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)
A 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)
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)