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7.7

♡ 53

98%

87%

Howard Hawks Director

Edwin Maxwell as Detective Chief

Frank Mills as Hood

Howard Hawks as Man on Bed

Bill Elliott as Man Outside Theatre

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

The Petrified Forest

1936

7.5

♡ 7

94%

80%

arizona

based on play or musical

Archie Mayo Director

Bette Davis as Gabrielle Maple

Gus Leonard as Jim - Postman

Genevieve Tobin as Mrs. Chisholm

Addison Richards as Radio Announcer

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Shadow of a Doubt

1943

7.8

♡ 40

100%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Joseph Cotten as Charlie Oakley

Grandon Rhodes as Rev. MacCurdy

Robert Quarry as Santa Rosa Teenager

Irving Bacon as Station Master

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

The House on Telegraph Hill

1951

san francisco, california

6.9

♡ 5

62%

Thriller

Robert Wise Director

Richard Basehart as Alan Spender

Glen Walters as Bit Role

Harry Carter as Detective Ellis

Valentina Cortese as Victoria Kowelska

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

Eyes Without a Face

1960

French

7.6

♡ 39

97%

Georges Franju Director

Edith Scob as Christiane Génessier

François Guérin as Le docteur Jacques Vernon

Alida Valli as Louise

Corrado Guarducci as (uncredited)

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

The Last Crooked Mile

1946

6.1

♡ 4

96%

Philip Ford Director

Sheldon Leonard as Ed 'Wires' MacGuire

Nestor Paiva as Ferrara

Ben Welden as Haynes

George Chandler as Roller Coaster Operator

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

The 39 Steps

1935

7.6

♡ 47

96%

85%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Robert Donat as Hannay

Lucie Mannheim as Miss Smith

Madeleine Carroll as Pamela

Alfred Hitchcock as Passerby Near the Bus

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.

Murder, My Sweet

1944

7.5

♡ 17

94%

Edward Dmytryk Director

John Indrisano as Amthor's Chauffeur

Claire Trevor as Helen Grayle / Velma Valento

Mike Mazurki as Joe 'Moose' Malloy

Fred Graham as Undetermined Role

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

The Damned Don't Cry

1950

7.1

♡ 10

80%

Vincent Sherman Director

Rory Mallinson as Johnny Enders

Kent Smith as Martin Blackford

Ric Roman as Sam Loman - Syndicate Boss

Ned Glass as Taxi Driver

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

In a Lonely Place

1950

7.9

♡ 43

96%

Nicholas Ray Director

John Mitchum as Bar Patron

Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele

David Bond as Dr. Richards

Gloria Grahame as Laurel Gray

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

Nightmare Alley

1947

7.7

♡ 21

87%

86%

Edmund Goulding Director

George Chandler as Hobo at Stan's Left Hand

Helen Walker as Lilith Ritter

Gene Roth as Masseur

Cy Schindell as Roustabout

Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete.

Fallen Angel

1945

7.0

♡ 9

85%

Otto Preminger Director

William Haade as 1st Bus Driver

Robert Adler as Coroner at Murder Scene

Hal Taggart as Man at Madley's Show

John Carradine as Professor Madley

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.

Dark Passage

1947

san francisco, california

7.5

♡ 17

90%

Thriller

Delmer Daves Director

John Alvin as Blackie

Douglas Kennedy as Detective

Rory Mallinson as George Fellsinger

Agnes Moorehead as Madge Rapf

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Gun Crazy

1950

7.6

♡ 22

91%

Joseph H. Lewis Director

Russ Tamblyn as Bart Tare

George Lynn as Holdup Victim

Don Beddoe as Man from Chicago

Trevor Bardette as Sheriff Boston

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

1932

8.2

♡ 15

96%

91%

based on a true story

Mervyn LeRoy Director

Allen Jenkins as Barney Sykes

Irving Bacon as Bill - Barber

Douglass Dumbrille as District Attorney

Everett Brown as Sebastian T. Yale

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

The Letter

1940

7.5

♡ 18

100%

82%

William Wyler Director

Frieda Inescort as Dorothy Joyce

Victor Sen Yung as Ong Chi Seng

George Ford as Party Guest

William A. Boardway as Trial Spectator

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

I Walk Alone

1947