| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Notes |
| 1930 |
| Achtung! - Auto-Diebe! |
Harry Piel |
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| Born Reckless |
John Ford, Andrew Bennison |
Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, Lee Tracy |
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| The Cat Creeps |
Rupert Julian, John Willard |
Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton |
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| The Doorway to Hell |
Archie Mayo |
James Cagney |
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| Raffles |
Harry D'Abbadie D'Arrast, George Fitzmaurice |
Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence, Frances Dade |
|
' |
| The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu |
Rowland V. Lee |
Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur |
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| Street of Chance |
John Cromwell |
William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis |
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| 1931 |
| Blonde Crazy |
Roy Del Ruth |
James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis |
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Gangster film |
| Daughter of the Dragon |
Lloyd Corrigan |
Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa |
|
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| Little Caesar |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glenda Farrell |
|
' |
| Night Nurse |
Igor Auzins, William Wellman |
Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Charlotte Merriam |
|
' |
| The Public Enemy |
William Wellman |
James Cagney, Edward Woods, Donald Cook |
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| Smart Money |
Alfred E. Green |
Edward G. Robinson, Evelyn Knapp, James Cagney, Ralf Harolde |
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| 1932 |
| Arsene Lupin |
Jack Conway |
John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley |
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| The Beast of the City |
Charles J. Brabin |
Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford |
|
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| Detective Lloyd |
Henry MacRae, Ray Taylor |
Jack Lloyd |
|
Film serial |
| Fantômas |
Paul Fejos |
Jean Galland, Thomy Bourdelle, Tania Fedor |
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| The Girl From Chicago |
Oscar Micheaux |
Eugene Brooks, Starr Calloway |
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| Love Is a Racket |
William Wellman |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee |
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| The Mask of Fu Manchu |
Charles J. Brabin, Charles Vidor, King Vidor |
Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley |
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| The Mouthpiece |
James Flood, Elliott Nugent |
Warren William, Aline MacMahon, William Janney |
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| Night at the Cross Roads |
Jean Renoir |
Pierre Renoir, Winna Winifred, Jean Gehret |
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| Scarface |
Howard Hawks |
Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley |
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| 1933 |
| The Mayor of Hell |
Archie Mayo |
James Cagney, Madge Evans, Allen Jenkins |
|
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| The Midnight Club |
George Somnes, Alexander Hall |
Clive Brook, George Raft, Helen Vinson |
|
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| Pick-Up |
Marion Gering |
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, William Harrigan |
|
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| The Testament of Dr. Mabuse |
Fritz Lang |
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl |
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| 1934 |
| Limehouse Blues |
Alexander Hall |
George Raft, Jean Parker, Anna May Wong |
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| Manhattan Melodrama |
W.S. Van Dyke |
Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy |
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| 1935 |
| Bulldog Jack |
Walter Forde |
Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson |
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| Crime and Punishment |
Pierre Chenal |
Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray |
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| Crime and Punishment |
Josef von Sternberg |
Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh |
|
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| G Men |
William Keighley |
James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Lloyd Nolan |
|
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| Toni |
Jean Renoir |
Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia |
|
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| The Whole Town's Talking |
John Ford |
Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur |
|
Criminal comedy |
| 1936 |
| 15 Maiden Lane |
Allan Dwan |
Claire Trevor, Cesar Romero, Douglas Fowley |
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| Big Brown Eyes |
Raoul Walsh |
Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, Walter Pidgeon |
|
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| The Crime of Monsieur Lange |
Jean Renoir |
Jules Berry, René Lefèvre, Sylvia Bataille |
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| Fury |
Fritz Lang |
Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel |
|
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| The Petrified Forest |
Archie Mayo |
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart |
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| 1937 |
| L'alibi |
Pierre Chenal |
Louis Jouvet, Erich von Stroheim, Albert Préjean |
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| Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo |
Eugene J. Forde |
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field |
|
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| Dead End |
William Wyler |
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart |
|
|
| Marked Woman |
Lloyd Bacon |
Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Isabel Jewell |
|
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| You Only Live Once |
Fritz Lang |
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane |
|
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| 1938 |
| Angels with Dirty Faces |
Michael Curtiz |
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart |
|
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| La Bête Humaine |
Jean Renoir |
Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Julien Carette |
|
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| Crime School |
Lewis Seiler |
Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall |
|
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| Dangerous to Know |
Robert Florey |
Stanley Blystone, Barlowe Borland |
|
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| 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 |
|
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| They Drive by Night |
Arthur B. Woods |
Emlyn Williams, Ernest Thesiger, Anna Konstam |
|
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| 1939 |
| Blackmail |
H.C. Potter |
Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart |
|
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| Daybreak |
Marcel Carné |
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty |
|
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| Each Dawn I Die |
William Keighley |
James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan |
|
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| I Stole a Million |
Frank Tuttle |
George Raft, Claire Trevor |
|
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| Invisible Stripes |
Lloyd Bacon |
George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden |
|
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| The Roaring Twenties |
Raoul Walsh |
James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane |
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