Crime Movies
The Ladykillers (1955)
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Shack Out on 101 (1955)
A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets.
The Crooked Web (1955)
Following WWII, ex-G.I. Stan opened up a drive-in restaurant. His girlfriend, Joanie, is one of the car hops. They want to get married someday, but the less-than-stellar business the restaurant…
Portrait of Alison (1955)
An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
A delinquent girl involves an innocent friend in an armed robbery followed by a jail-break and hostage-taking with her equally delinquent boyfriend.
A Time to Kill (1955)
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist…
No Man’s Woman (1955)
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead–among them a rich…
The Big Knife (1955)
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the…
Bobby Ware Is Missing (1955)
This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish search for their son. The police are contacted, and a ransom…
Illegal (1955)
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair — only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems…
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they’re holding hostage.
They Can’t Hang Me (1955)
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
Killer’s Kiss (1955)
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria’s violent boss, Vincent Rapallo,…
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
One Way Out (1955)
A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices finds that once he’s set foot on the path of corruption he is trapped…
Female on the Beach (1955)
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband’s beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent…
Wiretapper (1955)
A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for…
Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
The Night Holds Terror (1955)
A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.
We’re No Angels (1955)
Three convicts escape from prison on Devil’s Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store…
Barbados Quest (1955)
Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is willing to commit murder to get his or…
House of Bamboo (1955)
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and…
Chicago Syndicate (1955)
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in…
Dead by Morning (1955)
Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
King of the Carnival (1955)
Treasury agents go after a ring of counterfeiters operating out of a traveling carnival.
Finger Man (1955)
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and “finger” the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
5 Against the House (1955)
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Track the Man Down (1955)
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
Little Red Monkey (1955)
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to…
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his…
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme,…
Cell 2455 Death Row (1955)
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction,…