Best crime films 1951 – 1960 - Charts
Best crime films 1951 – 1960
1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
2. Some Like It Hot (1959)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis
3. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich
4. The Killing (1956)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray
5. The 400 Blows (1959)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier
6. The Defiant Ones (1958)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
7. Dial M for Murder (1954)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly
8. The Hole (1960)
France / Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Jacques Becker
Cast: Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy
10. Strangers on a Train (1951)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman
11. It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
West Germany / Switzerland, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Ladislao Vajda
Cast: Heinz Rühmann, Siegfried Lowitz
13. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
USA, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick
14. On the Waterfront (1954)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden
15. Inspector Maigret (1958)
France / Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Jean Delannoy
Cast: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot
16. Touch of Evil (1958)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh
17. Purple Noon (1960)
France / Italy, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: René Clément
Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet
18. Detective Story (1951)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker
19. Breathless (1960)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
20. The Wrong Man (1956)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles
21. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Italy, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Mario Monicelli
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori
23. We're No Angels (1955)
USA, Crime / Comedy
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray
24. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Thriller
Directed by: Charles Laughton
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
25. Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
France / Italy, Thriller / Crime
Directed by: Jean Delannoy
Cast: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair
26. Pickup on South Street (1953)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters
27. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Louis Malle
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet
28. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
UK, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, André Morell
29. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
UK, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Charles Crichton
Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway
30. Pickpocket (1959)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Robert Bresson
Cast: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green
31. Shoot the Pianist (1960)
France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: François Truffaut
Cast: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois
32. The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
West Germany, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Claus Holm, Annemarie Düringer
33. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker
34. Compulsion (1959)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi
35. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
USA, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan
36. Love Is My Profession (1958)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Claude Autant-Lara
Cast: Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot
37. To Catch a Thief (1955)
USA, Mystery / Romance
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
38. The Ladykillers (1955)
UK, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker
39. The League of Gentlemen (1960)
UK, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Roger Livesey
40. The Adultress (1953)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Marcel Carné
Cast: Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone
41. House of Wax (1953)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: André De Toth
Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy
42. Back to the Wall (1958)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Édouard Molinaro
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury
43. Death of a Cyclist (1955)
Spain / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Juan Antonio Bardem
Cast: Lucia Bosé, Alberto Closas
44. The Wreck Of The Mary Deare (1959)
UK / USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Cast: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston
45. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
USA, Western / Crime
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers
46. Honour Among Thieves (1954)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Jacques Becker
Cast: Jean Gabin, René Dary
48. Rehearsal for a Crime (1955)
Mexico, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Miroslava Stern, Rita Macedo
49. Smugglers of Death (1959)
Czechoslovakia, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Karel Kachyňa
Cast: Radovan Lukavský, Jiří Vala
50. The Big Combo (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte
52. A Town Like Alice (1956)
UK, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Jack Lee
Cast: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch
53. The Enforcer (1951)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel
54. Murder by Contract (1958)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Irving Lerner
Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine
55. The Tiger Attacks (1959)
France, Crime
Directed by: Maurice Labro
Cast: Lino Ventura, Estella Blain
56. King Creole (1958)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones
57. Golden Marie (1952)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Jacques Becker
Cast: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani
58. The Gates of Paris (1957)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: René Clair
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Henri Vidal
60. The Housemaid (1960)
South Korea, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Ki-young Kim
Cast: Seong-gi Ahn, Eun-shim Lee
61. I Want to Live! (1958)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland
63. Crime Wave (1954)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: André De Toth
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson
65. The People Against O'Hara (1951)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien
66. Scandal Sheet (1952)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Phil Karlson
Cast: Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed
67. Guys and Dolls (1955)
USA, Musical / Comedy
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons
68. The Red Inn (1951)
France, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Claude Autant-Lara
Cast: Fernandel, Françoise Rosay
69. Girl on the Run (1953)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Joseph Lee, Arthur J. Beckhard
Cast: Richard Coogan, Rosemary Pettit
70. The Trap (1959)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Norman Panama
Cast: Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb
72. Adventure in Berlin (1952)
West Germany, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: František Čáp
Cast: Kurt Meisel, Hans Nielsen
73. Do You Want to Dance with Me? (1959)
France / Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Michel Boisrond
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Henri Vidal
74. The Tall Target (1951)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond
75. Nightfall (1956)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Aldo Ray, Brian Keith
76. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin
77. Father Brown (1954)
UK, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Robert Hamer
Cast: Alec Guinness, Peter Finch
78. Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore
79. Kansas City Confidential (1952)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Phil Karlson
Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray
80. The Narrow Margin (1952)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor
81. Speaking of Murder (1957)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Gilles Grangier
Cast: Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur
82. Another Man's Poison (1951)
UK, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill
83. Killer's Kiss (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith
84. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan
85. A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Gerd Oswald
Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter
86. 99 River Street (1953)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Phil Karlson
Cast: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes
87. Chacun son alibi (1960)
France / Italy, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Mario Camerini
Cast: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman
88. The Door Remains Open (1959)
Yugoslavia, Drama / Crime
Directed by: František Čáp
Cast: Rade Vergovic, Milena Dravic
89. Two Way Stretch (1960)
UK, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Robert Day
Cast: Peter Sellers, Maurice Denham
90. Classe tous risques (1960)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Claude Sautet
Cast: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo
91. Pushover (1954)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Richard Quine
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey
93. The Prowler (1951)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Joseph Losey
Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes
94. A 105 p.c. Alibi (1959)
Czechoslovakia, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Vladimír Čech
Cast: Karel Höger, Josef Bek
95. Violent Saturday (1955)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Egan
97. Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Don Siegel
Cast: Neville Brand, Frank Faylen
98. The Blue Gardenia (1953)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte
99. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
West Germany / Italy, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Gert Fröbe, Peter van Eyck
100. On Dangerous Ground (1951)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan