Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "investigation", "prohibition"

1. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

R | 229 min | Crime, Drama

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams

Votes: 377,281 | Gross: $5.32M

2. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

PG-13 | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench

Votes: 296,168 | Gross: $102.83M

3. City Heat (1984)

PG | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Slick Private Investigator Mike Murphy (Burt Reynolds) and tough Police Lieutenant Speer (Clint Eastwood), once partners, now bitter enemies, reluctantly team up to investigate a murder.

Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn

Votes: 10,792 | Gross: $38.35M

4. Call Northside 777 (1948)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker

Votes: 10,224

5. Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023 TV Movie)

Documentary, Crime, History

With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.

Director: David Harvey | Stars: Chuck Granata, Lenny Luizzi, Robert Foster, Robbyn Swan

Votes: 57

6. The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Doris Hill, Warner Oland, Fredric March

Votes: 203

7. Framed (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Woman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde, William Holden

Votes: 321

8. Is My Face Red? (1932)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his gal, Peggy who is a ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 238

9. Broadway (1942)

Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Music

George Raft, playing himself, recalls his days on Broadway, where he acquired a reputation as a great dancer--and also one as a brawler, a ladies man and an associate of some of the city's most notorious gangsters.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, Broderick Crawford

Votes: 132

10. Man Trouble (1930)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.

Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Kenneth MacKenna, Sharon Lynn

Votes: 33

11. The Phantom in the House (1929)

Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Nancy Welford, Henry B. Walthall, Grace Valentine

Votes: 151

12. The Great Man Votes (1939)

Passed | 72 min | Drama

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what ... See full summary »

Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, Katharine Alexander

Votes: 646

13. Night Life in Reno (1931)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A story of love, humor, and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife June to travel to ... See full summary »

Director: Raymond Cannon | Stars: Virginia Valli, Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy, Arthur Housman

Votes: 149

14. The Devil Is Driving (1932)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

There is a garage in downtown New York City on the ground floor of an eight-story building, with a winding ramp, that serves as a cache for stolen automobiles. The second floor is the ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Wynne Gibson, James Gleason, Lois Wilson

Votes: 178

15. Call It Luck (1934)

Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Pat Paterson, Herbert Mundin, Charles Starrett, Gordon Westcott

Votes: 18

16. Convicted (1931)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

Tony Blair, a producer of Broadway plays, is murdered on a California-bound passenger liner, and a series of events leads to an assumption that Claire Norvelle has committed the killing. ... See full summary »

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Aileen Pringle, Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy, Richard Tucker

Votes: 92

17. Partners in Crime (1928)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A big-city is over-run with crime as two gangs fight over turf after one gang invades the territory of the other. Mike Doolan, an amateur private detective, and "Scoops" McGee, a ... See full summary »

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Mary Brian, William Powell

Votes: 44

18. New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1931)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years. Jimmy's latest... See full summary »

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: William Haines, Jimmy Durante, Ernest Torrence, Leila Hyams

Votes: 456

19. The Big Fight (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Lola Lane, Ralph Ince, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Stepin Fetchit

Votes: 33

20. The Arm of the Law (1932)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.

Director: Louis King | Stars: Rex Bell, Marceline Day, Lina Basquette, Dorothy Revier

Votes: 29

21. Trapped (I) (1931)

Passed | 23 min | Short, Crime, Drama

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Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lina Basquette, Stanley Fields, James Murray, Jason Robards Sr.

Votes: 10

22. A Burglar to the Rescue (1931)

Passed | 18 min | Short, Crime, Mystery

The story is about a bank president who has been stealing from the bank. One night, as he is working on the books to cover his crimes,a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversation that ... See full summary »

Director: George Cochrane | Stars: Thurston Hall, Charlotte Wynters, Frank Shannon, Arthur Aylesworth

Votes: 42

23. Dance Hall Hostess (1933)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A woman who works in a dance hall attracts the attention of a bored but rich drunk, which causes friction with her boyfriend.

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Helen Chandler, Jason Robards Sr., Edward J. Nugent, Natalie Moorhead

24. Alias the Lone Wolf (1927)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When Eve De Montalais (Lois Wilson) plans to smuggle her jewels into the United States, unknown to her traveling on the same ship are a gang of thieves who plan to steal the jewels. Michael... See full summary »

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Bert Lytell, Lois Wilson, William V. Mong, Ned Sparks

Votes: 21

25. Playthings of Hollywood (1930)

Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance

Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.

Director: William A. O'Connor | Stars: Phyllis Barrington, Rita La Roy, Sheila Bromley, Edmund Breese

26. Casey of the Coast Guard (1926)

Passed | Adventure, Action

The Coast Guard attempts to break up a smuggling ring that traffics in contraband goods and illegal aliens.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: George O'Hara, Helen Ferguson, J. Barney Sherry, Jean Jarvis

Votes: 22

27. Facing the Gallows (1931)

Passed | 21 min | Short, Crime, Drama

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Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Walter Miller, Allen Greer, Doris Martel, Eddie Baker

28. Swift Justice (1932)

Passed | 21 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Another in the continuing adventures of Detective Nick Harris (Walter Miller), in which he investigates the kidnapping of the young wife of a businessman. Clues point to the partner of the ... See full summary »

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Walter Miller, Allen Greer, Eddie Baker, Edward Hearn

29. Black Paradise (1926)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Leslie Fenton, Edmund Lowe, Edward Peil Sr.

Votes: 27

30. Silence (I) (1931)

60 min | Crime, Drama

A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.

Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, Max Marcin | Stars: Clive Brook, Marjorie Rambeau, Peggy Shannon, Charles Starrett

Votes: 77

31. America in Color (2017– )
Episode: Organized Crime (2018)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, Biography, History

It's the 1920s. America is on the rise, and so is a dark underworld run by a new kind of criminal, one that is organized, sophisticated, and ruthless. For the next 40 years, legendary ... See full summary »

Stars: Eric Meyers, Tony Accardo, Max Beesley, Al Capone

Votes: 17

32. Scary Tales of New York (2023– )
Episode: Haircut for a Mob Boss (2023)

Crime

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, once the chief of the notorious "Murder Incorporated" crime firm, winds up the target of a mob hit in a barber shop chair.

Director: Steve Maher | Stars: Frank DiMatteo, Michael Cannell, Colm Meaney, Shane Serrano