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1. Inherent Vice (2014)

R | 148 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston

Votes: 110,761 | Gross: $8.11M

2. The Samurai (1967)

GP | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier

Votes: 57,197 | Gross: $0.04M

3. Juggernaut (1974)

PG | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins

Votes: 6,326 | Gross: $1.56M

4. Villain (1971)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.

Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden

Votes: 2,036

5. Appointment with a Shadow (1957)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when he is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.

Director: Richard Carlson | Stars: George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith, Virginia Field

Votes: 393

6. House of Horrors (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Horror

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Robert Lowery, Virginia Grey, Bill Goodwin, Martin Kosleck

Votes: 1,290

7. Tension (1949)

Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover.

Director: John Berry | Stars: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan

Votes: 3,576

8. The Great Smokey Roadblock (1977)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

After his rig is repossessed, an aging trucker by the name of Elegant John Howard decides he and his truck have one more good run in them, and with the help of a hitchhiker and a few others he will make it happen.

Director: John Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Austin Pendleton, Robert Englund

Votes: 608

9. Highway 301 (1950)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Led by a psychopathic killer, a vicious gang of armed robbers terrorizes Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, robbing banks and payrolls and murdering anyone who might identify them.

Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: William P. Lane Jr., John S. Battle, W. Kerr Scott, Steve Cochran

Votes: 1,117

10. Walk a Tightrope (1963)

Not Rated | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In England, an American expat is hired by a woman to kill her ex-husband but things are not what they seem to be at first glance.

Director: Frank Nesbitt | Stars: Dan Duryea, Patricia Owens, Richard Leech, Neil McCallum

Votes: 253

11. Dumas (2010)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, History

When Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, his ghostwriter, are at the summit of their collaboration, Auguste decides to pass himself off as Alexandre in order to seduce Charlotte, a fervent admirer of the great man.

Director: Safy Nebbou | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Dominique Blanc, Mélanie Thierry

Votes: 699

12. The Bandit (1946)

83 min | Crime, Drama

A contingent of Italian prisoners of war arrive on a train from Germany after World War II to Turin. The city where Ernesto lives has been bombed, his mother is dead and his sister has gone missing.

Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Anna Magnani, Amedeo Nazzari, Carla Del Poggio, Carlo Campanini

Votes: 490

13. Do You Know This Voice? (1964)

80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The kidnap of a child goes wrong and the child dies. An old lady is the only witness having heard the disguised voice of the kidnapper from outside a public telephone box. To trap the murderer she tells the press she has seen his face.

Director: Frank Nesbitt | Stars: Dan Duryea, Isa Miranda, Gwen Watford, Peter Madden

Votes: 389

14. Whistling in the Dark (1933)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster who hopes to get the writer's help in devising the "perfect crime."

Directors: Elliott Nugent, Charles Reisner | Stars: Ernest Truex, Una Merkel, Edward Arnold, John Miljan

Votes: 348

15. Footsteps in the Night (1957)

Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A gambling addict is the logical suspect in the death of a card-playing neighbor who caused his relapse - too logical, think the two detectives on the case.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Eleanore Tanin, Douglas Dick

Votes: 174

16. Million Dollar Pursuit (1951)

Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After finding a lost key for a cashier's office in a large department store, a small-time criminal recruits four hoodlums to aid him in robbing the store's cash vault.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Penny Edwards, Grant Withers, Norman Budd, Michael St. Angel

Votes: 72

17. A Daughter of the Law (1921)

Passed | 50 min | Crime, Drama

Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang. His sister Nora finds him and tries to convince him to leave the gang, but he refuses, and his father will have ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Carmel Myers, John B. O'Brien, Fred Kohler, Jack Walters

Votes: 35

18. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Death Lends a Hand (1971)

TV-PG | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Columbo matches his skills against Brimmer, a former cop turned private investigator with a quick temper who tries to blackmail a client's wife. When she refuses, he accidentally kills her and it's up to Columbo to nail him.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Pat Crowley, Ray Milland

Votes: 3,751

19. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.2855 (2004)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Peter Rose | Stars: Gary Beadle, Kim Medcalf, Leslie Grantham, Stephen Churchett

20. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode: The Trap (1959)

TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The Highway Patrol sets a trap by transporting a crime boss to death row in hopes of enticing his henchmen to risk capture by trying to rescue him, but the henchmen may try to kill him instead.

Director: William Conrad | Stars: Broderick Crawford, William Boyett, Dorothy Stinnette, John Dennis

Votes: 74

21. A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Episode: If Memory Serves (1989)

TV-14 | Drama, Action

Hawk is hired to protect a Haitian historian from someone he believes is trying to use voodoo to learn of a secret.

Director: Mario DiLeo | Stars: Avery Brooks, Paul Butler, Nathan George, Charles Dumas

Votes: 17