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1. The Little Train Robbery (1905)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Action, Crime
In this parody of 1903's _Great Train Robbery, The (1903)_, also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by police officers.
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Votes: 345
2. The Black Hand (1906)
11 min | Short, Action, Crime
Two members of a gang write a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding that he give them money, or else they will harm his family and his shop. The butcher is afraid and upset, but he is ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace McCutcheon | Stars: Anthony O'Sullivan, Robert G. Vignola
Votes: 276
3. The Vampires: The Severed Head (1915)
33 min | Short, Action, Crime
A reporter who is investigating a criminal organization called the Vampires, receives a telegram stating that the body of the national security agent in charge of the Vampire investigations was found decapitated.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Thelès
Votes: 265
4. The Vampires: The Ring That Kills (1915)
15 min | Short, Action, Crime
Episode 2 of 'Les vampires', 'The Deadly Ring'
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Stacia Napierkowska
Votes: 254
5. The Vampires: The Red Codebook (1915)
42 min | Short, Action, Crime
Episode Three of 'Les vampires', 'The Red Cryptogram'
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Louis Leubas
Votes: 249
6. The Vampires: The Spectre (1916)
32 min | Short, Action, Crime
'Les Vampires' Episode Four 'The Spectre'
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Fernand Herrmann
Votes: 233
7. The Vampires: Dead Man's Escape (1916)
37 min | Short, Action, Crime
'Les Vampires' episode five, 'The Corpse's Escape'
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Fernand Herrmann
Votes: 228
8. The Vampires: Hypnotic Eyes (1916)
58 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
'Les vampires' Episode Six 'The Eyes that Mesmerise'
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Fernand Herrmann
Votes: 250
9. The Vampires: Satanas (1916)
46 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
After Phil Guard and Normandin capture two Vampires, Irma Vep and Moreno, the latter is guillotined and the woman is condemned to life imprisonment. The authorities as well as Philip, good ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Louis Leubas, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Fernand Herrmann
Votes: 241
10. The Vampires: The Thunder Master (1916)
55 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Satanas, disguised as bishop goes to visit Irma Vep in prison to announce its issuance. The ship that takes Irma is cast in prison by Satanas. Irma Vep returns to Paris. Captured in turn Satanas commits suicide in prison.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Louis Leubas, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, René Poyen
Votes: 242
11. The Vampires: The Poisoner (1916)
53 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Satanas, having committed suicide in prison, Venenos becomes the head of the Vampires. He learns that Philip is engaged to be married and orders Irma Vep to take an apartment in the same ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Frédéric Moriss, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Musidora
Votes: 236
12. The Vampires: The Terrible Wedding (1916)
60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
The Vampires do not give up their attempts on the life of Philip Guard even after he is married. The wife of the janitor who was accidentally poisoned by wine meant for Philip's wedding is ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Frédéric Moriss, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Musidora
Votes: 229
13. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Not Rated | 242 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel
Votes: 9,175
14. Murder! (1930)
TV-PG | 92 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman
Votes: 6,927
15. Convicts at Large (1938)
Not Rated | 57 min | Drama
An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.
Directors: Scott R. Beal, David Friedman | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Paula Stone, William Royle, John Kelly
Votes: 72
16. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Karen Verne
Votes: 6,657
17. Federal Fugitives (1941)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Spotting a man in Washington D.C. that he thinks looks like Otto Lieberman, a fugitive that caused a plane crash that killed eight people, government-agent James Madison manages to identify... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Doris Day, Victor Varconi, Charles C. Wilson
Votes: 76
18. Scarlet Street (1945)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 19,214
19. Dishonored Lady (1947)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A beautiful editor at a fashion magazine has a breakdown due to the pressures of her work and her disappointing love life. A psychiatrist recommends that she start life fresh by moving into a smaller apartment and under another name.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder, William Lundigan
Votes: 1,689
20. Shed No Tears (1948)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wife convinces her husband to fake his death so they can collect on the life insurance. However, he doesn't know that she has been having an affair for some time, and she has plans for the money - and they don't include him.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Wallace Ford, June Vincent, Mark Roberts, Frank Albertson
Votes: 469
21. He Walked by Night (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell
Votes: 6,713
22. The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay
Votes: 10,531
23. Girl Gang (1954)
Not Rated | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A sleazy gangster has a gang of young girls commit robberies and prostitution for him by getting them hooked on drugs.
Director: Robert C. Dertano | Stars: Gloria Victor, Timothy Farrell, Harry Keaton, Lou Monson
Votes: 352
24. One Way Ticket to Hell (1955)
Not Rated | 61 min | Crime, Drama
Cassandra falls in with the wrong crowd in high school. Her home life is not great, and she turns to a group of delinquent bikers to escape. Before long she's doing drugs and failing her ... See full summary »
Director: Bamlet Lawrence Price Jr. | Stars: Barbara Marks, Kurt Martell, Robert A. Sherry, Bamlet Lawrence Price Jr.
Votes: 245
25. The Violent Years (1956)
Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents who can't 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.
Director: William Morgan | Stars: Jean Moorhead, Barbara Weeks, Art Millan, Theresa Hancock
Votes: 1,811
26. Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
Unrated | 80 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The criminal exploits of Public Enemy number 1, George 'Machine-Gun' Kelly, during the 1930s.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam, Richard Devon
Votes: 1,984
27. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Mystery
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 71,397 | Gross: $11.90M
28. Fallguy (1962)
64 min | Crime, Drama
A teenager trying to help an accident victim finds himself enmeshed in political corruption and racketeering and charged with a murder he didn't commit.
Director: Donn Harling | Stars: Ed Dugan, G.J. Mitchell, Louis Gartner, Don Alderette
Votes: 161
29.
Secret Agent (1964–1967)
Episode:
The Colonel's Daughter
(1964)
TV-PG | 52 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Drake is in India when he is asked by an old friend, the Delhi police chief, to investigate the mysterious death of the employee of a retired colonel. The colonel sells exotic butterflies but Drake finds out that there is a lot more to it.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Virginia Maskell, Michael Trubshawe, Warren Mitchell
Votes: 90
30. Angels from Hell (1968)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action
A destructive ex-motorcycle gang leader comes home from Vietnam to resume his life. His desire to form a powerful gang has the police running scared. But, will he succeed...
Director: Bruce Kessler | Stars: Tom Stern, Ted Markland, Jack Starrett, Arlene Martel
Votes: 396
31. Max and the Junkmen (1971)
Not Rated | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Danielle Durou, Alain Belart, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider
Votes: 3,139 | Gross: $0.03M
32. The Big Boss (1971)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.
Directors: Wei Lo, Chia-Hsiang Wu | Stars: Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, Marilyn Bautista
Votes: 29,490 | Gross: $0.04M
33. Sukeban burûsu: Mesubachi no gyakushû (1971)
87 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found it's way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and between boyfriends. But she has to ... See full summary »
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Reiko Ike, Yukie Kagawa, Shinsuke Taki, Hiroshi Miyauchi
Votes: 182
34. The Way of the Dragon (1972)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.
Director: Bruce Lee | Stars: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao, Ping-Ou Wei
Votes: 41,077 | Gross: $4.06M
35. Bonnie's Kids (1972)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rebellious sisters and a crooked PI try to escape from the girls' mobster uncle with stolen loot, and meet dangerous characters while dodging a pair of enforcers.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Tiffany Bolling, Steve Sandor, Robin Mattson, Scott Brady
Votes: 913
36. Wozzeck (1972 TV Movie)
104 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Wozzeck, an ordinary soldier, is tormented with thoughts that the woman he lives with is having an affair.
Director: Joachim Hess | Stars: Toni Blankenheim, Richard Cassilly, Gerhard Unger, Hans Sotin
Votes: 43
37. Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
PG | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one is in the bag - thereby, the police precipitate in a desperate car chase against Pace and his Eleanor across Southern California.
Director: H.B. Halicki | Stars: H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia, Jerry Daugirda, James McIntyre
Votes: 9,959 | Gross: $0.47M
38. Fighting Mad (1978)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: James Iglehart, Carmen Argenziano, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy
Votes: 691
39. Yomigaeru kinrô (1979)
131 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.
Director: Tôru Murakawa | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Jun Fubuki, Kei Satô, Mikio Narita
Votes: 294
40. Yajû shisubeshi (1980)
119 min | Drama, Crime, Action
A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.
Director: Tôru Murakawa | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Mako Midori, Akemi Mari, Toshio Kurosawa
Votes: 312
41. Class of 1984 (1982)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with a delinquent punk posse who run the institute with an iron fist.
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 13,262
42. Savage Streets (1984)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.
Directors: Danny Steinmann, Tom DeSimone | Stars: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Robert Dryer, Johnny Venokur
Votes: 5,704
43. Yes, Madam! (1985)
TV-MA | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two hard kicking women cops from HK and UK get the case.
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock, John Sham, Hoi Mang
Votes: 2,943
44. Reform School Girls (1986)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A new group of girls arrives at Pridemore Juvenile Facility, where the brutal warden plays favoritism with a few, and treats the rest like animals. But one girl is not taking this horrible treatment lying down.
Director: Tom DeSimone | Stars: Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Pat Ast, Sybil Danning
Votes: 2,988 | Gross: $2.51M
45. Jackals (1986)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Cops in a small town near the Mexican border find themselves caught up in a scheme that smuggles illegal aliens into the country.
Director: Gary Grillo | Stars: Jack Lucarelli, Gerald McRaney, Wilford Brimley, Jameson Parker
Votes: 217 | Gross: $0.49M
46. Sha shou tian shi (1989)
91 min | Action, Thriller
Three female cops form a special unit and get their main witness out of the clutches of a gang. The witness holds the key to Chu Chung Sing, a gang-lord who runs a night-club. They will have to face a ruthless but sentimental killer.
Director: Chun-Ku Lu | Stars: Yuen Hung, An An, Kam Bun, Pui-Kei Chan
Votes: 202
47. Martial Law (1990 Video)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two cops who are martial arts experts team up to stop a criminal organization headed by a ruthless boss who's also a martial artist.
Director: Steve Cohen | Stars: Chad McQueen, Cynthia Rothrock, David Carradine, Andy McCutcheon
Votes: 1,722
48. King of New York (1990)
R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller
A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo
Votes: 42,144 | Gross: $2.55M
49. Martial Law II: Undercover (1991 Video)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A martial arts expert cop teams up with another to take down a criminal organization after one of his fellow detectives suspiciously dies in a car accident.
Director: Kurt Anderson | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Jeff Wincott, Billy Drago, Paul Johansson
Votes: 1,167
50. Toppû! Minipato tai - Aikyacchi Jankushon (1991 Video)
93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A comedy about a daring policewoman in leotards, who defeats criminals using gymnastics.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Aiko Asano, Minako Fujimoto, Jirô Miyaguchi, Daisuke Nagakura
Votes: 127
51. Hit the Dutchman (1992)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama
Arthur Flegenheimer is a thief recently released from prison who is recruited by noted hood Jack "Legs" Diamond. Flegenheimer changes his name to Dutch Schultz and, thanks to his brutal and... See full summary »
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Bruce Nozick, Jack Conley, Sally Kirkland, Jennifer Pusheck
Votes: 221
52. Mafiya bessmertna (1993)
93 min | Action, Crime
Private detective Victor Grishanin committed murder by negligence, while investigating the strange death of his father.
Director: Leonid Partigul | Stars: Dmitriy Pevtsov, Tatyana Skorokhodova, Leonard Tolstoy, Bakhtiyar Zakirov
Votes: 52
53. Judgment Night (1993)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff
Votes: 18,810 | Gross: $12.14M
54. Tokyo Mafia (1995)
83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ginya Yabuki is a successful criminal on the fringes of Kabukicho, dealing in whale meat and flash memory chips with a small group of six comrades. But it wasn't always like this. Yabuki ... See full summary »
Director: Seiichi Shirai | Stars: Riki Takeuchi, Masayuki Imai, Reiko Yasuhara, Hiroshi Miyauchi
Votes: 83
55. Black Angel Vol. 1 (1998)
107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying of her parents and is only saved from sharing their fate by an underground hitwoman who goes by the ... See full summary »
Director: Takashi Ishii | Stars: Riona Hazuki, Reiko Takashima, Jinpachi Nezu, Kippei Shîna
Votes: 921
56. Ichi the Killer (2001)
R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun
Votes: 60,081 | Gross: $0.02M
57. WiseGirls (2002)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A new waitress working at an Italian restaurant in New York City finds herself entangled in a mob-run underworld of drug dealing and murder.
Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Mariah Carey, Melora Walters, Arthur J. Nascarella
Votes: 3,146
58. Graveyard of Honor (2002)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Gorô Kishitani, Ryôsuke Miki, Narimi Arimori, Mikio Ôsawa
Votes: 2,349
59. Gun Crazy: Episode 1 - A Woman from Nowhere (2002 Video)
65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A western set in 2002 Okinawa, Japan, where a woman on a mission rides her Harley Davidson into lawless Tsuson. Fortunately, she's quite capable of defending herself, with or without weapons.
Director: Atsushi Muroga | Stars: Ryôko Yonekura, Shingo Tsurumi, Takeshi Yamato, Shun Sugata
Votes: 168
60. Elephant (2003)
R | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Elias McConnell, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson
Votes: 97,298 | Gross: $1.23M
61. Una de zombis (2003)
99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two former Catholic school classmates want to be movie makers despite their total lack of talent, contacts, or even a story to tell.
Director: Miguel Ángel Lamata | Stars: Miguel Ángel Aparicio, Mayte Navales, Miguel Ángel Aijón, Nacho Rubio
Votes: 535
62. Helter Skelter (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 136 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.
Director: John Gray | Stars: Jeremy Davies, Clea DuVall, Allison Smith, Eric Dane
Votes: 3,658
63. Concrete (2004)
113 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured.
Director: Hiromu Nakamura | Stars: Katsuya Kobayashi, Miki Komori, Masanori Machida, Kensuke Mano
Votes: 507
64. Yakuza-Busting Girls: Final Death-Ride Battle (2010)
93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A girl named Asami embarks on a bloody mission of vengeance after a ruthless killer massacres her friends the yakuza hunters
Director: Kazushi Nakadaira | Stars: Asami, Rena Komine, Jirô Satô, Misato Tate
Votes: 143
65. Outrage (2010)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shîna, Ryô Kase, Fumiyo Kohinata
Votes: 14,668
66. Salt (2010)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Thriller
A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski
Votes: 330,248 | Gross: $118.31M
67. The Craigslist Killer (2011 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
On the surface, Philip Markoff appears to be the ideal med student, fiancé and future son-in-law - but there's something seriously wrong with him.
Director: Stephen Kay | Stars: Jake McDorman, Agnes Bruckner, Joshua Close, Julia Campbell
Votes: 5,469
68. Beyond Outrage (2012)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Toshiyuki Nishida, Tomokazu Miura, Takeshi Kitano, Ryô Kase
Votes: 7,267
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