Thomas Leitch's Crime Films
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"This chronological list of one hundred crime films aims to strike a balance among a greatest-hits list, a list of especially influential crime films, a list of films that exemplify the leading subgenres this book considers,
and a list of films analyzed in particular detail in the preceding chapters."
from Genres in American Cinema series
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The Great Train Robbery
1903, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912, in 8 top lists Check -
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
1915, in 0 top lists Check -
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Little Caesar
1931, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Public Enemy
1931, in 13 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Case of the Howling Dog
1934, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Thin Man
1934, in 14 top lists Check -
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'G' Men
1935, in 1 top list Check -
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Fury
1936, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939, in 1 top list Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 26 top lists Check -
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Suspicion
1941, in 4 top lists Check -
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Shadow of a Doubt
1943, in 15 top lists Check -
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Arsenic and Old Lace
1944, in 9 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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Gaslight
1944, in 12 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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Murder, My Sweet
1944, in 5 top lists Check -
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Phantom Lady
1944, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Woman in the Window
1944, in 8 top lists Check -
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Leave Her to Heaven
1945, in 12 top lists Check -
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Mildred Pierce
1945, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Killers
1946, in 15 top lists Check -
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Lady in the Lake
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946, in 9 top lists Check -
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Out of the Past
1947, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947, in 9 top lists Check -
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Adam's Rib
1949, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Set-Up
1949, in 10 top lists Check -
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White Heat
1949, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Asphalt Jungle
1950, in 15 top lists Check -
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D.O.A.
1949, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Big Heat
1953, in 18 top lists Check -
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Rear Window
1954, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Desperate Hours
1955, in 1 top list Check -
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Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Killing
1956, in 15 top lists Check -
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957, in 12 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 30 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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Inherit the Wind
1960, in 4 top lists Check -
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Sergeant Rutledge
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1962, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Killers
1964, in 6 top lists Check -
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A Shot in the Dark
1964, in 2 top lists Check -
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967, in 28 top lists Check -
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Bullitt
1968, in 11 top lists Check
Last updated on Jun 19, 2012; source