Crime Movies
Wiretapper (1955)
A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for…
Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
The Night Holds Terror (1955)
A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.
We’re No Angels (1955)
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil’s Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store…
Barbados Quest (1955)
Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or…
House of Bamboo (1955)
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and…
Chicago Syndicate (1955)
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in…
Dead by Morning (1955)
Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
King of the Carnival (1955)
Treasury agents go after a ring of counterfeiters operating out of a traveling carnival.
Finger Man (1955)
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and “finger” the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
5 Against the House (1955)
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Track the Man Down (1955)
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
Little Red Monkey (1955)
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to…
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his…
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme,…
Cell 2455 Death Row (1955)
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction,…
The Glass Cage (1955)
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world’s longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a…
Violent Saturday (1955)
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the…
Tight Spot (1955)
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a…
Contraband Spain (1955)
An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.
Dial Red O (1955)
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff’s department, Dial Red “O” (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as…
Big House U.S.A (1955)
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
Crashout (1955)
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by…
New Orleans Uncensored (1955)
Discharged naval officer Dan Corbett moves to New Orleans and accepts a job as a longshoreman, unaware that the docks are run by an infamous racketeer. When the dock manager…
Murder Is My Beat (1955)
Mr. Dean’s body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the…
New York Confidential (1955)
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed…
The Big Combo (1955)
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster’s girlfriend.
Women’s Prison (1955)
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women’s prison.
Six Bridges to Cross (1955)
Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million….
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and…
The Delavine Affair (1955)
Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life’s mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds…
Black Tuesday (1954)
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer…