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'G' Men (1935)

Summary: James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.

Release Date: May 04, 1935

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: William Keighley

Writers: Seton I. Miller

, Darryl F. Zanuck

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: First National Pictures

Distributor: Warner Bros., Associated Artists Productions (AAP), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 450,000

66 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
404 votes

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

Summary: After the German administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Director: Fritz Lang

Writers: Bertolt Brecht

, Fritz Lang

, John Wexley

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Arnold Pressburger Films

Distributor: Favorite Films, Unity Television, Kino Video, Films sans Frontières, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 850,000

62 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
809 votes

They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

Summary: A champion boxer on the lamb, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at a farm for delinquent youths.

Release Date: January 28, 1939

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Busby Berkeley

Writers: Sig Herzig

, Bertram Millhauser

, Beulah Marie Dix

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Image Entertainment, VCI Entertainment, Alpha Video Distributors, Reel Media International, Film Detective

Country: United States

Language: English

51 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
543 votes

Where Danger Lives (1950)

Summary: A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman, becomes involved in her husband's death, and must flee with her to the Mexican border.

Release Date: November 16, 1950

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Director: John Farrow

Writers: Charles Bennett

, Leo Rosten

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: RKO Radio Pictures, Westwood Productions

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

50 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
85 votes

High Wall (1947)

Summary: After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.

Release Date: December 17, 1947

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Writers: Sydney Boehm

, Lester Cole

, Alan R. Clark

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,844,000

41 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
164 votes

The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)

Summary: Law-abiding Jimmy Ferguson soon regrets giving a ride to killer Steve Morgan.

Release Date: February 20, 1947

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Felix E. Feist

Writers: Robert C. DuSoe

, Felix E. Feist

Runtime: 1 h 02 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, C&C Television Corporation, RKO Home Video, Turner Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

38 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
92 votes

Blind Alley (1939)

Summary: Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient.

Release Date: May 11, 1939

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Charles Vidor

Writers: Philip MacDonald

, Michael Blankfort

, Albert Duffy

Runtime: 1 h 09 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

33 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
118 votes

Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

Summary: An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.

Release Date: March 10, 1954

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Richard Quine

Writers: Blake Edwards

, Richard Quine

, James Benson Nablo

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
4 votes

The Docks of New York (1928)

Summary: A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Release Date: September 29, 1928

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Writers: Jules Furthman

, John Monk Saunders

, Julian Johnson

Runtime: 1 h 16 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

Caged (1950)

Summary: A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?

Release Date: June 10, 1950

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: John Cromwell

Writers: Virginia Kellogg

, Bernard C. Schoenfeld

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros. Television, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

The Hidden Room (1949)

Summary: Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.

Release Date: January 08, 1950

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Writer: Alec Coppel

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Independent Sovereign Films

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Summary: San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

Release Date: October 18, 1941

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Director: John Huston

Writers: John Huston

, Dashiell Hammett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Associated Artists Productions (AAP), United Artists Television, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, MGM/UA Entertainment Company, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 375,000

Domestic: $ 18,180

International: $ 16,511

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

M (1951)

Summary: In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Joseph Losey

Writers: Norman Reilly Raine

, Leo Katcher

, Waldo Salt

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Superior Pictures

Distributor: Nostalgia Family Video, Sinister Cinema

Country: United States

Language: English

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

Force of Evil (1948)

Summary: An unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Abraham Polonsky

Writers: Abraham Polonsky

, Ira Wolfert

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Enterprise Productions, Roberts Pictures Inc.

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Favorite Attractions, Mundus Television, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), Republic Pictures Home Video, Paramount Television, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Olive Films, The Criterion Channel, Worldvision Enterprises

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 948,000

International: $ 217,000

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

The Third Man (1949)

Summary: Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Release Date: February 01, 1950

Genres: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Carol Reed

Writers: Graham Greene

, Orson Welles

, Alexander Korda

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: London Film Productions

Distributor: Selznick Releasing Organization, Twentieth Century Fox, Rialto Pictures, Alpha Video Distributors, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), Jef Films International, Lion International Films, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, StudioCanal International, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,067,364

International: $ 165,715

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

Sudden Fear (1952)

Summary: After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.

Release Date: August 15, 1952

Genres: Film-Noir, Thriller

Director: David Miller

Writers: Lenore J. Coffee

, Robert Smith

, Edna Sherry

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Joseph Kaufman Productions

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Gothic Productions, Kino Video, Cohen Media Group, Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 720,000

Domestic: $ 24,476

International: $ 283

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

Thunder Road (1958)

Summary: A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in pri...

Release Date: May 10, 1958

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Arthur Ripley

Writers: James Atlee Phillips

, Walter Wise

, Robert Mitchum

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: D.R.M. Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Timeless Media

Country: United States

Language: English

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

The Harder They Fall (1956)

Summary: An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.

Release Date: March 31, 1956

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir, Sport

Director: Mark Robson

Writers: Philip Yordan

, Budd Schulberg

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Television, Sony Pictures Television International, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,350,000

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Summary: A psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.

Release Date: June 30, 1951

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Raymond Chandler

, Czenzi Ormonde

, Whitfield Cook

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Home Video, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Domestic: $ 26,597

International: $ 3,065

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Summary: A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

Release Date: July 04, 1951

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Billy Wilder