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The Maltese Falcon: A dark falcon statuette stands on a detective's desk beneath golden lettering.
The Maltese Falcon
1941 · John Huston100 min · Crime

A private detective meets a roomful of liars pursuing an object no one truly knows.

MysteryTenseModerate
Double Indemnity: Large ivory and gold lettering catches striped shadows above an anklet and insurance papers.
Double Indemnity
1944 · Billy Wilder108 min · Crime

An insurance salesman narrates the perfect crime after perfection has already failed.

TenseMysteryModerate
Breathless: Huge ivory lettering cuts across blue and red fields above sunglasses and a newspaper.
Breathless
1960 · Jean-Luc Godard90 min · Crime

Cool, restless — the moment cinema broke its rules.

StrangeRomanticPatient
High and Low: A red telephone cord connects a bright elevated room to a deep blue paper city below.
High and Low
1963 · Akira Kurosawa143 min · Crime

A ransom demand turns one room, then an entire city, into evidence.

TenseMysteryModerate
Two hands reach towards each other across torn dark paper and fragments of city buildings.
Underworld
1927 · Josef von Sternberg81 min · Crime

A gang leader rescues a destitute lawyer, then discovers that loyalty becomes harder to command when both men love the same woman.

TenseRomanticEasy
Original illustration: Enormous black Blackmail lettering on cream paper above an easel and a long red shadow.
Blackmail
1929 · Alfred Hitchcock85 min · Crime

After killing a man during an assault, a young woman finds guilt, police procedure, and blackmail closing around her.

TenseMysteryEasy
Scarface: Towering angular lettering and crossing searchlights rise above a red and black city.
Scarface
1932 · Howard Hawks95 min · Crime

A gangster climbs through a city with such speed that every victory already looks like a warning.

TenseBleakEasy
Detour — Enormous ivory lettering bends into a foggy highway with a red dividing line.
Detour
1945 · Edgar G. Ulmer69 min · Crime

A doomed hitchhike into the bleakest B-movie poetry.

BleakStrangeEasy
Stray Dog: Oversized red and black lettering towers above a tram and an empty holster in summer heat.
Stray Dog
1949 · Akira Kurosawa122 min · Crime

A stolen police pistol sends a young detective through the heat and desperation of post-war Tokyo.

TenseBleakEasy
Rififi: Giant black lettering is pierced by a rope descending from a ceiling into an open umbrella.
Rififi
1955 · Jules Dassin118 min · Crime

Four thieves prepare a silent heist whose precision cannot protect what follows.

TenseBleakModerate
Touch of Evil: A midnight clock and a border-town street overlap in black, red and ochre paper.
Touch of Evil
1958 · Orson Welles110 min · Crime

A border explosion opens a night of corruption, surveillance, and unstable identities.

TenseStrangePatient
Strongroom 1962
Strongroom
1962 · Vernon Sewell79 min · Crime

Bank robbers must return to free the two people they have locked in an airtight vault.

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