20 Best Classic Crime Movies Before 1960

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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
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The Killers (1946)
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
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Scarface (1932)
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Laura (1944)
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Rififi (1955)
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The Public Enemy (1931)
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
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The Killing (1956)
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Out of the Past (1947)
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White Heat (1949)
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The Big Sleep (1946)
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Touch of Evil (1958)
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
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The Third Man (1949)
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M (1931)
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Double Indemnity (1944)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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Before the genre got slick, before the antiheroes had therapists, crime movies were lean, shadowy, and dangerous. In this countdown we're ranking the 20 best classic crime movies before 1960 — a run through the golden age of film noir, the rise of the gangster picture, and the mystery thrillers that still hold up decades later.

From Prohibition-era mobsters to the doomed drifters and double-crossing femmes fatales of 1940s and 1950s Hollywood, this list covers the films that built the language every modern crime movie still borrows from. Expect classic film noir, vintage detective stories, and a few public domain gems that deserve far more attention than they get.

Links to physical and digital copies of the films featured here are included below.

Which one belongs at number one? Let us know in the comments — and if you enjoy old Hollywood movies, subscribe for a new countdown every week.

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