5 Against the House (1955)
Four college buddies enjoying a night at a Reno casino are told by a cop that robbing the casino "cannot be done." That gets the brainiest rich kid among them thinking up a plan for the perfect robbery. He convinces the others to join in when they hear that it will only be a college hoax, his plan b
While the City Sleeps (1956)
A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the first of his senior executives who can get the earliest scoops on the case
Dont Bother to Knock (1952)
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes shes dangerous
The Harder They Fall (1956)
An ex sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina
A Double Life (1947)
A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello
Force of Evil (1948)
An unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him
Big House, U.S.A. (1955)
Gerry Barker finds a lost boy whose rich father is extorted into paying a ransom for his return but the boy accidentally dies and Jerry goes to prison
They Live by Night (1948)
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning
The Miami Story (1954)
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city
The Enforcer (1951)
A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc
Pickup on South Street (1953)
A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A corrupt D A with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter who wrote them for manslaughter in order to silence him
In a Lonely Place (1950)
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him However, she soon starts to have her doubts
Laura (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating
TMen (1947)
Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring
Thunder Road (1958)
A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business He has to battle big city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison
The Red House (1947)
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods
You Only Live Once (1937)
The public defenders secretary and an ex convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believe he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier
Panic in the Streets (1950)
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague
The Big Heat (1953)
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate
Dark Passage (1947)
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence
The Sniper (1952)
A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant
To Have and Have Not (1944)
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer
The Big Sleep (1946)
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family Before the complex case is over, hes seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love
Suspicion (1941)
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her
Gilda (1946)
A small time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employers new wife is his former lover
Split Second (1953)
Two escaped killers take hostages and hide in a Nevada mining ghost town knowing that an atom bomb is scheduled to be tested there the next morning
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette
Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance representative lets himself be talked by a seductive housewife into a murderinsurance fraud scheme that arouses the suspicion of an insurance investigator
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the Merry Widow killer sought by the authorities
The Third Man (1949)
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime
Crime Wave (1953)
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter
The Violent Years (1956)
Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents who cant seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all girl gang who rob and rape young men
Highway Dragnet (1954)
Wrongly accused of killing a bar girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model
House of Strangers (1949)
After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective
A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress
The Midnight Story (1957)
When a San Francisco priest is murdered, a policeman, whos a close friend, starts an investigation
The Wrong Man (1956)
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel Manny Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber
Mr. Arkadin (1955)
An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold war European landscape
The Glass Key (1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re election campaign
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Chicago reporter P J McNeal re opens a decade old murder case
Undercurrent (1946)
Middle aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband
Cry of the City (1948)
Police Lieut Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop killer Martin Rome
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
An ex bomber pilot is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife