Key Witness (1947)

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.

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.

6.9

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.

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.

Genre : Drama

6.3

Crime
1954
Movie

Witness to Murder

6.3
1954

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

6.1

Mystery
1980
Movie

The Mirror Crack'd

6.1
1980

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Genre : Mystery

7.2

Crime
1948
Movie

The Naked City

7.2
1948

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

6.1

Mystery
1946
Movie

Black Angel

6.1
1946

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

Genre : Mystery

Thriller
1955
Movie

Footsteps in the Fog

7
1955

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

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.

6.3

Thriller
1948
Movie

Sleep, My Love

6.3
1948

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

Thriller
1948
Movie

Hollow Triumph

6.6
1948

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

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.

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.

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.

6.4

Thriller
1950
Movie

Whirlpool

6.4
1950

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.

6.3

Drama
1946
Movie

The Locket

6.3
1946

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

Genre : Drama

6.2

Mystery
1953
Movie

A Blueprint for Murder

6.2
1953

Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.

Genre : Mystery