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A list of crime films released in the 1930s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | ||||||
| The Big House | George W. Hill | Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery | Prison film | |||
| Born Reckless | John Ford, Andrew Bennison | Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, Lee Tracy | ||||
| The Cat Creeps | Rupert Julian, John Willard | Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton | ||||
| The Doorway to Hell | Archie Mayo | Charles Judels, Lew Ayres, James Cagney | ||||
| Manslaughter | George Abbott | Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Emma Dunn | Crime drama, prison film | |||
| Night Owls | James Parrott | Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel | Crime comedy | |||
| Raffles | Harry D'Abbadie D'Arrast, George Fitzmaurice | Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence | ||||
| The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu | Rowland V. Lee | Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur | ||||
| The Unholy Three | Jack Conway | Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles | ||||
| 1931 | ||||||
| Blonde Crazy | Roy Del Ruth | James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern | Gangster film | |||
| City Streets | Rouben Mamoulian | Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas | ||||
| Daughter of the Dragon | Lloyd Corrigan | Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa | ||||
| Little Caesar | Mervyn LeRoy | Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glenda Farrell | ||||
| Night Nurse | Igor Auzins, William Wellman | Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell | ||||
| The Public Enemy | William Wellman | James Cagney, Edward Woods, Donald Cook | ||||
| Smart Money | Alfred E. Green | Edward G. Robinson, Evelyn Knapp, James Cagney, Ralf Harolde | ||||
| 1932 | ||||||
| Arsene Lupin | Jack Conway | John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley | ||||
| The Beast of the City | Charles J. Brabin | Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford | ||||
| Fantômas | Paul Fejos | Jean Galland, Thomy Bourdelle, Tania Fedor | ||||
| The Girl From Chicago | Oscar Micheaux | Eugene Brooks, Starr Calloway, ] | ||||
| Love Is a Racket | William Wellman | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee | Crime drama | |||
| The Mask of Fu Manchu | Charles J. Brabin, Charles Vidor, King Vidor | Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley | ||||
| The Mouthpiece | James Flood, Elliott Nugent | Warren William, Aline MacMahon, William Janney | ||||
| Night at the Cross Roads | Jean Renoir | Pierre Renoir, Winna Winifred, Jean Gehret | ||||
| Scarface | Howard Hawks | Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley | ||||
| 1933 | ||||||
| Lady Killer | Roy Del Ruth | James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Leslie Fenton | Gangster film | |||
| The Little Giant | Roy Del Ruth | Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson | ||||
| The Mayor of Hell | Archie Mayo | James Cagney, Madge Evans, Allen Jenkins | ||||
| The Midnight Club | George Somnes, Alexander Hall | Clive Brook, George Raft, Helen Vinson | ||||
| 'Murders in the Zoo | Edward Sutherland | Charlie Ruggles, Lionell Atwill, Gail Patrick | ||||
| Penthouse | W.S. Van Dyke | Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth | ||||
| Pick-Up | Marion Gering | Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, William Harrigan | ||||
| The Sin of Nora Moran | Philip Goldstone | Zita Johann, Alan Dinehart, Paul Cavanagh | ||||
| The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang | Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl | ||||
| La tête d'un homme | Julien Duvivier | Gina Manès, Harry Baur, Valery Inkijinoff | ||||
| 1934 | ||||||
| Fog Over Frisco | William Dieterle, Daniel Reed | Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay | ||||
| Limehouse Blues | Alexander Hall | George Raft, Jean Parker, Anna May Wong | ||||
| Manhattan Melodrama | W.S. Van Dyke | Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy | Crime drama | |||
| Search for Beauty | Erle C. Kenton | Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing | ||||
| 1935 | ||||||
| Bulldog Jack | Walter Forde | Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson | ||||
| Crime and Punishment | Pierre Chenal | Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray | Crime drama | |||
| Crime and Punishment | Josef von Sternberg | Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh | Crime drama | |||
| G Men | William Keighley | James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Lloyd Nolan | ||||
| Toni | Jean Renoir | Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia | Crime drama | |||
| The Whole Town's Talking | John Ford | Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Wallace Ford | Crime comedy | |||
| 1936 | ||||||
| 15 Maiden Lane | Allan Dwan | Claire Trevor, Cesar Romero, Douglas Fowley | ||||
| Big Brown Eyes | Raoul Walsh | Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, Walter Pidgeon | ||||
| The Crime of Monsieur Lange | Jean Renoir | Jules Berry, René Lefèvre, Sylvia Bataille | Crime drama | |||
| Fury | Fritz Lang | Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel | Crime drama | |||
| The Petrified Forest | Archie Mayo | Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart | Crime drama | |||
| 1937 | ||||||
| L'alibi | Pierre Chenal | Louis Jouvet, Erich von Stroheim, Albert Préjean | ||||
| Black Legion | Archie Mayo | Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore | ||||
| Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo | Eugene J. Forde | Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field | ||||
| Dead End | William Wyler | Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart | ||||
| Marked Woman | Lloyd Bacon | Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Isabel Jewell | ||||
| Pépé le Moko | Julien Duvivier | Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Line Noro | Gangster film | |||
| You Only Live Once | Fritz Lang | Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane | Crime drama | |||
| 1938 | ||||||
| Algiers | John Cromwell | Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie | Gangster film | |||
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Anatole Litvak | Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart | Crime comedy | |||
| Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart | Crime drama | |||
| La Bête Humaine | Jean Renoir | Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Julien Carette | Crime drama | |||
| Crime School | Lewis Seiler | Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall | Juvenile delinquency film | |||
| Dangerous to Know | Robert Florey | Stanley Blystone, Barlowe Borland | ||||
| I Am the Law | Alexander Hall | Edward G. Robinson, Barbara O'Neil, Wendy Barrie | ||||
| Port of Shadows | Marcel Carné | Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon | Crime drama | |||
| A Slight Case of Murder | Lloyd Bacon | Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins | Crime comedy | |||
| They Drive by Night | Arthur B. Woods | Emlyn Williams, Ernest Thesiger, Anna Konstam | ||||
| You and Me | Fritz Lang | Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Robert Cummings | Crime comedy | |||
| 1939 | ||||||
| Blackmail | H.C. Potter | Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart | ||||
| Daybreak | Marcel Carné | Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty | Crime drama | |||
| Each Dawn I Die | William Keighley | James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan | ||||
| I Stole a Million | Frank Tuttle | George Raft, Claire Trevor | ||||
| King of the Underworld | Lewis Seiler | Humphrey Bogart, James Stephenson, John Eldredge | ||||
| Let Us Live | John Brahm | Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy | ||||
| The Roaring Twenties | Raoul Walsh | James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane | ||||
| You Can't Get Away with Murder | Lewis Seiler | Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop | ||||
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
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crime if you know the reason if you know the motive
if you can understand the character if it is not a
normal one is not interesting a crime in itself is
not interesting it is only there and when it is there
everybody has to take notice of it. It is important
in that way but in every other way it is not
important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society’s porous face.”
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