Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

I Became a Criminal

1947

English

7.2

♡ 9

81%

Alberto Cavalcanti Director

Sam Kydd as Eddie

Trevor Howard as George Clement 'Clem' Morgan

Michael Brennan as Jim

Ballard Berkeley as Rockliffe

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

Blowing Wild

1953

English

6.4

♡ 6

27%

Hugo Fregonese Director

Ward Bond as Dutch Peterson

Gary Cooper as Jeff Dawson

Barbara Stanwyck as Marina Conway

Anthony Quinn as Ward 'Paco' Conway

Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.

Cut Bank

2014

English

6.1

♡ 18

39%

Matt Shakman Director

Billy Bob Thornton as Big Stan

Teresa Palmer as Cassandra

Liam Hemsworth as Dwayne McLaren

John Malkovich as Sheriff Vogel

25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...

Rebecca

1940

English

8.1

♡ 69

98%

92%

Action

age difference

based on novel or book

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Gladys Cooper as Beatrice Lacy

Forrester Harvey as Chalcroft

Melville Cooper as Coroner

Joan Fontaine as Mrs. de Winter

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

Vertigo

1958

English

8.2

♡ 202

93%

san francisco, california

sense of guilt

suicide attempt

Thriller

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Lee Patrick as Car Owner Mistaken for Madeleine

Kenneth Gibson as Diner at Ernie's

Forbes Murray as Diner at Ernie's

Ellen Corby as Manager of McKittrick Hotel

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

The Suspect

1944

English

7.3

♡ 10

78%

Robert Siodmak Director

Ella Raines as Mary

Lillian Bronson as Miss Crevy

Henry Daniell as Mr. Simmons

Keith Hitchcock as William Crummit

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.

The Reckless Moment

1949

English

7.1

♡ 9

73%

parent child relationship

preserved film

Max Ophüls Director

Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper

John Roy as Man

Harry Harvey as Post Office Clerk

Norman Leavitt as Second Postal Clerk

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

Underworld U.S.A.

1961

English

7.3

♡ 11

100%

Samuel Fuller Director

Robert Emhardt as Earl Connors

Richard Rust as Gus Cottahee

Cliff Robertson as Tolly Devlin

Peter Brocco as Vic Farrar

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Alphaville

1965

French

7.0

♡ 23

92%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Breakfast Waiter

László Szabó as Chief Engineer

Anna Karina as Natacha von Braun

Jean-Louis Comolli as Prof. Jeckell

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

M

1951

English

6.7

♡ 8

60%

Joseph Losey Director

Norman Leavitt as Harry Greer - Bar Patron

Walter Burke as MacMahan

John Indrisano as Man in Mob

Gregg Palmer as Television Broadcaster

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

Double Indemnity

1944

English

8.3

♡ 71

97%

Billy Wilder Director

Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes

Douglas Spencer as Lou Schwartz

Eddie Hall as Man in Drug Store

Fortunio Bonanova as Sam Gorlopis

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.

Jenny Lamour

1947

French

7.7

♡ 5

100%

husband wife relationship

Henri-Georges Clouzot Director

Raymond Bussières as Albert

Christian Marquand as Bit Part

Marcel Rouzé as Bit Part

Bernard Blier as Maurice Martineau

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.

The Killers

1946

English

7.7

♡ 24

100%

Robert Siodmak Director

Jack Lambert as 'Dum-Dum' Clarke

Edmond O'Brien as Jim Reardon

Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins

Bill Walker as Sam

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954

English

7.0

♡ 2

100%

Don Siegel Director

Frank Hagney as Convict Roberts

Leo Gordon as Crazy Mike Carnie

Robert Patten as Frank

Carleton Young as Guard Captain Barrett

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

To Have and Have Not

1944

English

7.8

♡ 30

95%

90%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Howard Hawks Director

Walter Brennan as Eddie

Humphrey Bogart as Harry Morgan

Sheldon Leonard as Lt. Coyo

Lauren Bacall as Marie 'Slim' Browning

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

The Big Combo

1955

English

7.3

♡ 15

93%

Joseph H. Lewis Director

Helen Walker as Alicia Brown

Lee Van Cleef as Fante

Richard Conte as Mr. Brown

Cornel Wilde as Police Lt. Leonard Diamond

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

Night in Paradise

2020

Korean

6.8

♡ 19

68%

Hoon-jung Park Director

Matthew Yang King as Captain Park

Seung-Won Cha as Director Ma

Noshir Dalal as Jin-Sung

Keone Young as Kuto

An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman. Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.

Kiss Me Deadly

1955

English

7.5

♡ 11

98%

Robert Aldrich Director

Paul Stewart as Carl Evello

Fortunio Bonanova as Carmen Trivago

Marjorie Bennett as Manager

Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.