Master Criminal Films
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    Arsene Lupin

    A Paris detective (Lionel Barrymore) matches wits with a thief (John Barrymore) who walks out of the...

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    Chaos

    Two detectives (Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe) track a bank robber (Wesley Snipes).

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    Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

    The British sleuth (John Howard) enters a castle of horrors and catches a man of many faces (Leo G....

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    Daughter of the Dragon

    At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman (Anna May Wong) goes to murder an enemy and meets a...

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    Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler

    Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler is the eight-reel version of Fritz Lang's twenty reeler, two-part silent...

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    Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)

    Every time that sinister Oriental megalomaniac Dr. Fu Manchu is ready to kill, sounds of strange...

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    The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)

    Mad Mr. Wong (Bela Lugosi) kills to get his hands on the 12 coins of Confucius.

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    S.O.S. Coast Guard [Serial]

    In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally...

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    The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

    A master criminal and hypnotist (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) haunts the head (Oskar Beregi) of the asylum...

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    Arsene Lupin

    The first of several film versions of Maurice LeBlanc's stage play, the 1916 British production...

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    Arsene Lupin

    Originally a novel and then a stage play, Arsene Lupin should have made an intriguing film, but...

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    Arsene Lupin Returns

    A gentleman jewel thief (Melvyn Douglas) is lured from retirement by a huge gem crossing the...

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    Condemned to Death

    On the surface just another quota quickie, Condemned to Death turned out to be quite a gem for those...

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    Enter Arsene Lupin

    In this crime programer, Arsene Lupin (Charles Korvin) is an expert jewel thief from France who,...

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    The Last Hour

    Written by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Charles Bennett, The Last Hour is set in and around...

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    The Mysterious Doctor Fu Manchu

    Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu...

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    The Mysterious Island (1929)

    Count Dakkar (Lionel Barrymore) of Hetvia builds two submarines to find half-men, half-fish...

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    Raffles (1930)

    A Scotland Yard inspector matches wits with a cat burglar, the famed cricketer A.J. Raffles (Ronald...

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    Raffles (1939)

    A Scotland Yard inspector (Dudley Digges) matches wits with a gentleman cat burglar, popular...

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    Raffles

    On a voyage from India to London, it is rumored that an infamous cracksman is onboard -- of course,...

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    The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

    In his pre-Charlie Chan days, Warner Oland returned as Dr. Fu Manchu for this sequel to The...

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    Tomorrow We Live

    An ex-convict's (Emmett Lynn) daughter (Jean Parker) helps him break a criminal mastermind's...

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    Les Vampires [Serial]

    Louis Feuillade's pioneering silent serial -- whose ten episodes weigh in at nearly eight hours --...

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    Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

    Author E.W. Hornung's charismatic rogue was tailor-made for John Barrymore. As Raffles, he wins the...

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    Fantômas (1913)

    Fantomas was the umbrella title for five different multi-part serials, all produced and directed by...

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    Juve Contre Fantômas

    Between 1913 and 1914, French director Louis Feuillade turned out five fast-paced melodramas based...

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