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A list of crime film s released in the before 1930.
Title
Director
Cast
Country
Genre/Notes
1895
The Arrest of a Pickpocket
Birt Acres
Short film
1902
Bluebeard
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès , Jeanne d'Alcy
Short film
1912
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
D.W. Griffith
Alfred Paget , Walter Miller , Jack Pickford
Short film
1913
Fantômas
Louis Feuillade
René Navarre , Edmond Breon , Georges Melchior , Renee Carl
Film serial
1915
Les Vampires
Louis Feuillade
Jean Aymé , Marcel Lévesque , Musidora , Stacia Napierkowska
Film serial
1920
The Penalty
Wallace Worsley
Ethel Grey Terry , Milton Ross , Lon Chaney
Crime drama
1922
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge , Aud Egede Nissen , Gertrude Welcker , Alfred Abel
Master criminal film
1923
Bulldog Drummond
Oscar Apfel
Carlyle Blackwell , Evelyn Greeley
The Street
Karl Grune
Aud Egede-Nissen
Crime drama
White Tiger
Priscilla Dean
1925
Bulldog Drummond's Third Round
The Pleasure Garden
Alfred Hitchcock
Virginia Valli , Carmelita Geraghty
1927
Chicago
Frank Urson
Phyllis Haver , Victor Varconi , Eugene Pallette , Virginia Bradford
The Return of Boston Blackie
Harry Hoyt
Underworld
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft , Clive Brook , Evelyn Brent
Crime drama, Gangster film
1928
The Big City
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney , Marceline Day , Betty Compson
The Dragnet
Josef von Sternberg , Helen Lewis
George Bancroft , Evelyn Brent , William Powell
Crime drama
Ladies of the Mob
William Wellman
Clara Bow , Richard Arlen , Helen Lynch , Carl Gerard
Crime drama
Lights of New York
Bryan Foy
Helene Costello , Cullen Landis , Gladys Brockwell
The Racket
Lewis Milestone
Thomas Meighan , Marie Prevost , Louis Wolheim
Crime drama, Gangster film
1929
Alibi
Roland West
Chester Morris , Harry Stubbs , Mae Busch
The Last Warning
Paul Leni
Laura La Plante , Montagu Love , Mack Swain , Roy D'Arcy
Thunderbolt
Josef von Sternberg , William Wyler
George Bancroft , Fay Wray , Richard Arlen
Crime drama, Prison film