Best 1950s Crime Movies

Looking for the best 1950s Crime movies? These are the 9 highest-rated 1950s Crime titles in our catalogue, led by Aventurera, Baby Buggy Bunny and Victims of Sin. The list is ranked by audience score; open any title for its cast, trailer and legal places to watch.

1. Aventurera (1950)

★ 7.6/10

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio…
2. Baby Buggy Bunny (1954)

★ 6.9/10

Baby-Faced Finster robs a bank, but the baby carriage with the money in it goes down Bugs' rabbit hole.
3. Victims of Sin (1951)

★ 6.9/10

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
4. Tiger in the Smoke (1956)

★ 6.7/10

In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the…
5. Side Street (1950)

★ 6.5/10

A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000. When he decides to return…
6. Live Fast, Die Young (1958)

★ 5.8/10

A teenager finds her wayward sister running with thieves in San Francisco.
7. Stolen Assignment (1955)

★ 5.8/10

Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It…
8. The Last Man to Hang (1956)

★ 5.7/10

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
9. Mantrap (1953)

★ 5.6/10

Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man…