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1920s Crime Movies

Public list by WPS with 91 movies or TV shows/series

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Der Kampf des Donald Westhof(1927)

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The Last Warning(1928)

1h 29min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

Das Geheimnis der Mumie(1921)

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Directed by Victor Janson

Der große Unbekannte(1927)

1h 41min | Crime

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Dangerous Paths(1924)

DANGEROUS PATHS marked the beginning of Henrik Galeen’s collaboration with Piel, which by 1931 had comprised a total of five films. The present film offers the opportunity to see screenwriter Galeen in front of the camera as the super-rich American Francis. The journeyman carpenter Harry is bewitched by Francis’s daughter Dorothy, whom he has to rescue from the clutches of dangerous hoodlums. The gang is also trying to steal the crown of a prince. Thus Harry finds himself in a sophisticated adventure that features spectacular nature shots (filmed in the Alps).

Das Geheimnis einer Stunde(1925)

1h 18min

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Stool Pigeon(1928)

56min | Crime, Drama

An underworld story about a boy (Charles Delaney) suspected of being a stool pigeon but in reality, he is only stealing to give his mother a better life. His devoted girlfriend Goldie (Olive Borden) tries to help him turn his life around.

Directed by Renaud Hoffman - With Olive Borden

Tangled Trails(1921)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a gold mine. Borden, with the help of Blanche Hall, locates the man in a Bowery dive, but he escapes and Borden tracks him back to Canada. Along the way, he discovers that Blanche and his sweetheart, Milly, are long-separated sisters and brings about a reconciliation.

Directed by Charles Bartlett

The Money Habit(1924)

A manager's mistress cons a financier into buying a dud oil claim.

Masks(1930)

1h 19min | Crime

- No description / details available yet. -

Sweeney Todd(1928)

1h 13min | Drama
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A man dreams he is the 'demon barber' who cuts sailors' throats for jewels and uses the corpses for pies.

Directed by Walter West - With Moore Marriott, Judd Green

The Eleventh Commandment(1924)

An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.

Directed by George A. Cooper
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The Mysterious Airman(1928)

3h 5min
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

An inventor adds new innovations to an air company's planes, prompting the owners of a rival company to set out to steal them. The stakes are sky-high as an airman and an aviatrix find themselves in constant peril, both on earth and above the clouds.

Directed by Harry Revier

Boston Blackie(1923)

50min | Crime, Drama

Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his attempt to have Blackie arrested and returned to the prison, but his evil schemes are ultimately thwarted by Mary Carter, Blackie's girlfriend, who manages to alert the governor.

Der Würger der Welt(1920)

- No description / details available yet. -

Fools First(1922)

1h | Crime, Drama

Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he gets out of prison, he finds his girl, Ann Whittaker, waiting for him -- and she's got a scheme. She is working in a bank and wants to pull an inside heist.

Below the Deadline(1921)

Wharf-master Buck Elliot is the leader of a band of murderous crooks. The gang shoots down a policeman in a wharf side scuffle, and Detective Donovan swears revenge on the murderer.

Directed by J. P. McGowan

The Big City(1928)

1h 10min | Drama, Crime

Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plagued by a rival gang, led by deceptively boyish Curly, who has been stealing jewelry from the rich and famous. Our "hero" tricks the other crooks into turning the gems over to him, intending to use them for his own profit (he throws the cops off track by hiding jewels in a plate of spaghetti!) But sweet heroine Sunshine eventually persuades Collins and his cohorts to turn honest.

Sinners' Parade(1928)

58min | Crime, Drama

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by John G. Adolfi

Cocaine(1922)

1h 20min | Drama

A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.

A Man of Quality(1926)

Jack Banning is a motorcycle cop by day and undercover agent by night. Disguising himself as "Strongarm Samson," Banning infiltrates a gang of smugglers headed by Richard Courtney.

Directed by Wesley Ruggles

The Conspirators(1924)

A girl is accused when her father kills a blackmailer to save his son.

Directed by Sinclair Hill - With Betty Faire

The Flying Ace(1926)

1h 5min | Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A veteran World War I fighter pilot returns home a war hero and immediately regains his former job as a railroad company detective. His first case: recover a stolen satchel filled with $25,000 of company payroll, locate a missing employee, and capture a gang of railroad thieves.

Directed by Richard Edward Norman

One Chance in a Million(1927)

50min | Crime

Secret Service agent Jerry Blaine is hot on the trail of a gang of jewel thieves, Jerry briefly poses as a crook himself to gain the gang's confidence.

Directed by Noel M. Smith

A Daughter of the Law(1921)

50min | Crime, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang, his sister tries to steer him away from crime.

The Notorious Mrs. Carrick(1924)

A man's second wife is blackmailed by her former husband for the murder of her lover.

Directed by George Ridgwell

Moriturus(1920)

1h 38min | Drama, Mystery, Crime

A doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hopes will be able to discern the cause of his mysterious illness.

Directed by Karl Mueller-Hagens - With Max Landa

Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur(1929)

1h 27min | Crime

- No description / details available yet. -

Barriers of the Law(1925)

When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse. She quits the gang, but the gang's leader locks her up in a brothel. She escapes and hides in the apartment of a man who turns out to be the chief of the government agents pursuing her gang. Complications ensue.

Directed by J. P. McGowan
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