Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...

Dead Reckoning

1946

English

7.0

♡ 14

John Cromwell Director

Lizabeth Scott as 'Dusty' Chandler

George Chandler as Louis Ord

William Forrest as Lt. Col. Simpson

Kenneth Gibson as Nightclub Patron

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.

Robbery

1967

English

6.9

♡ 6

80%

75%

Action

based on a true story

Peter Yates Director

Patrick Jordan as Freddy

Joanna Pettet as Kate Clifton

John Savident as Policeman with Dog

Frank Williams as Prison contact

In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.

The Accused

1949

English

6.8

♡ 2

Action

based on novel or book

William Dieterle Director

Harry Harvey as Dr. Odolard

Sam Jaffe as Dr. Romley

Wendell Corey as Lt. Ted Dorgan

John Indrisano as Referee

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

1948

English

7.0

♡ 3

83%

John Farrow Director

Edward Earle as Accident Witness

Paula Raymond as Companion

Edward G. Robinson as John Triton

Amzie Strickland as Secretary

When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.

A Life at Stake

1955

English

5.8

♡ 4

Paul Guilfoyle Director

Forbes Murray as Businessman

Angela Lansbury as Doris Hillman

Douglass Dumbrille as Gus Hillman

Charles Maxwell as Police Lt. Hoff

An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.

Green for Danger

1946

English

7.4

♡ 8

73%

Sidney Gilliat Director

Trevor Howard as The Hospital Staff - The Doctors: Dr. Barnes

Judy Campbell as The Nurses: Sister Bates

Alastair Sim as The Police: Inspector Cockrill

Hattie Jacques as (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

Walk a Crooked Mile

1948

English

6.3

♡ 3

55%

Gordon Douglas Director

Grandon Rhodes as Adolph Mizner

Frank Ferguson as Carl Bemish

Charles Evans as Dr. Homer Allen

Louise Allbritton as Dr. Toni Neva

A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?

The Seventh Juror

1962

French

7.5

♡ 5

based on novel or book

Georges Lautner Director

Jean-Pierre Moutier as Albert Testut

Bernard Blier as Grégoire Duval pharmacien

Barbara Brand as La danseuse

Francis Blanche as Le procureur général

In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.

Murder Is My Beat

1955

English

6.0

♡ 4

100%

Edgar G. Ulmer Director

Jay Adler as Bartender Louie

John Indrisano as Cop on Train Platform

Harry Harvey as Gas Station Attendant

Hank Patterson as Medical Examiner

Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.

The Window

1949

English

7.4

♡ 10

100%

parent child relationship

police

Thriller

Ted Tetzlaff Director

Arthur Kennedy as Ed Woodry

Paul Stewart as Joe Kellerson

Richard Benedict as Murdered Seaman

Bobby Driscoll as Tommy

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.

The Amazing Mr. X

1948

English

6.4

♡ 7

40%

Bernard Vorhaus Director

Turhan Bey as Alexis

Lynn Bari as Christine Faber

Richard Carlson as Martin Abbott

Norma Varden as Wealthy-Looking Woman

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...

Outrage

1950

English

6.7

♡ 8

61%

Ida Lupino Director

Vic Perrin as Andy

Mala Powers as Ann Walton

Ida Lupino as Country Dance Attendee

William Challee as Lee Wilkins

A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.

Ministry of Fear

1944

English

7.1

♡ 5

85%

Fritz Lang Director

Dan Duryea as Cost / Travers the Tailor

Mary Field as Martha Penteel

Hillary Brooke as Mrs. Bellane #2

Ray Milland as Stephen Neale

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.

Phantom Lady

1944

English

7.2

♡ 14

90%

Robert Siodmak Director

Ella Raines as Carol Richman

Regis Toomey as Detective

Thomas Gomez as Inspector Burgess

Samuel S. Hinds as Judge

A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

The Third Key

1956

English

7.0

♡ 3

Charles Frend Director

Geoffrey Keen as Chief-Superintendent Jim Malcolm

Stratford Johns as Constable

Meredith Edwards as Mr. Thomas

Ian Bannen as The Young Workman - Stanley James

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.

Dancing with Crime

1947

English

6.5

♡ 5

John Paddy Carstairs Director

Diana Dors as Annette

Bill Owen as Dave Robinson

Jon Pertwee as Police Constable

Richard Attenborough as Ted Peters

When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.

The Undercover Man

1949

English

6.6

♡ 4

60%

Joseph H. Lewis Director

Peter Brocco as Johnny

John Ireland as Narrator

Anthony Caruso as Salvatore Rocco

Leo Penn as Sydney Gordon

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.