
The Set-Up
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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1947★ 6.7
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Champion
1949★ 6.7
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Force of Evil
1950★ 6.6
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

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1957★ 7.0
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1955★ 6.0
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1953★ 6.8
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Johnny O'Clock
1947★ 6.3
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1955★ 5.9
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1979★ 7.0
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1944★ 8.1
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Knock on Any Door
1949★ 6.2
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Nightfall
1956★ 6.9
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Pitfall
1948★ 6.9
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

Dark City
1950★ 6.5
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The Street with No Name
1948★ 6.4
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