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1. Filibus (1915)

76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.5
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Skypirate Filibus commits robberies from her airship, while a dedicated detective attempts to put a stop to it.

Director: Mario Roncoroni | Stars: Valeria Creti, Giovanni Spano, Cristina Ruspoli, Mario Mariani

Votes: 103

2. Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)

65 min | Crime, Drama

6.7
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After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.

Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Robert Warwick, Robert Cummings, Alec B. Francis, Frederick Truesdell

Votes: 203

3. Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920)

60 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Edmund Mortimer | Stars: Bert Lytell, Vola Vale, Eugene Pallette, Wilton Taylor

4. Long Pants (1927)

60 min | Comedy

6.3
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Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. He immediately falls in love with a cocaine-smuggling flapper named Bebe. When Bebe is imprisoned, Harry decides to rescue her. To do so,... See full summary »

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Harry Langdon, Gladys Brockwell, Alan Roscoe, Priscilla Bonner

Votes: 429

5. Asphalt (1929)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

7.4
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Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to ... See full summary »

Director: Joe May | Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann

Votes: 1,323

6. Raffles (1930)

72 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

6.5
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A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "... See full summary »

Directors: George Fitzmaurice, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence, Frederick Kerr

Votes: 756 | Gross: $1.00M

7. Outside the Law (1930)

79 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

6.0
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Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Fingers' moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won't be for another week when the call comes through saying it's now.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Mary Nolan, Edward G. Robinson, Owen Moore, Rockliffe Fellowes

Votes: 136

8. Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931)

89 min | Drama

7.0
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A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl who he thinks resembles the painting and she wants him to become famous he has the idea of robbing the painting. Based on the 1911 real robbery.

Director: Géza von Bolváry | Stars: Trude von Molo, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens, Fritz Odemar

Votes: 40

9. Central Park (1932)

58 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

6.2
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Gangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.

Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee, Henry B. Walthall

Votes: 331

10. Million Dollar Haul (1935)

63 min | Action, Crime, Drama

5.0
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Special Insurance-Investigator Dan Kennedy and his wonder dog, Tarzan the Police Dog, are called in to investigate the persistent robbing of a shipping-and-storage warehouse in Los Angeles.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tarzan, Reed Howes, Janet Chandler, William Farnum

Votes: 10

11. You Only Live Once (1937)

86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.4
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The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon

Votes: 5,442

12. Rhythm Racketeer (1937)

84 min | Crime, Musical

4.7
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Gangster Nap Connors tries to break into the London underworld and finds he has a double in Harry Grant. Forced to return to America by a feared hit-man, Nap uses his double to give him the perfect alibi for a jewel heist on board ship.

Director: James Seymour | Stars: Harry Roy, Princess Pearl, James Carew, Norma Varden

Votes: 19

13. Raffles (1939)

72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

6.3
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Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend... See full summary »

Directors: Sam Wood, William Wyler | Stars: David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, May Whitty, Dudley Digges

Votes: 735 | Gross: $0.09M

14. Eva tropí hlouposti (1939)

85 min | Comedy

7.9
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After several years abroad Michal Nor comes back home to his aunt Pa and his sister Eva who just came back from board school. Aunt Pa is having a birthday soon and Eva knows that she would ... See full summary »

Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Natasa Gollová, Oldrich Nový, Zdenka Baldová, Gustav Hilmar

Votes: 295

15. High Sierra (1941)

PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.5
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After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 14,589

16. The Big Shot (1942)

82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.7
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Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters

Votes: 738

17. Larceny, Inc (1942)

95 min | Comedy, Crime

7.3
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Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson

Votes: 2,275

18. The Killers (1946)

PG | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.8
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Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker

Votes: 18,434

19. Desperate (1947)

PG | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

6.8
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A young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 1,890

20. Hollow Triumph (1948)

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

6.8
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Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity - with unfortunate results.

Directors: Steve Sekely, Paul Henreid | Stars: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks

Votes: 2,232

21. White Heat (1949)

G | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.1
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A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly

Votes: 28,793

22. Criss Cross (1949)

PG | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.5
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An armored truck driver and his lovely ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally

Votes: 7,081

23. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

PG | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.9
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A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore

Votes: 23,335

24. Gun Crazy (1950)

14A | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.6
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74 Metascore

A well meaning crack shot husband is pressured by his beautiful marksman wife to go on an interstate robbery spree, where he finds out just how depraved and deadly she really is.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky

Votes: 11,111

25. Appointment with Danger (1950)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.6
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When ruthlessly dedicated postal inspector investigates the murder of a co-worker, he finds that the sole witness, a nun, has been targeted by the killers.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling

Votes: 1,033

26. Armored Car Robbery (1950)

PG | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

7.0
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A well-planned robbery goes awry, with tough cop Cordell in pursuit.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 2,291

27. Highway 301 (1950)

83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.8
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Led by a psychotic 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: Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan

Votes: 448

28. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

78 min | Comedy, Crime

7.6
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A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass

Votes: 12,239

29. Pool of London (1951)

85 min | Crime, Drama

7.1
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When their ship docks the crew disembark as usual to pick up their lives in postwar London. For one of them his petty smuggling turns more serious when he finds himself caught up with a robbery in the City.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Earl Cameron

Votes: 580

30. Radio tekee murron (1951)

91 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

7.0
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Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real... See full summary »

Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Hannes Häyrinen, Ritva Arvelo, Kullervo Kalske, Kunto Karapää

Votes: 288

31. Carson City (1952)

PG | 87 min | Western

6.4
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When a banker finds his stagecoach shipments of gold from Carson City are vulnerable to holdups, he commissions the building of a railroad through the mountains.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Massey, Richard Webb

Votes: 865

32. The Steel Trap (1952)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.9
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A Los Angeles bank assistant-manager devises a plan to steal money from the bank's vault and to flee to Brazil with his unsuspecting wife.

Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale, Walter Sande

Votes: 934

33. Kipparikvartetti (1952)

80 min | Comedy, Musical

5.0
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Director: Ville Salminen | Stars: Olavi Virta, Kauko Käyhkö, Auvo Nuotio, Teijo Joutsela

Votes: 62

34. Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)

94 min | Crime, Drama

7.8
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85 Metascore

An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.

Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli

Votes: 6,516 | Gross: $0.13M

35. The Good Die Young (1954)

100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.7
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In London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins

Votes: 760

36. Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.9
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An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly

Votes: 995

37. The Runaway Bus (1954)

78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

6.3
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When heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport. However, one amongst their number is the ... See full summary »

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris

Votes: 497

38. To pontikaki (1954)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

5.0
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A thief decides to change life when he meets and falls in love with a girl who sells flowers.

Directors: Giorgos Asimakopoulos, Nikos Tsiforos | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Mimis Fotopoulos, Giorgos Lefteriotis, Rika Dialyna

Votes: 196

39. Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)

118 min | Crime, Thriller

8.2
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97 Metascore

Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey

Votes: 25,831 | Gross: $0.06M

40. The Ladykillers (1955)

91 min | Comedy, Crime

7.7
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91 Metascore

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom

Votes: 25,514

41. Violent Saturday (1955)

PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.9
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Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith

Votes: 1,980

42. 5 Against the House (1955)

84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

5.9
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Four vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore

Votes: 1,178

43. The Killing (1956)

PG | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

8.0
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91 Metascore

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five man team to plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen

Votes: 79,168

44. The King and Four Queens (1956)

PG | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

6.1
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Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols

Votes: 1,346

45. Bob le flambeur (1956)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.7
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80 Metascore

After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Guy Decomble

Votes: 10,495 | Gross: $0.02M

46. A Strange Adventure (1956)

70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

5.4
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A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Joan Evans, Ben Cooper, Marla English, Jan Merlin

Votes: 110

47. Flight to Hong Kong (1956)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

5.5
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Macao organized crime under-boss Tony Dumont rips the Syndicate off and disappears with a load of diamonds but the Syndicate men and the Hong-Kong police are chasing him around the world.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, Dolores Donlon, Soo Yong

Votes: 138

48. The Man Is Armed (1956)

70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.1
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Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as ... See full summary »

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Dane Clark, May Wynn, William Talman, Barton MacLane

Votes: 74

49. You Are There (1953–1972)
Episode: The Recovery of the Mona Lisa (December 10, 1913) (1956)

Drama, History

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Stars: Peter Brocco, Lawrence Dobkin, Ernest Sarracino, Vito Scotti

50. No Road Back (1957)

83 min | Action, Crime

5.9
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A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.

Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, Norman Wooland

Votes: 89



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