Crime movies – 1940s

Genre: Crime. Period: 1940s. 8 movies, best first.

1. Double Indemnity (1944) · Crime · ⭐ 8.3
   An insurance salesman and a seductive woman plot the perfect murder.
2. White Heat (1949) · Crime · ⭐ 8.1
   A psychotic gangster with a mother complex leads a violent crime spree.
3. Out of the Past (1947) · Crime · ⭐ 8.0
   A former detective's past catches up with him in a web of deceit.
4. The Big Sleep (1946) · Crime · ⭐ 7.9
   Detective Philip Marlowe untangles a web of blackmail and murder.
5. The Maltese Falcon (1941) · Crime · ⭐ 7.9
   Detective Sam Spade chases a priceless statuette among dangerous people.
6. Laura (1944) · Crime · ⭐ 7.8
   A detective falls for a murdered woman whose portrait haunts him.
7. Stray Dog (1949) · Crime · ⭐ 7.7
   A young detective hunts the man who stole his gun in postwar Tokyo.
8. Gilda (1946) · Crime · ⭐ 7.6
   A gambler is torn between love and hate for his boss's wife.