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Cecile Is Dead

1944

Cecile Is Dead

1944
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Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she occupies with her aunt, is not taken seriously by the police until she the day she is found murdered.
Nabonga

1944

Nabonga

1944
4.3
When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.
Picpus

1943

Picpus

1943
4.7
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

1942
6.3
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.
Bowery at Midnight

1942

Bowery at Midnight

1942
5.1
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Strangers in the House

1942

Strangers in the House

1942
7
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
Lady Gangster

1942

Lady Gangster

1942
5.8
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
Ball of Fire

1941

Ball of Fire

1941
7.4
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Invisible Ghost

1941

Invisible Ghost

1941
5.2
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
Phantom of Chinatown

1940

Phantom of Chinatown

1940
6.1
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
Marked Men

1940

Marked Men

1940
5.8
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
Doomed to Die

1940

Doomed to Die

1940
5.8
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
The Green Hornet

1940

The Green Hornet

1940
5.5
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
Jamaica Inn

1939

Jamaica Inn

1939
6.1
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
The Mystery of Mr. Wong

1939

The Mystery of Mr. Wong

1939
6
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
Nancy Drew... Reporter

1939

Nancy Drew... Reporter

1939
6.2
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
They Made Me a Criminal

1939

They Made Me a Criminal

1939
6.3
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Convict's Code

1939

Convict's Code

1939
6.5
On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.
Mr. Wong, Detective

1938

Mr. Wong, Detective

1938
5.7
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
Algiers

1938

Algiers

1938
6.3
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.

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