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1. Blast of Silence (1961)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

Director: Allen Baron | Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Peter Clune

Votes: 5,660

2. Accused of Murder (1956)

Approved | 74 min | Film-Noir, Mystery

Police detective falls for singer, gets involved with gangster killing.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Grey

Votes: 393

3. Strangers in the Night (1944)

Approved | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A lonely, mentally-unbalanced woman invents a fictitious daughter and has the "daughter" write to a Marine stationed in the South Pacific. When the soldier returns to the States, he goes to... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: William Terry, Virginia Grey, Helene Thimig, Edith Barrett

Votes: 811

4. Man Afraid (1957)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A burglar is surprised by David and Lisa Collins in their son's room. In the struggle, Lisa's eyes are hurt and David throws an ornament, unintentionally killing the young thief. It's not ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: George Nader, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey, Eduard Franz

Votes: 230

5. Five Came Back (1939)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine

Votes: 2,357

6. The Guilty (1947)

Approved | 71 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Two guys sharing an apartment meet twin girls (both Bonita Granville). One's sweet, the other a major piece of bad news. The nice one is murdered and her boyfriend is accused of the crime. The wrong man/wrong victim plot strikes again.

Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, John Litel

Votes: 762

7. King of the Rocket Men (1949)

Passed | 167 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Jeff King in his experimental rocket suit battles the evil Dr. Vulcan.

Director: Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, Don Haggerty, House Peters Jr.

Votes: 965

8. Armored Car Robbery (1950)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 2,990

9. Desperate (1947)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A young married couple flee both the police and a gangster out for revenge.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 2,612

10. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)

Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita

Votes: 2,617

11. Macabre (1958)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.

Director: William Castle | Stars: William Prince, Jim Backus, Christine White, Jacqueline Scott

Votes: 1,402

12. The Ape Man (1943)

Passed | 64 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall

Votes: 1,502

13. New Orleans Uncensored (1955)

Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Navy veteran purchases a government surplus vessel and becomes involved in the capture of waterfront racketeers.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Arthur Franz, Beverly Garland, Helene Stanton, Michael Ansara

Votes: 411

14. Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)

Approved | 82 min | Sci-Fi

After wandering in a nuclear testing area in the desert, escaped mobster Ron Candell starts mutating and seeks revenge on his former crime partners.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Ron Randell, Debra Paget, Elaine Stewart, Anthony Caruso

Votes: 309

15. Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Frieda Inescort, Paul Cavanagh, Heather Angel, Bruce Lester

Votes: 780

16. Portland Exposé (1957)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

A tavern owner in mid-century Portland, Oregon finds the safety of himself and his family threatened when he becomes involved in a war between labor unions and a violent local crime syndicate.

Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Edward Binns, Carolyn Craig, Virginia Gregg, Russ Conway

Votes: 286

17. The Ape (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Horror

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan

Votes: 2,061

18. Nabonga (1944)

Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Fifi D'Orsay, Barton MacLane, Julie London

Votes: 682

19. Hunt the Man Down (1950)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson, Willard Parker

Votes: 1,049

20. Cry Vengeance (1954)

Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Violent ex-cop Vic Barron comes to Ketchikan, Alaska seeking revenge on an old enemy.

Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Skip Homeier, Joan Vohs

Votes: 624

21. Bad Blonde (1953)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater, Sidney James

Votes: 443

22. Highway 13 (1948)

Passed | 58 min | Drama

Truck driver Hank Wilson is suspected of sabotaging a big transportation company in financial straits. Working with the insurance company covering the fleet, Wilson investigates the "accidents," hoping to prevent any further mishaps.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Pamela Blake, Clem Bevans, Michael Whalen

Votes: 218

23. Sleepers West (1941)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Mike Shayne tries to distinguish criminals from red herrings as he escorts a surprise witness via rail to a high profile trial in San Francisco.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt

Votes: 634

24. Devil's Cargo (1948)

Approved | 64 min | Mystery

Poverty-row continuation of The Falcon series; mundane murder mystery showcasing Calvert's magic act skills.

Director: John F. Link Sr. | Stars: John Calvert, Rochelle Hudson, Roscoe Karns, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 286

25. Caravan (1946)

117 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Anne Crawford, Dennis Price

Votes: 248

26. Unmasked (1950)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Roger Lewis, publisher of a vicious scandal sheet, is in the habit of tricking wealthy, gullible women into investing in his ventures. His latest conquest is a shapely ex-showgirl, Doris ... See full summary »

Director: George Blair | Stars: Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke

Votes: 107

27. Below the Deadline (1946)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A veteran, Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton (George Meeker), a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames, Jan Wiley, Paul Maxey

Votes: 184

28. The Invisible Wall (1947)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When a mob boss sends gambler Harry Lane to Vegas to deliver 20K to a contact, Harry gambles the money away and must somehow recover it before getting into trouble with his employer.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Don Castle, Virginia Christine, Richard Gaines, Arthur Space

Votes: 128

29. The Shadow (1937)

Approved | 59 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, the sell-out crowds are returning to the... See full summary »

Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Charles Quigley, Marc Lawrence, Arthur Loft

Votes: 171

30. Cheer Up! (1936)

72 min | Musical

A couple of out of work songwriters try to persuade a wealthy stockbroker to back them. But he turns out to be broke as they are. A series of mistaken identities, misunderstandings and ... See full summary »

Director: Leo Mittler | Stars: Stanley Lupino, Sally Gray, Roddy Hughes, Wyn Weaver

Votes: 84

31. Midnight Intruder (1938)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is a suspect.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Louis Hayward, Eric Linden, J.C. Nugent, Barbara Read

Votes: 151

32. The Tiger Woman (1945)

Approved | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

At the Tiger Club nightclub, singer Sharon Winslow asks private detective Jerry Devery to help her prevent the murder of her husband Fred, one of the club's owners. Sharon is afraid that ... See full synopsis »

Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Adele Mara, Kane Richmond, Richard Fraser, Peggy Stewart

Votes: 96

33. Smuggler's Island (1951)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In 1950s Macao, an American expat diver is hired by a mysterious woman to retrieve a sunken cargo that eventually attracts unwanted attention from a crooked banker, corrupt authorities and local pirates.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Philip Friend, Marvin Miller

Votes: 126

34. The Truth About Murder (1946)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Film-Noir, Mystery

Christine, a lawyer closely working with District Attorney Lester Ashton, quits her job and joins his friend Bill's one-man buffet. Bill is drinking heavily because of his flirtatious wife.... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bonita Granville, Morgan Conway, Paula Corday, Donald Douglas

Votes: 153

35. Before Dawn (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Sinister forces compete to find the million dollars in gold hidden by recently deceased gangster Joe Valerie in his family's old dark house 15 years earlier,

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges

Votes: 513

36. Unmarried (1939)

Approved | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When his manager, Pins Streaver, is killed attempting to rob a safe after losing all his money betting on a fight, third-rate fighter Slag Bailey leaves New York to investigate Streaver's ... See full summary »

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Buck Jones, Donald O'Connor, John Hartley

Votes: 71

37. A Strange Adventure (1956)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Joan Evans, Ben Cooper, Marla English, Jan Merlin

Votes: 216

38. King of Alcatraz (1938)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, Harry Carey, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 115

39. Tarnished (1950)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero and an ex-convict, returns to his hometown in an effort to make a new life for himself, but even with help from cannery worker Lou Jellison he finds living ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Dorothy Patrick, Arthur Franz, Barbra Fuller, Jimmy Lydon

Votes: 81

40. The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948)

Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Marjorie Lord, Robert Shayne, Pierre Watkin, James Seay

Votes: 128

41. Menace (I) (1934)

Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Menace is a very fast-paced dark house murder mystery with a plot centering around three people who are targeted for death because of their alleged guilt in the tragic death of a psychopath's brother.

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh, Henrietta Crosman, John Lodge

Votes: 77

42. Island in the Sky (1938)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A secretary solves a murder for her boyfriend in the District Attorney's office. Black and White.

Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, Paul Kelly, Robert Kellard

Votes: 193

43. The Cruel Tower (1956)

Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Romance

Tension and rivalry among a crew of steeplejacks.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Ericson, Mari Blanchard, Charles McGraw, Steve Brodie

Votes: 142

44. The Narrowing Circle (1956)

66 min | Crime, Drama

A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.

Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Paul Carpenter, Hazel Court, Russell Napier, Trevor Reid

Votes: 148

45. Undercover Girl (1958)

68 min | Crime

A journalist pieces together clues which lead to the eventual downfall of a sophisticated blackmail ring.

Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Paul Carpenter, Kay Callard, Monica Grey, Bruce Seton

Votes: 106

46. Dragnet (1947)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Wilcoxon, a Scotland Yard inspector, travels to New York to investigate the activities of an international band of jewel thieves.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Mary Brian, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Dale

Votes: 49

47. Two in the Dark (1936)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Gail Patrick

Votes: 306

48. Murder in the Air (1940)

Approved | 55 min | Drama, Thriller

The corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys, James Stephenson

Votes: 335

49. Tem Piranha no Aquário (1982)

79 min | Drama

Young woman trying her luck in the big city tells a journalist her sexual adventures.

Director: Vital Filho | Stars: Lúcia Alves, Cristina Amaral, Canarinho, Rubem De Bem

50. Clube do Sexo (1984)

78 min | Comedy

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