Crime Movies

A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.

Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence–aka Michael Arlen’s literary hero The Falcon–arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor….

A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn’t know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.

Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance’s father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There’s only one hitch:…

Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man’s old…

A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.

In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. It’s the pretext for an off-beat treatment of sexual frustration…

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home…

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into…

The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in…

Don’t be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It’s a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat…

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband’s life insurance.

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the…

A lawyer tries to clear his wife’s lover of murder charges.

To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.

When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec,…

A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for…

When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas,…

Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she occupies with her…

Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding…

A mystery woman is a murder suspect’s only alibi for the night of his wife’s death.

When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger’s young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on “The…

Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the…

The Falcon is called to a young woman’s school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another victim is discovered.

A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there’s a talking blackbird who insists upon saying…

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather’s will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop…

During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime…

The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England’s war effort.

Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.

Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City’s now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with…

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate…