Best crime films 1941 – 1950 - Charts
Best crime films 1941 – 1950
1. Double Indemnity (1944)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck
3. The Young and the Damned (1950)
Mexico, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán
6. The Big Sleep (1946)
USA, Film-Noir / Mystery
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
7. Oliver Twist (1948)
UK, Adventure / Crime
Directed by: David Lean
Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness
8. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane
9. Mildred Pierce (1945)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson
11. Capek's Tales (1947)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Jaroslav Marvan, Vladimír Hlavatý
12. The Stranger (1946)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
13. Out of the Past (1947)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
15. Night and the City (1950)
UK / USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jules Dassin
Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney
16. Le Corbeau (1943)
France, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc
17. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: John Huston
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
20. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield
21. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
USA, Drama / Western
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
23. Obsession (1943)
Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti
24. Woman on the Run (1950)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Norman Foster
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe
25. Dark Passage (1947)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
26. Paklíč (1944)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Miroslav Cikán
Cast: Oldřich Nový, Jiřina Steimarová
28. Born to Kill (1947)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney
29. The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
30. Brute Force (1947)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jules Dassin
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn
31. High Sierra (1941)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart
32. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles
33. Call Northside 777 (1948)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte
34. The Lady Eve (1941)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Preston Sturges
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
35. Guard 13 (1946)
Czechoslovakia, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Jaroslav Marvan, Dana Medřická
36. And Then There Were None (1945)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: René Clair
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston
37. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney
38. The Killers (1946)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner
39. Keeper of the Flame (1942)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: George Cukor
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn
40. Phantom Lady (1944)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines
41. Possessed (1947)
USA, Film-Noir / Drama
Directed by: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin
42. This Gun for Hire (1942)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston
43. The Big Clock (1948)
USA, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: John Farrow
Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton
44. The Breaking Point (1950)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal
45. The Black Cat (1941)
USA, Crime / Comedy
Directed by: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert
46. Story of a Love Affair (1950)
Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti
47. Criss Cross (1949)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo
49. Union Station (1950)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Rudolph Maté
Cast: William Holden, Nancy Olson
50. The Life of an Adventurer (1941)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Otomar Korbelář, Ladislav Pešek
51. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor
52. The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck
53. The Naked City (1948)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jules Dassin
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff
54. The Pearl of Death (1944)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
55. Dark City (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Dieterle
Cast: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott
56. Raw Deal (1948)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor
57. Kiss of Death (1947)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy
58. The Paradine Case (1947)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd
59. Mystery Street (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest
60. Somewhere in the Night (1946)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan
61. They Live by Night (1948)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger
62. I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
USA, Film-Noir / Mystery
Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature
63. House by the River (1950)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman
64. Black Angel (1946)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Dan Duryea, June Vincent
65. The Blue Dahlia (1946)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: George Marshall
Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake
67. Hangover Square (1945)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: John Brahm
Cast: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell
68. Panic in the Streets (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas
69. The House of Fear (1945)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
71. Song of the Thin Man (1947)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Edward Buzzell
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
72. Johnny Eager (1941)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner
73. Swamp Water (1941)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Cast: Walter Brennan, Walter Huston
74. Lady on a Train (1945)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Charles David
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy
75. Crossfire (1947)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum
77. Jenny Lamour (1947)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant
78. High Wall (1947)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter
79. The Dark Corner (1946)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb
80. All Through the Night (1941)
USA, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt
81. Cry of the City (1948)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Conte
82. The Glass Key (1942)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake
83. The Sound of Fury (1950)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Cy Endfield
Cast: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan
84. The Street with No Name (1948)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Keighley
Cast: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark
85. Whirlpool (1949)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Cast: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte
86. Side Street (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell
88. Lust for Gold (1949)
USA, Western / Crime
Directed by: S. Sylvan Simon
Cast: Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford
89. The Woman in Green (1945)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
91. Quicksand (1950)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Irving Pichel
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney
92. The Scarlet Claw (1944)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
93. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
94. Hollow Triumph (1948)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Steve Sekely
Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett
95. Follow Me Quietly (1949)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick
98. Larceny, Inc. (1942)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman
99. Cage of Gold (1950)
UK, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Basil Dearden
Cast: Jean Simmons, David Farrar
100. Dressed to Kill (1946)
USA, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce