The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)

Drama
1947
Movie

They Made Me a Fugitive

6.6
1947

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

Crime
1957
Movie

Plunder Road

7
1957

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

7.1

Crime
1947
Movie

The Web

7.1
1947

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

6.5

Crime
1953
Movie

The Blue Gardenia

6.5
1953

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

Crime
1942
Movie

The Glass Key

6.6
1942

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

Crime
1950
Movie

The Blue Lamp

6.6
1950

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.

Drama
1951
Movie

On Dangerous Ground

6.6
1951

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

6.3

Crime
1947
Movie

Johnny O'Clock

6.3
1947

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.

5.9

Crime
1955
Movie

5 Against the House

5.9
1955

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

6.5

Crime
1947
Movie

Framed

6.5
1947

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

6.5

Crime
1951
Movie

M

6.5
1951

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.

6.9

Drama
1931
Movie

Little Caesar

6.9
1931

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

6.2

Drama
1949
Movie

Knock on Any Door

6.2
1949

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

6.9

Crime
1956
Movie

Nightfall

6.9
1956

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

6.8

Crime
1939
Movie

Each Dawn I Die

6.8
1939

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

7.4

Thriller
1953
Movie

Pickup on South Street

7.4
1953

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.

Genre : Thriller

Crime
1948
Movie

The Dark Past

6
1948

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.

6.7

Crime
1947
Movie

Born to Kill

6.7
1947

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.