Genre: Crime Dramas
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Murder, Inc. (1960)
Cast: Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan …
Directed by: Burt Balaban, Stuart Rosenberg
In the wake of Prohibition, violent gangsters are finding work as racketeers and contract killers, and one particular group -- known menacingly as Murder, Inc. -- is terrorizing Brooklyn with…
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Johnny Legend Presents: Beat Mania! (1960)
Cast: Peter Breck, Joyce Terry, Karen Kadler …
Directed by: Paul Frees
Oddball movie maven Johnny Legend presents The Beatniks, an exploitation crime flick from 1960 filled with bongos, hep cats and reefer. After holding up a convenience store with his pals,…
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Vice Raid (1960)
Cast: Mamie Van Doren, Richard Coogan, Brad Dexter …
Directed by: Edward L. Cahn
After framing incorruptible vice squad detective Brandon (Richard Coogan), beautiful prostitute Carol (Mamie Van Doren) teams up with him to take down her crooked boss, Malone (Brad Dexter),…
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The Music Box Kid (1960)
Cast: Ron Foster, Luana Patten, Grant Richards …
Directed by: Edward L. Cahn
This crime drama follows Larry Shaw (Ron Foster), an amoral hood who claws his way up the ladder of a bootlegging outfit in Prohibition-era New York. Larry's innocent wife, Margaret…
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Compulsion (1959)
Cast: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell …
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Based on the 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder trial, this classic courtroom drama tells the story of two wealthy psychopaths (Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell) who consider themselves above…
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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Robert Wise
David Burke, a former cop and ex-con, convinces bigoted Southerner Earl Slater to rob a bank with him. Burke also recruits Johnny Ingram, a gambling addict hopelessly in debt. But when Slater…
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High School Big Shot / High School Caesar / Date Bait (1959)
Cast: Tom Pittman, Virginia Aldridge, Howard Viet …
Directed by: Joel Rapp, O'Dale Ireland
In High School Big Shot, a geek becomes the object of affection of the school hottie … but she has an ulterior motive! In High School Caesar, a power-crazed kid runs a protection racket…
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Gangster Story (1959)
Cast: Carol Grace, Walter Matthau, Bruce MacFarlane …
Directed by: Walter Matthau
With this crime drama, Walter Matthau makes his directorial debut and stars as aspiring mob boss Jack Martin. After running afoul of mobster Earl Dawson (Bruce MacFarlane), Jack teams up with…
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The Rebel Set (1959)
Cast: Gregg Palmer, Kathleen Crowley, Edward Platt …
Directed by: Gene Fowler
To pull off the heist of a lifetime -- holding up a money-laden armored car in Chicago -- a beatnik named "Tucker the Butcher" recruits a mama's boy, a wanna-be actor and a writer with a…
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The Bloody Brood (1959)
Cast: Peter Falk, Barbara Lord, Jack Betts …
Directed by: Julian Roffman
With the cops completely stymied, Cliff (Jack Betts) swears to track down and punish the man who killed his kid brother with a hamburger laced with ground glass in this seedy exploitation…
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The Young Captives (1959)
Cast: Steven Marlo, Luana Patten, Tom Selden …
Directed by: Irvin Kershner
After sociopath Jamie Forbes (Steven Marlo) kills his boss, he flees toward Mexico and along the way runs into eloping teenagers Ann Howel (Luana Patten) and Benjie Whitney (Tom Selden), who…
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The Child and the Killer (1959)
Cast: Ryck Rydon, Richard Williams, Patricia Driscoll …
Directed by: Max Varnel
Joe Marsh (Robert Arden) is a U.S. Army captain who goes on the run in Britain after committing murder. He breaks into a family's home and forces 7-year-old Tommy Martin (Richard…
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Cry Tough (1959)
Cast: John Saxon, Linda Cristal, Joseph Calleia …
Directed by: Paul Stanley
Recently released convict Miguel Antonio Enrico Francisco Estrada (John Saxon) might have a long name. But he makes short work of going straight when he gets out of the slammer, only to end…
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Touch of Evil (1958)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh …
Directed by: Orson Welles
Narcotics detective Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) sees his honeymoon cut short when a car crossing the U.S.-Mexico border explodes before his eyes. Vargas forsakes his bride (Janet Leigh) to…
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Thunder Road (1958)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, James Mitchum …
Directed by: Robert Mitchum
Upon returning to Tennessee after serving in the Korean War, backwoods moonshiner Lucas Doolin (Robert Mitchum) finds the family business getting pinched by revenuer Troy Barrett (Gene Barry)…
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Underworld Beauty (1958)
Cast: Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Yusuke Ashida …
Directed by: Seijun Suzuki
Miyamoto is a former mobster who's just been sprung from jail and immediately has two orders of business he must take care of. First on his list is finding a priceless stash of diamonds…
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The Defiant Ones (1958)
Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel …
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Two escaped convicts -- one black (Sidney Poitier), one white (Tony Curtis) and both shackled in the same pair of handcuffs -- battle the elements and each other as they travel Southern back…
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I Want to Live! (1958)
Cast: Susan Hayward, Wesley Lau, Simon Oakland …
Directed by: Robert Wise
Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) -- party girl and prevaricator -- works as a shill, enticing naive men into rigged card games. She tries to reform, but when her new life crumbles, she falls…
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The Lineup (1958)
Cast: Mary LaRoche, Cheryl Callaway, Eli Wallach …
Directed by: Don Siegel
Returning to San Francisco from an overseas trip, Dorothy Bradshaw (Mary LaRoche) and her young daughter (Cheryl Callaway) fall in with drug dealers when the girl inadvertently destroys a bag…
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Gun Fever (1958)
Cast: Mark Stevens, John Lupton, Larry Storch …
Directed by: Mark Stevens
Determined to seek vengeance against the white man who led a renegade group of Indians in attacks that killed his parents, Lucas Ram (Mark Stevens, who also directs) and his mining partner,…
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Violent Playground (1958)
Cast: Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum …
Directed by: Basil Dearden
After futilely hunting a mysterious arsonist dubbed "Firefly," upright police officer Jack (Stanley Baker) investigates youth gang leader Johnnie (David McCallum), falls in love with the…
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton …
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Based on an Agatha Christie play, this Oscar-nominated mystery directed and co-written by Billy Wilder concerns an esteemed and aging lawyer (Charles Laughton). On the eve of retiring, he…
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Island in the Sun (1957)
Cast: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge …
Directed by: Robert Rossen
With a steamy Caribbean isle as a backdrop, director Robert Rossen's racially charged drama boils over with intrigue. When Maxwell Fleury (James Mason), the son of a moneyed family,…
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The Depraved (1957)
Cast: Anne Heywood, Robert Arden, Carroll Levis …
Directed by: Paul Dickson
Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover, American Army captain Dave Dillon (Robert…
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The Big Caper (1957)
Cast: Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory …
Directed by: Robert Stevens
Long before a big bank heist, a gangster (Rory Calhoun) and his boss's moll (Mary Costa) move to a small town, where they pretend to be married, stake out the target and earn the…