Top 30 Crime Movies Editor's Pick Released in 1951

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter. Look into Rashomon / IMDB / YouTube

A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person. Explore Strangers on a Train / IMDB / YouTube

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. See more about A Place in the Sun / IMDB / YouTube

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. Look into The Lavender Hill Mob / IMDB / YouTube

In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. Details on Oliver Twist / IMDB / YouTube

In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang. Explore Brighton Rock / IMDB / YouTube

Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name. Look into Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man / IMDB / YouTube

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc. Learn about The Enforcer / IMDB / YouTube

Frank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder. He's pursued around San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the killer. Find out about Woman on the Run / IMDB / YouTube

A deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle. Get info on His Kind of Woman / IMDB / YouTube

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder after she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America. Read about The House on Telegraph Hill / IMDB / YouTube

In New York, two honest cops try to hinder a crime syndicate from moving into the precinct and also to prevent the mob's plan of electing a corrupt prosecutor to a judgeship. Learn about The Racket / IMDB / YouTube

Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot, and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment, and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt. Look into He Ran All the Way / IMDB / YouTube

Gamblers who took an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them. Check out Dark City / IMDB / YouTube

Ex-con Rocky Mulloy seeks the real culprit in the crime for which he was framed in a night world of deceptive dames and double crosses. Explore Cry Danger / IMDB / YouTube

A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation. Look into Sirocco / IMDB / YouTube

Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha witnesses the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey bring the criminals to justice. Details on Storm Warning / IMDB / YouTube

Johnny Damico botches a murder case and is suspended from the force. In reality, he is put undercover to identify the mysterious boss of the NY waterfront who has murdered everyone in his way. Will Johnny be next in line? Look into The Mob / IMDB / YouTube

An invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway. Get info on Cause for Alarm! / IMDB / YouTube

The daily routine of two London policemen is interrupted by a killer. Learn about The Blue Lamp / IMDB / YouTube

In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls. Explore M / IMDB / YouTube

A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861. Explore The Tall Target / IMDB / YouTube

A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive. Explore The Lemon Drop Kid / IMDB / YouTube

A down-on-his-luck driver joins a criminal's heists. Media coverage fuels public interest as their crimes grow bolder. When a hostage situation goes wrong, arrested suspects face danger from angry mobs. Police struggle to maintain order. Details on The Sound of Fury / IMDB / YouTube

An ex-convict and a woman fall in love, after she shoots her police Lt. boyfriend dead in self defense, and falsely leads him to believe that he did the shooting. Details on Tomorrow Is Another Day / IMDB / YouTube

Honest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane. More about Roadblock / IMDB / YouTube

When ruthlessly dedicated postal inspector investigates the murder of a co-worker, he finds that the sole witness, a nun, has been targeted by the killers. See more about Appointment with Danger / IMDB / YouTube

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife. Learn about Lightning Strikes Twice / IMDB / YouTube

Jim Curtayne, formerly a successful defense attorney who is now a recovering alcoholic, attempts a comeback when he defends a neighbor's son facing a homicide charge. Read about The People Against O'Hara / IMDB / YouTube

In 1848 NYC, a Frenchwoman visits exiled former French Marshal Thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his French grandson but Thevenet's house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune. See more about The Man with a Cloak / IMDB / YouTube