Crime

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter’s will, ...

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend ...

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al ...

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska ...

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora’s cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery ...

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same ...

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer ...

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever ...

Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious ...

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a ...

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman, wanting a life of luxury, takes the “easy” way, and winds up in jail.

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father’s New York business, but the dead man’s crooked associates think they can ...

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster’s bookkeeper. When she agrees to ...

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for ...

An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the ...

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, ‘Diamond-Lasse,’ to a hotel filled with eccentrics.

Let ‘Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He’s desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and ...

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a ...

A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in ...

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the ...

A man is haunted by a murder he’s committed.

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.

When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.

Charlie’s visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer ...

A con man who stages phony “lucky legs” beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by ...

An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.

In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder ...

A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder ...

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn’t even know he exists.

Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and ...

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and ...

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend’s racketeer father.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the ...

Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he ...

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart ...

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer’s daughter who at first is unaware ...

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers ...

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite ...

Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. ...

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry’s office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling ...