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1. The Set-Up (1949)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Sport

7.8

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Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter

Votes: 10,127

2. Fail Safe (1964)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller

8.0

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75 Metascore

A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy

Votes: 24,473

3. Dead Ringer (1963)

Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.3

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66 Metascore

The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey

Votes: 6,458

4. Blast of Silence (1961)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.4

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75 Metascore

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

Director: Allen Baron | Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Peter Clune

Votes: 5,702

5. The Naked Street (1955)

Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.5

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A mobster (Quinn) springs a condemned murderer (Granger) because he got his sister (Bancroft) pregnant.

Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves

Votes: 1,322

6. High Tide (1947)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.4

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A fast-moving automobile fails to make a sharp turn of the highway from Malibu to Los Angeles. It overturns and its occupants, Tim Slade, Newspaper man turned private investigator, and Hugh... See full summary »

Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop, Anabel Shaw

Votes: 645

7. The Secret Partner (1961)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.6

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A wealthy London-based shipping magnate is blackmailed by an evil dentist which threatens to reveal an old case of fraud, while the dentist himself is threatened by a mysterious masked man.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Stewart Granger, Bernard Lee, Haya Harareet, Hugh Burden

Votes: 794

8. The Decks Ran Red (1958)

84 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

6.1

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A band of dishonest seamen plan a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford, Stuart Whitman

Votes: 606

9. Hit and Run (1957)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.3

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A mechanic wants his boss's younger wife for himself, and plans on using a junkyard car to run him over, then dismantling it.

Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, Vince Edwards, Dolores Reed

Votes: 581

10. The Long Goodbye: Maxim Jakubowski on Hard Boiled Fiction (2013 Video)

15 min | Documentary, Short, Crime

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Crime writer and critic Maxim Jakubowski discusses the emergence of hard boiled detective characters from the pages of the pulp magazines from the 1920s through to the 1950s.

Stars: Maxim Jakubowski, Nina van Pallandt