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1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 878,726 | Gross: $6.21M
2. American History X (1998)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama
Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.
Director: Tony Kaye | Stars: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 1,182,694 | Gross: $6.72M
3. Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro.
Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Merced, Jeffrey Donovan
Votes: 165,973 | Gross: $50.07M
4. An American Tail (1986)
G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Director: Don Bluth | Stars: Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Erica Yohn, Nehemiah Persoff
Votes: 57,868 | Gross: $47.48M
5. Convoy (1978)
PG | 110 min | Action, Drama
Truckers form a mile-long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff - Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young
Votes: 18,512 | Gross: $45.00M
6. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013 Video)
PG-13 | 76 min | Animation, Action, Crime
The Batman has returned after a 10-year absence. The Gotham authorities want to arrest him. An old foe wants a reunion. The Feds want the Man of Tomorrow to put a stop to him.
Director: Jay Oliva | Stars: Peter Weller, Ariel Winter, Michael Emerson, David Selby
Votes: 56,800
7. Deep Cover (1992)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.
Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel, René Assa
Votes: 13,944 | Gross: $16.64M
8. 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Mark Gregory, Fred Williamson, Vic Morrow, Christopher Connelly
Votes: 4,052
9. Stage to Tucson (1950)
Passed | 81 min | Western
A group of outlaws posing as Southern sympathizers and led secretly by freight-line owner Jim Maroon are raiding stagecoaches, and this is a threat to the Union communications. Grif ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Rod Cameron, Wayne Morris, Kay Buckley, Sally Eilers
Votes: 256
10. Janosik. Prawdziwa historia (2009)
140 min | Drama, Romance, Adventure
Janosik, an 18th century outlaw living on the Slovak-Polish border, becomes a popular folk hero.
Directors: Kasia Adamik, Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Václav Jirácek, Ivan Martinka, Michal Zebrowski, Sarah Zoe Canner
Votes: 856
11. East Side, West Side (1927)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
After his mother and stepfather have been killed in a barge accident, John Breen is rescued from some East Side toughs by the Lipvitches. He remains in the city, determined to find his real... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dore Davidson
Votes: 166
12. Criminal Lawyer (1937)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Criminal lawyer Barry Brandon visits the nightclub of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with spoiled society girl Betty Walker. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole ... See full summary »
Directors: Christy Cabanne, Edward Killy | Stars: Lee Tracy, Margot Grahame, Eduardo Ciannelli, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 221
13. Double Cross (1941)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When a cop is shot dead during a raid, and another is mistakenly shot for killing him, his fellow officer friend goes undercover on his own to bust up the criminal's operation.
Director: Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Kane Richmond, Pauline Moore, Wynne Gibson, John Miljan
Votes: 203
14. Emergency Call (1933)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An expose of the racketeering "accident victims" who extort millions of dollars annually from American automobile owners, insurance companies and property owners by staging fake accident ... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: William Boyd, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan, George E. Stone
Votes: 194
15. Lucky Losers (1950)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To solve the death of a friend, the boys go to gambling school, then go undercover as croupiers in an illegal gambling house.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hillary Brooke, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 357
16. Racket Busters (1938)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Manhattan gangster John "Czar" Martin enters the trucking business in an effort to control the produce market. When he catches popular trucker Danny Jordan robbing the gang's office to ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Gloria Dickson, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 804
17. Whirlpool (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 444
18. News Is Made at Night (1939)
Approved | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Russell Gleason, George Barbier
Votes: 51
19. Bulldog Edition (1936)
Passed | 57 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Ray Walker, Evalyn Knapp, Regis Toomey, Cy Kendall
Votes: 97
20. The System (1953)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper is crusading against him and the rackets, primarily because Merrick is in love with Felice Stuart (... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Joan Weldon, Robert Arthur, Paul Picerni
Votes: 139
21. One Mile from Heaven (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Drama
A newspaper woman believes she has a Scoop when she finds a 'Quadroon-Mulatto' woman who is thought by all to be the mother of a 'White' child.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Claire Trevor, Sally Blane, Douglas Fowley, Fredi Washington
Votes: 192
22. They Made Her a Spy (1939)
Approved | 69 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Sally Eilers, Allan Lane, Fritz Leiber, Frank M. Thomas
Votes: 141
23. He Couldn't Say No (1938)
Passed | 57 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
An office clerk is harassed by his girlfriend's mother.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Frank McHugh, Jane Wyman, Cora Witherspoon, Diana Lewis
Votes: 277
24. Cody of the Pony Express (1950)
Approved | 270 min | Western
An Eastern syndicate, plotting to gain control of the western frontier, hires a gang led by Mort Black to drive out the settlers. Army undercover agent Lt. Jim Archer and young Pony Express... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Dickie Moore, Peggy Stewart, William Fawcett
Votes: 41
25. Heroes of the West (1932)
Passed | 225 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Julie Bishop, Onslow Stevens, William Desmond
Votes: 58
26. The Stork Pays Off (1941)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Victor Jory, Rochelle Hudson, Maxie Rosenbloom, Horace McMahon
Votes: 36
27. I Was Framed (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but although the newspaperman... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tod Andrews, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey, Patti Hale
Votes: 212
28. Exposed (1938)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger, Herbert Mundin, Charles D. Brown
Votes: 56
29. A Man's Fight (1919)
Passed | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when Evans assaulted her. Although Ethel, ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Dorothy Wallace, J. Barney Sherry, Wedgwood Nowell
Votes: 27
30. The Old Homestead (1942)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Another in the series of films Republic made from 1939 to 1944 headlining the rustic family musical group known as "The Weaver Brothers and Elviry." In real life, June Weaver (Elviry) was ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Dick Purcell
31. Rose of the Tenements (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance, War
Rose Rosetti, the orphaned daughter of a New York gangster, and Danny Lewis, another orphan, have been brought up by Sara and Abraham Kamisnsky, an elderly Jewish couple with an ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Shirley Mason, John Harron, Evelyn Selbie, Sidney Franklin