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Directed by Michael CurtizOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films about religion,
Films about capital punishment,
Gangster filmsActors James Cagney,
Pat O'Brien,
Humphrey Bogart,
Ann Sheridan,
George Bancroft,
Billy HalopRating78%
Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) are childhood friends who robbed a railroad car as kids. Rocky saved Jerry's life during the chase by pulling him out of the way of a steam train while running from the guards that saw them. Rocky was then caught by the police, but Jerry—who could run faster—escaped. Rocky, after being sent to reform school, grew up to become a notorious gangster, while Jerry became a religious priest who mentored at-risk youth., 1h43
Directed by Vincent ShermanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Crime,
RomanceActors Joan Crawford,
David Brian,
Steve Cochran,
Hugh Sanders,
Kent Smith,
Selena RoyleRating71%
Ethel Whitehead (Crawford) is a weary housewife living at the edge of the Texas oil fields. When her young son is killed in a bicycle accident, she leaves her laborer husband Roy (Egan) for the big city. She quickly learns to use her physical charms to get ahead. In cahoots with bookkeeper friend Martin Blackford (Smith), Ethel works her way into the entourage of George Castleman (Brian), a mobster who enjoys an elegant lifestyle. With the help of socialite Patricia Longworth (Royle), Castleman grooms Ethel in the arts of cultured living. After making her his mistress, he tries to use her to trap his arch-rival Nick Prenta (Cochran). The trap fails when Ethel falls in love with Prenta. The betrayed Castleman kills Prenta and goes gunning for Ethel but dies in a shootout with Blackford., 2h6
Directed by John HustonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
WesternThemes Films about capital punishment,
L'OrActors Humphrey Bogart,
Walter Huston,
Tim Holt,
Bruce Bennett,
Barton MacLane,
Alfonso BedoyaRating81%
In 1925 in the Mexican oil-town of Tampico, Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt), two Americans cheated out of promised wages and down on their luck, meet old prospector Howard (Walter Huston). When one of them wins a small jackpot in the lottery, they have the bankroll to finance a gold prospecting journey to the remote Sierra Madre mountains., 1h45
Directed by Alfred HitchcockOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Films about families,
Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Henry Fonda,
Vera Miles,
Anthony Quayle,
Harold J. Stone,
Nehemiah Persoff,
Esther MinciottiRating73%
For the only time in his many films, Alfred Hitchcock starts this picture talking to the camera and says that "every word is true" in this story., 1h56
Directed by Frères CoenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Billy Bob Thornton,
Frances McDormand,
Michael Badalucco,
Richard Jenkins,
Scarlett Johansson,
Adam Alexi-MalleRating75%
In 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is a low-key barber in the town of Santa Rosa, California. He is married to Doris (Frances McDormand), a bookkeeper with a drinking problem, and works in a barber shop that belongs to his brother-in-law Frank (Michael Badalucco). A customer named Creighton Tolliver (Jon Polito) tells Ed that he's a businessman looking for investors to put up $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning. Ed decides to get the money by anonymously blackmailing Doris's boss, "Big Dave" Brewster (James Gandolfini), whom he knows to be having an affair with Doris. Dave embezzles money from his department store to pay the blackmail. However, he soon pieces together the scheme and beats Tolliver until he implicates Ed. Dave confronts Ed at the store and attempts to kill him, but Ed stabs Dave fatally with a cigar knife., 1h57
Directed by Fritz LangOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Serial killer films,
Films about capital punishment,
Auto-justiceActors Peter Lorre,
Gustaf Gründgens,
Otto Wernicke,
Theodor Loos,
Klaus Pohl,
Friedrich GnaßRating82%
A group of children are playing an elimination game in the courtyard of an apartment building in Berlin using a chant about a murderer of children. A woman sets the table for dinner, waiting for her daughter to come home from school. A wanted poster warns of a serial killer preying on children, as anxious parents wait outside a school., 1h28
Directed by Robert Aldrich,
Vincent ShermanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Films about the labor movement,
Political filmsActors Lee J. Cobb,
Kerwin Mathews,
Gia Scala,
Richard Boone,
Valerie French,
Robert LoggiaRating65%
Alan Mitchell is a returning Korean War veteran who joins his father Walter's garment company, Roxton Fashions. The firm has been paying protection money to gangsters led by Artie Ravidge to keep the union out., 1h28
Directed by Elia KazanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Documentary,
Noir,
CrimeThemes Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Dana Andrews,
Jane Wyatt,
Lee J. Cobb,
Ed Begley,
Cara Williams,
Karl MaldenRating71%
A priest is shot dead on a Bridgeport, Connecticut street at night. The police, led by Chief Robinson (Cobb), fail to immediately find the murderer. It soon becomes a political hot potato, with the police accused of incompetence, and the city's reform-minded administration comes under attack. Robinson and the prosecutor Henry Harvey (Andrews) come under severe pressure by political leaders to find the killer or bring in outside help.