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1. The Challenge (1982)
R | 108 min | Action, Drama
A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura
Votes: 2,666 | Gross: $3.53M
2. Battle Cry (1955)
Approved | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War
Young Marines have adventures in love and war.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson
Votes: 2,628 | Gross: $17.44M
3. Marked Woman (1937)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
A crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 4,828
4. The Phenix City Story (1955)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews
Votes: 3,257
5. The Lady Gambles (1949)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett
Votes: 1,055
6. The Frightened City (1961)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
Director: John Lemont | Stars: Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, John Gregson, Alfred Marks
Votes: 1,117
7. The Penalty (1920)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney
Votes: 2,632
8. Manpower (1941)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,699
9. Curfew Breakers (1957)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crackdown on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas-station attendant in an ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander J. Wells | Stars: Paul Kelly, Cathy Downs, Regis Toomey, Sheila Urban
Votes: 125
10. Allotment Wives (1945)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers' pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 568
11. Singapore Woman (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Romance
A switched-locale remake of "Dangerous (1935)" about a jinxed, hard-luck dame , Vicki Moore (Brenda Marshall), and the men who show her that life is worth living no matter how ponderous and complicated.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Brenda Marshall, David Bruce, Virginia Field, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 149
12. Gigolette (1935)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance
Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New York City clip-joint, which he operates ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Adrienne Ames, Ralph Bellamy, Donald Cook, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 45
13. Women in Prison (1938)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Wyn Cahoon, Scott Kolk, Arthur Loft, Mayo Methot
Votes: 19
14.
Maigret (1992–1993)
Episode:
Maigret and the Night Club Dancer
(1993)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a beautiful but alcoholic stripper reports overhearing a murder plot in the club where she works, she recants and is murdered shortly thereafter.
Director: John Strickland | Stars: Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jack Galloway, James Larkin
Votes: 145