Bodyguard (1948)

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

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.

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.

6.5

Mystery
1946
Movie

The Verdict

6.5
1946

After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.

6.1

Mystery
1946
Movie

Black Angel

6.1
1946

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

6.1

Mystery
1946
Movie

Lady in the Lake

6.1
1946

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

Crime
1957
Movie

Plunder Road

7
1957

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

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.

6.2

Crime
1950
Movie

The Man Who Cheated Himself

6.2
1950

A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

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.

6.9

Crime
1956
Movie

Nightfall

6.9
1956

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

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.

6.4

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.

7.2

Crime
1948
Movie

The Naked City

7.2
1948

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

Thriller
1948
Movie

Hollow Triumph

6.6
1948

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

Genre : Thriller

6.7

Thriller
1945
Movie

Conflict

6.7
1945

Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

Genre : Thriller

Drama
1947
Movie

They Won't Believe Me

6.6
1947

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Genre : Drama