Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

City Streets

1931

English

7.0

♡ 8

80%

Rouben Mamoulian Director

Sylvia Sidney as Nan Cooley

Paulette Goddard as Nightclub Patron

Bill Elliott as Nightclub Patron

Norman Foster as Shooting Gallery Patron

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

Violent Saturday

1955

English

6.9

♡ 5

80%

Richard Fleischer Director

Sylvia Sidney as Elsie Braden

Brad Dexter as Gil Clayton

Margaret Hayes as Mrs. Emily Fairchild

Robert Adler as Stan

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936

English

6.8

♡ 4

53%

railroad construction

Romance

romantic rivalry

Western

Henry Hathaway Director

Richard Carle as Ezra Tolliver

Sylvia Sidney as June Tolliver

Irving Bacon as Mailman

Frank Rice as Zeke Denker

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

The Automat

2021

English

7.8

♡ 4

98%

Lisa Hurwitz Director

Sylvia Sidney as (archive footage)

Jack Benny as Self

Rosemary Clooney as Self

Peter Boyle as Self

The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers, we watch a business climb to its peak success and then grapple with fast food in a forever changed America.

Behind the High Wall

1956

English

6.4

♡ 2

Abner Biberman Director

Sylvia Sidney as Hilda Carmichael

Amzie Strickland as Mrs. Baynar

Don Beddoe as Todd MacGregor

John Larch as William Kiley

A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.

Hammett

1982

English

6.4

♡ 4

75%

62%

Action

based on novel or book

san francisco, california

Francis Ford Coppola Director

Lloyd Kino as Barber

Sylvia Sidney as Donaldina Cameron

R.G. Armstrong as Lt. O'Mara

David Patrick Kelly as The Punk

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.

Fury

1936

English

7.8

♡ 11

94%

Fritz Lang Director

Raymond Hatton as Hector - Barber

Harry Harvey as Jasper Anderson - Defendant

Sylvia Sidney as Katherine Grant

George Chandler as Milton Jackson

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Snowbeast

1977

English

4.6

♡ 3

24%

Herb Wallerstein Director

Sylvia Sidney as Carrie Rill

Victor Raider-Wexler as Deputy Holt

Bo Svenson as Gar Seberg

Liz Jury as Mrs. Blodgett

A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.

An American Tragedy

1931

English

6.4

♡ 6

50%

Action

based on novel or book

Josef von Sternberg Director

Sidney D'Albrook as Courtroom Policeman

Nella Walker as Hotel Guest

Sylvia Sidney as Roberta Alden

Matty Roubert as Vendor Outside of Courtroom

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

Blood on the Sun

1945

English

6.0

♡ 8

80%

Frank Lloyd Director

Rosemary DeCamp as Edith Miller

Leonard Strong as Hijikata

Sylvia Sidney as Iris Hilliard

Philip Ahn as Secret Police Capt. Yomamoto

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.

Order of Death

1983

English

5.5

♡ 4

psychological thriller

sadomasochism

Thriller

Roberto Faenza Director

Leonard Mann as Bob Carvo

John Lydon as Leo Smith

Harvey Keitel as Lt. Fred O'Connor

Sylvia Sidney as Margaret Smith

A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.

Damien: Omen II

1978

English

6.2

♡ 31

50%

Don Taylor Director

Lee Grant as Ann Thorn

Sylvia Sidney as Aunt Marion

Leo McKern as Carl Bugenhagen

Meshach Taylor as Dr. Kane

Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.

Merrily We Go to Hell

1932

English

6.9

♡ 7

100%

Dorothy Arzner Director

Edwin Maxwell as Jake Symonds

Fredric March as Jerry Corbett

Sylvia Sidney as Joan Prentice

Bill Elliott as Party Guest

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.

Street Scene

1931

English

7.6

♡ 7

89%

King Vidor Director

Beulah Bondi as Emma Jones

John Qualen as Karl Olsen

Sylvia Sidney as Rose Maurrant

William Collier Jr. as Sam Kaplan

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.

Dead End

1937

English

7.2

♡ 8

83%

William Wyler Director

Ward Bond as Doorman

Sylvia Sidney as Drina

Claire Trevor as Francey

Leo Gorcey as Spit

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

Sabotage

1936

English

7.0

♡ 25

Action

based on novel or book

black and white

bomb

Crime

husband wife relationship

london, england

pre-code

Thriller

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Oskar Homolka as Her Husband

Alfred Hitchcock as Man Walking Past The Cinema

Sylvia Sidney as Mrs. Verloc

Austin Trevor as Vladimir - Paymaster at Aquarium

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

God Told Me To

1976

English

6.3

♡ 5

80%

Larry Cohen Director

Mike Kellin as Deputy Commissioner Al Fann

Al Fann as Detective Squad

Sylvia Sidney as Elizabeth Mullin

Tony Lo Bianco as Peter J. Nicholas

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'.

You and Me

1938

English

6.8

♡ 6

86%

Fritz Lang Director

Paul Newlan as Bouncer at Danceland

Joyce Compton as Curly Blonde

Sylvia Sidney as Helen Roberts

Barton MacLane as Mickey

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

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City Streets

Violent Saturday

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

The Automat

Behind the High Wall

Hammett

Fury

Snowbeast

An American Tragedy

Blood on the Sun

Order of Death

Damien: Omen II

Merrily We Go to Hell

Street Scene

Dead End

Sabotage

God Told Me To

You and Me