Watched in the Pursuit of Noir
by karljhickey14 | created - 31 Dec 2015 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicPoverty row films , B movies , gangster pics , social realism , melodramas , pre code films , thrillers , crime films - all watched in the search for Films Noir .
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1. To Have and to Hold (1951)
63 min | Drama
In this melodrama, a man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon die. He spends his last few days taking care of his family and trying to get his wife to find another man.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Avis Scott, Patrick Barr, Robert Ayres, Harry Fine
Votes: 41
2. Escort for Hire (1960)
66 min | Crime, Drama
Unemployed actor Steve gets a job with Miss Kennedy's agency as an escort-bodyguard, but ends up being framed for murder after a wealthy client, Miss Elizabeth Quinn, is killed.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: June Thorburn, Pete Murray, Noel Trevarthen, Jan Holden
Votes: 48
3. Dangerous Charter (1962)
Approved | 76 min | Adventure, Thriller
The crew of a fishing boat discovers a deserted luxury yacht at sea with a dead body on board. They claim the yacht as salvage, not knowing that a drug smuggling ring has hidden $500,000 worth of heroin on the boat.
Director: Robert Gottschalk | Stars: Chris Warfield, Sally Fraser, Dick Foote, Peter Forster
Votes: 245
4. The Cobra Strikes (1948)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Hard-boiled reporter Mike Kent investigates the murder of a prominent scientist and stumbles upon a sinister plot to steal a fortune in jewels.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Sheila Ryan, Richard Fraser, Leslie Brooks, Herbert Heyes
Votes: 67
5. Blonde in Bondage (1957)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama
American reporter doing a story on Swedish nightlife gets involved with a drug-addicted nightclub singer.
Director: Robert Brandt | Stars: Mark Miller, Lars Ekborg, Anita Thallaug, Birgitta Ander
Votes: 117
6. Girl Gang (1954)
Not Rated | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A sleazy gangster has a gang of young girls commit robberies and prostitution for him by getting them hooked on drugs.
Director: Robert C. Dertano | Stars: Gloria Victor, Timothy Farrell, Harry Keaton, Lou Monson
Votes: 350
7. Night in New Orleans (1942)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Police Lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel might be intimately ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Preston Foster, Patricia Morison, Albert Dekker, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 93
8. The World Ten Times Over (1963)
93 min | Drama
Two Soho club hostesses and roommates endanger their friendship due to their romantic rivalry over the affections of a married businessman.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Sylvia Syms, Edward Judd, June Ritchie, William Hartnell
Votes: 112
9. Flight from Destiny (1941)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Film-Noir
An elderly professor suffering from an aortic aneurysm confronts the problem of what to do knowing that he only has a few months to live.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn, James Stephenson
Votes: 324
10. Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
80 min | Crime, Drama
A young man hitchhiking through the desert is picked up by a beautiful woman. They have an affair, and he finds out that she's married. The consequences of the affair lead to murder and blackmail.
Directors: John Derek, Marc Lawrence | Stars: John Derek, Aldo Ray, Arthur O'Connell, Ursula Andress
Votes: 168
11. The Big Fix (1978)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow
Votes: 2,397
12. Quick Millions (1931)
72 min | Crime, Drama
Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her on her wedding day.
Director: Rowland Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers, Bob Burns
Votes: 404
13. Thieves After Dark (1983)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A couple goes on the run after being accused for a crime they didn't commit.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Véronique Jannot, Bobby Di Cicco, Victor Lanoux, Stéphane Audran
Votes: 231
14. Des gens sans importance (1956)
101 min | Drama
Mid-aged married truck driver falls in love with a young waitress he meets while making a break on a long trip. They try to make it work, but she can't get a decent job or place to stay in ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Pierre Mondy, Yvette Etiévant
Votes: 633
15. Carnival (1946)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A dancer attempts to escape from the narrow conventions of society and from the fate foretold for her at her birth.
Director: Stanley Haynes | Stars: Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway, Bernard Miles
Votes: 166
16. Diagnosis: Murder (1974)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Anonymous notes accuse a psychiatrist of having murdered his wife. A bedraggled policeman attempts to uncover the truth behind her disappearance.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Jon Finch, Judy Geeson, Christopher Lee, Tony Beckley
Votes: 287
17. Hot Car Girl (1958)
71 min | Drama
Instead of working for a living, Duke and Freddie steal auto accessories and sell to a fence. While Duke is out driving with his girl Peg, she tries to dissuade him from a life of crime. ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Richard Bakalyan, June Kenney, Robert Knapp, John Brinkley
Votes: 70
18. The Young Don't Cry (1957)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Georgia orphanage teenage boy gets involved with a chain-gang convict who is planning his escape from the nearby prison-camp.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, J. Carrol Naish, Gene Lyons
Votes: 226
19. Jazz Boat (1960)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Musical
An electrician is summoned to assist a gang in a big robbery.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries, David Lodge
Votes: 147
20. Alaska Seas (1954)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
The owner of a salmon cannery in Alaska hires a man who had formerly been his partner, and comes to regret it.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Robert Ryan, Jan Sterling, Brian Keith, Gene Barry
Votes: 210
21. Little Fugitive (1953)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Family
A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
Directors: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin | Stars: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, Will Lee
Votes: 3,032 | Gross: $0.03M
22. The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 387
23. Race for Life (1954)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Sport
A car pilot must choose between his love for car-racing, and his wife. His buddy's accident will help him to choose, and his loyal ways will get him a new friend - his main rival.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, Peter Illing, Alec Mango
Votes: 183
24. Fate Takes a Hand (1961)
72 min | Drama
A mail bag stolen in a robbery 15 years ago, is found and the post office decide that the letters should be delivered. A newspaper reporter, accompanied by a post office security officer ... See full summary »
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Ronald Howard, Christina Gregg, Basil Dignam, Willoughby Goddard
Votes: 71
25. A Place to Go (1963)
86 min | Crime, Drama
A young man employed by a cigarette factory is tired of his working class status and joins a gang planning to rob the factory warehouse.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Michael Sarne, Bernard Lee, Doris Hare
Votes: 310
26. Bufere (1953)
74 min | Drama
Director: Guido Brignone | Stars: Jean Gabin, Silvana Pampanini, Carla Del Poggio, Serge Reggiani
Votes: 54
27. Beyond the Forest (1949)
Approved | 97 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Resentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman
Votes: 2,767
28. Cover Up (1949)
TV-14 | 83 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
An insurance company investigator goes to a small town to probe into a case of supposed suicide. The natives are not very cooperative and some turn hostile, leading to suspicion of foul play.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton, Art Baker
Votes: 1,353
29. Chinatown at Midnight (1949)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In San Francisco's Chinatown, a Chinese-speaking Caucasian criminal robs an antiquities shop and murders the owners, leaving the police with one clue, the killer's voice heard on the phone by a switchboard-operator.
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willes, Tom Powers, Ray Walker
Votes: 180
30. Portrait in Black (1960)
Approved | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Sandra Dee
Votes: 1,786
31. Pressure Point (1962)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.
Directors: Hubert Cornfield, Stanley Kramer | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid
Votes: 2,022
32. Ruby Gentry (1952)
82 min | Drama, Romance
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Tom Tully
Votes: 1,760 | Gross: $3.85M
33. Lost, Lonely and Vicious (1958)
Approved | 73 min | Drama
Johnnie Dennis (Ken Clayton) is a rising, young male movie star. Despite his burgeoning career, Johnnie is unhappy, obsessed with death and engages in reckless behavior. After meeting Helen Preacher (Barbara Wilson), an innocent and caring drugstore clerk whom he falls for, Johnnie begins to rethink his cynical outlook on life.
Director: Frank Myers | Stars: Ken Clayton, Barbara Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Richard Gilden
Votes: 163
34. The Vicious Circle (1948)
Approved | 77 min | Drama
In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, ... See full summary »
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Fritz Kortner, Reinhold Schünzel, Philip Van Zandt
Votes: 102
35. The Young Stranger (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Drama
After a 16-year-old, neglected by his movie producer father, gets in trouble, his father doesn't believe his claim of self-defense.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: James MacArthur, Kim Hunter, James Daly, James Gregory
Votes: 657
36. State Department: File 649 (1949)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguson
Votes: 206
37. The Ceremony (1963)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama
A bank robber is sentenced to prison for committing a murder during the robbery. His brother comes up with a plan to break him out of prison--but on the condition that his brother's girlfriend "date" him first.
Director: Laurence Harvey | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Sarah Miles, Robert Walker Jr., Lee Patterson
Votes: 254
38. Three Cases of Murder (1954)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A trilogy of fantastic stories involving murder and the supernatural.
Directors: David Eady, George More O'Ferrall, Wendy Toye, Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Emrys Jones
Votes: 1,127
39. Charade (1954)
83 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A husband and wife discuss three incidents that occurred in various situations.
Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: James Mason, Pamela Mason, Scott Forbes, Paul Cavanagh
Votes: 305
40. Bad for Each Other (1953)
Approved | 83 min | Drama
A doctor returning from the Korean War to his hometown in Pennsylvania must choose what next to do with his life
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dianne Foster, Mildred Dunnock
Votes: 800
41. The Blue Angel (1959)
107 min | Drama
During the 1950s in a small German town, high school Professor Immanuel Rath falls in-love with a young cabaret entertainer, with dramatic consequences.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Curd Jürgens, May Britt, Theodore Bikel, John Banner
Votes: 353 | Gross: $3.05M
42. The Flaming Urge (1953)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
A small town is victimized by many unexplained fires.
Director: Harold Ericson | Stars: Harold Lloyd Jr., Cathy Downs, Byron Foulger, Jonathan Hale
Votes: 79
43. Christmas Eve (1947)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
To save her fortune from a designing nephew, Matilda Reed must locate her three long-lost adopted sons in time for a Christmas Eve reunion.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell
Votes: 829
44. Dynamite (1949)
Approved | 68 min | Drama
Gunner is a veteran at working with dynamite, and is working for Jake. Slowly he becomes romantically interested in Jake's daughter Mary.
Director: William H. Pine | Stars: William Gargan, Virginia Welles, Richard Crane, Irving Bacon
Votes: 81
45. I Accuse My Parents (1944)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
James "Jimmy" Wilson, a young man neglected by his parents, goes to work for a bunch of gangsters to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne
Votes: 3,064
46. The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young man who insists that he is innocent is slated to be the first executed in the prison's electric chair.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Sally Parr, Patrick Waltz, Walter Reed, Lee Frederick
Votes: 275
47. Johnny One-Eye (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Martin is a wounded gangster comforted by a visits from a little girl and her tiny dog with one bad eye. As he hides out, he makes plans to find his abusive, double crossing, partner.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Dolores Moran, Gayle Reed
Votes: 156
48. Monkey on My Back (1957)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards, Jack Albertson
Votes: 384
49. A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 1,492
50. Stark Fear (1962)
86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A sadistic husband mentally tortures his wife, while eventually planning to murder her. Although no one believes her, she gets help from an unexpected source.
Directors: Ned Hockman, Skip Homeier | Stars: Beverly Garland, Skip Homeier, Kenneth Tobey, Hannah Stone
Votes: 471
51. The Story on Page One (1959)
Approved | 123 min | Drama
Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman.
Director: Clifford Odets | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young, Mildred Dunnock
Votes: 630
52. Youth Runs Wild (1944)
Passed | 67 min | Drama
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Jean Brooks, Glen Vernon
Votes: 466
53. The Walls of Jericho (1948)
106 min | Drama
After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julia Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas for college to study for a law degree. A few years later, ... See full summary »
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Baxter, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 429
54. Midnight Manhunt (1945)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A gem heist gone wrong leaves a wanted man dead. A female reporter finds his body and, to claim the reward, hides the body in a wax museum. When the body vanishes, the hunt is on.
Director: William C. Thomas | Stars: William Gargan, Ann Savage, Leo Gorcey, George Zucco
Votes: 477
55. Three Violent People (1956)
Approved | 100 min | Western
When Confederate officer Colt Saunders returns to his Texas ranch after the war he finds his lands wanted by carpetbaggers and by corrupt provisional government commissioners Harrison and Cable.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon
Votes: 1,579
56. The Razor's Edge (1946)
Approved | 145 min | Drama, Romance
An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Votes: 6,775 | Gross: $5.00M
57. Dead Eyes of London (1961)
Not Rated | 104 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Wealthy, heavily-insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend."
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Baal, Dieter Borsche, Wolfgang Lukschy
Votes: 1,308
58. The Man in Black (1950)
80 min | Thriller
A yogi seemingly dies while simulating death and his evil second wife, and her daughter, try to force his daughter into insanity for control of his estate.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Betty Ann Davies, Sheila Burrell, Sidney James, Anthony Forwood
Votes: 289
59. Eyes in the Night (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery
A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, Stephen McNally
Votes: 1,954
60. Never Take Candy from A Stranger (1960)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Peter Carter meets official resistance when he finds that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis
Votes: 1,978
61. Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.
Director: Bill Karn | Stars: Lurene Tuttle, Tristram Coffin, Paul Dubov, Nelson Leigh
Votes: 348
62. Dance Hall Racket (1953)
Not Rated | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line.
Director: Phil Tucker | Stars: Timothy Farrell, Lenny Bruce, Bernie Jones, Honey Bruce Friedman
Votes: 239
63. Escort Girl (1941)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an undercover agent to infiltrate the bureaus.
Director: Edward Kaye | Stars: Betty Compson, Margaret Marquis, Robert Kellard, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 256
64. The Rebel Set (1959)
72 min | Crime, Drama
Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.
Director: Gene Fowler Jr. | Stars: Gregg Palmer, Kathleen Crowley, Edward Platt, John Lupton
Votes: 938
65. Young Dillinger (1965)
102 min | Crime, Drama
John Dillinger first goes to jail after attempting to rob his girlfriend's father at her suggestion. Falling in with the likes of "Baby Face" Nelson and "Pretty Boy" Floyd, he arranges ... See full summary »
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Nick Adams, Robert Conrad, John Ashley, Dan Terranova
Votes: 185
66. Behind the Green Lights (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
Dave Britten, a bright young detective in the police force, captures one of J. C. Owen's henchmen and charges him with robbery. Owen then hires Raymond Cortell, a crooked lawyer, to act as ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Norman Foster, Judith Allen, Sidney Blackmer, Purnell Pratt
Votes: 84
67. The Boss of Big Town (1942)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A criminal plot to control produce and dairy products during the wartime emergency is foiled by a courageous undercover city market official.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: John Litel, Florence Rice, H.B. Warner, John Miljan
Votes: 115
68. Mad Dog Coll (1961)
88 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Story of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, a notorious gangland killer in the 1930s.
Director: Burt Balaban | Stars: John Davis Chandler, Kay Doubleday, Brooke Hayward, Neil Burstyn
Votes: 364
69. Out of the Fog (1941)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert
Votes: 2,262
70. Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Music
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee
Votes: 1,501
71. Portrait of a Mobster (1961)
108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This movie portrays the rise and fall of 1920s gangster Dutch Schultz. While building his own mob ring, he romances Iris, the daughter of a man he killed. When Iris marries a cop, Schultz ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Vic Morrow, Leslie Parrish, Peter Breck, Norman Alden
Votes: 139
72. City for Conquest (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Sport
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
Directors: Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,710
73. 13 Lead Soldiers (1948)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Mystery
Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen. Drummond learns that the two soldiers were part of a set of thirteen which... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Tom Conway, Maria Palmer, Helen Westcott, John Newland
Votes: 139
74. Bad Boy (1949)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
THIS SUMMARY CONTAINS SPOILERS! Danny is a juvenile delinquent sentenced to Variety Club Ranch in lieu of jail. He charms the headmistress and goads everyone else. The marshal sets out to ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Audie Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason
Votes: 395
75. Sensation Hunters (1945)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Robert Lowery, Doris Merrick, Eddie Quillan, Constance Worth
Votes: 254
76. Delinquent Daughters (1944)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama
A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: June Carlson, Fifi D'Orsay, Teala Loring, Mary Bovard
Votes: 408
77. Gambling Daughters (1941)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Mystery
A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Cecilia Parker, Roger Pryor, Robert Baldwin, Gale Storm
Votes: 33
78. 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: 147
79. The Hat Box Mystery (1947)
Passed | 44 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Tom Neal, Pamela Blake, Allen Jenkins, Virginia Sale
Votes: 146
80. I'll Sell My Life (1941)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As Freddie and Lugger, employees of Bovhini, are waiting in the parking lot of the Club Sirocco for Ruth Parmelee, they see a woman accost Ruth and then shoot her and speed away in a car. ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rose Hobart, Michael Whalen, Stanley Fields, Joan Woodbury
Votes: 59
81. Strange Confession (1944)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, War
In World War 2 an escaped murderer who takes the identity of a dead soldier becomes a hero fighting in Africa, but his past catches up with him.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew
Votes: 222
82. The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
Approved | 106 min | Horror, Thriller
When young Jane Lindstorm's (Glynis Johns) car breaks down, she makes her way to a somewhat frightening-looking mansion for help. Once there, however, her problems go from bad worse.
Director: Roger Kay | Stars: Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Davalos, Lawrence Dobkin
Votes: 982
83. Flight to Tangier (1953)
Passed | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
During the Cold War, a mysterious plane carrying $3 million arrives at Tangier airport, and various interested parties try to grab the cash.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, Robert Douglas
Votes: 368
84. The Light Touch (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama
After a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Kurt Kasznar
Votes: 503
85. The Iron Curtain (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Biography, Crime, History
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 1,104
86. Assignment: Paris (1952)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Thriller
Cold war intrigue in France and Hungary.
Directors: Robert Parrish, Phil Karlson | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders, Audrey Totter
Votes: 684
87. The Spies (1957)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 1,097
88. The Shanghai Story (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In post-WW2 Shanghai, expatriate Westerners are detained in the Waldorf Hotel until the Communists can identify a suspected spy among them but some prisoners try to outwit the interrogators and the armed guards and flee.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ruth Roman, Edmond O'Brien, Richard Jaeckel, Barry Kelley
Votes: 204
89. Teenage Bad Girl (1956)
100 min | Crime, Drama
Poor Valerie just can't seem to straighten out her delinquent teenage daughter Janet, whose sleazy boyfriend is leading her down a rebellious path of crime and moral turpitude that could ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms, Norman Wooland, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 143
90. Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A golddigger inspires her older lover to murder wealthy women for the finances to keep her happy.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: George Sanders, Corinne Calvet, Jean Kent, Patricia Roc
Votes: 247
91. Bayou (1957)
83 min | Drama
A New York architect meets a Cajun beauty in a remote bayou village.
Director: Harold Daniels | Stars: Peter Graves, Lita Milan, Douglas Fowley, Jonathan Haze
Votes: 197
92. Swamp Water (1941)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Attempting to find his lost dog in a vast Georgia swamp, Ben Ragan stumbles upon wanted murderer Tom Keefer who convinces Ben he was framed for the murder by the real killer.
Directors: Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel | Stars: Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews
Votes: 2,103
93. Swamp Women (1956)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Mike Connors
Votes: 2,026
94. Captain Scarface (1953)
Approved | 72 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A man desperate to leave South America books passage on a freighter, and learns that the captain has made plans to force a scientist to participate in a mission of destruction.
Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Barton MacLane, Virginia Grey, Leif Erickson, Peter Coe
Votes: 261
95. Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1949)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When an OSS officer returns to Italy to uncover the informer who cost lives of villagers, he unexpectedly finds out that his lover is alive and connected to the traitor.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix, Francis Lederer, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 642
96. Istanbul (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley, Torin Thatcher
Votes: 594
97. The Scoundrel (1935)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Fantasy
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Directors: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Stars: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper
Votes: 445
98. Actors and Sin (1952)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary agent whose newest client--a ... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 204
99. Diplomatic Courier (1952)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A US State Department courier tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 1,422
100. Trauma (1962)
93 min | Horror, Thriller
Emmaline, who, as a teenager, discovered the drowned body of her aunt (Lynn Bari), returns to the family mansion as a married woman. Eventually, she falls for the caretaker's nephew, and remembers who the real killer was.
Director: Robert Malcolm Young | Stars: John Conte, David Garner, Lorrie Richards, Lynn Bari
Votes: 159
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