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1920s Crime Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 90 movies or TV shows/series

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Underworld(1927)

NR
| 1h 27min | Drama, Crime, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

The Penalty(1920)

NR
| 1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.

The Unholy Three(1925)

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.

The Racket(1928)

1h 24min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.

The Pleasure Garden(1927)

NR
| 1h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 26 votes)

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.

The Ace of Hearts(1921)

3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even more tense when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.

Beggars of Life(1928)

NR
| 1h 22min | Adventure, Drama
3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Outside the Law(1921)

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past….

While the City Sleeps(1928)

1h 6min | Drama, Crime
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.

Proxies(1921)

1h 10min | Drama, Crime

Carlotta Darley (Dean) is engaged to Homer Carleton (Crosby), but regrets that Homer is not as tall and handsome as the butler Peter (Kerry).

Directed by George D. Baker - With Norman Kerry

White Tiger(1923)

1h 23min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.

Parisian Love(1925)

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Armand and Marie survive in the streets until charitable (and wealthy) scientist Pierre Marcel takes Armand in after a botched robbery. Marie, a fiery Apache, swears revenge on Marcel for taking her lover away from her.

Directed by Louis J. Gasnier - With Clara Bow
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Lights of New York(1928)

NR
| 57min | Crime, Drama
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Interference(1928)

1h 23min | Drama, Crime
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.

The Clown(1927)

57min | Crime, Drama
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Silent crime drama Directed by William James Craft.

Torment(1924)

1h

Torment is a 1924 American silent film crime drama produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National. This film stars Bessie Love, Owen Moore, and Jean Hersholt.

The Master Mind(1920)

NR
| 50min | Crime, Drama

The defense attorney who was unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to revenge himself upon the prosecutor.

Directed by Kenneth Webb - With Lionel Barrymore, Gypsy O'Brien, Ralph Kellard, Bradley Barker, Percy Helton

The Way of the Strong(1928)

1h 1min

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

Dressed to Kill(1928)

NR
| 1h 10min | Comedy, Crime

A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".

Directed by Irving Cummings - With Mary Astor

The City Gone Wild(1927)

54min | Crime, Drama

Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend's death.

The Street of Forgotten Men(1925)

NR
| 1h 16min | Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart. But his fellow crooks and dissemblers mock him for sentimentality, and he disowns the child in order to bring her up secretly in the safety of a distant suburb. He brings her up as a young lady in ignorance of her true history or of his; but when he discovers that her affections have taken an unexpected slant, it brings about an end to their tranquil life, a crisis of conscience, and an opportunity for the sinister 'White-Eye' to take a hand...

Skin Deep(1922)

1h 10min | Drama, Crime

The plot concerns a war hero who returns home determined to give up his old ways as a crook. Bud Doyle (Milton Sills) is still being hounded by the cops, and both his wife (Marcia Nanon) and a former associate, a dishonest politician, want to do him in.

The Street(1923)

1h 14min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

The movie follows two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, who are interdependent. None of the characters have been given names and are therefore referred to only by description. The city is an expressionistic nightmare, a dangerous and chaotic place.

The Light in the Dark(1922)

33min | Drama, Crime
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A young girl is struck and seriously injured by a wealthy society matron's car. The woman brings the girl back to her house. Later, a hardened thief is told by the girl of a goblet, that could be the Holy Grail, which has healing powers and could help her. The thief, touched by her predicament, sets out to steal the goblet and bring it to her.

Directed by Clarence Brown - With Lon Chaney

The Great Mail Robbery(1927)

1h 10min | Drama, Crime

Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant Donald Macready, assigned by his commanding officer to squelch a train-robbery gang. Going undercover, Macready infiltrates the gang and monitors their every move.

Obey the Law(1926)

NR
| 57min | Crime, Adventure

When his old prison-friend's daughter is about to wed a wealthy man, the friend steals a valuable pendant and gives it to the girl's father. The father, in turn and not realizing it is stolen goods, gives it to his daughter as a wedding present. But the law shows up looking for the pendant.

Sally of the Scandals(1928)

1h 10min

Sally of the Scandals is a 1928 American silent crime drama film produced and released by Film Booking Offices of America. It was directed by Lynn Shores and starred Bessie Love.

Directed by Lynn Shores - With Bessie Love

Accident(1928)

21min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.

The Dying Detective(1921)

28min
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really happened. Norwood would play Holmes in over thirty films and he's quite good in the role bring an intelligent looking character.

Children of the Whirlwind(1925)

NR
| 1h 12min | Drama

A recent parolee tries to go straight with the help of a friendly artist, but his old gang, his sweetheart, and a crooked cop make it difficult for him to escape a life of crime.

Directed by Whitman Bennett
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