Touchez pas au grisbi

1954

French

♡ 10

liberation of hostage

noir

paris, france

ransom

Jacques Becker Director

Marilyn Buferd as Betty

Jeanne Moreau as Josy

Jean Gabin as Max dit Max le Menteur

Dominique Davray as Une prostituée

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.

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.

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.

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.

Deadline - U.S.A.

1952

English

7.2

♡ 12

Richard Brooks Director

Harry Harvey as Bill

Carleton Young as Crane, Garrison's Daughter's Lawyer

Paul Stewart as Harry Thompson

Norman Leavitt as Reporter

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Ride the Pink Horse

1947

English

7.2

♡ 10

100%

86%

Action

based on novel or book

Robert Montgomery Director

Martin Garralaga as Barkeeper

Edward Earle as Locke

Thomas Gomez as Pancho

Harold Goodwin as Red

A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.

Sorry, Wrong Number

1948

English

7.3

♡ 11

86%

husband wife relationship

Anatole Litvak Director

Joyce Compton as Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend

Amzie Strickland as Dance Team Member

Wendell Corey as Dr. Philip Alexander

Dorothy Neumann as Elizabeth Jennings

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

The Glass Key

1942

English

7.0

♡ 10

88%

Stuart Heisler Director

Margaret Hayes as Eloise Matthews

Norma Varden as Henrys' Dinner Guest

Dane Clark as Henry Sloss

Louis Jean Heydt as Man watching dice throw

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Witness to Murder

1954

English

6.6

♡ 11

53%

Roy Rowland Director

Barbara Stanwyck as Cheryl Draper

Juanita Moore as Negress - Mental Patient

Helen Kleeb as Nurse in Mental Ward

Claude Akins as Police Officer

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956

English

6.9

♡ 10

70%

Fritz Lang Director

Carleton Young as Allan Kirk

Edward Binns as Lt. Kennedy

John Roy as Police Officer

Joan Fontaine as Susan Spencer

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

Union Station

1950

English

6.8

♡ 7

63%

Rudolph Maté Director

George Lynn as Detective Moreno

Barry Fitzgerald as Inspector Donnelly

Jan Sterling as Marge Wrighter

Trevor Bardette as Patrolman

Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.

Caught

1949

English

7.0

♡ 5

100%

Max Ophüls Director

Natalie Schafer as Dorothy Dale

Frank Ferguson as Dr. Hoffman

Manfred Inger as Mr. Rudetzki

Barbara Billingsley as Store customer in flowered hat

Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.

Moonrise

1948

English

7.0

♡ 10

100%

Frank Borzage Director

Dane Clark as Danny Hawkins

Irving Bacon as Judd Jenkins

Amzie Strickland as Minor Role

William A. Boardway as Townsman

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

Human Desire

1954

English

7.1

♡ 20

60%

dysfunctional marriage

Fritz Lang Director

Edgar Buchanan as Alec Simmons

Paul Brinegar as Brakeman

Grandon Rhodes as John Owens

Gloria Grahame as Vicki Buckley

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1997.

The Big Knife

1955

English

6.8

♡ 9

91%

Robert Aldrich Director

Robert Emhardt as Bit Part

Ida Lupino as Marion Castle

Ilka Chase as Patty Benedict

Bill Walker as Russell

Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.

The Blue Lamp

1950

English

6.8

♡ 7

83%

Basil Dearden Director

Sam Kydd as Bookmakers Assistant at White City

Arnold Bell as Hospital Doctor

Jennifer Jayne as June

Meredith Edwards as PC 'Taff' Hughes

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

Shockproof

1949

English

6.5

♡ 7

82%

Douglas Sirk Director

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat

Patricia Knight as Jenny Marsh

Frank Ferguson as Logan

Cliff Clark as Mac - Police Lieutenant

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.