The Narrow Margin

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

The Verdict

♡ 2

Don Siegel Director

William H. O'Brien as Constable

Frank Hagney as Ex-Pugilist Juryman

Ian Wolfe as Jury Foreman

Joan Lorring as Lottie Rawson

After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.

Thieves' Highway

1949

English

♡ 1

100%

san francisco, california

Thriller

truck crash

truck driver

Jules Dassin Director

Frank Richards as Cab Driver

Walter Baldwin as Officer Riley

Joseph Pevney as Pete

Robert Foulk as Taller Cop at Roadside Bar

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.

Out of the Fog

♡ 4

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

While the City Sleeps

1956

English

6.9

♡ 11

91%

Fritz Lang Director

Howard Duff as Lt. Burt Kaufman

Ida Lupino as Mildred Donner

Carleton Young as Police Interrogator

Vincent Price as Walter Kyne

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

Kiss of Death

1947

English

7.4

♡ 16

89%

Henry Hathaway Director

John Marley as Convict

Robert Adler as Detective

Karl Malden as Sgt. William Cullen

Bill Zuckert as Sing Sing Guard

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Death in Small Doses

1957

English

6.1

♡ 1

Joseph M. Newman Director

Merry Anders as Amy Phillips

Paul Maxwell as Doctor

John Mitchum as Handler

Mala Powers as Val Owens

A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.

Blues in the Night

1941

English

6.7

♡ 3

53%

jazz singer or musician

Music

Musical

train ride

Anatole Litvak Director

William Hopper as Billiard Player

Joyce Compton as Blonde

Anthony Warde as Del's Henchman #1

Jack Carson as Leo Powell

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

1948

English

6.5

♡ 2

43%

William Nigh Director

Rory Mallinson as Harry - 1st Detective

John Elliott as Mr. Lake - Tom's Lawyer

Regis Toomey as Police Inspector Clint Judd

Bill Walker as Prisoner

An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.

Nobody Lives Forever

1946

English

7.1

♡ 5

67%

Jean Negulesco Director

Richard Erdman as Bellboy, The Marwood Arms

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Gladys Halvorsen

Virginia Patton as Switchboard Operator

Faye Emerson as Toni Blackburn

A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.

Blonde Ice

1948

English

6.0

♡ 3

27%

airplane

alibi

based on novel or book

san francisco, california

Jack Bernhard Director

John Holland as Carl Hanneman

Walter Sande as Hack Doyle

Rory Mallinson as Police Sgt. Benson

Jack Del Rio as Roberts - the Butler

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.

Death of a Cyclist

1955

Spanish

7.6

♡ 3

100%

Juan Antonio Bardem Director

Fernando Sancho as Guardia de tráfico

Alberto Closas as Juan Fernández Soler

Lucia Bosé as María José de Castro

Otello Toso as Miguel Castro

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

Impact

1949

English

7.0

♡ 2

71%

Arthur Lubin Director

Helen Walker as Irene Williams

Jason Robards Sr. as Judge

Ella Raines as Marsha Peters

Ben Welden as Moving Van Helper

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

Vice Squad

1953

English

6.7

♡ 4

Arnold Laven Director

Edward Binns as Al Barkis

Paulette Goddard as Mona Ross

Edward Earle as Vault Teller

Joan Vohs as Vickie Webb

A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.

Mystery Street

1950

English

7.2

♡ 9

68%

blackmail

boston, massachusetts

John Sturges Director

Walter Burke as An Ornithologist

Ned Glass as Dr. Ben Levy, McAdoo's asst.

John Roy as Guard

Jan Sterling as Vivian Heldon

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

Whirlpool

1950

English

6.7

♡ 11

92%

Otto Preminger Director

Robert Foulk as Andy - Policeman

Richard Conte as Dr. William 'Bill' Sutton

Fortunio Bonanova as Feruccio di Ravallo

Ruth Lee as Miss Hall

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

Plunder Road

1957

English

6.9

♡ 6

Hubert Cornfield Director

Gene Raymond as Eddie Harris

Douglas Bank as Guard No. 1 / Narrator

Stafford Repp as Roly Adams

Elisha Cook Jr. as Skeets Jonas

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

The Razor's Edge

1946

English

7.3

♡ 12

56%

71%

Action

based on novel or book

himalaya mountain range

Edmund Goulding Director

Forbes Murray as Dr. Maturin

Leonardo Scavino as Frenchman

Edna Harris as Guest

Jean Del Val as Police Clerk

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.