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1930s Crime Movies

Public list by WPS with 406 movies or TV shows/series

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Jamaica Inn(1939)

3.0/5 (with 84 votes)

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an inkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.

The Thin Man(1934)

NR
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 186 votes)

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Kid Galahad(1937)

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

The Dark Eyes of London(1939)

1h 16min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.

Dragnet Girl(1933)

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse(1938)

1h 27min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo(1937)

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.

Silver Blaze(1937)

NR
| 1h 11min | Crime, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.

Directed by Thomas Bentley - With Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, D. J. Williams, Eve Gray, John Turnbull, Lyn Harding, ...

Mr. Wong, Detective(1938)

NR
| 1h 10min | Crime, Thriller, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island(1939)

NR
| 1h 12min | Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.

The Saint in New York(1938)

1h 9min | Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.

Love Is on the Air(1937)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

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You and Me(1938)

NR
| 1h 30min | Crime, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Midnight Taxi(1937)

1h 13min | Drama, Crime
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.

Directed by Eugene Forde - With Brian Donlevy

Taxi!(1931)

NR
| 1h 9min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.

Justin de Marseille(1935)

1h 39min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed.

Charlie Chan in Honolulu(1938)

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.

Great Guy(1936)

NR
| 1h 15min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

Daughter of Shanghai(1937)

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

Night Key(1937)

NR
| 1h 8min | Science Fiction, Crime
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.

The Dragon Murder Case(1934)

NR
| 1h 7min | Mystery
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.

Night Court(1932)

1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.

Public Enemy's Wife(1936)

1h 9min | Drama, Crime
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.

Girl in Danger(1934)

NR
| 57min | Mystery

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

Directed by D. Ross Lederman - With Ralph Bellamy

The Beast of the City(1932)

NR
| 1h 26min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Guilty or Not Guilty(1932)

1h 10min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known.

Little Big Shot(1935)

NR
| 1h 18min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Sworn Enemy(1936)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With Robert Young

Charlie Chan in Reno(1939)

NR
| 1h 10min | Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.

Sin's Pay Day(1932)

NR
| 1h 4min | Crime, Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.

Directed by George B. Seitz - With Lloyd Whitlock
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