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.

Nightfall

1956

English

7.1

♡ 12

100%

Jacques Tourneur Director

Gene Roth as Bartender

Aldo Ray as James Vanning

Brian Keith as John

Rudy Bond as Red

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

Criss Cross

1949

English

7.4

♡ 9

86%

79%

Action

armored car

based on novel or book

los angeles, california

mobster

noir

Thriller

Robert Siodmak Director

George Lynn as Andy

John Roy as Roundup Bartender

Richard Long as Slade Thompson

Dan Duryea as Slim Dundee

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

Cry of the City

1948

English

7.2

♡ 9

93%

Robert Siodmak Director

Tom Moore as Doctor

Robert Adler as Man

Richard Conte as Martin Rome

Walter Baldwin as Orvy

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

Pickup Alley

1957

English

6.2

♡ 6

38%

John Gilling Director

Aileen Lewis as Airline Passenger at Customs

Trevor Howard as Frank McNally

Kevin Stoney as Policeman

Cyril Shaps as Warden

Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.

You Only Live Once

1937

English

7.2

♡ 30

100%

77%

Action

based on a true story

Fritz Lang Director

Jack Carson as Attendant in First Gas Station

Sylvia Sidney as Joan Graham

Barton MacLane as Stephen Whitney

Amzie Strickland as Young Woman

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Terror House

1942

English

6.2

♡ 6

33%

Leslie Arliss Director

Tucker McGuire as Doris

Wilfrid Lawson as Jim Sturrock

Joyce Howard as Marian Ives

James Mason as Stephen Deremid

Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

The Third Secret

1964

English

6.5

♡ 6

62%

Charles Crichton Director

Richard Attenborough as Alfred Price-Gorham

Diane Cilento as Anne Tanner

Judi Dench as Miss Humphries

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Police Officer

A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.

Johnny Allegro

1949

English

6.4

♡ 9

43%

san francisco, california

Thriller

Ted Tetzlaff Director

Thomas Browne Henry as Frank

Nina Foch as Glenda Chapman

George Raft as Johnny Allegro

Cosmo Sardo as Waiter

Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.

The Killer That Stalked New York

1950

English

6.4

♡ 5

33%

Earl McEvoy Director

Robert Foulk as Cop

Walter Burke as Danny - Bellhop

Paul Picerni as Health Department Investigator

Norman Leavitt as The Photographer

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.

Escape in the Fog

1945

English

5.9

♡ 9

27%

san francisco, california

Thriller

Budd Boetticher Director

William Yip as Chinese Man

Elmo Lincoln as Cop

Harrison Greene as Mr. Boggs - Hotel Guest

John Elliott as Thomas - the Butler

A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.

711 Ocean Drive

1950

English

6.8

♡ 5

62%

Joseph M. Newman Director

Amzie Strickland as Dame at Boxing Match

George DeNormand as Deputy Sheriff

Joanne Dru as Gail Mason

Edmond O'Brien as Mal Granger

A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.

The Accursed

1957

English

5.7

♡ 7

Michael McCarthy Director

Rupert Davies as Clinton

Christopher Lee as Doctor Neumann

Robert Bray as Major Shane

Oscar Quitak as Thomas Rilke

One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally know the name of the traitor - and that he or she comes from within their own unit - their annual gathering becomes a deadly trial...

Armored Car Robbery

1950

English

7.0

♡ 7

66%

Richard Fleischer Director

Douglas Fowley as Benny McBride

Mack Williams as Detective Marshall - Police Lab

Anne Nagel as Mrs. Marsha Phillips

Anne O'Neal as Mrs. Page - Benny's Landlady

While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey.

The Night Holds Terror

1955

English

6.3

♡ 3

36%

Andrew L. Stone Director

Jonathan Hale as Bob Henderson

Eddie Marr as Captain Cole

Jack Kelly as Gene Courtier

Joel Marston as Reporter

A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.

Panique

1946

French

7.9

♡ 7

100%

Julien Duvivier Director

Olivier Darrieux as Étienne

Robert Balpo as Le client

Michel Simon as Monsieur Hire

Jean-François Martial as Monsieur Joubert

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.

The Price of Fear

1956

English

6.3

♡ 8

20%

Abner Biberman Director

Anna Karen as Mary

Kenneth Gibson as Restaurant Patron

Mary Field as Ruth McNab

Phillip Pine as Vince Burton

A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't have at the track.

The Female Animal

1957

English

6.1

♡ 4

96%

older woman younger man relationship

rebellious daughter

Romance

suicide attempt

Harry Keller Director

Jan Sterling as Lily Frayne

Ann Doran as Nurse

Jane Powell as Penny Windsor

Gregg Palmer as Piggy

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...

The Sleeping City

1950

English

6.6

♡ 6

67%

George Sherman Director

Coleen Gray as Ann Sebastian

Michael Strong as Dr. Alex Connell

Richard Conte as Fred Rowan, aka Fred Gilbert

Frank Baxter as Interne

A young doctor taking a break from work is shot in the head, and the police can't find a clue even as to a possible motive. Inspector Al Gordon (John Alexander) decides that he has to put some men on duty at the hospital, and one of them is Fred Rowan (Richard Conte), a detective with experience as an army medic, masquerading as an intern. What Rowan finds is a high-pressure world in which interns are hopelessly squeezed for time, sleep, energy, and -- most of all -- money, and walk a fine line on the edge of personal and professional disaster.

Calcutta

1946

English

6.3

♡ 6

30%

John Farrow Director

Don Beddoe as Jack Collins

William Bendix as Pedro Blake

Colin Kenny as Police Officer

Gail Russell as Virginia Moore

Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.

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Nightfall

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Cry of the City

Pickup Alley

You Only Live Once

Terror House

The Third Secret

Johnny Allegro

The Killer That Stalked New York

Escape in the Fog

711 Ocean Drive

The Accursed

Armored Car Robbery

The Night Holds Terror

Panique

The Price of Fear

The Female Animal

The Sleeping City

Calcutta