| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes |
| 1950 |
| Armored Car Robbery | Richard Fleischer | Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman | United States | [1] |
| The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore | United States | [2] |
| The Blue Lamp | Basil Dearden | Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde | United Kingdom | [3] |
| The File on Thelma Jordon | Robert Siodmak | Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly | United States | Crime drama[4] |
| Gunman in the Streets | Frank Tuttle, Boris Lewin | Simone Signoret, Dane Clark, Fernand Gravey | France | [5] |
| House by the River | Fritz Lang | Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt | United States | Crime drama[6] |
| Black Hand | Richard Thorpe | Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli, | United States | Crime drama[7] |
| In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy | United States | Crime drama[8] |
| Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | Gordon Douglas | James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter | United States | [9] |
| Night and the City | Jules Dassin | Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers | United Kingdom | [10] |
| No Way Out | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally | United States | Crime drama[11] |
| Los Olvidados | Luis Buñuel | Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda | Mexico | Juvenile delinquency film[12] |
| Side Street | Anthony Mann | Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig | United States | [13] |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Otto Preminger | Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill | United States | Crime drama[14] |
| 1951 |
| Another Man's Poison | Irving Rapper | Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams | United Kingdom | [15] |
| La Città si difende | Pietro Germi | Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini, Cosetta Greco | Italy | [16] |
| Detective Story | William Wyler | Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix | United States | Crime drama[17] |
| The Enforcer | Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh | Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia | United States | [18] |
| The Family Secret | Henry Levin | John Derek, Lee J. Cobb, Jody Lawrance | United States | [19] |
| Green Grow the Rushes | Derek N. Twist | Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman, Richard Burton | United Kingdom | [20] |
| He Ran All the Way | John Berry | John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford | United States | [21] |
| His Kind of Woman | John Farrow | Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price | United States | [22] |
| The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James | United Kingdom | [23] |
| Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō | Japan | Crime drama[24] |
| Roadblock | Harold Daniels | Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore | United States | [25] |
| Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman | United States | Crime thriller[26] |
| 1952 |
| Angel Face | Otto Preminger | Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman | United States | [27] |
| Casque d'or | Jacques Becker | Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin | France | Crime drama[28] |
| Rancho Notorious | Fritz Lang | Arthur Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Ferrer | United States | Crime thriller[29] |
| We Are All Murderers | André Cayatte | Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Claude Laydu | France
Italy | Prison film[30] |
| 1953 |
| The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando | United States | [31] |
| The Blue Gardenia | Fritz Lang | Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern | United States | Crime drama[32] |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman | United States | Crime thriller[33] |
| I Confess | Alfred Hitchcock | Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden | United States | Crime drama[34] |
| Man in the Dark | Lew Landers | Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia | United States | [35] |
| 1954 |
| Dial M for Murder | Alfred Hitchcock | Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings | United States | Crime thriller[36] |
| Human Desire | Fritz Lang | Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford | United States | Crime drama[37] |
| Jail Bait | Edward D. Wood, Jr. | Dolores Fuller, Lyle Talbot, Herbert Rawlinson | United States | [38] |
| Naked Alibi | Jerry Hopper | Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry | United States | [39] |
| Private Hell 36 | Don Siegel | Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff | United States | Crime drama[40] |
| Rogue Cop | Roy Rowland | Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft | United States | [41] |
| The Runaway Bus | Val Guest | Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris | United Kingdom | Caper film[42] |
| Suddenly | Lewis Allen | Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason | United States | [43] |
| Touchez pas au grisbi | Jacques Becker | Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur | France
Italy | [44] |
| 1955 |
| The Big Combo | Joseph H. Lewis | Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy | United States | Gangster film[45] |
| Bob le flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy | France | [46] |
| The Desperate Hours | William Wyler | Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy | United States | [47] |
| King of the Carnival | Franklin Adreon | Fran Bennett, Robert Clarke, George de Normand | United States | [48] |
| The Ladykillers | Alexander MacKendrick | Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom | United Kingdom | [49] |
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish | United States | Crime thriller[50] |
| The Phenix City Story | Phil Karlson | John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant | United States | [51] |
| Razzia sur la chnouf | Henri Decoin | Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Magali Noël | France | [52] |
| Rififi | Jules Dassin | Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel | France | [53] |
| 1956 |
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Fritz Lang | Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer | United States | Crime drama[54] |
| The Harder They Fall | Mark Robson | Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling | United States | Crime drama[55] |
| The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor | United States | [56] |
| Ransom! | Alex Segal | Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen | United States | [57] |
| Slightly Scarlet | Allan Dwan | John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Rhonda Fleming | United States | [58] |
| The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle | United States | Crime drama[59] |
| Yield to the Night | J. Lee Thompson | Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig | United Kingdom | [60] |
| 1957 |
| The Adventures of Arsène Lupin | Jacques Becker | Robert Lamoureux, Liselotte Pulver, Daniel Ceccaldi | France
Italy | [61] |
| The Brothers Rico | Phil Karlson | Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant | United States | [62] |
| The Burglar | Paul Wendkos | Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers | United States | [63] |
| Crime of Passion | Gerd Oswald | Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr | United States | [64] |
| The Devil Strikes at Night | Robert Siodmak | Mario Adorf, Claus Holm, Hannes Messemer | West Germany | [65] |
| Porte des Lilas | René Clair | Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal | France
Italy | Crime drama[66] |
| The River's Edge | Allan Dwan | Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget | United States | [67] |
| Speaking of Murder | Gilles Grangier | Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura | France | [68] |
| Time Without Pity | Joseph Losey | Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern | United Kingdom | Crime thriller[69] |
| 1958 |
| Big Deal on Madonna Street | Mario Monicelli | Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale | Italy | [70] |
| The Cry Baby Killer | Jus Addiss | Harry Lauter, Jack Nicholson, Carolyn Mitchell | United States | [71] |
| Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly | France | [72] |
| I Want to Live! | Robert Wise | Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent | United States | Crime drama[73] |
| I, Mobster | Roger Corman | Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss | United States | [74] |
| The Lineup | Don Siegel | Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson | United States | [75] |
| Machine-Gun Kelly | Roger Corman | Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam | United States | [76] |
| Stakeout on Dope Street | Irvin Kershner | Herschel Bernardi | United States | [77] |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley | Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith | United States | [78] |
| Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles | United States | [79] |
| Underworld Beauty | Seijun Suzuki | Rajo To Kenju | Japan | [80] |
| 1959 |
| Al Capone | Richard Wilson | Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory | United States | [81] |
| Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti | Nanni Loy | Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale | France
Italy | [81] |
| Beast from Haunted Cave | Monte Hellman | Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff | United States | Crime thriller[82] |
| Compulsion | Richard Fleischer | Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman | United States | Crime drama[83] |
| Crime & Punishment, USA | Denis Sanders | George Hamilton, Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Eve McVeagh | United States | [84] |
| The Day They Robbed the Bank of England | John Guillermin | Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Hugh Griffith | United Kingdom | [85] |
| Odds Against Tomorrow | Robert Wise | Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters | United States | [86] |
| Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | Martin Lasalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie | France | Crime drama[87] |
| The Scapegoat | Robert Hamer | Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Annabel Bartlett, Geoffrey Keen, Noel Howlett, Peter Bull, Leslie French, Alan Webb, Maria Britneva, Eddie Byrne, Alexander Archdale and Peter Sallis | United Kingdom | Psychological drama, thriller and crime[88] |
