Crime Movies
Twelve Hours to Kill (1960)
After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he’s not as safe there as…
Circus of Horrors (1960)
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his “Temple of Beauty”. However, when…
The Big Risk (1960)
Intimidation (1960)
Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The…
Seven Thieves (1960)
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job–the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from…
The Pusher (1960)
A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss’ daughter.
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
An ex-major forces a scientist to develop a invisibility formula, with which he plans to create an invisible army and sell it to the highest bidder. However there are side…
The Gazebo (1960)
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can’t let the body rest there.
The Shakedown (1960)
Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, so he dreams up a new scam.
Pretty Boy Floyd (1960)
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he…
The Purple Gang (1959)
The story of the infamous Purple Gang – a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920’s Detroit.
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments…
Vice Raid (1959)
Gangster Story (1959)
Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that…
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Sapphire (1959)
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects — including the…
Edge of Eternity (1959)
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O’Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to…
Crime and Punishment USA (1959)
Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.
The Bloody Brood (1959)
Nico, a drug dealer, murders a telegram messenger-boy “for kicks”, egged on by partner-in-crime, TV director Francis. Cliff, the boy’s older brother, investigates his death due to the slow progress…
The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
The FBI Story (1959)
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.
The Ugly Duckling (1959)
Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula…
The Naked Road (1959)
A sleazeball (Ronald Long) who supplies women to his public-relations clients explains the rules of the game to his latest acquisition (Jeanne Rainer).
Inside the Mafia (1959)
A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.