swap_horiz Plunder Road Alternatives

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Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil is a 1958 American noir by Orson Welles, famous for its border-town corruption story and elaborate opening...

Classic Universal 1950S Corruption

9.4 Excellent

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Rififi

Rififi is a 1955 French heist noir by blacklisted American director Jules Dassin, famous for its near-silent half-hour j...

1950S Paris Heist French Noir

9.1 Excellent

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The Killing

The Killing is a 1956 American heist noir by Stanley Kubrick, notable for its fractured chronology around a racetrack ro...

Classic 1950S Heist Kubrick

8.9 Great

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The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point is a 1950 American film noir by Michael Curtiz, adapted from Hemingway's To Have and Have Not and sta...

Classic Crime 1950S Warner

8.5 Great

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The Narrow Margin

The Narrow Margin is a 1952 RKO train noir by Richard Fleischer, notable as a low-budget thriller that earned an Oscar n...

Classic Crime 1950S Train

8.4 Great

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Try and Get Me!

Try and Get Me! is the reissue title of Cy Endfield's 1950 noir The Sound of Fury, a United Artists crime film drawn fro...

Classic Crime 1950S United Artists

7.9 Good

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Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American noir by Robert Wise, notable for using a heist plot to examine racial tension i...

Classic Social 1950S Heist

7.8 Good

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Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 heist noir by Phil Karlson, notable for masked robbers unknown to one another and Joh...

Classic 1950S Heist United Artists

7.7 Good

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The Sound of Fury

The Sound of Fury is a 1950 American film noir by Cy Endfield, based on Jo Pagano's novel about a kidnapping and mob lyn...

Classic Social Crime 1950S

7.5 Good

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99 River Street

99 River Street is a 1953 noir by Phil Karlson, notable for John Payne as an ex-boxer turned cab driver drawn into murde...

Classic Boxing Crime 1950S

7.4 Good

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Crashout

Crashout is a 1955 American prison-break noir by Lewis R. Foster, notable for its ensemble of escaped convicts led by Wi...

Classic Crime 1950S United Artists

7.0 Good

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Private Hell 36

Private Hell 36 is a 1954 noir by Don Siegel, notable as one of Ida Lupino and Collier Young's last Filmakers production...

Classic Police 1950S Corruption

6.9 Fair

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Shield for Murder

Shield for Murder is a 1954 noir co-directed by Edmond O'Brien and Howard W. Koch, notable for O'Brien starring as a mur...

Classic Police 1950S Corruption

6.9 Fair

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Wicked Woman

Wicked Woman is a 1953 American noir by Russell Rouse, notable for Beverly Michaels as a drifter who schemes with a marr...

Classic 1950S Femme Fatale United Artists

6.9 Fair

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Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion is a 1957 noir by Gerd Oswald, notable for Barbara Stanwyck as a San Francisco columnist trapped in a f...

Classic Crime 1950S Domestic

6.7 Fair

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The Burglar

The Burglar is a 1957 American film noir directed by Paul Wendkos, based on David Goodis's novel and shot partly in Phil...

Classic Crime 1950S Heist

6.7 Fair

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The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young is a 1954 British crime film by Lewis Gilbert, with Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, and Stanley Bake...

Crime 1950S Heist British Noir

6.7 Fair

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The Scarlet Hour

The Scarlet Hour is a 1956 Paramount noir directed and produced by Michael Curtiz, notable as a late-career crime film f...

Classic Crime 1950S Heist

6.3 Fair

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The Scarf

The Scarf is a 1951 American noir written and directed by Ewald Andre Dupont, notable for John Ireland as an asylum esca...

Classic Psychological 1950S United Artists

5.7 Mediocre

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I, the Jury

I, the Jury is a 1953 3-D noir by Harry Essex, notable as the first film adaptation of Mickey Spillane's private detecti...

Classic Detective 1950S United Artists

5.6 Mediocre