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51. Dick Tracy (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.
Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette, Lee Van Atta
Votes: 655
52. The Virginian (1929)
Passed | 91 min | Romance, Western
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers that his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen
Votes: 866
53. Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An FBI agent investigates the murder of his partner by taking over the 3 cases he was working on, determined to find his killer.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer, Marisa Pavan
Votes: 1,574
54. Streets of Laredo (1949)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Western
An outlaw separates from his two partners in crime after they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit daring robberies.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: William Holden, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman, William Bendix
Votes: 795
55. Client 9 (2010)
R | 117 min | Documentary
An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Eliot Spitzer, Alex Gibney, Hulbert Waldroup, Lloyd Constantine
Votes: 2,598 | Gross: $0.19M
56. Easy Street (1917)
Unrated | 24 min | Short, Comedy
A reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner-city street.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 5,843
57. Les Miserables (1952)
Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 1,130 | Gross: $2.40M
58. The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)
90 min | Documentary
After her dad shifts his politics from left to right, his daughter tries to understand what happened.
Director: Jen Senko | Stars: Glenn Beck, Eric Boehlert, David Brock, Noam Chomsky
Votes: 1,388
59. Waco (1966)
Passed | 85 min | Western
A lawless town asks the state governor to pardon an imprisoned gunfighter in order to hire him as sheriff but various factions plan to kill the new sheriff and take over the town.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Howard Keel, Jane Russell, Brian Donlevy, Wendell Corey
Votes: 368
60. Joe Hill (1971)
GP | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
About the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.
Director: Bo Widerberg | Stars: Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Evert Anderson
Votes: 928 | Gross: $0.03M
61. Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Music
A famous Viennese ballerina flees Europe during the Austro-Prussian War and falls in love with an American bandit who looks like her deceased royal lover.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce, Walter Slezak
Votes: 378
62. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
Not Rated | 115 min | Documentary, History
This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.
Director: Stanley Nelson | Stars: Blair Anderson, Omar Barbour, Julian Bond, Elaine Brown
Votes: 2,146 | Gross: $0.48M
63. Burn the Witch #0.8 (2023 TV Movie)
Animation, Action, Fantasy
Noel and Ninny are doing an everyday job for Wing Bind when the chief calls. Since the Sabres are not available, the two need to take care of a Dark Dragon that is causing trouble in Front London. But that is just where the problems begin.
Director: Tatsurô Kawano | Stars: Rie Hikisaka, Hiroaki Hirata, Subaru Kimura, Asami Tano
Votes: 82
64. Rails Into Laramie (1954)
Approved | 81 min | Western
A railroad sends an agent to Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the railroad from building its line into the area.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: John Payne, Mari Blanchard, Dan Duryea, Joyce Mackenzie
Votes: 427
65. The Silver Star (1955)
Approved | 73 min | Western
A frontier marshal doubts his own courage when three gunmen threaten his town.
Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: Edgar Buchanan, Marie Windsor, Lon Chaney Jr., Earle Lyon
Votes: 132
66. Big Apple (2001)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The FBI and the New York Police Department battle to keep the mob from taking a bite out of the Big Apple.
Stars: Ed O'Neill, Kim Dickens, Michael Madsen, Jeffrey Pierce
Votes: 144
67. Silent Möbius (1998)
TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A team of policewomen with supernatural powers try to protect the Earth from an alien invasion known as the Lucifer Hawks.
Stars: Naoko Matsui, Hiromi Tsuru, Chieko Honda, Maya Okamoto
Votes: 191
68. The Murri Affair (1974)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, History
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent, abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the ... See full summary »
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Tina Aumont
Votes: 281
69. Law by Mike (2021– )
Documentary, Comedy
In the world of laws, order and politics of Earth, we can never be too careful at what we see, nor what we think. On Law by Mike, you'll learn the history of many scandals, the rules of being a lawyer and especially, learn in a fun way.
Star: Michael L. Mandell
70. Kiddy Grade (2002–2003)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
ES Force members Éclair and Lumiere-as lovely as they are tough-are on the front line, pursuing criminals and bringing them to justice.
Stars: Laura Bailey, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Monica Rial, Dameon Clarke
Votes: 373
71. Son of Zorro (1947)
Approved | 100 min | Western
Young cavalry officer Jeff Stewart returns to his home in the west after the Civil War to find that a ring of crooked politicians has taken over the county, bleeding the citizens with 50% ... See full summary »
Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon | Stars: George Turner, Peggy Stewart, Roy Barcroft, Ed Cassidy
Votes: 133
72. Outlaw's Son (1957)
Passed | 88 min | Western
The deserted son of an outlaw gets on the town's bad side after his father is framed for the killing a local banker. He later fits into society as a deputy marshal. When the frame-up is later revealed, the deputy becomes lawless only to be rescued by his reformed father.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Dane Clark, Ben Cooper, Lori Nelson, Ellen Drew
Votes: 224
73. Girls in the Night (1953)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A family's efforts to move out of a slum area into a better neighborhood is hampered when their son is accused of the murder of a local blind beggar.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Harvey Lembeck, Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Leonard Freeman
Votes: 111
74. Montana Belle (1952)
Passed | 82 min | Western
In Oklahoma, outlaw Belle Starr joins the Dalton gang but she causes a romantic rivalry and a rift between the gang members, especially on the eve of the planned robbery of a bank where a posse is secretly waiting in ambush.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Jane Russell, George Brent, Scott Brady, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 531
75. Spawn of the North (1938)
Approved | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Friends since childhood, two men are on opposite sides in a salmon fishing conflict.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 590
76. Town Tamer (1965)
Approved | 89 min | Western
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O'Brien, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 327
77. Trail Street (1947)
Approved | 84 min | Western
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 833
78. The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)
Approved | 263 min | Western
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Robert Livingston, Chief Thundercloud, Silver Chief, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 142
79. Hoover (2000)
Not Rated | 93 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A solo performance by Ernest Borgnine in the character of J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial figure who founded and headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Director: Rick Pamplin | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Cartha D. 'Deke' Deloach
Votes: 77
80. King of the Royal Mounted (1940)
Approved | 211 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A country at war with Canada (unnamed ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Allan Lane, Robert Strange, Robert Kellard, Lita Conway
Votes: 115
81. Niagara Fools (1956)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short
Woody Woodpecker visits Niagara Falls---on the Canadian and American side both, according to some viewers---and asks about going over the famous falls in a barrel which the guard tells him ... See full summary »
Director: Paul J. Smith | Stars: Bob Johnson, Grace Stafford
Votes: 220
82. Rangers of Fortune (1940)
Approved | 80 min | Western
Two cowboys come to the aid of a town under the control of a crooked boss.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, Patricia Morison
Votes: 67
83. But Forever in My Mind (1999)
88 min | Comedy
Silvio is sixteen and is more interested in girls than politics. When his high school is occupy by students, he takes the chance to find his soulmate. He and his friend Ponzi experience the... See full summary »
Director: Gabriele Muccino | Stars: Silvio Muccino, Giuseppe Sanfelice, Giulia Louise Steigerwalt, Giulia Carmignani
Votes: 1,685
84. Excelsior (1973)
86 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Two petty adolescent street urchins Lo and Lung become inseparable sworn brothers who survive the cruelty of the streets. They are separated after Lo gets caught by the law trying to steal ... See full summary »
Director: Min-Hsiung Wu | Stars: Yi Chang, Raymond Lui, Fei Lung, Hsiao-Yin Wang
Votes: 20
85. The Rawhide Terror (1934)
Approved | 52 min | Western
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens.
Directors: Bruce Mitchell, Jack Nelson | Stars: Art Mix, Edmund Cobb, William Desmond, William Barrymore
Votes: 183
86. The Light of Western Stars (1940)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Western
Cowhand Ladd dances with cantina girl Estrella and has a part in shooting Sheriff Tyler.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 203
87. Escape by Night (1937)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: William Hall, Anne Nagel, Dean Jagger, Steffi Duna
Votes: 246
88. The Toll Gate (1920)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
After being betrayed to the law by one of his henchmen, a bandit leader seeks to avenge himself.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: William S. Hart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joseph Singleton, Jack Richardson
Votes: 263
89. Alaska (1944)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Western
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Kent Taylor, Margaret Lindsay, John Carradine, Dean Jagger
Votes: 80
90. Gun Smoke (1931)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, William 'Stage' Boyd, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 72
91. The Master Key (1945)
Passed | 226 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Government agents battle a gang of Nazis who are trying to use the Orotron machine, which can turn seawater into gold.
Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Milburn Stone, Jan Wiley, Dennis Moore, Addison Richards
Votes: 88
92. The Star Witness (1931)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama
Members of a family witness two murders, but the gang uses threats, violence and kidnapping to try to keep the members from testifying.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Walter Huston, Frances Starr, Grant Mitchell, Sally Blane
Votes: 754
93. Dark Streets (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin bothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny turns to a life of crime. They now find ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee, Aggie Herring, Earl Pingree
Votes: 37
94. We Go Fast (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two cops (Curtis, Deforest) flirt with highway restaurant waitress (Bari) who falls for Oriental businessman (Mohr) who turns out to be a crook.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Lynn Bari, Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan, Don DeFore
Votes: 60
95. The Arizona Ranger (1948)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Western
Bob Morgan returns home but alienates his father by not staying at his ranch. Instead he becomes the head of the new Arizona Rangers. Matters get worse between father and son when when his ... See full summary »
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Tim Holt, Jack Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin
Votes: 193
96. Home on the Range (1935)
Passed | 54 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold Far North gets too hot for them and they... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Jacobson | Stars: Randolph Scott, Jackie Coogan, Evelyn Brent, Dean Jagger
Votes: 59
97. Pure Fiction (1998)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Marian Handwerker | Stars: Michel Karchevsky, Patrick Goossens, Jacques De Bock, Raymond Avenière
Votes: 41
98. The Man from Texas (1948)
Approved | 71 min | Western
Tobias is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named ‚El Paso Kid', and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. When he is caught he accepts his sentence only to prove himself a hero in chains.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: James Craig, Lynn Bari, Johnny Johnston, Una Merkel
Votes: 125
99. Parole Fixer (1940)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: William Henry, Virginia Dale, Robert Paige, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 59
100. Angel in Exile (1948)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.
Directors: Allan Dwan, Philip Ford | Stars: John Carroll, Adele Mara, Thomas Gomez, Barton MacLane
Votes: 122