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A list of crime films released in the 1950s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||||||
| Armored Car Robbery | Richard Fleischer | Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman | ||||
| The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, | ||||
| The Blue Lamp | Basil Dearden | Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde | ||||
| The File on Thelma Jordon | Robert Siodmak | Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly | Crime drama | |||
| Gunman in the Streets | Frank Tuttle, Boris Lewin | Simone Signoret, Dane Clark, Fernand Gravey | ||||
| House by the River | Fritz Lang | Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt | Crime drama | |||
| In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy | Crime drama | |||
| Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | Gordon M. Douglas | James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter | ||||
| Night and the City | Jules Dassin | Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers | ||||
| No Way Out | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally | Crime drama | |||
| Los Olvidados | Luis Buñuel | Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda | Juvenile delinquency film | |||
| Side Street | Anthony Mann | Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig | ||||
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Otto Preminger | Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill | Crime drama | |||
| 1951 | ||||||
| Another Man's Poison | Irving Rapper | Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams | ||||
| La Città si difende | Pietro Germi | Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini, Cosetta Greco | ||||
| Detective Story | William Wyler | Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix | Crime drama | |||
| The Enforcer | Bretaigne Windust | Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia | ||||
| The Family Secret | Henry Levin | John Derek, Lee J. Cobb, Jody Lawrance | ||||
| Green Grow the Rushes | Derek N. Twist | Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman, Richard Burton | ||||
| He Ran All the Way | John Berry | John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford | ||||
| His Kind of Woman | John Farrow | Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price | ||||
| The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James | ||||
| Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo | Crime drama | |||
| Roadblock | Harold Daniels | Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore | ||||
| Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman | Crime thriller | |||
| 1952 | ||||||
| Angel Face | Otto Preminger | Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman | ||||
| Casque d'or | Jacques Becker | Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin | Crime drama | |||
| Rancho Notorious | Fritz Lang | Arthur Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Ferrer | Crime thriller | |||
| We Are All Murderers | André Cayatte | Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Claude Laydu | Prison film | |||
| 1953 | ||||||
| The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando | ||||
| The Blue Gardenia | Fritz Lang | Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern | Crime drama | |||
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman | Crime thriller | |||
| I Confess | Alfred Hitchcock | Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden | Crime drama | |||
| Man in the Dark | Lew Landers | Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia | ||||
| 1954 | ||||||
| Dial M for Murder | Alfred Hitchcock | Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings | Crime thriller | |||
| Human Desire | Fritz Lang | Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford | Crime drama | |||
| Jail Bait | Edward D. Wood, Jr. | Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Herbert Rawlinson | ||||
| Naked Alibi | Jerry Hopper | Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry | ||||
| Private Hell 36 | Don Siegel | Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff | Crime drama | |||
| Rogue Cop | Roy Rowland | Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft | ||||
| The Runaway Bus | Val Guest | Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris | Caper film | |||
| Suddenly | Lewis Allen | Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason | ||||
| Touchez pas au grisbi | Jacques Becker | Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur | ||||
| 1955 | ||||||
| The Big Combo | Joseph H. Lewis | Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy | Gangster film | |||
| Bob le flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy | ||||
| The Desperate Hours | William Wyler | Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy | ||||
| King of the Carnival | Franklin Adreon | Fran Bennett, Robert Clarke, George de Normand | ||||
| The Ladykillers | Alexander MacKendrick | Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom | ||||
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish | Crime thriller | |||
| The Phenix City Story | Phil Karlson | John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant | ||||
| Razzia Sur la Chnouf | Henri Decoin | Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Magali Noël | ||||
| Rififi | Jules Dassin | Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel | ||||
| 1956 | ||||||
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Fritz Lang | Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer | Crime drama | |||
| The Harder They Fall | Mark Robson | Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling | Crime drama | |||
| The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor | ||||
| Ransom! | Alex Segal | Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen | ||||
| Slightly Scarlet | Allan Dwan | John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Rhonda Fleming | ||||
| The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle | Crime drama | |||
| Yield to the Night | J. Lee Thompson | Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig | ||||
| 1957 | ||||||
| The Adventures of Arsène Lupin | Jacques Becker | Robert Lamoureux, Liselotte Pulver, Daniel Ceccaldi | ||||
| The Brothers Rico | Phil Karlson | Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant | ||||
| The Burglar | Paul Wendkos | Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers | ||||
| Crime of Passion | Gerd Oswald | Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr | ||||
| The Devil Came at Night | Robert Siodmak | Mario Adorf, Claus Holm, Hannes Messemer | ||||
| Porte des Lilas | René Clair | Pierre Brasseur, George Brassens, Henri Vidal | Crime drama | |||
| The River's Edge | Allan Dwan | Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget | ||||
| Le Rouge Est Mis | Gilles Grangier | Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura | ||||
| Time Without Pity | Joseph Losey | Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern | Crime thriller | |||
| 1958 | ||||||
| Big Deal on Madonna Street | Mario Monicelli | Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale | ||||
| The Cry Baby Killer | Jus Addiss | Harry Lauter, Jack Nicholson, Carolyn Mitchell | ||||
| Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly | ||||
| I Want to Live! | Robert Wise | Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent | Crime drama | |||
| I, Mobster | Roger Corman | Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss | ||||
| The Lineup | Don Siegel | Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson | ||||
| Machine-Gun Kelly | Roger Corman | Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam | ||||
| Stakeout on Dope Street | Irvin Kershner | Herschel Bernardi | ||||
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith | ||||
| Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles | ||||
| Underworld Beauty | Seijun Suzuki | Rajo To Kenju | ||||
| 1959 | ||||||
| Al Capone | Richard Wilson | Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory | ||||
| Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti | Nanni Loy | Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale | ||||
| Beast from Haunted Cave | Monte Hellman | Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff | Crime thriller | |||
| Compulsion | Richard Fleischer | Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman | Crime drama | |||
| Crime & Punishment, USA | Denis Sanders | George Hamilton, Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Eve McVeagh | ||||
| The Day They Robbed the Bank of England | John Guillermin | Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Hugh Griffith | ||||
| Odds Against Tomorrow | Robert Wise | Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters | ||||
| Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | Martin Lasalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie | Crime drama | |||
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