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1. The Town (2010)
R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold an assistant manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner
Votes: 417,035 | Gross: $92.19M
2. House of Bamboo (1955)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 4,157
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
Votes: 227,196 | Gross: $102.31M
4. Cat Ballou (1965)
Not Rated | 97 min | Western
A young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman
Votes: 16,256 | Gross: $20.67M
5. White Heat (1949)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly
Votes: 35,927
6. Empire State (2013)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two childhood friends plan to rob an armored-car depository, but an NYPD officer stands in their way.
Director: Dito Montiel | Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Michael Angarano, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Ben-Victor
Votes: 22,987
7. Carry on Constable (1960)
86 min | Comedy
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. They manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor
Votes: 2,840
8. The Killers (1946)
Passed | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker
Votes: 23,716
9. Odd Man Out (1947)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick
Votes: 11,458
10. Johnny Handsome (1989)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 11,045 | Gross: $7.24M
11. Gun Crazy (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 14,937
12. Night Passage (1957)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A fired railroad man is re-hired and entrusted to carry a ten thousand dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster
Votes: 4,568
13. Hour of the Gun (1967)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Western
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton gang in a fight. In revenge, Clanton's thugs kill the Marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi
Votes: 4,623
14. Indestructible Man (1956)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Charles "The Butcher" Benton, a brutal death row inmate gets double-crossed by his crooked lawyer. He gets his chance for revenge when, after he's been executed, a bizarre experiment brings him back to life and more deadly than ever.
Director: Jack Pollexfen | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott
Votes: 3,169
15. The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
Passed | 90 min | Western
Former Dalton gang member Bill Doolin puts together his own bank-robbing gang but federal Marshals are closing in.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Randolph Scott, George Macready, Louise Allbritton, John Ireland
Votes: 639
16. The Big Steal (1949)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
An army lieutenant accused of robbery pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's fiancee.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles
Votes: 5,401
17. He Ran All the Way (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot, and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment, and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt.
Director: John Berry | Stars: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle
Votes: 3,033
18. Beast with a Gun (1977)
Unrated | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In Italy, escaped sadistic killer Nanni Vitali and his henchmen terrorize the populace and seek revenge against those responsible for Vitali's incarceration.
Director: Sergio Grieco | Stars: Helmut Berger, Marisa Mell, Richard Harrison, Marina Giordana
Votes: 1,245
19. The Big Chase (1954)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
An LAPD rookie tangles with state prison paroled convicts who plan to rob an armored payroll truck in Los Angeles.
Directors: Arthur Hilton, Robert L. Lippert Jr. | Stars: Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens, Lon Chaney Jr., Jim Davis
Votes: 178
20. Kid Blue (1973)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Western
At the turn of the century, with the Old West fading away, Texas train robber Kid Blue goes straight and takes a factory job but old habits die hard.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson
Votes: 823
21. Highway 301 (1950)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Led by a psychopathic killer, a vicious gang of armed robbers terrorizes Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, robbing banks and payrolls and murdering anyone who might identify them.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: William P. Lane Jr., John S. Battle, W. Kerr Scott, Steve Cochran
Votes: 1,124
22. Denver & Rio Grande (1952)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western
A romanticized history of the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado mountains.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers
Votes: 622
23. The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)
Approved | 80 min | Western
Lieutenant Hemp Brown's army payroll wagon is robbed by ex-sergeant Jed Givens' gang, forcing Brown to search for the culprits after he is deemed a coward by the court martial.
Director: Richard Carlson | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Beverly Garland, John Larch, Russell Johnson
Votes: 249
24. The Capture (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Western
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White
Votes: 667
25. The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance, Western
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Gary Cooper, Charles Lane
Votes: 944
26. Santa Fe (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Western
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter M. Thompson
Votes: 1,145
27. Hard Ground (2003 TV Movie)
93 min | Western
Billy Bucklin escapes while being transported to Yuma prison and plans to form an army of desperadoes to control the Mexican border. To finance his band, he robs a stagecoach, kidnaps a ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Q. Dobbs | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Bruce Dern, Amy Jo Johnson, Seth Peterson
Votes: 433
28. Rotten to the Core (1965)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead ... See full summary »
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Anton Rodgers, Charlotte Rampling, Eric Sykes, Ian Bannen
Votes: 235
29. Colorado (1940)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Pauline Moore, Milburn Stone
Votes: 291
30. Cave of Outlaws (1951)
Passed | 76 min | Western
Released after serving 15 years in prison for train robbery Pete Carver being the only survivor of the gang goes looking for the loot in the caves where it was hidden.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Alexis Smith, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory
Votes: 389
31. Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
The story of two Italian immigrant radicals who were executed in 1927 offers insights into present-day issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.
Director: Peter Miller | Stars: Anton Coppola, Henry Fonda, Arlo Guthrie, David Kaiser
Votes: 328 | Gross: $0.03M
32. Bank Alarm (1937)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Department of Justice agent and his girlfriend attempt to apprehend a gang of bank robbers, but the robbers always seem to be a step ahead.
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Vince Barnett, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 320
33. Three Desperate Men (1951)
Approved | 71 min | Western
Two deputies from Texas travel to California to save their outlaw brother from the hangman and they become outlaws themselves.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Preston Foster, Jim Davis, Virginia Grey, Kim Spalding
Votes: 118
34. The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Unrated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon gets word that the next train will deliver the payroll for a mining ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, George Nichols, Francis J. Grandon, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 1,345
35. Lightnin' in the Forest (1948)
Approved | 58 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Psychiatrist David Lamont is pressured into "analyzing" the madcap but glamorous niece of a judge. Then crooks on the lam intrude...
Director: George Blair | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Don 'Red' Barry, Warren Douglas, Lorna Gray
Votes: 24
36. Red Rock Outlaw (1949)
Approved | 57 min | Western
Jeff Larson (Bob Gilbert), a tough killer and outlaws gang leader, escapes from prison and terrorizes the countryside around Red Rock, especially a female troupe of itinerant musicians ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Bob Gilbert, Ione Nixon, Lee 'Lasses' White, Forrest Matthews
Votes: 7
37. Boot Hill Bandits (1942)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Shady town businessman Bolton seems to be the leader of the gang but even he takes his order from a higher authority who may have tried to take Marshal Corrigan's life.
Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Ray Corrigan, John 'Dusty' King, Max Terhune, Elmer
Votes: 90
38. Pendaison à Jefferson City (1910)
7 min | Short, Western
Three friends on their way to deliver a payroll stop for a few drinks. Two of them decide to stay for a while, but the third sets out to deliver the payroll by himself. When he never shows ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Durand | Stars: Joë Hamman, Gaston Modot, Berthe Dagmar, Joaquim Renez
Votes: 55
39. Mitäs me sankarit (1980)
91 min | Comedy, Crime
Two idiot ex-policemen turns out to be private detectives. Comedy follows their mistakes.
Director: Visa Mäkinen | Stars: Leo Lastumäki, Tenho Saurén, Kauko Helovirta, Timo Nissi
Votes: 86
40. Butch Minds the Baby (1979)
31 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
A hoodlum named Harry the Horse tries to convince Butch the safecracker to take a job. Butch, long retired from crime, agrees to take the job, but his wife has entrusted him with their ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Webb | Stars: Zachary Peirce, Jerry O'Shea, Ivan Cotton, Harry Gaunt
Votes: 21
41. El atraco (2004)
126 min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
Its about corruption in government institutions, in this specific case, the police. How the master plan to steal a bank truck finds its origins in the highest spheres of society. It is a good movie and the actress is awesomely good.
Director: Paolo Agazzi | Stars: Diego Bertie, Salvador del Solar, Lucía Jiménez, Jorge Ortiz Sánchez
Votes: 171
42. The Sky Raiders (1931)
Passed | 59 min | Adventure, Crime
Bob Rogers (Lloyd Hughes), a former World War One flying ace, loses his license after crashing an airplane while drunk. He works his way back into the commercial airline service by tracking... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Marceline Day, Wheeler Oakman, Walter Miller
Votes: 42
43. The Last Trail (1921)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Romance, Western
The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town, and when a stranger arrives riding a fine horse, suspicions are aroused and he is mistaken ... See full summary »
Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn, Eva Novak, Wallace Beery, Rosemary Theby
Votes: 17
44. Pink in the Clink (1968)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Pink Panther, working as porter in a train depot, gets forced at gunpoint by a little, pointy-nosed man to assist him in a burglary at the Acme Manufacturing Company. While the man ... See full summary »
Director: Gerry Chiniquy
Votes: 181
45. Outside These Walls (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Dan Sparling (Michael Whalen) is a brilliant, crusading journalist, but also a man with a prison record, earned after he had embezzled to meet the needs of an extravagant wife. He plunges ... See full summary »
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Michael Whalen, Dolores Costello, Virginia Weidler, Don Beddoe
Votes: 31
46. Valley of the Redwoods (1960)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Wayne Randall, a safe-cracker,and his two accomplices, Jan Spencer and Dino Michaelis, are hiding in the mountains of northern California, following a heist of a $81,000 payroll at a ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: John Hudson, Lynette Bernay, Ed Nelson, Michael Forest
Votes: 20
47. On Patrol (1922)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Cop Billy Bevan tries to clear his name.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Billy Bevan, Mildred June, James Donnelly, Kalla Pasha
Votes: 38
48. Yukon Manhunt (1951)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Kirby Grant and his heroic husky dog, Chinook, lead the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in solving the problem of payroll holdups in the rugged Canadian Northwest.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Kirby Grant, Chinook, Gail Davis, Margaret Field
Votes: 42
49. Hän varasti elämän (1962)
105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A government official decides to steal a $25-million markka payroll (=$78,000 USD) and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves ... See full summary »
Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Risto Mäkelä, Rauha Rentola, Rose-Marie Precht, Åke Lindman
Votes: 163
50. The Yukon Patrol (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Feature version of the serial King of the Royal Mounted (1940).
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Allan Lane, Robert Strange, Robert Kellard, Lita Conway
Votes: 16