A Dangerous Profession (1949)

Drama
1955
Movie

The Big Combo

7
1955

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

Genre : Drama

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.

6.5

Crime
1954
Movie

Pushover

6.5
1954

A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

Thriller
1949
Movie

The File on Thelma Jordon

6.6
1949

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

Genre : Thriller

6.7

Crime
1948
Movie

Cry of the City

6.7
1948

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?

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.

6.5

Crime
1953
Movie

The Blue Gardenia

6.5
1953

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.

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

6.1

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.

7.5

Thriller
1943
Movie

Shadow of a Doubt

7.5
1943

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

Genre : Thriller

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.

7.2

Crime
1950
Movie

Where the Sidewalk Ends

7.2
1950

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Crime
1946
Movie

The Dark Corner

6.6
1946

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

7.4

Crime
1944
Movie

The Woman in the Window

7.4
1944

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in 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

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.