Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975)
Blaxploitation, Crime, exploitation film
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 208.
Ask a Policeman (1939)
Comedy
Sergeant Dudfoot is talking about his life as a policeman at Turnbotham Round (pronounced Turn Bottom Round) during a radio broadcast. His staff Albert and Harbottle enter after they have been poaching and Harbottle ruins the broadcast. The next day, Dudfoot receives a letter from the Chief Constable.
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992)
Crime, Drama
Street Racer (2008)
Action, Auto Racing, thriller film
Johnny Wayne is an ex-racer who serves 5 years in prison after crippling a young boy during an illegal street race in Los Angeles. Wayne, having been traumatised by the events, vows to never race again, and is soon released as a reformed citizen. Whilst Johnny attempts to restore his life and become an honest, hardworking member of society, his parole officer has other plans for him.
Nika and Madison (2025)
crime thriller film
The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
comedy thriller, Crime, mystery film
thumb|367x367px|The Thirteenth Guest ad from The Film Daily, 1932 Marie Morgan has been lured to an old abandoned house by a false note from a friend, and is in jeopardy although she doesn't yet realize it. As she sits at the table inside, she thinks back to the banquet held there 13 years earlier, when she was a little girl. Only 12 of 13 guests had attended, and the manor's owner, the Morgan family patriarch, who was then dying, has since passed on.
Town on Trial (1957)
Crime, Detective
While playing tennis at a posh club in a town near London called Oakley Park, young and flirty Molly Stevens attracts considerable interest. The men ogle her and the women detest her. She is later found dead, strangled with a stocking.
The True Story of Lynn Stuart (1958)
Biography, Crime, Drama
In a prologue, Edmund "Pat" Brown, who was the California Attorney General at the time of the film's production, makes a statement directly to the viewer, attesting to the veracity of the film's story and to the societal scourge presented by drug trafficking. The film then opens with a police car chase through Orange County, California, which ends with the fleeing vehicle crashing, killing both of its occupants. It turns out that both were drug addicts and under the influence at the time of the chase.
Blue Money (1985)
Comedy, Crime
A taxi driver and aspiring actor-singer Larry Gormley (Tim Curry) becomes entangled with gangsters when he steals a briefcase full of money that was left behind in his cab.
Running Wild (1955)
Crime, Drama
Ralph Barton is a young rookie cop who goes undercover to infiltrate an auto-theft ring run by juvenile delinquents.
Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso (1972)
Crime
A killer is driving around the streets of Italy looking for a specific victim. The killer breaks into her home and kills her, before catching a glimpse of the woman's daughter, Ines, in a photograph before leaving. Later, he poses as an escort and kills her in a field.
The Vintage (1957)
Crime, Drama
Italian brothers Ernesto and Giancarlo Barandero are fugitives, Ernesto having accidentally killed a man. They cross the border to France and hope to find work picking grapes. While vineyard owner Louis Morel is away, wife Leonne and young sister-in-law Lucienne make the brothers feel welcome.
Art Heist (2004)
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
A very famous and expensive painting is stolen from the MNAC art museum in Barcelona, Spain. The museum has many security features that are problematic for the thieves, but because of their skill they are able to circumvent the security and steal the famous El Greco Christ Carrying the Cross on display courtesy of Victor Boyd (Ed Lauter.) After the first heist, Sandra Walker (Ellen Pompeo), is called by her boss Victor Boyd and sent to Spain to ensure his El Greco is returned. Victor Boyd, the owner of the stolen El Greco, is a very rich and powerful businessman who Sandra works for as an art consultant.
Frisco Jenny (1932)
Drama
In 1906 San Francisco, Jenny Sandoval, a denizen of the notorious Tenderloin district, wants to marry piano player Dan McAllister, but her saloonkeeper father Jim adamantly is opposed to it. An earthquake kills both men and devastates the city. In the aftermath, Jenny gives birth to a son, whom she names Dan.
Quiet Please, Murder (1942)
Drama
In 1942, while World War II is raging, expert New York forger Jim Fleg steals Richard Burbage's edition of Hamlet from a public library, killing a guard in cold blood. Fleg plans to pass off his forgeries as the only surviving original copy. Six months later, however, one of his victims, Martin Cleaver, discovers he has been swindled by art dealer Rebescu and authenticator Myra Blandy (who works for Fleg).
Nitti: The Enforcer (1988)
Crime, Drama
The Wrecking Crew (2000)
Crime, Drama, hood film
A high-level government hit squad led by Ice-T's character, is dispatched out into the streets of Detroit in order to take out Snoop Dogg's character, the leader of the Detroit underworld.
The Girl in Lovers Lane (1959)
Crime, Drama, romance film
Danny is a young adult from a wealthy family. He runs away from home because his parents are divorcing. Hopping into a railroad boxcar, Danny meets Bix Dugan, a long-time drifter who agrees to mentor Danny.
Crime Doctor (1943)
Drama
During the Great Depression, a man is ejected from a speeding car. When he regains consciousness in a hospital, he has amnesia. He is visited by a man who accuses him of faking his condition.
Little Athens (2005)
Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, romantic comedy, teen film
Little Athens follows a whirlwind day in the hapless lives of small town youth caught in a dead-end post-high school void. The journeys of four groups of late teens/early twenty-somethings unfold through four different storylines. Their separate trails converge at an explosive house party.
The Big Bluff (1955)
Crime, Drama, Noir
The suave Don Juan Ricardo "Rick" De Villa and his married lover Fritzi Darvel would like to take off together, but his lack of money prevents them from doing so. A chance encounter introduces Rick to the young but terminally ill socialite Valerie Bancroft, in whom Rick sees the solution to his predicament. Rick sweeps her off her feet and they soon marry, although Valerie's entourage is suspicious of him.
Sick Girl (2007)
Crime, Drama, exploitation film, Horror
Izzy is a troubled teenage girl who decides to attack and murder her little brother's bullies utilizing skills taught to her by her older brother Rusty, who is away in the Marines. She both lusts after and idolizes Rusty to the point where she overlooks signs that he is anything but perfect, such as his failure to call his family and reconnect. After causing a massacre on the school bus, Izzy manages to trap and imprison a couple of the bullies in the trunk of her car, showing no remorse or compassion when one of them begs to be set free.
You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
Crime, Drama
In New York's Hell's Kitchen, young Johnny Stone ignores the advice of his sister Madge and teams with mobster Frank Wilson. Johnny and Frank steal a car and then rob a gas station at gunpoint. Johnny takes a gun belonging to Madge's fiancé Fred Burke and lends it to Frank for a pawnshop robbery.
Lonely Street (2009)
mystery film
Bubba Mabry (Mohr), a notoriously gullible private detective, is hired to snoop on a tabloid reporter by a mysterious celebrity known only as Mr. Aaron (Patrick). When the tabloid reporter is murdered, Mabry becomes the prime suspect in his death.