cop Terry Condon, his first ... See full summary »

Director: Leo Bulgakov | Stars: Victor Jory, Walter Connolly, Fay Wray, Leslie Fenton

Votes: 19

42. Secret Evidence (1941)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama

PRC - Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley, Ward McTaggart, Kenneth Harlan, Donald Curtis. When Reynolds becomes engaged to the local DA, played by Quigley, her former boyfriend gangster ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley, Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart, Howard Masters

Votes: 74

43. Little Miss Nobody (1936)

Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A girl gets into trouble at her orphanage and is sent away to reform school. She escapes en route but is found and brought to trial. Her father is the prosecutor.

Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Ralph Morgan, Sara Haden

Votes: 45

44. Death Flies East (1935)

Passed | 65 min | Drama

On a flight from California to New York, the passengers include Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice), a nurse on parole for a murder she did not commit, attempting to clear her name and bring the ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Florence Rice, Raymond Walburn, Geneva Mitchell

Votes: 29

45. The Man Who Returned to Life (1942)

Passed | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama

David Jamieson, a Northerner, is forced to flee from a Maryland town where he is suspected of murdering the girl who attempted to force him to marry her on the eve of his wedding to another... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Howard, Lucile Fairbanks, Ruth Ford, Marcella Martin

Votes: 26

46. I'd Give My Life (1936)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man sentenced to be hanged for murdering a racketeer because, in order to protect others whom he admires, ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Guy Standing, Frances Drake, Tom Brown, Janet Beecher

Votes: 55

47. Fast Life (1929)

Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife, and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.

Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Chester Morris, William Holden

Votes: 53

48. Portia on Trial (1937)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton).

Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Walter Abel, Frieda Inescort, Neil Hamilton, Heather Angel

Votes: 88

49. Men Against the Sky (1940)

Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Alcoholic pilot struggles to turn his life around.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie

Votes: 150

50. A Girl with Ideas (1937)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama

A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Wendy Barrie, Walter Pidgeon, Kent Taylor, Dorothea Kent

Votes: 32