crime films  Kriminalfilme

1920

    The Penalty

1927

    Underworld[c]

1928

    The Docks of New York
    The Racket[c]

1929

    Thunderbolt[c]

1930

    Paid

1931

    The Big Gamble[1]
    Blonde Crazy
    City Streets[c]
    Five Star Final
    Grief Street
    Little Caesar[c]
    The Maltese Falcon (AKA Dangerous Female)[i]
    The Public Enemy[c]
    Quick Millions[c]
    The Secret Six[i]

1932

    20,000 Years in Sing Sing[g]
    The Beast of the City[c]
    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang[b][c]
    Illegal
    Night Court
    Payment Deferred[b]
    Scarface[c]
    Two Seconds[b]

1933

    Advice to the Lovelorn[i]
    Blood Money[c]
    Private Detective 62[1]

   
1934

    Crime Without Passion[b][i]
    Journal of a Crime[i]
    Midnight[i]
    The Thin Man[i]


1935

    After the Dance (film)
    Bordertown[i]
    Crime and Punishment
    The Florentine Dagger
    G Men[c]
    The Glass Key[i]
    The Scoundrel[b][c][i]
    What Price Crime

1936

    Bullets or Ballots[i]
    Fury[b][c]
    The General Died at Dawn
    Great Guy
    Jailbreak (1936 film)
    Muss 'Em Up
    The Petrified Forest[i]
    Satan Met a Lady[g]

1937

    Black Legion
    Dead End[c]
    The Gold Racket
    Kid Galahad
    Marked Woman[g]
    San Quentin
    The Shadow Strikes
    They Gave Him a Gun
    They Won't Forget
    You Only Live Once[b][c]

1938

    Algiers
    Angels with Dirty Faces[c]
    Prison Nurse
    You and Me[i]

   
1939

    Blind Alley[a][b]
    Code of the Secret Service
    Convict's Code
    Dust Be My Destiny
    Each Dawn I Die[c]
    Invisible Stripes
    I Stole a Million
    King of the Underworld
    Let Us Live[a][b]
    Rio[a][b]
    The Roaring Twenties[g]
    They Made Me a Criminal[g]
    Within the Law (1939 film)
    You Can't Get Away with Murder

1940

    Angels Over Broadway[b]
    City for Conquest[d]
    Johnny Apollo[2]
    Black Friday - horror noir[citation needed]

Non-American

    Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler) (1922, Germany)
    Asphalt (1929, Germany)
    La Chienne (1931, France)[e]
    M (1931, Germany)[e]
    Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse) (1933, Germany)
    La Bandera (Escape from Yesterday) (1935, France)
    The Green Cockatoo (1937, United Kingdom)[e][f]
    Pépé le Moko (1937, France)[e]
    Poison Pen (1939, United Kingdom)
    La Bête Humaine (The Human Beast) (1938, France)[e]
    Hôtel du Nord (1938, France)[e]
    Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) (1938, France)[e][f]
    They Drive by Night (1938, United Kingdom)[e][f]
    Le Dernier tournant (The Last Turning) (1939, France)[e][f]
    Le Jour se lève (Daybreak) (1939, France)[e][f]
    On the Night of the Fire (AKA The Fugitive) (1939, United Kingdom)[f]
    Pièges (Personal Column) (1939, France)[g]