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1. Bailout at 43,000 (1957)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Romance

5.7

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An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: John Payne, Karen Steele, Paul Kelly, Richard Eyer

Votes: 173

2. Semantic Error: The Movie (2022)

178 min | Drama, Romance

7.4

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Chu Sang-woo is the epitome of an inflexible and strict rule-abiding person. Jang Jae-young is like a semantic error in the perfect world of Chu Sang-woo. Will Sang-woo be able to work with Jae-young as an artist and engineer?

Director: Kim Soo-jung | Stars: Park Seoham, Park Jae-chan, Ji-Oh Song, Kim No-Jin

Votes: 304

3. Enter Arsene Lupin (1944)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, Film-Noir

6.1

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A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She doesn't realize it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Charles Korvin, Ella Raines, J. Carrol Naish, George Dolenz

Votes: 198

4. The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)

Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

6.9

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An agitated and desperate man spares no expense in insisting that Mason represent him against a neighbor's howling dog and act as executor of his will.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins, Grant Mitchell

Votes: 1,029

5. The Corsican Brothers (1941)

Passed | 111 min | Adventure, Romance

6.5

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After their parents are killed, co-joined twin boys are separated, with one raised as a gentleman in Paris and the other in the mountains becoming a bandit.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 758

6. Calling Philo Vance (1940)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

5.8

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Despite an exclusive contract with the U.S. government, designer Archer Coe's design is being bid on by German, Japanese, and Italian agents - until he's murdered.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill, Edward Brophy

Votes: 498

7. Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama

6.3

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After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.

Directors: George Marshall, Otto Preminger | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre, June Lang

Votes: 134

8. Inside Job (1946)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

5.6

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A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Alan Curtis, Milburn Stone

Votes: 221