
Born to Kill
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
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1950★ 6.2
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M
1951★ 6.4
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.

Black Angel
1946★ 6.1
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

Shadow of a Doubt
1943★ 7.5
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The Blue Gardenia
1953★ 6.5
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

Lady in the Lake
1946★ 6.1
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

They Made Me a Fugitive
1947★ 6.6
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

The Maltese Falcon
1941★ 7.7
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The Web
1947★ 7.1
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A Kiss Before Dying
1956★ 6.3
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Hollow Triumph
1948★ 6.6
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The Glass Key
1942★ 6.6
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Nightfall
1956★ 6.9
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

The Mirror Crack'd
1980★ 6.1
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

The Locket
1946★ 6.3
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

The Naked City
1948★ 7.2
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Conflict
1945★ 6.7
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

The House on Telegraph Hill
1951★ 6.4
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Framed
1947★ 6.5
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.