Chicago Noir
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1. Chicago Confidential (1957)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In Chicago, a crime syndicate tries to take over a labor union by killing its whistle blower treasurer and framing the honest union boss for the murder.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 555
2. Chicago Syndicate (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A former military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with her own agenda.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart, Xavier Cugat
Votes: 624
3. Chicago Deadline (1949)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Irene Hervey
Votes: 447
4. Call Northside 777 (1948)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker
Votes: 10,243
5. City That Never Sleeps (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Johnny Kelly, who plans on resigning from the police force and leaving his wife the next day, has a very eventful last night on duty.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Gig Young, Mala Powers, William Talman, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,620
6. Crack-Up (1946)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which may not have actually happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a wicked plot?
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins
Votes: 1,627
7. The Undercover Man (1949)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, Barry Kelley
Votes: 1,404
8. Undertow (1949)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A paroled convict is framed for murder and must clear himself before the police catch him.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow
Votes: 920
9. The Crooked Web (1955)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Government agent tries to trick a suspect into returning to Germany, the scene of his crimes.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Mari Blanchard, Richard Denning, John Mylong
Votes: 511
10. The Scarface Mob (1959 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama, Crime
Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols, Pat Crowley
Votes: 283
11. The Untouchables (1959–1963)
50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
Stars: Robert Stack, Walter Winchell, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni
Votes: 3,079
12. Mickey One (1965)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
After the mob tries to kill him for an unknown reason, a comedian steals the identity of a homeless man and goes on the run.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield, Franchot Tone
Votes: 1,881
13. Scarface (1932)
PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Stars: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins
Votes: 30,326
14. Thief (1981)
R | 123 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, Jim Belushi
Votes: 39,049 | Gross: $11.49M
15. The Racket (1928)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, G. Pat Collins
Votes: 1,586
16. Knock on Any Door (1949)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts
Votes: 4,209
17. Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
Approved | 105 min | Crime, Drama
In this sequel to "Knock On Any Door", the residents of a Chicago tenement building band together to insure that the son of Nick Romano does not follow in his father's footsteps...to the electric chair.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg
Votes: 590
18. The Narrow Margin (1952)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against potential assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert
Votes: 8,659
19. Fingers at the Window (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unemployed actor in Chicago aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of axe murders, apparently committed by a "lunatic".
Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 1,145
20. Nightmare Alley (1947)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker
Votes: 13,419
21. Mad at the World (1955)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The infant baby of Sam and Anne Bennett is critically hurt after being hit by a bottle thrown by a gang of juvenile delinquent hoodlums known as the Wolf Pack. Police Detective Tom Lynn ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Essex | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Keefe Brasselle, Cathy O'Donnell, Karen Sharpe
Votes: 71
22. Nightmare in Chicago (1964 TV Movie)
81 min | Crime, Drama
In Chicago, the police are man-hunting a serial killer of blonde women and end-up car-chasing him through the complex maze of state highways.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Charles McGraw, Robert Ridgely, Ted Knight, Philip Abbott
Votes: 151
23. Crime Story (1986–1988)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The saga of a Chicago police detective's efforts to stop a young hood's ruthless rise in the ranks of organized crime.
Stars: Dennis Farina, Bill Smitrovich, Tony Denison, Steve Ryan
Votes: 3,365
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