swap_horiz The Burglar Alternatives

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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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Murder by Contract

Murder by Contract is a 1958 American film noir by Irving Lerner, noted for Vince Edwards as a detached hitman and its s...

Classic Minimalist 1950S Columbia

8.1 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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The Phenix City Story

The Phenix City Story is a 1955 noir by Phil Karlson, notable for dramatizing the 1954 Albert Patterson murder and enter...

Classic Crime 1950S Corruption

7.8 Good

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The Lineup

The Lineup is a 1958 American film noir directed by Don Siegel, adapted from the CBS police series and noted for San Fra...

Classic Procedural Crime 1950S

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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Cry Danger

Cry Danger is a 1951 American noir directed by Robert Parrish, notable for Dick Powell's ex-con hero and Joseph Biroc's...

Classic Crime Revenge 1950S

7.5 Good

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The Sniper

The Sniper is a 1952 Columbia noir by Edward Dmytryk, notable for its San Francisco locations and early focus on a seria...

Classic Procedural 1950S Serial Killer

7.4 Good

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The Garment Jungle

The Garment Jungle is a 1957 Columbia noir by Vincent Sherman, notable for its New York garment-industry racketeering pl...

Classic Crime 1950S Columbia

7.1 Good

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Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet is a 1952 newspaper noir by Phil Karlson, notable for adapting Samuel Fuller's novel The Dark Page into a...

Classic Crime 1950S Newspaper

7.0 Good

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Pushover

Pushover is a 1954 Columbia noir by Richard Quine, notable for Kim Novak's first credited role opposite Fred MacMurray a...

Classic Crime 1950S Surveillance

7.0 Good

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The Mob

The Mob is a 1951 Columbia crime noir by Robert Parrish, notable for Broderick Crawford as an undercover cop in a waterf...

Classic Crime 1950S Undercover

6.8 Fair

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The Brothers Rico

The Brothers Rico is a 1957 American film noir by Phil Karlson, starring Richard Conte in a Georges Simenon story about...

Classic Crime Gangster 1950S

6.8 Fair

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711 Ocean Drive

711 Ocean Drive is a 1950 American film noir by Joseph M. Newman, starring Edmond O'Brien as a phone technician drawn in...

Classic Crime 1950S Columbia

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 Night Holds Terror

The Night Holds Terror is a 1955 crime noir written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, notable for dramatizing a real Cali...

Classic Crime 1950S Columbia

6.2 Fair