The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)

Crime
1939
Movie

Each Dawn I Die

6.9
1939

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

6.8

Crime
1998
Movie

The Interview

6.8
1998

A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?

6.1

Mystery
1980
Movie

The Mirror Crack'd

6.1
1980

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Genre : Mystery

Crime
1957
Movie

Plunder Road

6.9
1957

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

Crime
1986
Movie

Murder in Three Acts

6
1986

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

6.5

Crime
1947
Movie

Framed

6.5
1947

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.

6.3

Crime
1954
Movie

Witness to Murder

6.3
1954

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

6.5

Crime
1953
Movie

The Blue Gardenia

6.5
1953

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.

6.7

Crime
1942
Movie

The Glass Key

6.7
1942

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

6.5

Crime
1957
Movie

Time Without Pity

6.5
1957

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

Drama
1931
Movie

Little Caesar

6.9
1931

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

Genre : Drama

6.6

Drama
1993
Movie

Cigarettes & Coffee

6.6
1993

At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).

Genre : Drama

6.7

Thriller
1949
Movie

He Walked by Night

6.7
1949

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

Genre : Thriller

6.2

Crime
1955
Movie

House of Bamboo

6.2
1955

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

6.2

Drama
1962
Movie

Kid Galahad

6.2
1962

After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.

Genre : Drama

5.8

Thriller
2014
Movie

Perfect Sisters

5.8
2014

Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.

Genre : Thriller

6.6

Crime
1950
Movie

The Blue Lamp

6.6
1950

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

Mystery
1992
Movie

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

6.9
1992

At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.

Genre : Mystery