Crime Movies

One Way Street (1950)

One Way Street (1950)

One Way Street (1950)
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79

After stealing a gangster’s money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Appointment with Danger (1950)

Appointment with Danger (1950)

Appointment with Danger (1950)
IMDb: N/A
89

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who’ve allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
House by the River (1950)

House by the River (1950)

House by the River (1950)
IMDb: N/A
88

Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Quicksand (1950)

Quicksand (1950)

Quicksand (1950)
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79

Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Side Street (1950)

Side Street (1950)

Side Street (1950)
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83

A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Guilt Is My Shadow (1950)

Guilt Is My Shadow (1950)

Guilt Is My Shadow (1950)
IMDb: N/A
86

A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel ‘You’re Best Alone’ by Norah Lofts.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Black Hand (1950)

Black Hand (1950)

Black Hand (1950)
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92

In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Your Witness (1950)

Your Witness (1950)

Your Witness (1950)
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94

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Borderline (1950)

Borderline (1950)

Borderline (1950)
IMDb: N/A
88

The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can’t pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many botched attempts…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
No Man of Her Own (1950)

No Man of Her Own (1950)

No Man of Her Own (1950)
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98

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Madeleine (1950)

Madeleine (1950)

Madeleine (1950)
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114

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Outside the Wall (1950)

Outside the Wall (1950)

Outside the Wall (1950)
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80

Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job…

Golden Salamander (1950)

Golden Salamander (1950)

Golden Salamander (1950)
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97

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.

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Backfire (1950)

Backfire (1950)

Backfire (1950)
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91

When he’s discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a…

Gun Crazy (1950)

Gun Crazy (1950)

Gun Crazy (1950)
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87

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After…

The Blue Lamp (1950)

The Blue Lamp (1950)

The Blue Lamp (1950)
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84

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat….

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Whirlpool (1950)

Whirlpool (1950)

Whirlpool (1950)
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98

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Woman in Hiding (1950)

Woman in Hiding (1950)

Woman in Hiding (1950)
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92

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too…

A Dangerous Profession (1949)

A Dangerous Profession (1949)

A Dangerous Profession (1949)
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79

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Undertow (1949)

Undertow (1949)

Undertow (1949)
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71

Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge….

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Spider and the Fly (1949)

The Spider and the Fly (1949)

The Spider and the Fly (1949)
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94

“The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq,…

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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Boys in Brown (1949)

Boys in Brown (1949)

Boys in Brown (1949)
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84

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where…

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Genre: Crime
Port of New York (1949)

Port of New York (1949)

Port of New York (1949)
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82

Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Tension (1949)

Tension (1949)

Tension (1949)
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95

Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it….

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Intruder in the Dust (1949)
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87

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man,…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tough Assignment (1949)

Tough Assignment (1949)

Tough Assignment (1949)
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64

A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald “Red” Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with…

The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
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100

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt’s murder, Cleve tries to clear…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Chicago Deadline (1949)

Chicago Deadline (1949)

Chicago Deadline (1949)
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86

On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but…

Genre: Crime, Drama
They Live by Night (1949)

They Live by Night (1949)

They Live by Night (1949)
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96

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Border Incident (1949)

Border Incident (1949)

Border Incident (1949)
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94

The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Abandoned (1949)

Abandoned (1949)

Abandoned (1949)
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78

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman’s sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

Without Honor (1949)

Without Honor (1949)

Without Honor (1949)
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69

Jane, a housewife, is confronted during her daily chores by Dennis, her married lover with whom she has had a long affair. Dennis tells Jane that he has to break…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Tokyo Joe (1949)

Tokyo Joe (1949)

Tokyo Joe (1949)
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88

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stray Dog (1949)

Stray Dog (1949)

Stray Dog (1949)
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122

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s…

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Bitter Rice (1949)

Bitter Rice (1949)

Bitter Rice (1949)
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109

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Trapped (1949)

Trapped (1949)

Trapped (1949)
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78

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to…

The Invisible Man Appears (1949)

The Invisible Man Appears (1949)

The Invisible Man Appears (1949)
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82

Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the “Tears of Amour.”

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Thieves’ Highway (1949)

Thieves’ Highway (1949)

Thieves’ Highway (1949)
IMDb: N/A
94

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The House Across the Street (1949)

The House Across the Street (1949)

The House Across the Street (1949)
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69

Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper’s publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
White Heat (1949)

White Heat (1949)

White Heat (1949)
IMDb: N/A
114

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller