Films like 711 Ocean Drive
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangster...
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The Set-Up
Film · 1949 · also crimeExpecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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5 Against the House
Film · 1955 · also crimeFormer war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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Johnny O'Clock
Film · 1947 · also crimeWhen an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the undergroun...
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Angels with Dirty Faces
Film · 1938 · also crimeChildhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending t...
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The Damned Don't Cry
Film · 1950 · also crimeFed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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Force of Evil
Film · 1950 · also crimeLawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time op...
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The Asphalt Jungle
Film · 1950 · also crimeRecently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals tog...
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Johnny Eager
Film · 1941 · also crimeA charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Nightfall
Film · 1956 · also crimeAn innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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Framed
Film · 1947 · also crimeTruck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her...
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