Crime Movies

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter’s will, to keep her from marrying suspected…

This Robert Benchley ‘How To’ comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing…

When a friend of Charlie’s is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling…

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney’s staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance…

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the…

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly…

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead…

A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns…

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting…

A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top’s co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he’s received.

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge’s murder. After he’s convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a…

Famous private detective Tip O’Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul’s attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul…

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a…

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered…

A reporter and his newspaper’s attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered…

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to…

An auto engineer and a professor’s daughter pose as married servants in a mobster’s mansion.

Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer….

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman, wanting a life of luxury, takes the “easy” way, and winds up in jail.

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.

When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.

A con man who stages phony “lucky legs” beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them…

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster’s bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she’s kidnapped.

In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter’s car….

In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed…

A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison,…

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang’s leader, Crane…

Pierre Chenal’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as an early forerunner of poetic realism.