Perc Launders

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• Movie8.0

  MysteryDrama

  Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

  Citizen Kane

  1941 · 6.2K votes

• Movie8.3

  Drama

  A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

  Sunset Boulevard

  1950 · 3K votes

• Movie7.7

  CrimeThriller

  A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

  Strangers on a Train

  1951 · 1.9K votes

• Movie7.4

  CrimeMystery

  Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

  The Killers

  1946 · 446 votes

• Movie7.6

  Drama

  Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

  The Lost Weekend

  1945 · 684 votes

• Movie7.1

  DramaThriller

  After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.

  The Enforcer

  1951 · 117 votes

• Movie7.2

  CrimeMystery

  After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

  The Naked City

  1948 · 292 votes

• Movie6.3

  HorrorComedy

  As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

  Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

  1951 · 121 votes

• Movie7.2

  ComedyRomance

  Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

  Bachelor Mother

  1939 · 81 votes

• Movie7.1

  CrimeThriller

  An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

  Kiss of Death

  1947 · 172 votes

• Movie6.1

  Drama

  When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

  The Lady Gambles

  1949 · 34 votes

• Movie6.5

  DramaRomance

  On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

  They Won't Believe Me

  1947 · 50 votes

• Movie6.7

  CrimeDrama

  A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

  Born to Kill

  1947 · 93 votes

• Movie5.5

  CrimeDrama

  After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.

  Undercover Girl

  1950 · 10 votes

• Movie6.7

  CrimeMystery

  Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

  The Blue Dahlia

  1946 · 176 votes

• Movie6.7

  Comedy

  In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

  The Naughty Nineties

  1945 · 32 votes

• Movie6.5

  CrimeDrama

  A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

  Christmas Holiday

  1944 · 37 votes

• Movie6.6

  Science FictionHorror

  Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.

  The Man They Could Not Hang

  1939 · 49 votes

• Movie6.0

  AdventureComedy

  Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

  Seven Sinners

  1940 · 38 votes

• Movie5.7

  MusicComedy

  During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.

  Follow the Boys

  1944 · 11 votes

• Movie6.2

  CrimeMystery

  Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.

  The Falcon in Hollywood

  1944 · 14 votes

• Movie6.2

  Western

  A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.

  Flaming Feather

  1952 · 10 votes

• Movie6.2

  Western

  Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.

  The Virginian

  1946 · 24 votes

• Movie5.8

  RomanceThriller

  In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.

  Experiment Perilous

  1944 · 38 votes