The Nightbirds of London (1915)
Crime, silent film
Crime movies
Explore crime, criminals and those pursuing them.
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Manhattan Butterfly (1935)
Crime
The Girl in the Flat (1934)
Crime
Country girl Mavis Tremayne attends a wild London party at which a man is murdered. She is incriminated by blackmail, but, her fiancé Sir John Waterton, a King's Counsel, proves her innocence.
The House of Intrigue (1919)
Crime, silent film
The Woman from China (1930)
Crime
Crooked Chinese shipping businessman Chang-Li is involved in smuggling weapons from England into China. He has desires on Celia Thorburn, an English girl engaged to Lieutenant Jack Halliday, and uses Laloe, a Chinese woman, to distract Halliday, so he can steal Celia away from him. But Halliday discovers the smuggled arms and outwits Chang-Li.
The Case for the Crown (1934)
Crime
Business tycoon James Rainsford is found by his junior partner, Roy Matherson, with his throat cut. Assuming it was suicide, and because he wishes to spare the feelings of Shirley, Rainsford's daughter, with whom he is love, Matherson fakes the scene to make it look like a murder. It turns out that it is actually murder, and Matherson is charged.
The Law of the Tong (1931)
Crime
A dance hall hostess becomes mixed up in a gang smuggling illegal immigrants into America.
Children of the Whirlwind (1925)
crime drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, a young man freshly released from Sing Sing goes straight with the help of a friendly artist, but his old gang, including his sweetheart, accuse him of informing and plan to blackmail his benefactor. The young woman's father, a convict pal of the younger man, the father of his sweetheart, is released from prison also and determines to kill one of the crooks, whom he paid to keep the young woman straight. However, the turn of events sets aright the affairs of everyone excepting those who refused to reform.
Police Call (1933)
Crime
Contraband Love (1931)
Crime
Roger is a self-confessed escaped convict, who has joined a smuggling ring with Jude Sterling, a fisherman, and Sampson an ex-theatrical man. Roger falls in love with Janice Machin, daughter of the local magistrate. However, Jude's wife, Belle, believes Roger is in love with her.
The House of Marney (1926)
Crime, Drama, silent film
An Essex sailor helps save a girl's heir from his crooked uncle.
Number, Please (1931)
Crime
Peggy is a telephone operator in a London hotel. After a falling-out with her boyfriend Jimmy, she unwidely accepts a dinner invitation from Curtis Somers, one of the hotel's guests. Jimmy suspects that Curtis is a cad, and follows them.
Justice (1914)
Crime, silent film
The Hard Way (1916)
Crime, silent film
The Stolen Necklace (1933)
Crime, Drama
The Fighting Coward (1935)
Crime
Strähl (2004)
Crime
Lonesome and medicament addict narcotics detective Herbert Strähl (Roeland Wiesnekker), who can hardly handle his own life, wants to clean up the Langstrasse area. Strähl often watches Berisha (Adem Kicai), the head of a drug trafficking ring, leaving his limousine and entering a dubious building. Still, he isn’t able to arrest him, due to the lack of evidence (Berisha never touches the drugs by himself).
Dead Along The Way (2016)
Crime
Wacker and Tony, a pair of down-on-their-luck videographers, are about to film a wedding, and they think their lives can’t get any worse. Wacker’s wife has chucked him out, he has been beaten up over money she borrowed for fertility treatment, and a drink-fueled incident the night before has put his friendship with Tony under huge strain. But their problems are only beginning.
Paris Plane (1933)
Crime
A Scotland Yard detective pursues a murderer aboard a Paris bound Hercules plane. The murderer is disguised, making every passenger a suspect.
Other People's Sins (1931)
Crime
Barrister Anthony Vernon defends his crooked father-in-law Carfax, who has taken the blame for a murder committed by his daughter Anne.
Nemesis (2020)
Crime
Nemesis explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich, and the construction of a new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker's window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history, and its replacement with total security.
Puppets of Fate (1933)
Crime
Held by the Law (1927)
Crime, silent film
As described in a film magazine, tragedy replaces gaiety at the engagement party of Mary Travis and Tom Sinclair when his cousin, Boris Morton, a gentleman black sheep, facing exposure for the theft of a necklace from a member of the guests, shoots Sinclair's father in the back while the two fathers are drinking a toast in the library. Morton, with the cunning of desperation, casts the gun from his gloved hand into the room and joins the horrified guests as one of them. Tom Sinclair, stunned by the tragedy, unconsciously casts suspicion on Mary's father.
The Shadow Between (1920)
Crime, silent film