The Dark Stairway (1938)
Crime
Professional jealousy and rivalry erupts in a hospital over the discovery of a revolutionary new formula for anaesthetic, leading to murder.
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
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Once a Crook (1941)
Crime
Charlie Hopkins is a retired burglar with an expertise in safecracking. His ex-partner The Duke holds a grudge against Charlie, since he believes he ratted him out and sent him to jail. The Duke is out for revenge against Charlie, and hires Bill Hopkins, Charlie's son, to help him perform a hit, with an intention to frame the kid.
Policy Man (1938)
Black film, Crime
Too Dangerous to Live (1939)
Crime
A private detective goes undercover by joining a gang of burglars.
Held for Ransom (1938)
Crime
Millionaire Herbert Scott is kidnapped. His nephew Larry Scott pays the ransom but his uncle is not released. Kimble, the Scott's caretaker of their lodge, intercepts the ransom payoff and stuffs the cash into empty shotgun shells.
Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)
Crime
A policeman is murdered and District Attorney Walter Forbes gets an ex-con to take the blame in order for the real culprit to be more at ease. Forbes calls the real killer, but wires to conversation to broadcast over the radio.
The Return of Raffles (1933)
Crime, Drama
Cheaters (1934)
Crime
Double Exposures (1937)
Crime
Reporter Peter Bradfield is fired from his newspaper for failing to deliver an interview with big businessman Hector Rodman. Plucky Bradfield subsequently becomes a photographic equipment salesman, and accidentally takes photos of two men in conversation. Unbeknown to him, these men are the businessmen's lawyer and his secretary, and are plotting to embezzle a fortune in bonds from Rodman, and planning to frame his workshy son George for the crime.
The Girl from Havana (1929)
Crime
The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934)
Crime, Drama
The board of directors of the World Insurance Company observe that five heavily insured policy holders have all died within the first year of taking out their insurance. One, Doctor Freeman, had certified them all as being in good health, and he is called before the board to explain this strange coincidence. Dr.
Sleepers East (1934)
Crime
The Night Hawk (1938)
Crime
Law of the Barbary Coast (1949)
Crime, Drama
After her brother is murdered in a saloon on the Barbary Coast in San Francisco, a woman goes undercover as a dance hall girl in order to gather evidence on the crime.
The Costello Case (1930)
Crime
Alias Mary Smith (1932)
Crime, mystery film
A young woman known by her alias Mary Smith, falls in love with a wealthy young man despite his father's disapproval. Unbeknown to them she is the sister of a man executed after being framed by gangster Snowy Hoagland for a crime he didn't commit. Seeking revenge on him, she becomes entangled in the murder of a district attorney.
Laughing at Danger (1940)
Crime
That I May Live (1937)
Crime, Drama
Camera Obscura (2000)
Crime, Drama
Two for Danger (1940)
Comedy, Crime
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (1976)
Crime
The Perfect Clue (1935)
Comedy, Crime
Jerome Stewart (William P. Carleton) throws an elegant dinner party to announce his engagement to Ursula Chesebrough (Betty Blythe), but the engagement comes as a total surprise to his daughter, Mona (Dorothy Libaire), who doesn't like Ursula and takes it badly. Longtime admirer and inebriate Ronnie Van Zandt (Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher) convinces her to run away and elope with him, although she does not love him.
The Valley of Ghosts (1928)
Crime, silent film
Hot News (1953)
Crime, Drama