Crime Movies

Sent to a home for “problem” girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd,…

A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.

A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend – but she claims she’s being framed.

Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.

When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down

Stroud, a crime magazine’s crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth…

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara’s. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder…

Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.

Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo…

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank’s mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O’Neal to look into the…

The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and…

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as “Pinkie” – the film’s main thematic concern is…

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New…

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he’s committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann…

Two U.S. Treasury (“T-men”) agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.

After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job…

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a…

Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his…

George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who…

The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on…

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to…

Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete.

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn’t commit.

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as ‘Gruesome’, has found out about a scientist’s secret formula for a gas that temporarily…

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To…

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.

A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she’s approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes…

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone’s efforts to separate them.

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during…

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate’s heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he…