Appointment with Danger (1950)

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Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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Mar 31, 1950
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01h 29m
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Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

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2016

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Black Gravel

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.
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7.0
Black+Gravel
Black Gravel

1961

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They Drive by Night

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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6.9
They+Drive+by+Night
They Drive by Night

1940

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The Asphalt Jungle

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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7.5
The+Asphalt+Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle

1950

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The Petrified Forest

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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7.1
The+Petrified+Forest
The Petrified Forest

1936

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In a Lonely Place

A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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7.6
In+a+Lonely+Place
In a Lonely Place

1950

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Scarlet Street

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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7.6
Scarlet+Street
Scarlet Street

1945

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White Heat

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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7.6
White+Heat
White Heat

1949

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The Blue Dahlia

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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6.7
The+Blue+Dahlia
The Blue Dahlia

1946

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Dark Passage

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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7.3
Dark+Passage
Dark Passage

1947

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This Gun for Hire

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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6.9
This+Gun+for+Hire
This Gun for Hire

1942

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The Desperate Hours

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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7.0
The+Desperate+Hours
The Desperate Hours

1955

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Gun Crazy

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
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7.4
Gun+Crazy
Bad Day at Black Rock

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
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7.3
Bad+Day+at+Black+Rock
Bad Day at Black Rock

1955

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The Big Heat

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
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7.7
The+Big+Heat
The Big Heat

1953

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Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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7.4
Fury
The Killers

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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7.4
The+Killers
The Killers

1946

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Body and Soul

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
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6.7
Body+and+Soul
Body and Soul

1947

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Leave Her to Heaven

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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7.4
Leave+Her+to+Heaven
Leave Her to Heaven

1945

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The Set-Up

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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7.3
The+Set-Up
The Set-Up

1949

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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7.2
Where+the+Sidewalk+Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends

1950

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The Glass Key

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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6.6
The+Glass+Key
The Glass Key

1942

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The Woman in the Window

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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7.4
The+Woman+in+the+Window
The Woman in the Window

1944

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The Big Clock

Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
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7.3
The+Big+Clock
The Big Clock

1948

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Niagara

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
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6.8
Niagara
The Big Steal

Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
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6.5
The+Big+Steal
The Big Steal

1949

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Somewhere in the Night

George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
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6.7
Somewhere+in+the+Night
Somewhere in the Night

1946

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Thieves' Highway

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
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7.3
Thieves%27+Highway
Thieves' Highway

1949

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Decoy

A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.
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5.9
Decoy
Criss Cross

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
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7.1
Criss+Cross
Criss Cross

1949

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Kiss of Death

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
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7.0
Kiss+of+Death
Kiss of Death

1947

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Human Desire

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1997.
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6.8
Human+Desire
Human Desire

1954

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The Blue Gardenia

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
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6.6
The+Blue+Gardenia
The Blue Gardenia

1953

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I Wake Up Screaming

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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6.8
I+Wake+Up+Screaming
I Wake Up Screaming

1941

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