Behind the High Wall (1956)

Drama
1947
Movie

They Made Me a Fugitive

6.6
1947

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

Crime
1948
Movie

The Dark Past

6
1948

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.

Crime
1950
Movie

The Damned Don't Cry

7
1950

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

5.9

Crime
1955
Movie

5 Against the House

5.9
1955

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

7.3

Thriller
1947
Movie

Dark Passage

7.3
1947

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Genre : Thriller

Drama
1947
Movie

It Always Rains on Sunday

6.6
1947

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

6.4

Crime
1951
Movie

M

6.4
1951

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.

7.1

Crime
1947
Movie

The Web

7.1
1947

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

6.7

Crime
1956
Movie

The Killer Is Loose

6.7
1956

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

Crime
1957
Movie

Plunder Road

7
1957

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

Crime
1942
Movie

The Glass Key

6.6
1942

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

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.

Drama
1949
Movie

House of Strangers

7
1949

Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of them take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that remains loyal.

7.2

Thriller
1951
Movie

He Ran All the Way

7.2
1951

A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.

Genre : Thriller

6.4

Drama
1946
Movie

The Locket

6.4
1946

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

6.8

Crime
1939
Movie

Each Dawn I Die

6.8
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.

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.

6.7

Crime
1947
Movie

Born to Kill

6.7
1947

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.