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A Chilling Cosplay

A Chilling Cosplay is a 2013 Chinese-Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Wang Guangli and starring Simon Yam, Vivian Hsu, Ying Er and Yuan Hong.

A Daughter of Eve

A Daughter of Eve is a 1919 British silent crime film directed by Walter West and starring Violet Hopson, Stewart Rome and Cameron Carr.

Ask Beccles

Ask Beccles is a 1933 British comedy crime film directed by Redd Davis and starring Garry Marsh, Lilian Oldland, Abraham Sofaer and John Turnbull.

Companions in Crime

Companions in Crime is a 1954 British crime film directed by John Krish and starring Clifford Evans, George Woodbridge and Kenneth Haigh.

Dangerous Cargo

Dangerous Cargo is a 1954 British crime film directed by John Harlow starring Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Richard Pearson, Terence Alexander and John Le Mesurier.

Dangerous Seas

Dangerous Seas is a 1931 British crime film directed by Edward Dryhurst and starring Julie Suedo, Sandy Irving and Charles Garry.

DBCult Film Institute

The study and the interest of the organization is focused primarily on genre film productions, especially Horror film, Science Fiction film, Action film, Adventure film, Comedy film, Crime film, Mondo film, Drama film, Fantasy film, Mystery film, Noir film, Peplum or Sword-and-sandal film, Sexy, Spy film, Thriller film, War film, Western film, and related subgenres.

Dead Men are Dangerous

Dead Men are Dangerous is a 1939 British crime film directed by Harold French and starring Robert Newton, Betty Lynne, John Warwick, and Peter Gawthorne.

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die is a 1939 gangster film featuring James Cagney and George Raft in their only movie together as leads, although Raft had made an unbilled appearance in a 1932 Cagney vehicle called Taxi! in which he won a dance contest against Cagney, after which he and Cagney brawl.

Farewell Performance

Farewell Performance is a 1963 British crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring David Kernan, Frederick Jaeger and Delphi Lawrence.

For Them That Trespass

For Them That Trespass is a 1949 British crime film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett and Stephen Murray.

Fugitive Rage

Fugitive Rage is an crime drama action film directed by Fred Olen Ray and starring Shauna O'Brien, Jay Richardson & Alexander Keith, credited as Wendy Schumacher.

Johnny Rocco

Johnny Rocco is a 1958 American black-and-white crime film produced by Scott R. Dunlap and directed by Paul Landres for Allied Artists, and starring Richard Eyer, Stephen McNally, and Coleen Gray.

Lou Nova

Other movie roles include that as Hubert in the 20th Century Fox film noir crime drama Somewhere in the Night (1946) starring John Hodiak, and a cameo in Joe Palooka, Champ the same year.

Lyftet

Lyftet ("The Score", International title) is a 1978 Swedish crime film, based on the Kenneth Ahl (Lasse Strömstedt/Christer Dahl) novel with the same name.

Massacre in Lace

Massacre in Lace (French: Massacre en dentelles) is a 1952 French comedy crime film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Raymond Rouleau, Anne Vernon and Tilda Thamar.

Mist in the Valley

Mist in the Valley is a 1923 British silent crime film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, G.H. Mulcaster and James Carew.

Murder at the Cabaret

Murder at the Cabaret is a 1936 British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell and starring Phyllis Robins, Freddie Forbes, James Carew and Frederick Peisley.

Murder of Leigh Matthews

In July 2012, the murder was covered in two episodes of the M-Net Crimes Uncovered crime docu-drama television series titled A Family's Nightmare Begins: The Leigh Matthews Story (Part 1) and A Web of Lies: The Leigh Matthews Story (Part 2).

Mystère à Shanghai

Mystère à Shanghai is a 1950 French crime film directed by Roger Blanc and starring Paul Bernard, Hélène Perdrière and Maurice Teynac.

Old Roses

Old Roses is a 1935 British crime film directed by Bernard Mainwaring and starring Horace Hodges, Nancy Burne and Bruce Lester.

One Night at McCool's

One Night at McCool's is a 2001 American crime comedy film written by Stan Seidel, directed by Harald Zwart, and starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser, John Goodman, Michael Douglas, and Andrew Silverstein.

Panic in Chicago

Panic in Chicago (German: Panik in Chicago) is a 1931 German crime film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Olga Tschechowa, Hans Rehmann and Ferdinand Hart.

Pronto ad uccidere

Pronto ad uccidere (Italian: Ready to kill) is a 1976 Italian crime thriller film directed by Franco Prosperi and starring Ray Lovelock, Martin Balsam and Elke Sommer.

Scotland Yard Investigator

Scotland Yard Investigator is a 1945 American crime film directed by George Blair and starring C. Aubrey Smith, Erich von Stroheim and Stephanie Bachelor.

Shades of Truth

The story is a parody on the legendary story of Wu Song from the Chinese classical novel Water Margin (水滸傳) and also the 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film Infernal Affairs (無間道).

Shadowed Eyes

Shadowed Eyes is a 1940 British crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Basil Sydney, Patricia Hilliard and Stewart Rome.

So You Don't Know Korff Yet?

So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (German:Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht?) is a 1938 German comedy crime film directed by Fritz Holl and starring Heinz Rühmann, Victor Janson and Franz Schafheitlin.

Sökarna

Sökarna (literally "The Searchers") is a 1993 Swedish crime film directed by Daniel Fridell and Peter Cartriers.

Solution by Phone

Solution by Phone is a 1954 British crime film directed by Alfred Travers and starring Clifford Evans, Thea Gregory and Georgina Cookson.

Storms of Passion

Storms of Passion (German:Sturme der Leidenschaft) is a 1932 German crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Emil Jannings, Anna Sten and Trude Hesterberg.

Subway in the Sky

Subway in the Sky is a 1959 British crime film directed by Muriel Box and starring Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef and Albert Lieven.

The Big Bankroll

The Big Bankroll is a 1961 American crime film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors and Jack Carson.

The Firechasers

The Firechasers is a 1971 British crime film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Chad Everett, Anjanette Comer and Keith Barron.

The Forest on the Hill

The Forest on the Hill is a 1919 British silent crime film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, James Carew and Gerald Ames.

The House of the Spaniard

The House of the Spaniard is a 1936 British crime film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Allan Jeayes, Peter Haddon and Brigitte Horney.

The Jerky Boys: The Movie

The Jerky Boys: The Movie, also known as The Jerky Boys, is a 1995 comedy/crime film starring John G. Brennan and Kamal Ahmed, best known as the comedy duo The Jerky Boys.

The Man Without Nerves

The Man Without Nerves (German:Der Mann ohne Nerven) is a 1924 French-German silent crime film directed by Gérard Bourgeois and Harry Piel and starring Piel, Dary Holm and Albert Paulig.

The River House Ghost

The River House Ghost (1932) is a British comedy crime film directed by Frank Richardson and starring Florence Desmond, Hal Walters, and Joan Marion.

The Thing About Styx

The Thing About Styx (German: Die Sache mit Styx) is a 1942 German comedy crime film directed by Karl Anton and starring Laura Solari, Viktor de Kowa and Margit Symo.

The Third Clue

The Third Clue is a 1934 British crime film directed by Albert Parker and starring Basil Sydney, Molly Lamont, Robert Cochran and Raymond Lovell.

The Yellow Mask

The Yellow Mask is a 1930 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward.

They Came by Night

They Came by Night is a 1940 British crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Will Fyffe, Phyllis Calvert and Anthony Hulme.

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead is a 1995 American neo-noir crime film directed by Gary Fleder from a screenplay written by Scott Rosenberg.

Valery Todorovsky

Among the films he directed is the crime melodrama set in Moscow, The Country of Deaf (Strana Glukhikh), scripted by actress-director-scriptwriter Renata Litvinova based on her own novella To Have and to Belong, and Hipsters.

Viva Riva!

Viva Riva! is a Congolese crime thriller film written & directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga and starring Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Fabrice Kwizera, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Alex Herabo & Diplôme Amekindra.

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion is a 1994 action crime drama film directed by Michael Preece, written by Galen Thompson, and starring Chuck Norris and Michael Alton.


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A Woman Redeemed

A Woman Redeemed is a 1927 British crime film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Joan Lockton, Brian Aherne and James Carew.

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood is a 1942 American crime film, fourth of the fourteen Boston Blackie films of the 1940s Columbia's series of B pictures based on Jack Boyle's pulp-fiction character.

Dark Interval

Dark Interval is a 1950 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders, starring Zena Marshall, Andrew Osborn and John Barry.

Dunston Power Station

When in operation, the B station briefly featured in Get Carter, a 1971 crime film starring Michael Caine.

In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders

In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders is a 1988 made-for-television crime film starring David Soul.

Jodie Whittaker

Whittaker appeared in Ian Fitzgibbon's 2009 Irish comedy crime film Perrier's Bounty, alongside Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent.

Joe Lisi

He also appeared on the NBC television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Craig Lennon, a parole officer and briefly appeared in the 1995 comedy/crime film The Jerky Boys as a construction worker.

Kizhakku Karai

After the tremendious success of Chinna Thambi, P. Vasu began work on his next film Kizhakku Karai, a crime film.

Oliver Welke

Together with Oliver Kalkofe, whom he met while working for a public radio station, he provided the German voices for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and the British comedy show Little Britain, and also co-wrote the script for the crime film parody Der WiXXer.

Peter Greene

Greene often plays villains such as in Judgment Night, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Training Day (as a corrupt narcotics officer) and martial arts/crime film Fist of the Warrior (opposite Ho-Sung Pak, Roger Guenveur Smith and Sherilyn Fenn).

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege is a 1989 comedy crime film starring Bubba Smith, David Graf and Michael Winslow.

Princess Aurora

Princess Aurora (film), a 2005 South Korean crime film where the stickers of Princess Aurora from Starzinger is involved

Robert Hull

He got his start producing the 1997 crime film Nether World, starring W. Morgan Sheppard and Mark Sheppard.

Robert Schwentke

Schwentke directed the action-comedy crime film R.I.P.D., based on the comic book Rest in Peace Department by Peter M. Lenkov.

S.W.A.T.: Firefight

S.W.A.T.: Firefight is a 2011 American action crime film directed by Benny Boom, and sequel to the 2003 film S.W.A.T., based on the 1975 television series S.W.A.T..

Shyster

Carlito's Way (1993 crime film), Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) is told by a police inspector inside District Attorney Norwalk's (James Rebhorn) office that his Jewish lawyer and friend Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn) tried to set him up.

Street Kings: Motor City

Street Kings: Motor City is a 2011 direct-to-DVD action-crime film directed by Chris Fisher and starring Ray Liotta.

The Fields

Texas Killing Fields, also known as The Fields, a 2011 crime film

The Great O'Malley

The Great O'Malley is a 1937 crime film starring Pat O'Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan.

The Way of the Gun

The Way of the Gun is a 2000 American crime film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, and James Caan.

Touchez pas au grisbi

Touchez pas au grisbi (French for "Don't touch the loot") is a 1954 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Dora Doll, Delia Scala, René Dary, and Miss America 1946, Marilyn Buferd.