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Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday
IMDb: 6.7
80

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Vice Squad

Vice Squad

Vice Squad
IMDb: 6.7
87

A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.

Genre: Crime
The Glass Web

The Glass Web

The Glass Web
IMDb: 6.5
81

A manipulative diva blackmails a married man and insults her secret lover, leading to her murder. As the husband tries to cover his tracks, the lover sabotages him and suggests…

Big Leaguer

Big Leaguer

Big Leaguer
IMDb: 6
71

John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league…

Genre: Drama
Actors and Sin

Actors and Sin

Actors and Sin
IMDb: 5.3
82

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
House of Strangers

House of Strangers

House of Strangers
IMDb: 7.3
101

Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes
IMDb: 7
81

When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Key Largo

Key Largo

Key Largo
IMDb: 7.7
100

A hurricane swells outside, but it’s nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up – and holds at gunpoint hotel…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
All My Sons

All My Sons

All My Sons
IMDb: 7.3
94

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry…

Genre: Drama
The Red House

The Red House

The Red House
IMDb: 6.7
100

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

The Stranger

The Stranger

The Stranger
IMDb: 7.3
95

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Journey Together

Journey Together

Journey Together
IMDb: 6.5
95

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

Genre: Drama, War
Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street
IMDb: 7.7
103

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she’s really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
IMDb: 7.6
105

Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and Arnold, who learn about their world…

Genre: Drama, Family
The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window
IMDb: 7.6
99

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tampico

Tampico

Tampico
IMDb: 6.4
75

A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.

Genre: Drama, War
Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

Mr. Winkle Goes to War
IMDb: 6.6
80

Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.

Genre: Comedy, War
Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
IMDb: 8.3
107

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy
IMDb: 6.9
93

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third…

Destroyer

Destroyer

Destroyer
IMDb: 6.3
99

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Tales of Manhattan

Tales of Manhattan

Tales of Manhattan
IMDb: 7.3
118

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Manpower

Manpower

Manpower
IMDb: 6.6
104

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Larceny, Inc.

Larceny, Inc.

Larceny, Inc.
IMDb: 7.3
96

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Unholy Partners

Unholy Partners

Unholy Partners
IMDb: 6.5
94

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf
IMDb: 7.5
100

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who’s losing his mind.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet
IMDb: 7.4
103

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Genre: Drama
A Dispatch from Reuters

A Dispatch from Reuters

A Dispatch from Reuters
IMDb: 6.9
90

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Genre: Drama, History
Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid
IMDb: 7
88

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious…

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
IMDb: 6.7
104

FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Genre: Drama, War
Blackmail

Blackmail

Blackmail
IMDb: 6.7
81

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder
IMDb: 7
85

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
I Am the Law

I Am the Law

I Am the Law
IMDb: 6.6
83

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
IMDb: 7
87

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Thunder in the City

Thunder in the City

Thunder in the City
IMDb: 6.1
87

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Last Gangster

The Last Gangster

The Last Gangster
IMDb: 6.7
81

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad
IMDb: 7.2
102

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the ‘kid’ falls for his sister.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots
IMDb: 7
82

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Whole Town’s Talking

The Whole Town’s Talking

The Whole Town’s Talking
IMDb: 7.2
93

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast
IMDb: 6.7
91

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis’ Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco…

The Man with Two Faces

The Man with Two Faces

The Man with Two Faces
IMDb: 6.4
73

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a…

Genre: Crime, Drama