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1930s Crime Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 280 movies or TV shows/series

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Scarface(1932)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 303 votes)

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

M(1931)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
4.1/5 (with 931 votes)

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Fury(1936)

NR
| 1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 84 votes)

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.

Little Caesar(1931)

3.5/5 (with 105 votes)

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

'G' Men(1935)

NR
| 1h 23min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 41 votes)

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Dead End(1937)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

The Informer(1935)

1h 31min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 39 votes)

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?

The Petrified Forest(1936)

NR
| 1h 22min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 80 votes)

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.

Marked Woman(1937)

NR
| 1h 36min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 35 votes)

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang(1932)

1h 32min | Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 104 votes)

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

Night Nurse(1931)

1h 12min | Crime, Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

Desire(1936)

3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

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Manhattan Melodrama(1934)

NR
| 1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Smart Money(1931)

NR
| 1h 21min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

The Public Enemy(1931)

NR
| 1h 23min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 136 votes)

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

Three on a Match(1932)

1h 3min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Pépé le Moko(1937)

3.6/5 (with 84 votes)

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)

NR
| 1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 125 votes)

In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.

You Only Live Once(1937)

NR
| 1h 26min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 86 votes)

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Port of Shadows(1938)

3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

The Mayor of Hell(1933)

NR
| 1h 30min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

Midnight Mary(1933)

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

A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.

Toni(1935)

1h 24min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.

San Quentin(1937)

1h 10min | Action, Drama
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.

Yellowstone(1936)

NR
| 1h 3min | Drama, Crime
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.

La Bête Humaine(1938)

3.5/5 (with 107 votes)

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.

Black Legion(1937)

1h 23min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Prison Break(1938)

NR
| 1h 12min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.

Criminal Lawyer(1937)

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.

Directed by Christy Cabanne

Corsair(1931)

1h 15min | Adventure
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

Directed by Roland West - With Chester Morris
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