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1950's

1950

  • Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer, USA)

  • The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, USA)

  • Backfire (Vincent Sherman, USA)

  • Between Midnight and Dawn (Gordon Douglas, USA)

  • Black Hand (Richard Thorpe, USA)

  • The Blue Lamp (Basil Dearden, UK)

  • Borderline (William A. Seiter, USA)

  • Born to Be Bad (Nicholas Ray, USA)

  • The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz, USA)

  • Caged (John Cromwell, USA)

  • The Capture (John Sturges, USA)

  • The Clouded Yellow (Ralph Thomas, UK)

  • Convicted (Henry Levin, USA)

  • D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté, USA)

  • The Damned Don't Cry (Vincent Sherman, USA)

  • Dark City (William Dieterle, USA)

  • Destination Murder (Edward L. Cahn, USA)

  • Devil's Doorway (Anthony Mann, USA)

  • Dial 1119 (Gerald Mayer, USA)

  • Edge of Doom (Mark Robson, USA)

  • The File on Thelma Jordon (Robert Siodmak, USA)

  • The Furies (Anthony Mann, USA)

  • Gambling House (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)

  • Guilty Bystander (Joseph Lerner, USA)

  • Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)

  • Gunman in the Streets (Frank Tuttle, France-USA)

  • Highway 301 (Andrew L. Stone, USA)

  • House by the River (Fritz Lang, USA)

  • Hunt the Man Down (George Archainbaud, USA)

  • In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, USA)

  • The Killer That Stalked New York (Earl McEvoy, USA)

  • Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Gordon Douglas, USA)

  • A Lady Without Passport (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)

  • The Lawless (Joseph Losey, USA)

  • The Man Who Cheated Himself (Felix E. Feist, USA)

  • Mystery Street (John Sturges, USA)

  • Night and the City (Jules Dassin, USA-UK)

  • No Man of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen, USA)

  • No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)

  • Once a Thief (W. Lee Wilder, USA)

  • One Way Street (Hugo Fregonese, USA)

  • Outrage (Ida Lupino, USA)

  • Outside the Wall (Crane Wilbur, USA)

  • Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan, USA)

  • Quicksand (Irving Pichel, USA)

  • The Secret Fury (Mel Ferrer, USA)

  • 711 Ocean Drive (Joseph M. Newman, USA)

  • Shadow on the Wall (Pat Jackson, USA)

  • Shakedown (Joseph Pevney, USA)

  • Side Street (Anthony Mann, USA)

  • The Sleeping City (George Sherman, USA)

  • Southside 1-1000 (Boris Ingster, USA)

  • Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)

  • Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

  • The Sun Sets at Dawn (Paul Sloane, USA)

  • Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, USA)

  • The Tattooed Stranger (Edward Montagne, USA)

  • Tension (John Berry, USA)

  • This Side of the Law (Richard L. Bare, USA)

  • Try and Get Me! (Cy Endfield, USA)

  • The Underworld Story (Cy Endfield, USA)

  • Union Station (Rudolph Maté, USA)

  • Unmasked (George Blair, USA)

  • Walk Softly, Stranger (Robert Stevenson, USA)

  • Where Danger Lives (John Farrow, USA)

  • Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger, USA)

  • Woman in Hiding (Michael Gordon, USA)

  • Woman on the Run (Norman Foster, USA)​

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1951

  • Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, USA)

  • Another Man's Poison (Irving Rapper, UK)

  • Appointment with Danger (Lewis Allen, USA)

  • The Big Night (Joseph Losey, USA)

  • Cause for Alarm! (Tay Garnett, USA)

  • Cloudburst (Francis Searle, UK)

  • Cry Danger (Robert Parrish, USA)

  • Detective Story (William Wyler, USA)

  • The Enforcer (Bretaigne Windust, USA)

  • FBI Girl (William Berke, USA)

  • Fourteen Hours (Henry Hathaway, USA)

  • He Ran All the Way (John Berry, USA)

  • His Kind of Woman (John Farrow, USA)

  • Hollywood Story (William Castle, USA)

  • The Hoodlum (Max Nosseck, USA)

  • The House on Telegraph Hill (Robert Wise, USA)

  • I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (Gordon Douglas, USA)

  • In the Palm of Your Hand (Roberto Gavaldón, Mexico)

  • Iron Man (Joseph Pevney, USA)

  • Lightning Strikes Twice (King Vidor, USA)

  • The Lost One (Peter Lorre, West Germany)

  • M (Joseph Losey, 1951, USA)

  • The Man with My Face (Edward Montagne, USA)

  • The Mob (Robert Parrish, USA)

  • No Questions Asked (Harold F. Kress, USA)

  • On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, USA)

  • The People Against O'Hara (John Sturges, USA)

  • Pickup (Hugo Haas, USA)

  • Place in the Sun (George Stevens, USA)

  • Pool of London (Basil Dearden, UK)

  • The Prowler (Joseph Losey, USA)

  • The Racket (John Cromwell, USA)

  • The Raging Tide (George Sherman, USA)

  • Roadblock (Harold Daniels, USA)

  • The Scarf (E.A. Dupont, USA)

  • The Second Woman (James V. Kern, USA)

  • Sirocco (Curtis Bernhardt, USA)

  • Storm Warning (Stuart Heisler, USA)

  • Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

  • The Strip (László Kardos, USA)

  • The Tall Target (Anthony Mann, USA)

  • Three Steps North (W. Lee Wilder, Italy-USA)

  • Tomorrow is Another Day (Felix E. Feist, USA)

  • Two of a Kind (Henry Levin, USA)

  • Under the Gun (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)

  • The Unknown Man (Richard Thorpe, USA)

  • The Well (Leo Popkin & Russell Rouse, USA)

  • The Whip Hand (William Cameron Menzies, USA)​

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1952

  • Affair in Trinidad (Vincent Sherman, USA)

  • Beware, My Lovely (Harry Horner, USA)

  • The Captive City (Robert Wise, USA)

  • Casque d'or (Jacques Becker, France)

  • Clash by Night (Fritz Lang, USA)

  • Deadline U.S.A. (Richard Brooks, USA)

  • Don't Bother to Knock (Roy Ward Baker, USA)

  • Gambler and the Lady (Patrick Jenkins & Sam Newfield, UK)

  • The Green Glove (Rudolph Maté, USA-France)

  • Hoodlum Empire (Joseph Kane, USA)

  • Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson, USA)

  • The Las Vegas Story (Robert Stevenson, USA)

  • The Last Page (Terence Fisher, UK)

  • Loan Shark (Seymour Friedman, USA)

  • The Lost Hours (David MacDonald, UK)

  • Macao (Josef von Sternberg, USA)

  • The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, USA)

  • Night Falls (Roberto Gavaldón, Mexico)

  • Night Without Sleep (Roy Ward Baker, USA)

  • Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson, USA)

  • The Sellout (Gerald Mayer, USA)

  • The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, USA)

  • The Steel Trap (Andrew L. Stone, USA)

  • Stolen Face (Terence Fisher, UK)

  • Strange Fascination (Hugo Haas, USA)

  • Sudden Fear (David Miller, USA)

  • Talk About a Stranger (David Bradley, USA)

  • The Thief (Russell Rouse, USA)

  • The 13th Letter (Otto Preminger, USA)

  • This Woman is Dangerous (Felix E. Feist, USA)

  • The Turning Point (William Dieterle, USA)

  • Walk East on Beacon! (Alfred L. Werker, USA)

  • Without Warning (Arnold Laven, USA)

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1953

  • Angel Face (Otto Preminger, USA)

  • Beat the Devil (John Huston, UK-Italy-USA)

  • The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, USA)

  • The Bigamist (Ida Lupino, USA)

  • The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, USA)

  • A Blueprint for Murder (Andrew L. Stone, USA)

  • City That Never Sleeps (John H. Auer, USA)

  • Cosh Boy (Lewis Gilbert, UK)

  • Cry of the Hunted (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)

  • Dangerous Crossing (Joseph M. Newman, USA)

  • The Flanagan Boy (Reginald Le Borg, UK)

  • Forbidden (Rudolph Maté, USA)

  • The Glass Wall (Maxwell Shane, USA)

  • The Glass Web (Jack Arnold, USA)

  • The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, USA)

  • I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

  • I, the Jury (Harry Essex, USA)

  • Jennifer (Joel Newton, USA)

  • Jeopardy (John Sturges, USA)

  • The Limping Man (Cy Endfield, UK)

  • The Long Memory (Robert Hamer, UK)

  • The Man Between (Carol Reed, UK)

  • Man in the Attic (Hugo Fregonese, USA)

  • Man in the Dark (Lew Landers, USA)

  • Marilyn (Wolf Rilla, UK)

  • The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, USA)

  • Niagara (Henry Hathaway, USA)

  • 99 River Street (Phil Karlson, USA)

  • No Escape (Charles Bennett, USA)

  • Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, USA)

  • Second Chance (Rudolph Maté, USA)

  • Split Second (Dick Powell, USA)

  • Stolen Identity (Gunther von Fritsch, Austria-USA)

  • The System (Lewis Seiler, USA)

  • Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné, France-Italy)

  • 36 Hours (Montgomery Tully, UK)

  • Violated (Walter Strate, USA)

  • The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France-Italy)

  • Wicked Woman (Russell Rouse, USA)

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1954

  • Bait (Hugo Haas, USA)

  • Beautiful Stranger (David Miller, UK-USA)

  • Black Tuesday (Hugo Fregonese, USA)

  • Black Widow (Nunnally Johnson, USA)

  • Crime Wave (André de Toth, USA)

  • Cry Vengeance (Mark Stevens, USA)

  • Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine, USA)

  • Face the Music (Terence Fisher, UK-USA)

  • Five Days (Montgomery Tully, UK)

  • The Good Die Young (Lewis Gilbert, UK)

  • Hell's Half Acre (John H. Auer, USA)

  • Highway Dragnet (Nathan Juran, USA)

  • The House Across the Lake (1954, UK)

  • Human Desire (Fritz Lang, USA)

  • The Human Jungle (Joseph M. Newman, USA)

  • Impulse (Cy Endfield, UK)

  • Jail Bait (Edward D. Wood Jr., USA)

  • Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, USA)

  • A Life at Stake (Paul Guilfoyle, USA)

  • The Long Wait (Victor Saville, USA)

  • Loophole (Harold D. Schuster, USA)

  • Make Haste to Live (William A. Seiter, USA)

  • Murder by Proxy (Terence Fisher, UK)

  • Naked Alibi (Jerry Hopper, USA)

  • The Other Woman (Hugo Haas, USA)

  • Playgirl (Joseph Pevney, USA)

  • Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, USA)

  • Pushover (Richard Quine, USA)

  • Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

  • Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel, USA)

  • Rogue Cop (Roy Rowland, USA)

  • Shield for Murder (Edmond O'Brien & Howard W. Koch, USA)

  • The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, UK)

  • The Stranger Came Home (Terence Fisher, UK)

  • Suddenly (Lewis Allen, USA)

  • Touchez pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker, France)

  • Vicki (Harry Horner, USA)

  • Witness to Murder (Roy Rowland, USA)

  • World for Ransom (Robert Aldrich, USA)

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1955

  • The Big Bluff (W. Lee Wilder, USA)

  • The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)

  • The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich, USA)

  • Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

  • A Bullet for Joey (Lewis Allen, USA)

  • Cast a Dark Shadow (Lewis Gilbert, UK)

  • Confession (1955, UK)

  • Crashout (Lewis R. Foster, USA)

  • The Crooked Web (Nathan Juran, USA)

  • The Desperate Hours (William Wyler, USA)

  • Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)

  • Female Jungle (Bruno VeSota, USA)

  • Female on the Beach (Joseph Pevney, USA)

  • Fingerman (Harold D. Schuster, USA)

  • 5 Against the House (Phil Karlson, USA)

  • Footsteps in the Fog (1955, UK)

  • Hell's Island (Phil Karlson, USA)

  • House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller, USA)

  • I Died a Thousand Times (Stuart Heisler, USA)

  • Illegal (Lewis Allen, USA)

  • Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, USA)

  • Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, USA)

  • The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, USA)

  • Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, France-Spain-Switzerland)

  • Murder is My Beat (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)

  • The Naked Street (Maxwell Shane, USA)

  • New York Confidential (Russell Rouse, USA)

  • The Night Holds Terror (Andrew L. Stone, USA)

  • The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, USA)

  • No Man's Woman (Franklin Adreon, USA)

  • The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, USA)

  • Queen Bee (Ranald MacDougall, USA)

  • Razzia sur la chnouf (Henri Decoin, France)

  • Rififi (Jules Dassin, France)

  • Shack Out on 101 (Edward Dein, USA)

  • Storm Fear (Cornel Wilde, USA)

  • Sudden Danger (Hubert Cornfield, USA)

  • Tight Spot (Phil Karlson, USA)

  • Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer, USA)

  • Women's Prison (Lewis Seiler, USA)

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1956

  • Accused of Murder (Joseph Kane, USA)

  • Behind the High Wall (Abner Biberman, USA)

  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, USA)

  • Calling Homicide (Edward Bernds, USA)

  • The Come On (Russell Birdwell, USA)

  • Crime Against Joe (Lee Sholem, USA)

  • Crime in the Streets (Don Siegel, USA)

  • A Cry in the Night (Frank Tuttle, USA)

  • Deadlier Than the Male (Julien Duvivier, France)

  • Death of a Scoundrel (Charles Martin, USA)

  • The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson, USA)

  • The Houston Story (William Castle, USA)

  • The Intimate Stranger (Joseph Losey, UK)I

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, USA)

  • Julie (Andrew L. Stone, USA)

  • The Killer is Loose (Budd Boetticher, USA)

  • The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, USA)

  • A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald, USA)

  • Man in the Vault (Andrew V. McLaglen, USA)

  • The Man is Armed (Franklin Adreon, USA)

  • Miami Exposé (Fred F. Sears, USA)

  • Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, USA)

  • Nightmare (Maxwell Shane, USA)

  • Over-Exposed (Lewis Seiler, USA)

  • Please Murder Me! (Peter Godfrey, USA)

  • The Price of Fear (Abner Biberman, USA)

  • Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, USA)

  • Soho Incident (Vernon Sewell, UK)

  • The Steel Jungle (Walter Doniger, USA)

  • Terror at Midnight (Franklin Adreon, USA)

  • Tiger in the Smoke (Roy Ward Baker, UK)

  • Time Table (Mark Stevens, USA)

  • While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, USA)

  • Wicked as They Come (Ken Hughes, UK)

  • A Woman's Devotion (Paul Henreid, USA)

  • The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

  • Yield to the Night (J. Lee Thompson, UK)

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1957

  • Affair in Havana (Laszlo Benedek, USA-Cuba)

  • Appointment with a Shadow (Richard Carlson, USA)

  • Baby Face Nelson (Don Siegel, USA)

  • The Brothers Rico (Phil Karlson, USA)

  • The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, USA)

  • Chicago Confidential (Sidney Salkow, USA)

  • Crime of Passion (Gerd Oswald, USA)

  • Edge of the City (Martin Ritt, USA)

  • Footsteps in the Night (Jean Yarbrough, USA)

  • Fortune is a Woman (Sidney Gilliat, UK-USA)

  • The Garment Jungle (Vincent Sherman, USA)

  • Hell Drivers (Cy Endfield, UK)

  • Hit and Run (Hugo Haas, USA)

  • House of Numbers (Russell Rouse, USA)

  • I Am Waiting (Koreyoshi Kurahara, Japan)

  • Kill Her Gently (Charles Saunders, UK)

  • The Long Haul (Ken Hughes, UK-USA)

  • The Midnight Story (Joseph Pevney, USA)

  • My Gun is Quick (Victor Saville & George White, USA)

  • The Night Runner (Abner Biberman, USA)

  • Plunder Road (Hubert Cornfield, USA)

  • The Shadow on the Window (William Asher, USA)

  • Short Cut to Hell (James Cagney, USA)

  • Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Arnold Laven, USA)

  • Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)

  • The Tattered Dress (Jack Arnold, USA)

  • The Unholy Wife (John Farrow, USA)

  • Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey, UK)

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1958

  • The Bonnie Parker Story (William Witney, USA)

  • Chase a Crooked Shadow (Michael Anderson, UK)

  • Cop Hater (William Berke, USA)

  • Cry Terror! (1958, USA)

  • Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, France)

  • I Want to Live! (Robert Wise, USA)

  • The Lineup (Don Siegel, USA)

  • Lonelyhearts (Vincent J. Donehue, USA)

  • Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, USA)

  • Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt, UK)

  • Party Girl (Nicholas Ray, USA)

  • Rusty Knife (Toshio Masuda, Japan)

  • Screaming Mimi (Gerd Oswald, USA)

  • Step Down to Terror (Harry Keller, USA)

  • Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, USA)

  • Tread Softly Stranger (Gordon Parry, UK)

  • Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

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1959

  • The Beat Generation (Charles F. Haas, USA)

  • Blind Date (Joseph Losey, UK)

  • City of Fear (Irving Lerner, USA)

  • The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller, USA)

  • Cry Tough (Paul Stanley, USA)

  • Date with Death (Harold Daniels, USA)

  • The Last Mile (Howard W. Koch, USA)

  • Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise, USA)

  • The Trap (Norman Panama, USA)

  • Two Men in Manhattan (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

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