Best crime films 1931 – 1940 - Charts
Best crime films 1931 – 1940
3. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane
4. Scarface (1932)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak
5. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell
7. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien
8. After the Thin Man (1936)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
9. The Public Enemy (1931)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow
10. Port of Shadows (1938)
France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Marcel Carné
Cast: Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan
11. Desire (1936)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Frank Borzage
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper
13. The Thin Man (1934)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone
15. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke, George Cukor
Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell
16. Young and Innocent (1937)
UK, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney
17. The Letter (1940)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
18. The Petrified Forest (1936)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Archie Mayo
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis
19. You Only Live Once (1937)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda
20. Bullets or Ballots (1936)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Keighley
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell
21. Dead End (1937)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea
22. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
France, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Cast: René Lefèvre, Jules Berry
23. City Streets (1931)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney
24. They Drive by Night (1940)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan
25. The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Leigh Jason
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
26. Another Thin Man (1939)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
27. It's a Wonderful World (1939)
USA, Crime / Comedy
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart
28. The Human Beast (1938)
France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon
29. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis
30. The Informer (1931)
German Empire / Austria, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Karel Lamač, Martin Frič
Cast: Lissy Arna, Fritz Rasp
31. The Black Cat (1934)
USA, Horror / Crime
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
32. A Step into the Darkness (1938)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Adina Mandlová, Rolf Wanka
33. Dragnet Girl (1933)
Japan, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Yasujirô Ozu
Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishû Ryû
34. The Phantom Creeps (1939)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Saul A. Goodkind, Ford Beebe
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent
35. 'G' Men (1935)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Keighley
Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay
36. Der Hund von Baskerville (1937)
German Empire, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Karel Lamač
Cast: Peter Voß, Fritz Odemar
37. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Boris Ingster
Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire
38. The Walking Dead (1936)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez
40. The General Died at Dawn (1936)
USA, Adventure / Film-Noir
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll
41. Three on a Match (1932)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Joan Blondell, Anne Shirley
43. Kid Galahad (1937)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis
44. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Nick Grinde
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray
45. Black Friday (1940)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
46. San Quentin (1937)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart
47. Smart Money (1931)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney
50. The Black Room (1935)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh
51. The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur
52. Tři vejce do skla (1937)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Vlasta Burian, Rudolf Kadlec
53. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
USA, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Alfred L. Werker
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
54. Contraband (1940)
UK, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Michael Powell
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson
55. City for Conquest (1940)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Jean Negulesco, Anatole Litvak
Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan
56. Night Key (1937)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Lloyd Corrigan
Cast: Boris Karloff, Warren Hull
57. The Dark Eyes of London (1939)
UK, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Walter Summers
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams
58. Invisible Stripes (1939)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: George Raft, Jane Bryan
59. Jamaica Inn (1939)
UK, Adventure / Crime
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara
61. Marked Woman (1937)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Michael Curtiz, Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
62. Big Brown Eyes (1936)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett
63. Pelikán má alibi (1940)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Miroslav Cikán
Cast: Miroslav Homola, Růžena Nasková
64. Pépé le Moko (1937)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin
65. The Last Gangster (1937)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Edward Ludwig
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart
66. You and Me (1938)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft
67. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Robert Florey
Cast: Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi
68. Number Seventeen (1932)
UK, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey
69. Night Nurse (1931)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon
70. Vražda v Ostrovní ulici (1933)
Czechoslovakia, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Svatopluk Innemann
Cast: Jindřich Plachta, Zvonimir Rogoz
71. Night at the Crossroads (1932)
France, Crime
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Cast: Pierre Renoir, Jean Gehret
72. An American Tragedy (1931)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney
73. Zouzou (1934)
France, Crime / Musical
Directed by: Marc Allégret
Cast: Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin
74. The Black Camel (1931)
USA, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: Hamilton MacFadden
Cast: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers
75. Záhada modrého pokoje (1933)
Czechoslovakia, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Miroslav Cikán
Cast: Karel Hašler, František Smolík
76. Berlin-Alexanderplatz - Die Geschichte Franz Biberkopfs (1931)
German Empire, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Phil Jutzi
Cast: Heinrich George, Gerhard Bienert
77. The Devil Bat (1940)
USA, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren
78. Vzdušné torpédo 48 (1936)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Miroslav Cikán
Cast: Otomar Korbelář, Antonín Novotný
79. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
UK, Crime / Horror
Directed by: George King
Cast: Tod Slaughter, Bruce Seton
80. Reefer Madness (1936)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Louis J. Gasnier
Cast: Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig