Movies by Lists - Pre-Noir (...-1939) (320 [360]) 
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| 9th Guest, TheEight strangers are invited to spend the night in a penthouse apartment. After being wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death. | 1934 | Roy William Neill | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 6.8 (541 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| 20,000 years in Sing SingBrash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him. | 1932 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.0 (2.7K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| 39 Steps, TheA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information. | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (55.5K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Abused Confidence [Abus de confiance]Imposture helps an orphan girl become a lawyer. | 1937 | Henri Decoin | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (171 votes) | 88 | 20240609 |
| Advice to the Forlorn [Advice to the Lovelorn]Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. | 1933 | Alfred L. Werker | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (80 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Advice to the LovelornLos Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. | 1933 | Alfred L. Werker | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (80 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Affairs of a GentlemanWhen a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books. | 1934 | Edwin L. Marin | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (46 votes) | 68 | 20240323 |
| Afraid to TalkCorrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs. | 1932 | Edward L. Cahn | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 7.2 (107 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| After The Thin ManPrivate detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma. | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 7.7 (10.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| AlgiersBeautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah. | 1938 | John Cromwell | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.7 (2.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Alias Jimmy ValentineAfter robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison. | 1915 | Maurice Tourneur | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (279 votes) | 65 | 20240323 |
| Alias Mary SmithA young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much. | 1932 | E. Mason Hopper | Crime, Mystery, Romance | 4.8 (72 votes) | 61 | 20240511 |
| Alibi, The [L'alibi]Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, whi | 1937 | Pierre Chenal | Crime | 6.8 (187 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Amateur CrookJerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is work | 1937 | Sam Katzman | Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance | 5.1 (54 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Angels With Dirty FacesA priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids. | 1938 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (21.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Anna-LiisaAnna-Liisa of Kortesuo is engaged to Johannes of Kivimaa, but she is burdened by a heavy past. On the day of the announcement, Anna-Liisa confesses her crime in the presence of the party guests. | 1922 | Teuvo Puro, Jussi Snellman | Drama | 6.4 (101 votes) | 70 | 20240530 |
| Another FaceOn the run from the New York police on a murder charge, gangster Broken Nose Dawson undergoes plastic surgery to change his appearance, then goes to Hollywood. Posing as millionaire playboy Spencer Dutro III, he manages to snag a par | 1935 | Christy Cabanne | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.0 (230 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Another Thin ManAn explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out. | 1939 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 7.4 (7.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Arsenal Stadium Mystery, TheWhen a star player drops dead during a charity football match between Arsenal and amateur side the Trojans, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in to solve the crime. | 1939 | Thorold Dickinson | Comedy, Crime, Sport, Thriller | 6.2 (702 votes) | 85 | 20240329 |
| AsphaltJoe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a sim | 1929 | Joe May | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Awful Truth, TheA married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought. | 1937 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.7 (19.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Baby FaceA young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully seducing her way to the top. | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (6.8K votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Back PagePeggy Shannon plays a young female reporter who is fired from a big city newspaper, then decides to take over a troubled small town newspaper. She encounters difficulties with small town politics, getting advertisers to help keep the | 1933 | Anton Lorenze | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (117 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Bad CompanyRicardo Cortez plays a ruthless, near-psychotic gangster who withal follows his own code of honor. Helen Twelvetrees co-stars as a trusting young woman who marries mob lawyer John Garrick, never dreaming that both her husband and her | 1931 | Tay Garnett | Drama | 6.3 (119 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Bad GirlA man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage. | 1931 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (1.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bad Guy"Lucky" Walden is a power lineman-turned-criminal. He is due to go to the electric chair, which he helps prison electricians wire correctly, when his sentence is commuted for an act of heroism. But he finds the wrong side of the law | 1937 | Edward L. Cahn | Crime, Drama | 5.7 (109 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Bad Sister, TheMarianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda. | 1931 | Hobart Henley | Drama | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Bandera, LaPierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Luc | 1935 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.8 (654 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Bars of HateTed Clark rescues pickpoket Danny from a mob, and restores Danny's loot, a pocketbook, to its owner Ann Dawson. She is carrying a letter that proves her brother, who is on death row, is innocent and Jim Grant is the guilty party. Ted | 1935 | Albert Herman | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.3 (49 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| Beast of the City, ThePolice Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it. | 1932 | Charles Brabin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Before DawnSinister forces compete to find the million dollars in gold hidden by recently deceased gangster Joe Valerie in his family's old dark house 15 years earlier, | 1933 | Irving Pichel | Drama, Mystery | 6.1 (412 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Behind the Green LightsDave 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 the criminal's defense. Cortell not only ... | 1935 | Christy Cabanne | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (85 votes) | 68 | 20240530 |
| Behind the MaskAn undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring. | 1932 | John Francis Dillon | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 6.0 (281 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Beloved Brat, TheDrama about a problem child and her problem parents. | 1938 | Arthur Lubin | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 (239 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Bête Humaine. LaIn this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder. | 1938 | Jean Renoir (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (7.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Big Gamble, TheUnable to repay a substantial gambling debt to mob boss North, Alan Beckwith concocts a last-ditch scheme. Allowing North to take out a $100,000 insurance policy on his life, Alan agrees to commit suicide after the mandantory one-yea | 1931 | Fred Niblo | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (143 votes) | 65 | 20220315 |
| Big TownRiley, a constantly drunk newspaper reporter is looking to pay Romero a sum of money for a hot story about his mafia connections, Romero is soon found dead, body riddled with bullets, he never got the chance to squeal. | 1932 | Arthur Hoerl | Crime, Drama | 5.3 (32 votes) | 57 | 20240530 |
| Black Cat, TheAmerican honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident. | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Adventure, Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 7.0 (10.9K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Black Doll, TheNicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Hals | 1938 | Otis Garrett | Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.7 (192 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Black LegionA hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence. | 1937 | Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.0 (3.2K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| BlackmailAfter killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing. | 1929 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.0 (10.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Blind AlibiPaul Dover lives in Paris and works as an artist. He is visited by Julia Fraser an art buyer and critic who irritates Dover with her opinionated attitude. When she finally finds a piece of sculpture that she likes, he quotes a ridicu | 1938 | Lew Landers | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.7 (114 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Blind AlleyGangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient. | 1939 | Charles Vidor (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.3 (714 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| BlockadeA simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with Russian whose father is involved in espionage.v | 1938 | William Dieterle (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 5.7 (550 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Blonde CrazyThe adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice. | 1931 | Roy Del Ruth | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (1.9K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Blood MoneyBill Bailey (George Bancroft) is a Los Angeles, California bail bondsman who lives in a world of complete, casual corruption, where all he has to do is pick up the phone to get the charges against a client dismissed. He falls in love | 1933 | Rowland Brown | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.8 (363 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Body Vanished, The1939. Drama. Directed by Walter Tennyson. Starring Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren & Ernest Sefton. This murder mystery poses the dilemma of a vanishing corpse. | 1939 | Walter Tennyson | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 5.7 (184 votes) | 46 | 20220414 |
| Border G-ManGovernment agent Jim Galloway is sent undercover to investigate shifty businessman Louis Rankin for violations of the Neutrality Act, a law forbidding the exporting of troops and war materiel to foreign countries. After hiring on as | 1938 | David Howard | Western | 5.7 (121 votes) | 60 | 20220315 |
| BordertownIn Mexico, a former lawyer becomes the invaluable second-in-command to a casino owner, whose wife begins to fall for him. | 1935 | Archie Mayo | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (1.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bride of FrankensteinMary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate. | 1935 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (46.9K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Bullets or BallotsWhen a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket. | 1936 | William Keighley | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.0 (2.9K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Burning Secret, The [Brennendes Geheimnis]A boy and his mother stay in a hotel near a lake where they meet a fascinating man. | 1933 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Drama | 6.2 (129 votes) | 92 | 20240303 |
| By Whose HandA man (Nat Pendleton) tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate. | 1932 | Benjamin Stoloff | Mystery | 6.5 (214 votes) | 65 | 20240511 |
| Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, TheHypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders. | 1920 | Robert Wiene (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (61.7K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| CarrefourA amnesiac industrialist is tricked into a game of mistaken identity. | 1938 | Curtis Bernhardt | Drama | 6.5 (129 votes) | 84 | 20220723 |
| Channel CrossingMoney isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil. | 1933 | Milton Rosmer | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (75 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Cheat, TheA venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money. | 1915 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (2.5K votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Chess Player [Le joueur d'échecs]A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces. | 1938 | Jean Dréville | Drama, Fantasy | 6.7 (60 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Circus Queen Murder, TheSuave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus roll | 1933 | Roy William Neill | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.1 (305 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| City StreetsMan joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison. | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Clairvoyant, TheA fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true ... | 1935 | Maurice Elvey | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Clouds Over Europe [Q Planes]A quirky British Secret Service Agent named Major Hammond tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes. | 1939 | Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | 6.5 (869 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Code of the Secret ServiceBrass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino. | 1939 | Noel M. Smith | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | 5.1 (273 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Compliments of the SeasonA recently released thief trying to go straight wanders the streets on Christmas Eve. He stops a lonely young woman from jumping in the river to commit suicide and in the process makes a couple friends and learns the spirit of the se | 1930 | Arthur Hurley | Short, Crime, Drama | 5.8 (176 votes) | 13 | 20211228 |
| Confessions of a Nazi SpyFBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund. | 1939 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, War | 6.8 (1.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| ConvictedPolice Detective Burns (Charles Quigley) is helping Jerry Wheeler (Rita Hayworth), a night-club singer, track down the killer of a gold-digger, for which crime her brother, "Chick," (Edgar Edwards) has been sentenced to die in the el | 1938 | Leon Barsha | Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery | 6.0 (162 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Convict's CodeA man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals. | 1939 | Lambert Hillyer | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 5.3 (186 votes) | 62 | 20230715 |
| Covered Tracks [Verwehte Spuren]Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When ne | 1938 | Veit Harlan | Drama | 6.9 (97 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Crack-UpColonel Gimpy heads a spy organization trying to get the plans for a new airplane. Test pilot Ace Martin agrees to help. | 1936 | Malcolm St. Clair | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (208 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Crime and PunishmentMan is haunted by a murder he's committed. | 1935 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (1.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Crime and Punishment [Crime et châtiment]Raskolnikov is a Russian man who follows an unusual moral code. A combination of vigilantism and hubris fuels his decision to aid a hapless prostitute by removing her antagonist, a local merchant. Raskolnikov is locked up for the mur | 1935 | Pierre Chenal | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (137 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Crime Nobody Saw, TheThree play-authors, Horace Dryden, Nick Milburn and "Babe" Lawton, are in an apartment seeking a plot for a new play. They are still on Page 1 when an intoxicated man wanders into their room, collapses and they, looking for identific | 1937 | Charles Barton | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.2 (64 votes) | 63 | 20220414 |
| Crime of Helen Stanley, TheAn actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case. | 1934 | D. Ross Lederman | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (53 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Crime of Monsieur Lange, The [Le Crime De Monsieur Lange]The boss of a publishing company is a womanizer and a jerk, but what would happen if he suddenly disappeared? | 1936 | Jean Renoir (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.3 (3.3K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Crime Over LondonThings are getting too hot in New York City for "Joker" Finnegan and his gang, so they decide to move their activities to London. There, Inspector Gray of Scotland Yard is keeping a polite eye on them as "Joker" is planning a big rob | 1936 | Alfred Zeisler | Adventure, Crime, Romance | 6.1 (36 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Crime Without PassionProminent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi. | 1934 | Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (503 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Crown v. StevensWhen an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance ... | 1936 | Michael Powell (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (380 votes) | 66 | 20240530 |
| Curtain at EightAn elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor. | 1933 | E. Mason Hopper | Mystery | 5.7 (186 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Daïnah la métisseShades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicio | 1932 | Jean Grémillon | Drama | 7.1 (230 votes) | 51 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous Masquerade [Dead Men Are Dangerous]A down-and-out writer being hounded by collectors stumbles upon dead man lying under a fallen tree limb. Little did he know the man had been murdered, and he concocts a scheme of exchanging clothes and identifications in hopes of mak | 1939 | Harold French | Crime, Drama | 5.3 (67 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Daring DaughtersA savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life. | 1933 | Christy Cabanne | Drama, Romance | 5.7 (40 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Daughter of the TongA detective matches wits with the female leader of an Oriental crime ring. | 1939 | Raymond K. Johnson | Crime, Thriller | 4.7 (220 votes) | 56 | 20240530 |
| Daybreak [Le Jour se leve]After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing. | 1939 | Marcel Carné (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.7 (7.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Dead EndThe lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum. | 1937 | William Wyler (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.3 (7.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Death at a Broadcast [Death at Broadcasting House]When an actor is murdered at the BBC Inspector Gregory finds he has many suspects to choose from. | 1934 | Reginald Denham | Mystery | 5.9 (280 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Dernier tournant, LeFrank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's | 1939 | Pierre Chenal | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (261 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Docks of New York, TheA blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide. | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.5 (4.4K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Doomed Cargo [Seven Sinners]A wise cracking American P.I. traveling abroad with his love interest and sidekick, stumbles on to a dead body. After it disappears again, he starts to unravel a devious crime ring. | 1936 | Albert de Courville | Crime, Thriller | 6.7 (351 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde. | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (13.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler [Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit]Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him. | 1922 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (8.2K votes) | 242 | 20211228 |
| Dragnet Girl [Hijôsen no onna]A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him. | 1933 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (776 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Drag-Net, TheA playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang. | 1936 | Vin Moore | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.5 (64 votes) | 61 | 20240530 |
| Dust Be My DestinyEmbittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. | 1939 | Lewis Seiler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.9 (716 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Each Dawn I DieA corrupt D.A. with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter who wrote them for manslaughter in order to silence him. | 1939 | William Keighley | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.3 (3.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Emil und die DetektiveEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day. | 1931 | Gerhard Lamprecht | Adventure, Family, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (630 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Evelyn PrenticeThe neglected wife of a high profile attorney dallies with a unscrupulous womanizer and finds herself involved in blackmail and murder. | 1934 | William K. Howard | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Every Night I Dream [Yogoto no yume]A single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son until--her long-lost husband returns. | 1933 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama | 7.1 (548 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Face at the Window, TheSet in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man. | 1939 | George King | Drama, Horror | 6.0 (475 votes) | 65 | 20220414 |
| Father and Son [Twice Branded]A young businessman (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his jailbird father is determined to save him. | 1936 | Maclean Rogers | Drama, Crime | 5.6 (37 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Faubourg MontmartreTwo sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow. | 1931 | Raymond Bernard | Drama | 6.3 (67 votes) | 115 | 20240412 |
| Five Star FinalThe City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.3 (2.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Flirting With Fate"Augy" Ainsworth, a young artist, is long on art and short on funds. He sees Gladys Kingsley, a girl of wealth and social position, in the park one day and immediately falls in love with her. He manages to get an invitation to an aff | 1916 | Christy Cabanne | Adventure, Comedy | 6.4 (182 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| Florentine Dagger, TheJuan Cesare, a descendant of the Borgia's of Vienna, thinks he may have a murder streak in him acquired from his long-dead relatives, is is love with Florence Ballau, but her father lodges a strong protest. Papa Ballau is later found | 1935 | Robert Florey | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.9 (191 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| For The DefenseWilliam Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, t | 1930 | John Cromwell | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (417 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Fugitive, The [On the Night of the Fire]A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder. | 1939 | Brian Desmond Hurst | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.5 (261 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| FuryWhen a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder. | 1936 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (12.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Gambling Sex, TheA wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune. | 1932 | Fred C. Newmeyer | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.3 (27 votes) | 60 | 20240222 |
| Gang Buster, TheNaïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is kidnapped by Slade and his gang, 'Cyclone' decides to save her and wanders straight into a ga | 1931 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy | 6.0 (70 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| General Died at Dawn, TheAmid the anarchy of China, an American mercenary tangles with a ruthless warlord. | 1936 | Lewis Milestone | War | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Girl From Nowhere [A Private Scandal]There is a sensational jewel robbery at the home of one of the leaders of the Boston Back Bay aristocracy, and a Count d'Alencourt is arrested on the basis of a long police record involving jewel thefts and later convicted. The story | 1931 | Charles Hutchison | Adventure, Crime, Romance | 5.4 (33 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Girl in 419, TheA young woman is found in the street, savagely beaten and near death. As she recovers in hospital, the chief henchman of the gangster responsible is in the hospital with orders to finish the job. | 1933 | Alexander Hall, George Somnes | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.1 (81 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Girl Was Young, TheA man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause. | 1937 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (9.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Girl Who Came Back, TheA counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank. | 1935 | Charles Lamont | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (57 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Glass Key, TheEd Beaumont is the personal friend, advisor and bodyguard to Paul Madvig, the political boss of a large city. When a mysterious murder is committed---the son of a Madvig political opponent---Madvig's enemies try to pin the crime on h | 1935 | Frank Tuttle | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 7.0 (414 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| G-MenJames Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagneyon the side of the law in "G" Men. | 1935 | William Keighley | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (3.8K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Golem, TheThe Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution. | 1936 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Fantasy, Horror | 6.4 (226 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Great Gabbo, TheAn insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist. | 1929 | James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.1 (868 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Great GuyThe adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures. | 1936 | John G. Blystone | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.3 (994 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Green Cockatoo, TheA young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. | 1937 | William Cameron Menzies | Crime, Drama | 5.8 (203 votes) | 65 | 20230806 |
| Grief StreetAlvin Merle, a womanizing Broadway matinée idol, is found strangled in his dressing room. The door is locked from the inside and there is no possible other way into the room. Merle is having an affair with his leading lady, while his | 1931 | Richard Thorpe | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 5.5 (125 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Guilty HandsA district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover. | 1931 | W.S. Van Dyke, Lionel Barrymore | Drama, Crime | 6.9 (798 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Hands of Orlac, The [Orlacs Hände]A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer. | 1924 | Robert Wiene (*) | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.0 (2.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Happiness [Le bonheur]Injured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial. | 1934 | Marcel L'Herbier | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (241 votes) | 98 | 20221228 |
| Hat, Coat, and GloveAn artist on trial for homicide has his lover's husband for an attorney. | 1934 | Worthington Miner | Drama | 5.8 (165 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Hatchet Man, TheA hatchet man is ordered to kill his close friend for the sake of Tong. | 1932 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.3 (809 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Hatred [Mollenard]Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years. | 1938 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Drama | 7.0 (218 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Heat LightningIn the Mojave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of Geor | 1934 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (774 votes) | 63 | 20220414 |
| Hell HarborLovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality. | 1930 | Henry King | Drama, Romance | 5.5 (176 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Hell's HighwayChain gang prisoners forced to construct a "liberty highway" for their overseer chasten under his brutal stewardship, causing Duke Ellis to mastermind a mass riot. | 1932 | Rowland Brown, John Cromwell | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.7 (662 votes) | 62 | 20220723 |
| Hell's HouseJimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions. | 1932 | Howard Higgin | Drama | 6.1 (1.3K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Heroes for SaleA veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world. | 1933 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.3 (2.2K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Honor of the Press, TheCub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a coded message in the newspaper's edito... | 1932 | B. Reeves Eason | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.2 (48 votes) | 61 | 20240511 |
| Hotel du NordOn the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tal | 1938 | Marcel Carné (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (2.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Hotel ImperialDuring World War I, a hotel maid and Austrian officer in hiding attempt to survive in a Russian-occupied town. | 1927 | Mauritz Stiller | Drama, War | 6.7 (272 votes) | 85 | 20240323 |
| House Divided, AIn a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries a girl young enough to be his daughter. Complications ensue when the new wife falls in love with her husband's son. | 1931 | William Wyler (*) | Drama | 6.9 (204 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Human Monster, The [The Dark Eyes of London]Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call. | 1939 | Walter Summers | Drama, Horror | 5.8 (1.3K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| I Am a Fugitive From a Chain GangWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8.2 (13K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| I Met a MurdererFarmer Mark Warrow lives an unhappy existence with his shrewish wife Martha. His only happiness comes from his dog. When his wife loses her temper and kills his beloved pet, Warrow snaps and murders Martha. He goes on the run and com | 1939 | Roy Kellino | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.2 (169 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| I Stole a MillionA grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to get police assistance. | 1939 | Frank Tuttle | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.4 (105 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| I'll Name the MurdererWhen a nightclub singer is murdered, a local gossip columnist begins his own investigation. | 1936 | Raymond K. Johnson | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Musical, Mystery, Romance | 5.2 (187 votes) | 66 | 20230728 |
| IllegalA woman uses her windfall to open an illegal after-hours night club for her daughters' education, but her husband intervenes, causing conflicts and complicating matters. | 1932 | William C. McGann | Crime, Drama | 5.7 (191 votes) | 71 | 20240530 |
| In the Name of the Law [Au nom de la loi]A policeman is killed when he tries to investigate a case involving cocaine traffic. The only evidence of the crime is a white female's bloodstained glove found in an abandoned taxi and a revolver. After thorough researches, the poli | 1932 | Maurice Tourneur | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (104 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Innocent HusbandsDespite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns. | 1925 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Short | 6.7 (195 votes) | 21 | 20240323 |
| InquestMargaret Hamilton (Elizabeth Allan) faces trial by Coroner's Court, an archaic British institution where justice can't be guaranteed. | 1939 | Roy Boulting | Crime, Mystery | 5.7 (145 votes) | 60 | 20240105 |
| International CrimeLamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commission | 1938 | Charles Lamont | Adventure, Crime, Mystery | 5.6 (442 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Intruder, TheA murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island. | 1933 | Albert Ray | Mystery | 5.0 (122 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Invisible Killer, TheA fiendish killer uses sound waves to commit his murders. | 1939 | Sam Newfield | Mystery | 4.2 (154 votes) | 63 | 20240530 |
| Invisible StripesAn ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole. | 1939 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Irish LuckBuzzy O'Brien is a bellhop in a hotel where a guest is murdered. The police blame Kitty Monahan and Buzzy succeeds in helping her escape and hides her at his home with his mother. | 1939 | Howard Bretherton | Mystery | 5.5 (197 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| JennyJenny is a madam at a brothel. When her daughter comes back from England, she does not want her to find out what kind of job she really has. | 1936 | Marcel Carné (*) | Drama | 6.6 (255 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Joyless Street, The [Die freudlose Gasse]In post-WWI Vienna, Greta (Greta Garbo), her kid sister, and retired dad try to make it through tough times. | 1925 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Drama | 7.2 (1.6K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| JuggernautAn evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money. | 1936 | Henry Edwards | Mystery | 4.9 (325 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Justin de MarseilleThe leader of a gang of drug traffickers, loved and esteemed by everyone for protecting the weak, ends up killing his greatest enemy. | 1935 | Maurice Tourneur | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (168 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Kid GalahadFight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister. | 1937 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.3 (3.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| King of the DamnedAn educated convict and prisoner leads a group of other inmates in a rebellion against the cruel authority figures before one of their own gets executed. | 1935 | Walter Forde | Action, Drama | 6.2 (78 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| King of the UnderworldAfter the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board. | 1939 | Lewis Seiler | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Before the Mirror, TheWhen a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney--who suspects that his own wife is having an affair. | 1933 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (550 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| La ChienneA woman and her pimp exploit a painter for money. | 1931 | Jean Renoir (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (4.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| La tête d'un hommeWilly is broke and his mistress always wants more money. A stranger in a pub agrees to murder his aunt, but everything will not go as planned. Maigret will try to separate fact and fiction. | 1933 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (588 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Lady Killer [Gueule d'amour]Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses ga | 1937 | Jean Grémillon | Drama, Romance, War | 7.3 (579 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Lady Refuses, TheFather hires a woman to lure his son away from a gold digger. | 1931 | George Archainbaud | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (339 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Lady Who Dared, TheThe Lady Who Dared is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by William Beaudine and starring Billie Dove, Sidney Blackmer and Conway Tearle. | 1930 | William Beaudine | Drama | 5.4 (32 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Let Us LiveTwo innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men's execution date. | 1939 | John Brahm | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (539 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Letter, TheJeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). Robert decides to go out for the evening to p | 1929 | Jean de Limur | Drama | 6.7 (696 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Lilac [Coeur de lilas]Lilac is consorting with the criminal scum of Paris but then she falls in love with a handsome detective... | 1932 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (191 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Little CaesarA small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (13K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Little Lise [La petite Lise]Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a few years in a chain gang, he is released for good behavior. He feels very happy to be able to return to Paris and to meet | 1930 | Jean Grémillon | Drama | 7.2 (199 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Lodger, TheA landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London. | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (11.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Love Bound [Murder on the High Seas]A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the count... | 1932 | Robert F. Hill | Drama, Mystery | 5.2 (151 votes) | 60 | 20240511 |
| Love From a StrangerA lottery winner breaks up with her fiancé and marries a fortune hunter who proves to be dangerous. | 1937 | Rowland V. Lee | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (538 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Love Storm, The [Cape Forlorn]A lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's assistant, Cass. Eileen then begins flirting with | 1931 | Ewald André Dupont | Drama | 7.0 (56 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Lovers of Midnight, The [Les amours de minuit]A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess. | 1931 | Augusto Genina, Marc Allégret | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (58 votes) | 109 | 20220414 |
| Lower Depths, The [Les Bas-Fonds]A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family. | 1936 | Jean Renoir (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (3.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Luponini de Chicagonan | 1935 | José Bohr | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.3 (55 votes) | 79 | 20240323 |
| MWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. | 1931 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (153.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Maltese Falcon, The [Dangerous Woman]A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon. | 1931 | Roy Del Ruth | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.9 (2.9K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Man Betrayed, AHonest stock salesman Frank Powell attempts to verify the authenticity of his merchandise and his employer commits suicide. Dishonest partners in the company employ gangsters to make the man's death look like murder, in order to c... | 1936 | John H. Auer | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.6 (118 votes) | 58 | 20240530 |
| Man in Search of His Murderer, The [Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht]A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late. | 1931 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Comedy, Film-Noir | 6.4 (201 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Cheated Life, The [Der Student von Prag]For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman | 1926 | Henrik Galeen | Drama, Horror | 6.9 (669 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Knew Too Much, TheAn ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. | 1934 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (18.5K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Manhattan MelodramaThe friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George Cukor | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Marked Girls [Prisons de femmes]Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not speak of her tumultuous past. | 1938 | Roger Richebé | Drama | 5.8 (29 votes) | 102 | 20240709 |
| Marked WomanA 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. | 1937 | Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.1 (4.1K votes) | 96 | 20220414 |
| MénilmontantA couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways. | 1926 | Dimitri Kirsanoff | Short, Drama | 7.8 (2.5K votes) | 38 | 20220731 |
| Méphisto nan | 1931 | Henri Debain, Georges Vinter | Crime, Mystery | 6.6 (61 votes) | 134 | 20240609 |
| MidnightThe 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. | 1934 | Chester Erskine | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 5.6 (931 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Midnight IntruderA former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is a suspect. | 1938 | Arthur Lubin | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (126 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Midnight Lady, The(1932 Chesterfield) - John Darrow, Sarah Padden, Montagu Love, Claudia Dell. This is kind of a poverty row version of Madame X. Padden owns a notorious big-city speakeasy. When her long lost daughter is accused of murder, she deci... | 1932 | Richard Thorpe | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.6 (94 votes) | 65 | 20240511 |
| Midnight Warning, TheGuests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective, who goes to the hotel to investigate the disappearance. | 1932 | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Mystery | 5.0 (162 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| MillieMillie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair. | 1931 | John Francis Dillon | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (703 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Miss Fane's Baby Is StolenOn IMDb Freedive, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1934 | Alexander Hall | Crime, Drama | 6.7 (44 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Missing EvidenceA Government agent finds romance while investigating a fraudulent sweepstakes racket. | 1939 | Phil Rosen (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (65 votes) | 64 | 20240323 |
| Mr. Wong DetectiveWhen a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers an international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being develop | 1938 | William Nigh | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (1K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| MurderA juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. | 1930 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (6.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Murder by RopeScotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder. | 1936 | George Pearson | Drama, Mystery | 4.7 (25 votes) | 64 | 20240530 |
| Murder in the Night [Murder in Soho]Soho's Cotton Club is proudly run by American Steve Marco. So when double-crossing Joe Lane threatened to tell the police of Steve's past, Joe had to be murdered. Steve was not going to have anyone destroy what had taken years to ... | 1939 | Norman Lee | Crime, Drama | 5.1 (148 votes) | 70 | 20230619 |
| Murder on the CampusA popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and sets out to prove her innocence and catch t | 1933 | Richard Thorpe | Mystery | 5.6 (258 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Murders in the Rue MorgueA mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments. | 1932 | Robert Florey | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 6.4 (4.3K votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Muss 'em UpA private detective is enlisted to find out who shot a dog and threatened its owner, but before long he's also involved in a kidnapping and murder plot. | 1936 | Charles Vidor (*) | Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 5.9 (189 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Mystery Man, TheWhen he runs short of money, a newspaper reporter pawns a police revolver he was given after he helped the police solve a case. Later on the gun is used in a murder, and the reporter is suspected of committing the crime. | 1935 | Ray McCarey | Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 5.5 (212 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Mystery of Room 13 [Mr. Reeder in Room 13]Mr. J.G. Reeder is called in by the Bank of England to investigate a gang of forgers. Reeder enlists the aid of a younger man, Capt. Johnnie Gray, to infiltrate the gang by going undercover in Dartmoor jail. | 1938 | Norman Lee | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 4.9 (63 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Mystery of the Yellow Room, The [Le mystère de la chambre jaune]A professor's daughter is attacked in her sealed bedroom.Her fiance is suspected but a cub journalist finds the surprising culprit. | 1930 | Marcel L'Herbier | Crime, Mystery | 6.7 (116 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Never Too LateA young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves. | 1935 | Bernard B. Ray | Crime, Drama | 5.4 (34 votes) | 53 | 20220414 |
| Night at the Crossroads [Nuit du Carrefour]Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen. | 1932 | Jean Renoir (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.6 (811 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Night CourtJudge and his mistress are investigated on suspicions of corruption. | 1932 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.9 (379 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Night Must FallWhen a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estate hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives. | 1937 | Richard Thorpe | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (2.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Night WorldStory of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub. | 1932 | Hobart Henley | Drama | 7.0 (392 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Nightclub Hostess [L'entraîneuse]The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has | 1939 | Albert Valentin | Drama | 6.7 (60 votes) | 95 | 20220315 |
| Notorious Sophie Lang, TheAfter an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof s | 1934 | Ralph Murphy, William Cameron Menzies | Comedy, Crime | 6.8 (64 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Number SeventeenA gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail. | 1932 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 5.8 (4.7K votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Okay America!A gossip columnist's rise to fame, closely based on the real life of Walter Winchell. | 1932 | Tay Garnett | Drama | 7.0 (98 votes) | 78 | 20240323 |
| Old Dark House, TheSeeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate. | 1932 | James Whale (*) | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 7.1 (10.7K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Once a ThiefA brilliant chemist's plans to revolutionise the paint industry are put on hold when he is accused of theft. | 1935 | George Pearson | Crime | 5.8 (48 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Pace That Kills, The [The Cocaine Fiends]A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into ""cocaine fiends."" | 1935 | William A. O'Connor | Crime, Drama | 3.6 (657 votes) | 68 | 20221116 |
| PaidMary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" racket. After plotting verious ways to get back | 1930 | Sam Wood (*) | Drama | 6.0 (757 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Painted FacesA vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime. | 1929 | Albert S. Rogell | Crime, Mystery | 6.1 (65 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Painted Lady, TheA lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in | 1912 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Drama | 5.9 (584 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| Paradise ExpressA small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters. | 1937 | Joseph Kane | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 5.7 (161 votes) | 60 | 20240609 |
| Passport to Hell, AA notorious beautiful English woman (Myra) is kicked out of British West Africa to German West Africa, just before the start of World War I. She marries a German colonial official (Erich) to avoid internment. When Erich's father disc | 1932 | Frank Lloyd | Drama | 6.6 (110 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Payment DeferredA man poisons his nephew out of desperation for money. | 1932 | Lothar Mendes | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (626 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Penguin Pool MurderShady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend. | 1932 | George Archainbaud | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.0 (1.2K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Pepe Le MokoA wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate. | 1937 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (7.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Personal Column [Pièges]After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try to track down the killer. | 1939 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Musical, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (371 votes) | 106 | 20220414 |
| Petrified Forest, TheA waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert. | 1936 | Archie Mayo | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (13.5K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Phantom in the House, TheA man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife. | 1929 | Phil Rosen (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.1 (123 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Pointing Finger, TheDeep in debt, the Honorable James Mallory plots to murder his cousin, Lord Rollestone, so he claim the earldom and inheritance. | 1933 | George Pearson | Crime, Drama | 5.2 (42 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Poison PenA small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as "poison pen letters". | 1939 | Paul L. Stein | Drama | 6.7 (184 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Port of ShadowsA military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city. | 1938 | Marcel Carné (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.8 (8.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Prison NurseA state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients | 1938 | James Cruze | Drama, Film-Noir | 5.9 (76 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Private Detective 62A down-and-out private eye falls for a woman he has been hired to frame. | 1933 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama | 6.6 (779 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Public Enemy, TheAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (20.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Puritan, The [Le puritain]A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. H | 1938 | Jeff Musso | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.5 (83 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Quick MillionsTruck 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 makes plans to kidnap her on her wedding day. | 1931 | Rowland Brown | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (226 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Racket, TheAn honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges. | 1928 | Lewis Milestone | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Rat, TheJean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand cou | 1937 | Jack Raymond | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (68 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Red Haired AlibiA young girl new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster. | 1932 | Christy Cabanne | Drama | 5.6 (220 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| RioA crazed man escapes from prison to kill his wife's lover. | 1939 | John Brahm | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (112 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Riverside Murder, TheShortly before an important meeting of five investors, one of them, Robert Norman, is shot dead in his study. The police come in to solve the crime, while headstrong journalist Claire Haines attempts to get the scoop on the story ... | 1935 | Albert Parker | Crime, Mystery | 5.8 (369 votes) | 64 | 20240530 |
| Road GangJim Larrabie and Bob Gordon, two reporters, are sent to prison on bogus charges after exposing the corrupt practices of J.W. Moett and Dudley. The two suffer extreme cruelty due to the sadistic behavior of the warden and guards. | 1936 | Louis King | Drama | 6.3 (179 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Roadhouse NightsA boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler). | 1930 | Hobart Henley | Crime, Drama, Musical | 6.2 (105 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Roaring Twenties, TheThree men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I. | 1939 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (13.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| roi des Champs-Élysées, LeIn Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict. | 1934 | Max Nosseck | Comedy | 6.4 (113 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| SabotageA Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel. | 1936 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (16.4K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Safe In HellAfter accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (1.3K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| San QuentinAn army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate. | 1937 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.5 (1.9K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Satan Met a LadyA double-crossing woman, the two-timing P.I. she hired, the corpulent "empress of crime", and a gentleman thief are all after a legendary priceless eighth-century ram's horn. | 1936 | William Dieterle (*) | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 6.1 (2.3K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| ScarfaceAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. | 1932 | Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (27.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Scent of the Woman in Black [Le parfum de la dame en noir]Rouletabille comes to the aid of a recently remarried lady whose late criminal husband turns out to be still alive.Her honeymoon is at a fantastic art deco villa perched above the Riviera. | 1931 | Marcel L'Herbier | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (87 votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Scoundrel, TheA 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. | 1935 | Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Drama, Fantasy | 6.3 (348 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Search for BeautyThree con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures. | 1934 | Erle C. Kenton | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.1 (618 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Secret of the Blue RoomTwenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her. | 1933 | Kurt Neumann | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (792 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Secret Six, TheAfter rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him. | 1931 | George W. Hill | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (875 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Secrets of the French PoliceA burglar is recruited to aid the police in finding his kidnapped girlfriend, a lovely but impoverished flower girl. Meanwhile, a deranged Russian emigre has been claiming that his ward is actually Princess Anastasia, last survivor o | 1932 | A. Edward Sutherland | Crime | 5.8 (274 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
| Sensation HuntersDale Jordon is on her way to Panama with Trixie Snell and Her Hotcha Girls to be a cabaret singer at the Bull Ring Cafe. Traveling by ship, Dale meets and falls in love with Tom Baylor, who owns copper interests near Panama. Baylor i | 1933 | Charles Vidor (*) | Drama | 5.8 (172 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Shadow of DoubtHaworth is a show biz producer who has a number of ex-girlfriends that he has beaten over the years. He is now engaged to two girls- Lisa and Trenna. After drinking and starting a fight with Sim, Haworth is found dead in his apartmen | 1935 | George B. Seitz | Mystery, Comedy | 6.4 (262 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Shadow Of The LawJohn Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses | 1930 | Louis J. Gasnier | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.6 (108 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Shadow Strikes, TheLamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. | 1937 | Lynn Shores | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery | 5.0 (478 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
| Shadow, TheA group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one. | 1933 | George A. Cooper | Mystery | 5.7 (199 votes) | 63 | 20230619 |
| Shriek in the Night, APat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building. | 1933 | Albert Ray | Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.3 (933 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Silent Passenger, TheA blackmailer with many enemies is murdered and his body placed in a trunk. A gentleman sleuth sets out to prove the innocence of a falsely accused man. | 1935 | Reginald Denham | Crime, Mystery | 6.0 (161 votes) | 75 | 20240609 |
| Sin of Nora Moran, TheNora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputat | 1933 | Phil Goldstone | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 6.8 (647 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Sirocco [La maison du Maltais]Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears ... | 1938 | Pierre Chenal | Drama | 6.7 (159 votes) | 90 | 20240323 |
| Smart MoneyA Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel. | 1931 | Alfred E. Green | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (2K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Spanish Cape Mystery, TheDetective Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin. | 1935 | Lewis D. Collins | Drama, Mystery | 6.2 (270 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Special InvestigatorCriminal lawyer Bill Fenwick goes undercover in Nevada to catch gold thieves when the gang kills his brother. | 1936 | Louis King | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.0 (140 votes) | 61 | 20220414 |
| Speed DevilsMartin Gray (Paul Kelly) and Dan Holden (Russell Hardie) are rival race-car drivers, and both crash in a big race and decide to give up racing and become partners in an auto-repair business. Pat Corey (Marguerite Churchill), a rep... | 1935 | Joseph Henabery | Drama | 5.1 (48 votes) | 61 | 20240530 |
| Spy in Black, TheA German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet. | 1939 | Michael Powell (*) | Thriller, War | 6.9 (2.2K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Stolen Death [Varastettu kuolema]A thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist occupiers of Finland. Tapiovaara stresses the | 1938 | Nyrki Tapiovaara | Thriller | 6.9 (263 votes) | 101 | 20220414 |
| Strange Adventure, A [Wayne Murder Case]A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders comitted by a hooded killer in an old dark house. | 1932 | Phil Whitman, Hampton Del Ruth | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.1 (185 votes) | 60 | 20220423 |
| Strange Love of Molly Louvain, TheMolly Louvain's plans for a respectable marriage with her sweetheart Ralph fall through so she takes to the road with a two-bit crook and becomes wanted by the police in connection with a high-profile crime. | 1932 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (488 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Strange M Victor [L'etrange Monsieur Victor]A merchant from Toulon (Raimu) of honorable appearance is in fact a receiver for a band of criminals. Threatened with blackmail, he commits a murder for which an innocent man is condemned to the penal colony (Pierre Blanchar). Eight | 1938 | Jean Grémillon | Crime, Drama | 7.2 (267 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Stronger Than DesireWealthy socialite Elizabeth Flagg is courted by persistent Michael McLain, despite her protests that she is a married woman. McLain is just charming enough to attract Elizabeth into a series of harmless dalliances. But when he tri... | 1939 | Leslie Fenton | Drama | 6.4 (316 votes) | 78 | 20240530 |
| SunriseA sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself rekindling his romance with the latter when she discovers their scheme. | 1927 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.1 (50.2K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Tarnished AngelThe ex-fiancée of a young rich man becomes the companion of a jewel thief, forming a vaudeville act with face "cure", but after she discovers, that she can really cure people, she decides to quit. | 1938 | Leslie Goodwins | Drama | 5.9 (160 votes) | 67 | 20220414 |
| Tempest, The [Stürme der Leidenschaft]After a petty crook is freed, he gets right back into trouble, first by stealing a fur for his former girlfriend and then by getting in fights with two different men who have tried to take his place with her, one of whom lands up dro | 1932 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (32 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The [Das Testament der Dr Mabuse]A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death. | 1933 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 8.0 (12.3K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Tête d'un Homme, LaWilly is broke and his mistress always wants more money. A stranger in a pub agrees to murder his aunt, but everything will not go as planned. Maigret will try to separate fact and fiction. | 1933 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (587 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| That Night's Wife [Sono yo no tsuma]A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery in order to help her. He begins to feel remorse though, which makes him question his decision. | 1930 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (796 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| There Ain't No JusticeA young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter. | 1939 | Pen Tennyson | Drama | 6.2 (53 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| There's Always a WomanAn investigator for the district attorney and his amateur-sleuth wife compete to solve a murder mystery. | 1938 | Alexander Hall | Comedy, Mystery | 6.7 (815 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| There's No Tomorrow [Sans lendemain]After an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son. | 1939 | Max Ophüls (*) | Drama | 7.1 (340 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| They All Come Out.A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals. | 1939 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (234 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| They Drive by NightA convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver. | 1938 | Arthur B. Woods | Crime, Thriller | 7.0 (289 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| They Gave Him a GunA World War I veteran who married the girlfriend of his presumed-dead war buddy falls into the racketeering business. | 1937 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, War | 6.3 (374 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| They Made Me a CriminalA boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk. | 1939 | Busby Berkeley (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport | 6.9 (2.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| They Were Five [La belle équipe]Five unemployed penniless workers win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart. | 1936 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Drama | 7.6 (1.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Thirteenth Guest, TheMurder of a woman sparks a search for a killer. | 1932 | Albert Ray | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.8 (768 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Three Hours [Je t'attendrai]During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing ;a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents . | 1939 | Léonide Moguy | Drama, Romance, War | 7.2 (98 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| ThunderboltA criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution | 1929 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Music, Romance | 6.5 (671 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Tiger BayA young Englishman abroad, Michael, visits the local low-life spot of Tiger Bay to test his assertion that the spirit of human romance survives even in the most unpromising of circumstances. He intervenes when a local criminal pro... | 1934 | J. Elder Wills | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (87 votes) | 70 | 20240530 |
| ToniIn the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well | 1935 | Jean Renoir (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Trial of Vivienne Ware, TheIncredibly fast-moving courtroom yarn in which Bennett is defended by ex-beau Cook when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance, while the trial is broadcast live on the radio. | 1932 | William K. Howard | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (110 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| TumultesFresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage. | 1932 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.5 (106 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Two Living and One Dead [To levende og en død] A postal clerk is robbed and threatened to his life, giving up the money. In his community he is seen upon as a coward, ruining his family. After moving he meets a man who seems to knows it, wanting to help him regain his life and... | 1937 | Gyda Christensen, Tancred Ibsen | Crime, Drama | 5.7 (72 votes) | 82 | 20240609 |
| Two SecondsA condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| UnashamedDick will do anything to protect his sister Jean as would her father. But she is in love with sleazy Harry Swift who has his eye on her money. When Harry has her stay with him at a hotel all night, her father still will not give his | 1932 | Harry Beaumont | Drama | 6.2 (184 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Under Secret OrdersWhen a German spy realizes that he is being followed by British agents, he gives the secret information he is carrying to his girlfriend. When he is killed, she gives the information to his superiors, and herself becomes a spy, hopin | 1937 | Edmond T. Gréville | Drama, Thriller, War | 6.3 (32 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Under Secret Orders [Mademoiselle Docteur]When a German spy realizes that he is being followed by British agents, he gives the secret information he is carrying to his girlfriend. When he is killed, she gives the information to his superiors, and herself becomes a spy, ho... | 1937 | Edmond T. Gréville | Drama, Thriller, War | 5.7 (55 votes) | 66 | 20230728 |
| UnderworldBoisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend. | 1927 | Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.6 (2.9K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Unholy LoveAn adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed. | 1932 | Albert Ray | Drama | 5.2 (118 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Villiers Diamond, TheAn ex-convict is pestered for money, so he stages a fake robbery. | 1938 | Bernard Mainwaring | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 5.7 (36 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| VoruntersuchungDuring an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son.The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter. | 1931 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Drama | 6.5 (95 votes) | 95 | 20240530 |
| Walk Cheerfully [Hogaraka ni ayume]A small-time hood wants to go straight for a good girl but finds that starting over isn't as simple as it sounds. | 1930 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (633 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| WaxworksA wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories. | 1924 | Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni | Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 (2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| We're Only HumanA tough police Detective (Preston Foster), is determined to bring in a gangster, with the help of his newspaper reporter gal (Jane Wyatt). | 1935 | James Flood | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (123 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| While the Patient SleptKnown as America's Agatha Christie, leading female crime novelist Mignon Eberhart cowrote this faithful adaptation of her popular novel While the Patient Slept. | 1935 | Ray Enright | Comedy, Mystery | 6.1 (381 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| WintersetImmigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella. | 1936 | Alfred Santell | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (418 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Witness Chair, TheA woman watches as false murder-trial evidence surrounds the man she loves. | 1936 | George Nichols Jr. | Drama, Romance | 6.0 (159 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Woman of the Port, The [La mujer del puerto]Rosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret "selling her love to the men coming from the sea." One nig | 1934 | Arcady Boytler, Raphael J. Sevilla | Drama | 7.1 (379 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Woman Racket [Cargaison blanche]Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels. But the gangsters have the | 1937 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Drama | 6.4 (100 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Woman UnafraidAfter putting away a gangster, a policewoman tries to turn around the lives of several young women with shady pasts. | 1934 | William J. Cowen | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (61 votes) | 68 | 20240323 |
| World Accuses, TheAggravated by the meddling of Lucille Weymouth, her disapproving Park Avenue mother-in-law, Broadway actress Lola Allen quarrels with her weakling husband John. After reconciling with each other, the couple visits a nightclub, where | 1934 | Charles Lamont | Drama | 5.2 (43 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| X Marks the SpotThe story begins in 1923: after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will be crippled for life. The desperate reporter is finally able to get the cash from a s... | 1931 | Erle C. Kenton | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (75 votes) | 72 | 20240222 |
| Yellow Dog, The [Le chien jaune]Maigret investigates in Concarneau where the passage of a yellow dog accompanies a series of murders, sowing terror in the population. The police seem helpless. It must be said that it has no significant evidence. | 1932 | Jean Tarride | Crime, Mystery | 5.7 (88 votes) | 88 | 20230715 |
| You and MeAn altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store. | 1938 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance | 6.9 (1.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| You Can't Get Away With MurderYouthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun. | 1939 | Lewis Seiler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.4 (1.1K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| You Only Live OnceThe public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control. | 1937 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (6.6K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Young & InnocentA man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause. | 1937 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (9.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Young DynamiteA young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane and friends when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman. | 1937 | Leslie Goodwins | Crime, Drama | 5.1 (61 votes) | 57 | 20240609 |
| Young Lady and the Hooligan, The [Baryshnya i khuligan]A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and they are rather rowdy and... | 1918 | Yevgeni Slavinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky | Drama | 6.5 (195 votes) | 45 | 20240323 |
| What Price Crime | 1935 | Albert Herman | Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Thriller | 5.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Laughter in Hell | 1933 | Edward L. Cahn | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Kouzelný dum | 1939 | Otakar Vávra | Drama | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| La bergère d'Ivry | 1913 | Maurice Tourneur | Short, Drama | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Black Hand | 1906 | Wallace McCutcheon | Short, Action, Crime, Drama | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Convicted | 1931 | Christy Cabanne | Crime, Mystery, Romance | 4.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Crime Patrol | 1936 | Eugene Cummings | Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Detectress | 1919 | Gale Henry, Bruno C. Becker | Comedy, Short | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Erreur tragique | 1913 | Louis Feuillade | Short, Drama | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Evidence of the Film | 1913 | Lawrence Marston, Edwin Thanhouser | Crime, Short | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Ex-Convict | 1904 | Edwin S. Porter | Drama, Short | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Fièvre | 1921 | Louis Delluc | Short, Drama | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Four Just Men | 1939 | Walter Forde | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Gang Smashers | 1938 | Leo C. Popkin | Crime, Music | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Hollywood Mystery | 1934 | B. Reeves Eason | Drama | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| I'd Give My Life | 1936 | Edwin L. Marin | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Inside Information | 1934 | Robert F. Hill | Action, Adventure, Crime | 5.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) | 1936 | Phil Rosen | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Julius Sizzer | 1931 | Edward Ludwig | Short, Comedy | 3.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Murder Is News | 1937 | Leon Barsha | Mystery | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Sally of the Subway | 1932 | George B. Seitz | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Slander House | 1938 | Charles Lamont | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Suspense | 1913 | Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Short, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Traitor Spy | 1939 | Walter Summers | Crime, Mystery | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Wall Street Mystery | 1931 | Arthur Hurley | Short, Mystery | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Paris-Beguin | 1931 | Augusto Genina | Drama | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Chéri-Bibi | 1938 | Léon Mathot | Drama | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| La rue sans nom | 1934 | Pierre Chenal | Drama | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Marihuana | 1936 | José Bohr | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mientras México duerme | 1938 | Alejandro Galindo | Drama, Mystery, Crime | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Frightened Lady | 1932 | T. Hayes Hunter | Drama, Mystery, Crime | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Stolen Life | 1939 | Paul Czinner | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Trunk Crime | 1939 | Roy Boulting | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Fugitive Lady | 1934 | Albert S. Rogell | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Autour d'une enquête | 1931 | Robert Siodmak, Henri Chomette | Crime | 5.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| L'affaire Lafarge | 1938 | Pierre Chenal | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| ¿Quién mató a Eva? | 1934 | José Bohr | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| La obligación de asesinar | 1937 | Antonio Helú | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Fuera de la ley | 1937 | Manuel Romero | Thriller | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| La mancha de sangre | 1937 | Adolfo Best-Maugard | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |