Film Noir the 1930s
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101. La petite Lise (1930)
84 min | Drama
Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a few years in a chain gang, he is released for good behavior. He feels very ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Pierre Alcover, Julien Bertheau, Alexandre Mihalesco, Nadia Sibirskaïa
Votes: 233
102. Okay America! (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Drama
A gossip columnist's rise to fame, closely based on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lew Ayres, Maureen O'Sullivan, Louis Calhern, Edward Arnold
Votes: 99
103. Paid (1930)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 805
104. The Man with Two Faces (1934)
Not Rated | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke
Votes: 757
105. The Murder Man (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 1,282
106. They All Come Out (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan
Votes: 315
107. Bella Donna (1934)
Approved | 91 min | Drama
A housewife bored with her marriage and her life falls for a sinister man and is persuaded to help him kill her husband.
Director: Robert Milton | Stars: Mary Ellis, John Stuart, Cedric Hardwicke, Conrad Veidt
Votes: 33
108. The Westland Case (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Carol Hughes, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 150
109. The Last Warning (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Kay Linaker, E.E. Clive
Votes: 50
110. Poison Pen (1939)
66 min | Drama
A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as "poison pen letters".
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd, Belle Chrystall
Votes: 245
111. Heat Lightning (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 1,030
112. Muss 'em Up (1936)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A private detective is enlisted to find out who shot a dog and threatened its owner, but before long he's also involved in a kidnapping and murder plot.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Preston Foster, Margaret Callahan, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 217
113. Show Them No Mercy! (1935)
Approved | 76 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The title refers to the government's plan at the time for putting an end to a lucrative racket, kidnapping. When Hudson and Norris enter a country house to get out of the rain it turns out to be a kidnapper hideout.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Edward Norris
Votes: 177
114. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Mystery
A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley
Votes: 196
115. Police mondaine (1937)
90 min | Crime, Drama
For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has ... See full summary »
Directors: Michel Bernheim, Christian Chamborant | Stars: Charles Vanel, Alice Field, Pierre Larquey, Jean-Louis Barrault
Votes: 20
116. Gambling Hell (1942)
61 min | Adventure, Drama
A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Mireille Balin, Henri Guisol, Erich von Stroheim
Votes: 176
117. L'homme mystérieux (1933)
40 min | Short, Drama
When the night comes,the wife's terror will rise..
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Charles Vanel, Paul Amiot, Georges Paulais, Henry Bonvallet
Votes: 44
118. Chéri-Bibi (1938)
110 min | Drama
An innocent young man ,burglar Cheri-Bibi and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.
Director: Léon Mathot | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marcel Dalio, Suzet Maïs
Votes: 29
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