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.

Genre : Drama

6.7

Comedy
1960
Movie

Two-Way Stretch

6.7
1960

Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.

Genre : Comedy

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.

Drama
1927
Movie

Underworld

7
1927

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

Genre : Drama

6.7

Crime
1948
Movie

Cry of the City

6.7
1948

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

6.9

Crime
1957
Movie

Plunder Road

6.9
1957

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

6.1

Crime
1963
Movie

Maniac

6.1
1963

When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

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

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
1956
Movie

The Killer Is Loose

6.6
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.

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.

5.9

Crime
1948
Movie

The Dark Past

5.9
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.

7.1

Crime
1937
Movie

You Only Live Once

7.1
1937

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Crime
1957
Movie

Time Without Pity

6.6
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.”

6.7

Crime
1951
Movie

His Kind of Woman

6.7
1951

Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.

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.

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.

Genre : Drama

6.9

Crime
2024
Movie

LaRoy, Texas

6.9
2024

Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.