You Only Live Once

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You Only Live Once (1937)

Crime, Drama, Romance

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They Live by Night

They Live by Night

1949 ★ 6.9

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 Web

The Web

1947 ★ 7.1

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.

Black Angel

Black Angel

1946 ★ 6.1

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.

Nightfall

Nightfall

1956 ★ 6.9

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

The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950 ★ 7.0

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

They Made Me a Fugitive

They Made Me a Fugitive

1947 ★ 6.6

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

Framed

Framed

1947 ★ 6.5

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.

They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Believe Me

1947 ★ 6.5

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

M

M

1951 ★ 6.4

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.

5 Against the House

5 Against the House

1955 ★ 5.9

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

Macao

Macao

1952 ★ 6.3

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?

The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953 ★ 6.5

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.

Underworld

Underworld

1927 ★ 7.0

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel

1945 ★ 6.6

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.

The Glass Key

The Glass Key

1942 ★ 6.6

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

On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground

1951 ★ 6.6

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.

The Assault

The Assault

2014 ★ 6.8

After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can't remember in her fight for justice. Based on the true story of the Steubenville, Ohio rape case.

Witness to Murder

Witness to Murder

1954 ★ 6.3

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

Ride the Pink Horse

Ride the Pink Horse

1947 ★ 7.2

A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.

Plunder Road

Plunder Road

1957 ★ 7.0

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

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