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1. Detroit (2017)
R | 143 min | Crime, Drama, History
Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore
Votes: 56,096 | Gross: $16.79M
2. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Votes: 33,492 | Gross: $0.01M
3. The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Director: Karen Moncrieff | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte, James Cromwell, Mark Pellegrino
Votes: 7,120
4. Custody of the Heart (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Sport
A successful businesswoman is suddenly sued for custody of her children by her stay-at-home husband.
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Lorraine Bracco, Martin Donovan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Sheila McCarthy
Votes: 207
5. Marked Woman (1937)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 4,855
6. Midnight (1934)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion. On the night of the execution, his actions come back to haunt him.
Director: Chester Erskine | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull
Votes: 1,250
7. Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick
Votes: 3,043
8. Vladimir and Rosa (1971)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
In Godard and Gorin's free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler (who doodles notes on Playboy centerfolds), the Chicago Eight become microcosms of ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | Stars: Yves Afonso, Juliet Berto, Frankie Dymon, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 573
9. I Shot Jesse James (1949)
Passed | 81 min | Western
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland, Reed Hadley
Votes: 2,515
10. The Unholy Wife (1957)
Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A gold-digger floozy marries a wealthy wine producer but she secretly takes a young lover with whom she conspires to murder her husband for his fortune.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 631
11. The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Doris Hill, Warner Oland, Fredric March
Votes: 206
12. The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)
120 min | Drama
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Franco Nero, Mario Adorf, Riccardo Cucciolla, Damiano Damiani
Votes: 358
13. The Thirteenth Hour (1947)
Passed | 65 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
In the 7th of Columbia's "Whistler" series, truck-firm owner Steve Reynolds gets involved in a feud with a rival firm, and shortly thereafter is slugged by a masked assailant who steals the... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon
Votes: 328
14. Midnight Mary (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez, Andy Devine
Votes: 1,621
15. Zenobia (1939)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A visiting circus man calls on a Southern country doctor to cure his sick elephant; afterwards, the grateful beast becomes so attached to the doctor that it starts to follow him everywhere.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady
Votes: 685
16. Taxi (1931)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Independent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 1,559
17. True Confession (1937)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
A lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel
Votes: 1,782
18. Broadway Bad (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Music
Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Adrienne Ames
Votes: 232
19. Cell 2455, Death Row (1955)
Approved | 77 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death Row, a story he had told in a autobiography that became a ... See full summary »
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: William Campbell, R. Wright Campbell, Marian Carr, Kathryn Grant
Votes: 496
20. Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama
In post-WW2 England, a taxi driver is ostracized by society after he's accused of murdering a school-girl and his untried lawyer must find the real killer to save his client from the hangman.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Derek Farr, Ian Hunter
Votes: 479
21. The Return of October (1948)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
This is the warm-hearted story of a wholesome Terry Moore, whose late uncle Willie (James Gleason) is reincarnated as a thoroughbred horse. At least, as far as Ms. Moore is concerned, he is... See full summary »
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Glenn Ford, Terry Moore, Albert Sharpe, James Gleason
Votes: 244
22. The Texas Rangers (1936)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Western
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 841
23. Fast Life (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife, and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Chester Morris, William Holden
Votes: 53
24. Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A wealthy woman, trying to discourage a former boyfriend from pursuing her, hires a young songwriter who needs money to pay off his gambling debts to pretend to be her boyfriend. The ... See full summary »
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders, Frank McHugh
Votes: 804
25. Man, Woman and Sin (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs to save enough money to buy a house for himself and his mother. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: John Gilbert, Jeanne Eagels, Gladys Brockwell, Marc McDermott
Votes: 395
26. Rogue's March (1953)
Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Unjustly drummed out of his regiment, a Victorian Englishman (Peter Lawford) restores his honor in India.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Peter Lawford, Richard Greene, Janice Rule, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 169
27. Mr. District Attorney (1941)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rookie Deputy DA P. Cadwallader Jones and hotshot reporter Terry Parker team up to track down an elusive criminal named Hyde.
Director: William Morgan | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 222
28. On Trial (1928)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A court-room drama in which Robert Strickland (Bert Lytell) finds himself on trial for the murder of his friend.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Pauline Frederick, Bert Lytell, Lois Wilson, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 24
29. Gang Bullets (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Anne Nagel, Robert Kent, Charles Trowbridge, Morgan Wallace
Votes: 215
30. The Devil on Wheels (1947)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A teenager involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Noreen Nash, Darryl Hickman, Terry Moore, Lenita Lane
Votes: 149
31. Career Woman (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A girl accused of killing her father is defended unsuccessfully by a flashy lawyer and successfully by a new, straightforward one.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Isabel Jewell, Eric Linden
Votes: 101
32. God Is My Partner (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Drama
Dr. Charles Grayson, a respected surgeon, retires and starts to give away large portions of his savings to religious causes. His immediate family launches a suit against him, declaring him ... See full summary »
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Walter Brennan, John Hoyt, Marion Ross, Jesse White
Votes: 64
33. Up for Murder (1931)
Passed | 68 min | Drama
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
Directors: Monta Bell, Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Lew Ayres, Genevieve Tobin, Purnell Pratt, Richard Tucker
Votes: 101
34. Trial: The Price of Passion (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 182 min | Drama, Thriller
Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Peter Strauss, Beverly D'Angelo, Ned Beatty, Laila Robins
Votes: 66
35. Secrets of a Nurse (1938)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Sport
When battered prize-fighter Lee Burke is taken to the West Side hospital, nurse Katherine MacDonald leaves her romantically-inclined patient, wealthy attorney John Dodge to take care of ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Helen Mack, Dick Foran, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 22
36. Men Against the Sky (1940)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Alcoholic pilot struggles to turn his life around.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie
Votes: 152
37. Little Miss Nobody (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A girl gets into trouble at her orphanage and is sent away to reform school. She escapes en route but is found and brought to trial. Her father is the prosecutor.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Ralph Morgan, Sara Haden
Votes: 45
38. Portia on Trial (1937)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton).
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Walter Abel, Frieda Inescort, Neil Hamilton, Heather Angel
Votes: 88
39. The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Marjorie Lord, Robert Shayne, Pierre Watkin, James Seay
Votes: 130
40. Thunder in the Valley (1947)
Passed | 103 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A story of the Scottish highlands about a crockerty old sheepherder, Adam MacAdam (Edmund Gwenn),who loves his prize collie dog, but little else, not even his son Davis (Lon McAllister). ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owen
Votes: 56
41. White Lies (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama
John Mitchell is a powerful and ruthless newspaper publisher, who doesn't care who gets hurt if a good story can run in his paper. Caught speeding, by honest cop Terry Condon, his first ... See full summary »
Director: Leo Bulgakov | Stars: Victor Jory, Walter Connolly, Fay Wray, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 19
42. School for Girls (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Annette Eldrige is sentenced to three years in a reformatory after being caught with stolen jewels. The sadistic woman in charge of the reformatory makes life terrible for everyone; ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Sidney Fox, Paul Kelly, Lois Wilson, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 31
43. Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy
In Brooklyn, N.Y., barge captain Patrick Michael Quilligan (William Bendix) falls for barmaid Margie Mossrock (Joan Blondell) because her charm reminds him of his beloved, deceased mother. ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Phil Silvers, Anne Revere
Votes: 120
44. Pink of the Litter (1967)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
While leisurely sitting on a park bench and eating a banana, the Pink Panther throws the banana peel on the ground and is instantly cited for littering. The diminutive trial judge orders ... See full summary »
Director: Hawley Pratt
Votes: 193
45. The Man Who Returned to Life (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
David Jamieson, a Northerner, is forced to flee from a Maryland town where he is suspected of murdering the girl who attempted to force him to marry her on the eve of his wedding to another... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Howard, Lucile Fairbanks, Ruth Ford, Marcella Martin
Votes: 27
46. Secret Evidence (1941)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama
PRC - Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley, Ward McTaggart, Kenneth Harlan, Donald Curtis. When Reynolds becomes engaged to the local DA, played by Quigley, her former boyfriend gangster ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley, Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart, Howard Masters
Votes: 75
47. The Bellamy Trial (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
When a wealthy Long Island society woman is discovered dead in an abandoned cottage, suspicion falls on her husband, an ex-boyfriend, and a romantic rival.
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Leatrice Joy, Betty Bronson, Edward J. Nugent, George Barraud
Votes: 17
48. Attorney for the Defense (1932)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, Constance Cummings, Don Dillaway
Votes: 184
49. The Nuisance (1933)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lee Tracy, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 337
50. I'd Give My Life (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man sentenced to be hanged for murdering a racketeer because, in order to protect others whom he admires, ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Guy Standing, Frances Drake, Tom Brown, Janet Beecher
Votes: 55