San Quentin (1946)

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
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?

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

6.9

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.

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.

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.

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

6.6

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.

7.1

Crime
1958
Movie

The Lineup

7.1
1958

In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

6.6

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.”

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.

Mystery
1946
Movie

Black Angel

6
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.

Genre : Mystery

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

6.3

Crime
1932
Movie

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

6.3
1932

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

6.9

Drama
1956
Movie

Yield to the Night

6.9
1956

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

Genre : Drama

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.

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.