Best Crime Films by Year
2719
645
1936
Harry Lachman
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, George Brasno, Olive Brasno, Francis Ford
Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2719
645
1936
H. Bruce Humberstone
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart
Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
1660
313
1935
Jean Renoir
Charles Blavette, Celia Montalvan, Jenny Hélia
Drama / Crime
France
French
1779
335
1935
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1958
379
1935
William Keighley
James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Lloyd Nolan, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2352
496
1935
John Ford
Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette, John McGuire
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2384
512
1935
John Ford
Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl, Arthur Byron, Wallace Ford
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2449
532
1935
Pierre Chenal
Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray
Drama / Crime
France
French
2628
606
1935
Michael Curtiz
Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, John Qualen
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2635
608
1935
James Whale
Edward Arnold, Robert Young, Constance Cummings, Sally Eilers, Reginald Denny
Comedy / Mystery / Detective / Crime
USA
English
2719
645
1935
Louis King
Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth, Jameson Thomas
Mystery / Horror / Detective / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2719
645
1935
Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Thomas Beck, Mary Brian, Erik Rhodes
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2719
645
1935
James Tinling
Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke
Mystery / Action / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2719
645
1935
Milton Rosmer
Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman, Clare Greet
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2719
645
1935
Erle C. Kenton
Jean Arthur, George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay, Robert Middlemass
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2719
645
1935
Lew Landers
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds
Horror / Crime
USA
English
286
47
1934
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1237
219
1934
Edgar G. Ulmer
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Horror / Crime / Adventure
USA
English
2349
494
1934
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Claude Rains, Margo, Paula Trueman, Whitney Bourne
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2608
604
1934
William Dieterle
Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Arthur Byron
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2635
608
1934
W.S. Van Dyke, George Cukor
Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton
Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2696
633
1934
Guido Brignone
Marta Abba, Elsa De Giorgi, Nerio Bernardi, Luigi Cimara
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
2719
645
1934
Albert S. Rogell
Richard Cromwell, Henrietta Crosman, Billie Seward, Arthur Hohl, Ivan F. Simpson
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2719
645
1934
Eugene Forde
Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton
Mystery / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2719
645
1934
Mitchell Leisen
Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney
Musical / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2719
645
1934
Lew Landers
Maurice Murphy, Patricia Farr, Noah Berry Jr., Belle Daube, Lee Beggs
Action / Drama / Crime / Serial / Adventure / Comic
USA
English
583
96
1933
Lowell Sherman
Mae West, Cary Grant
Comedy / Western / Crime
USA
English
954
168
1933
James Whale
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1308
235
1933
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl, Wera Liessem
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Germany
German
2010
391
1933
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2288
465
1933
William A. Wellman
Frankie Darro, Edwin Phillips, Rochelle Hudson, Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Drama / Adventure / Crime
USA
English
2303
470
1933
Roy Del Ruth
James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay, Leslie Fenton, Douglass Dumbrille
Comedy / Gangster / Crime
USA
English
2325
481
1933
Frank Borzage
Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2591
599
1933
W.S. Van Dyke
Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes
Crime / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
2591
599
1933
Stephen Roberts
Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue, William Gargan, William Collier Jr., Irving Pichel
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2719
645
1933
Charley Chase
Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Billy Gilbert, James P. Burtis
Comedy / Short / Crime
USA
English
2719
645
1933
Rowland Brown
George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Frances Dee, Chick Chandler, Blossom Seeley
Drama / Adventure / Crime
USA
English
2719
645
1933
Hal Roach, Charley Rogers
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson
Comedy / Musical / Crime / Family
USA
English
2719
645
1933
Edward L. Cahn
Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Merna Kennedy, Tom Brown, Berton Churchill, Lew Kelly
Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2719
645
1933
Roy Del Ruth
Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson, Russell Hopton, Kenneth Thomson
Comedy / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2776
665
1933
Phil Goldstone
Zita Johann, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Dinehart, Claire Du Brey
Crime / Drama
USA
English
122
27
1932
Ernst Lubitsch
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
366
62
1932
Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
470
74
1932
Mervyn LeRoy
Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama
USA
English
1973
382
1932
Raoul Walsh
Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, George Walsh
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2127
421
1932
James Flood, Elliott Nugent
Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, John Wray
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2501
556
1932
Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor
Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Crime
USA
English
2591
599
1932
William Dieterle
William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson, Hardie Albright, Alan Mowbray
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2628
606
1932
Clarence Brown
Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Nils Asther, Lewis Stone, May Robson
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2628
606
1932
Wesley Ruggles
Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell, George Barbier
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2635
608
1932
Michael Curtiz
Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Sheila Terry, Lyle Talbot
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2645
612
1932
Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Alexander Hall
Alison Skipworth, Richard Bennett, George Raft, John Breeden
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2645
612
1932
Lothar Mendes
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dorothy Peterson
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2645
612
1932
Mervyn LeRoy
Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee, Preston Foster
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2719
645
1932
Edward L. Cahn
Eric Linden, Sidney Fox, Tully Marshall, Louis Calhern, George Meeker
Crime / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2719
645
1932
John G. Blystone
Spencer Tracy, Peggy Shannon, William 'Stage' Boyd, Irving Pichel, Raul Roulien
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2747
654
1932
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried
Crime / Mystery / Detective / Drama
France
French
2776
665
1932
Oscar Micheaux
Grace Smith, Carl Mahon, Juano Hernandez, Bud Harris
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
23
7
1931
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
336
58
1931
William A. Wellman
James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
506
85
1931
Mervyn LeRoy
Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
1674
317
1931
King Vidor
Walter Miller, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2233
447
1931
Rouben Mamoulian
Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2423
524
1931
Mervyn LeRoy
Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell
Crime / Horror / Drama
USA
English
2465
541
1931
Clarence Brown
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, James Gleason, Clark Gable
Drama / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2628
606
1931
Josef von Sternberg
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton
Romance / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2628
606
1931
Harry Beaumont
Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William Holden
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2645
612
1931
Géza von Bolváry
Trude von Molo, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Crime / Caper
Germany
German
2645
612
1931
Rowland Brown
Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2719
645
1931
John Francis Dillon
Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Robert Elliott, Clark Gable
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2719
645
1931
Irving Cummings
George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, Humphrey Bogart, James Kirkwood
Western / Action / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2719
645
1931
Roy Del Ruth
Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott
Action / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2719
645
1931
Richard Wallace, Edward Goodman
William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee, Lawrence Gray
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2751
655
1931
Roy Del Ruth
James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2131
422
1930
Alfred Hitchcock
Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Drama
UK
English
2645
612
1930
Robert Wiene
Fritz Kortner, Käthe von Nagy, Heinrich George
Crime / Drama
Germany
German
2719
645
1930
John Ford
Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, William Collier Sr.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2751
655
1930
Tay Garnett
Helen Twelvetrees, Phillips Holmes, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2751
655
1930
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokihiko Okada, Fuyuki Yamamoto, Emiko Yagumo, Mitsuko Ichimura
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2049
403
1929
E.A. Dupont
Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Drama / Crime
UK
English (Semi-Silent)
2473
545
1929
William K. Howard
Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, DeWitt Jennings, Henry Kolker
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2606
603
1929
Roland West
Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanore Griffith
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2628
606
1929
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis, William Janney
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2628
606
1929
Anthony Asquith
Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Judd Green
Drama / Crime
Sweden / UK
English (Semi-Silent)
2645
612
1929
Pál Fejös
Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson
Musical / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2645
612
1929
Jean de Limur
Jeanne Eagels, O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2673
621
1929
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen
Pre-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2719
645
1929
Cecil B. DeMille
Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene, Noah Beery, Eddie Quillan
Drama / Religion / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2719
645
1929
George Fitzmaurice
Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Gladden James, Jed Prouty, Sidney Bracey
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2719
645
1929
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1441
262
1928
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Betty Compson
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2456
537
1928
Ted Wilde
Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Bryon Douglas, Brooks Benedict
Action / Comedy / Family / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2538
570
1928
William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Bob Perry, Blue Washington
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2606
603
1928
Lewis Milestone
Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1928
Jack Conway
William Haines, Lionel Barrymore, Leila Hyams, Karl Dane, Tully Marshall
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2628
606
1928
Tod Browning
Matthew Betz, Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Marceline Day, John George, James Murray
Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1928
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bando, Yukiko Ogawa, Ippei Sohma, Misao Seki
Drama / Crime
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2628
606
1928
Bryan Foy
Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman, Gladys Brockwell
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2628
606
1928
Michael Curtiz
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, George E. Stone, Mitchell Lewis, Dan Wolheim
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2628
606
1928
Jacques Feyder
Gina Manès, Wolfgang Zilzer, Jeanne Marie-Laurent, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Drama / Crime
France / Germany
French (Silent)
2628
606
1928
Anthony Asquith
Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, Norah Baring
Drama / Crime / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2661
617
1928
Frank Capra
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Mildred Harris, Philo McCullough
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1928
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Fred Kohler, Francis McDonald
Crime / Drama / Detective / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1928
Paul Leni
Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy, Margaret Livingston, John Boles
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2719
645
1928
Frank Capra
Mitchell Lewis, Alice Day, Margaret Livingston, Theodore von Eltz, William Bailey
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
49
13
1927
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1153
203
1927
Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis
Comedy / Family / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
1574
291
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
1652
308
1927
Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon
Crime / Drama / Pre-Noir / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2456
537
1927
Frank Capra
Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2456
537
1927
A.V. Bramble, Anthony Asquith
Brian Aherne, Annette Benson, Chili Bouchier, David Brooks, Donald Calthrop
Drama / Crime
UK
English (Silent)
2541
571
1927
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams, Conrad Nagel
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Detective / Crime / Mystery
USA
English (Silent)
2567
587
1927
Victor Fleming
Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, Phyllis Haver, Donald Keith, Fred Kohler
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1927
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2266
456
1926
Lewis Seiler
Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Dorothy Dwan, Will Walling, Harry Gripp, Carl Miller
Action / Western / Detective / Crime / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
2494
552
1926
Richard E. Norman
Laurence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Boise De Legge, Harold Platts, Lions Daniels
Adventure / Crime / War / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1926
A.W. Sandberg
Gösta Ekman, Karina Bell, Maurice de Féraudy, Robert Schmidt
Drama / Romance / Crime
Denmark
Danish (Silent)
2719
645
1926
King Vidor
John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy, Lionel Belmore, Emily Fitzroy
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1926
Reginald Barker
Antonio Moreno, Renée Adorée, Gardner James, William Austin
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1926
James Cruze
Alice Joyce, Warner Baxter, Dolores Costello, Zasu Pitts, Walter Pidgeon
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2751
655
1926
Lev Kuleshov
Alexandra Khokhlova, Sergei Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
Drama / Crime
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2751
655
1926
F.W. Murnau
Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Werner Krauss
Drama / Comedy / Period Film / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
2436
528
1925
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, Harry Earles, Matthew Betz
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2494
552
1925
Oscar Micheaux
Paul Robeson, Mercedes Gilbert, Julia Theresa Russell, Lawrence Chenault
Drama / Crime / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1925
Clarence Brown
Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser, Albert Conti
Comedy / Romance / Action / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1925
Alfred Hitchcock
Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander, John Stuart, Ferdinand Martini
Drama / Crime
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
2719
645
1925
Clarence G. Badger
Betty Compson, Raymond Griffith, Tom Santschi, Bert Woodruff, Fred Kelsey
Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1925
Herbert Brenon
Percy Marmont, Neil Hamilton, Mary Brian, John Harrington, Juliet Brenon
Crime / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2541
571
1924
King Vidor
Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
1977
384
1923
Rupert Hughes
Eleanor Boardman, Frank Mayo, Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Lew Cody
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1923
Maurice Tourneur
Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Gareth Hughes, Phyllis Haver, Cyril Chadwick
Drama / Romance / Religion / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1923
John Ford
Tom Mix, Kathleen Key, Jennie Lee, Frank Campeau, Eugene Pallette, Will Walling
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1923
Lambert Hillyer
Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson, Ford Sterling
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1923
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Wallace Beery, J. Farrell MacDonald, Rose Dione
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1923
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery, Alfred Allen
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1923
Frank Lloyd
Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, DeWitt Jennings, Lionel Belmore, Ward Crane
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
390
64
1922
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen
Crime / Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
Germany
German (Silent)
1146
200
1922
Erich von Stroheim
Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2456
537
1922
F.W. Murnau
Alfred Abel, Grete Berger, Lil Dagover, Lya De Putti, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
2719
645
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle
Western / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1922
King Baggot
House Peters, Russell Simpson, Gertrude Claire, George Hackathorne, George West
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2456
537
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1920
Frank Lloyd
Pauline Frederick, William Courtleigh, Casson Ferguson, Maude Louis
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1920
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis, E. Alyn Warren
Crime / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1920
William Desmond Taylor
Lewis Sargent, Ernest Butterworth, Clyde Fillmore, Grace Morse, Lila Lee
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1919
George Loane Tucker
Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Joseph J. Dowling, J.M. Dumont, Elinor Fair
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1919
Fritz Lang
Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John, Lil Dagover, Paul Biensfeldt, Harry Frank
Adventure / Action / Crime / Serial
Germany
German (Silent)
2162
429
1918
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Drama / Crime / Romance / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2628
606
1918
Cecil B. DeMille
Raymond Hatton, Kathlyn Williams, Edythe Chapman, Elliott Dexter, Noah Beery
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2719
645
1918
Albert Parker
Gloria Swanson, Joe King, Harvey Clark, Leone Carton, Lillian Langdon
Drama / Crime / Spy
USA
English
2494
552
1917
John H. Collins
Viola Dana, Robert Walker, Fred C. Jones, Henry Hallam, Margaret Seddon
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2501
556
1916
Louis Feuillade
René Cresté, Musidora, René Poyen
Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Serial
France
French (Silent)
2628
606
1916
George Loane Tucker
Gerald Ames, Manora Thew, Kenelm Foss, Douglas Munro, Marga La Rubia
Crime / Detective
UK
English (Silent)
2628
606
1916
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Wesley Ruggles, James T. Kelley, Leo White
Comedy / Short / Crime / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1135
197
1915
Louis Feuillade
Musidora, Edouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Gangster / Serial / Horror / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2364
502
1914
Louis J. Gasnier, George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton
Pearl White, Arnold Daly, Creighton Hale, Raymond Owens, Sheldon Lewis
Action / Thriller / Crime / Detective / Serial
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1914
George Pearson
James Bragington, Fred Paul, Agnes Glynne, Henry Paulo, James Le Fre
Mystery / Crime / Detective
UK
English (Silent)
2751
655
1914
D.W. Griffith
Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet
Drama / Horror / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2402
517
1913
Louis Feuillade
René Navarre, Edmond Bréon, Georges Melchior
Crime / Drama / Detective / Serial
France
French (Silent)
2628
606
1913
Max Mack
Albert Bassermann, Emmerich Hanus, Nelly Ridon, Hanni Weisse, Leon Resemann
Drama / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
2628
606
1913
Henry Lehrman
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Nick Cogley, Fred Mace, Hank Mann, Ford Sterling
Comedy / Short / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2661
617
1913
Lawrence Marston, Edwin Thanhouser
William Garwood, Marie Eline, Riley Chamberlin
Crime / Drama / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2212
439
1912
D.W. Griffith
Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller, Alfred Paget
Short / Drama / Crime / Gangster / Pre-Noir
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1912
Jack Conway
Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, John Steppling, E.H. Calvert, Frank Dayton
Crime / Drama / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1912
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron, Harry Carey
Crime / Short / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2774
664
1912
D.W. Griffith
Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Edwin August, Christy Cabanne, William A. Carroll
Short / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1910
Harry Solter
Florence Lawrence, King Baggot
Short / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1908
D.W. Griffith
George Gebhardt, Harry Solter, Linda Arvidson, Florence Auer, Charles Gorman
Short / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1908
D.W. Griffith
Harry Solter, George Gebhardt, Charles Gorman, Charles Inslee
Short / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1908
Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
Pierre Bressol
Short / Crime / Detective / Serial
France
French (Silent)
1292
231
1903
Edwin S. Porter
A.C. Abadie, Walter Cameron
Short / Action / Crime / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2628
606
1901
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès, Jeanne d'Alcy, Bleuette Bernon
Short / Crime / Drama / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
