The Face Behind the Mask

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The Face Behind the Mask (1941)

Crime, Drama, Horror

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1950 ★ 7.0

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

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.

Plunder Road

Plunder Road

1957 ★ 7.0

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

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.

Conflict

Conflict

1945 ★ 6.7

Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

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.

Cry of the City

Cry of the City

1948 ★ 6.7

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

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.

Hollow Triumph

Hollow Triumph

1948 ★ 6.6

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

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die

1939 ★ 6.8

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.

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.

The Locket

The Locket

1946 ★ 6.4

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

Johnny O'Clock

Johnny O'Clock

1947 ★ 6.3

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.

Cornered

Cornered

1945 ★ 6.2

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum

1966 ★ 5.9

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

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.

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.

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.

Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out

1947 ★ 7.3

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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